Keeping the Voting Clean - New York Times

Keeping the Voting Clean - New York Times:

The author's premise is correct. The problems with voting are not with machines so much as with the competency or motivations of the poll workers.

"If everyone just voted by mail or with pencil and paper, the argument goes, our voting problems would be solved.

But this reaction to the bugs and glitches shows that Americans have not learned the right lesson from 2000: the problem is not with the technology of running our elections but rather with the people running them.

The United States should join the rest of the world’s advanced democracies and put nonpartisan professionals in charge. We need officials whose ultimate allegiance is to the fairness, integrity and professionalism of the election process, not to helping one party or the other gain political advantage."