Atlanta Journal Constitution Response on E-Voting Story
Yesterday the Atlanta Journal Constitution ran an extensive story about the security issues surrounding electronic voting machines in Georgia. In a post yesterday I wrote I was hoping for the definitive investigative story. I asked Mike King, public editor, to respond to my post, and here is his email back:
Thanks for sending me your posting. I’m not sure how to respond, except that I agree it is essentially a question of resource allocation.
It seems that you’re asking for an investigative series to DISPROVE the conspiracy theories and voter fraud connected to e-voting. I suppose we could do that, but we have a hard enough time finding the resources to cover public fraud that we already have ample evidence exists.
Each time we have looked into the issue of e-voting security and fraud we have found more speculation and commentary than evidence of wrongdoing. Recognizing that, we felt it best to simply explain for readers what the issue is, rather than spend more time and resources to determine if fraud has taken place or is likely to in the future as a result of unholy alliances or suspicious service contracts.
Now that situation might change, or evidence might come to light to cause us to want to look closer again. But, as of now, I’m satisfied that we’ve taken the story about as far as we can.
By the way, go to Black Box Voting, probably the most tenacious e-voting security website, to see its response to the Atlanta Journal Constitution article, including this comment:
*Sigh* How many times do I have to explain to these people that the major danger with these machines is that if done right, there will be NO evidence of tampering.
