E-Voting Undermines Public Confidence in Elections

Republican operatives scheming to steal the election in Maryland this fall? Threat Level is reporting that the contract for transporting e-voting machines in the state has been contracted to a company whose president was the head of the state Republican party until 2006. I think the answer is almost certainly “no”: While this certainly looks like a conflict of interest, I suspect it’s no more than an honest oversight that will be quickly corrected. Still, it’s troubling that we even have to worry about who transports voting machines.

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