Re-Stealing the Election?

By Our Readers & Ronnie Dugger

This article appeared in the October 25, 2004 edition of The Nation.

October 6, 2004

A landslide of letters overwhelmed our mailbox in response to Ronnie Dugger's August 16/23 "How They Could Steal the Election This Time," about the problems of computerized voting machines. Calling the article "excellent" and "chilling," readers were "disheartened" and "angered." "Goodbye, democracy!" declared one. A few suggested we all vote absentee to be sure of being hand-counted. One reader directed us to www.invisibleballots.com, and another warned new registrants to check that they really are registered. David Morton of Phoenix declared that Dugger's article "should be required reading for every voter in America."   --The Editors


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About Ronnie Dugger

Ronnie Dugger, founding editor of The Texas Observer and co-founder of the Alliance for Democracy, has written biographies of Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan, as well as other books, and hundreds of articles for Harper's Magazine, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Progressive and other periodicals. more...
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