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The New York Times Op-Ed Columnist:Saving the Vote
I always hate to give in to my "Chicken Little" instincts and subscribe to conspiracy theories, but more and more voices are more than a little concerned.

"Much of Florida's vote will be counted by electronic voting machines with no paper trails. Independent computer scientists who have examined some of these machines' programming code are appalled at the security flaws. So there will be reasonable doubts about whether Florida's votes were properly counted, and no paper ballots to recount. The public will have to take the result on faith.Yet the behavior of Gov. Jeb Bush's officials with regard to other election-related matters offers no justification for such faith......."