Democracy in the hands of idiots: Electronic voting is a disaster.

I haven't been much for the politics lately - been distracted by life. So I'm going to lean on the DailyKos diaries for some much-needed updates.

First up, Bev Harris of Black Box Voting exposes the Florida electronic voting system as a complete sham riddled with errors and inconsistencies:

The internal logs of at least 40 Sequoia touch-screen voting machines reveal that votes were time and date-stamped as cast two weeks before the election, sometimes in the middle of the night.

Black Box Voting successfully sued former Palm Beach County (FL) Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore to get the audit records for the 2004 presidential election.

After investing over $7,000 and waiting nine months for the records, Black Box Voting has discovered that the voting machine logs contain approximately 100,000 errors. Out of 4,313 voting machines, the logs show 1,475 voting system calibrations while the polls were open, providing documentation to substantiate reports of vote-flipping by citizens who were told this was due to "calibration problems."

Another disturbing find was several dozen voting machines with votes for the Nov. 2, 2004 election cast on dates like Oct. 16, 15, 19, 13, 25, 28 2004 and one tape dated in 2010. These machines did not contain any votes date-stamped on Nov. 2, 2004.