The campaign to make voting machine companies more accountable is gaining momentum. The
Velvet Revolution folks reported yesterday that
Rep. Maxine Waters and Green Presidential candidate
David Cobb are the latest to join Rep. John Conyers and many organizations who are calling on voting machine companies to open their machines and records.
While we Kossacks should support nationwide efforts such as
Divestiture for Democracy, which is coordinating the efforts to make voting machine companies accountable (and threatening them with a divestiture campaign if they are not), we also should be aware of what is happening in our own states and take action before it is too late (read from
Leeroxxor about that a new Diebold scandal that is emerging in Maryland.
In a related development, the Free Press, the leading source of information on the Ohio recount and other electoral issues after Election 2004, has announced a national conference to be held in Nashville dealing with Campaign 2004 and the need for election reform.