What's up with the voting machines?

Obviously, a lot of people are upset about the election. After all, not only did W receive the most votes in history FOR a president, there were also the most votes in history AGAINST him. But a fact like that shouldn't affect his mandate, right?

Naturally, there are grumblings and rumblings about tampering with the vote.

From one angle, Conservatives are arguing that media was biased. Dick Morris suggests that in an article in The Hill that the media's exit polls were wrong. He argued that exit polls should never be wrong, since they eliminate the uncertainty of questioning who actually will vote. But this year, instead of accurately predicting the election result, the exit polls showed Kerry in the lead in six states. That's proof for Dick Morris that the polling was faulty.

How easy is it to tamper with the votes? Watch the Quicktime video on www.votergate.tv, which shows that it's as easy as editing an Excel file.

My district used the old-fashioned 'switch' voting booths. I thought that was an entirely mechanical process. The voting is -- but not the counting and reporting.
I'm sure there as no fraud in my NYC district, since the vote reflected the polling. But I totally support the effort to audit the voting process. This election was so close, that someone has to do some checking. And someone is:

Black Box Voting - Bev Harris - one of the leading groups doing voting machine investigations. A nonpartisan, nonprofit, consumer protection group for elections.: "Black Box Voting (.ORG) is conducting the largest Freedom of Information action in history. At 8:30 p.m. Election Night, Black Box Voting blanketed the U.S. with the first in a series of public records requests, to obtain internal computer logs and other documents from 3,000 individual counties and townships. Networks called the election before anyone bothered to perform even the most rudimentary audit."

Hmmm. Lots to think about. In the meantime, enjoy the mandate.