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Madison Capital Times: Touch-screen voting isn't the answer

"The machines are supposed to eliminate all the disadvantages of paper and punch-card ballots, disadvantages like hanging chads and confusing ballot lineups that have, in effect, disenfranchised voters throughout the country. But the system of allowing voters to touch a computer screen in the box of their favorite candidate eliminates any "paper trail" that could be used to check the accuracy of the voting tabulation.

The fact that several of the executives of the firms who manufacture the newfangled machines are closely linked with Republican politicians and President Bush, in particular, has fed suspicion, especially since several computer experts have shown that the software for the machines isn't foolproof and can be tampered with. It didn't help that the CEO of the major touch-screen manufacturer, Diebold, is a prolific campaign contributor to Bush and has publicly committed to "delivering" the state of Ohio to him in the 2004 election..."