Cretinous Kit Seelye. Katharine Seelye is bringing the same deep commitment to journalistic integrity that she displayed covering Al Gore's Presidential campaign in 2000 to the story of the electronic voting controversy.

Naive reader, you might imagine that it would be impossible to write an article about the controversy over touch-screen voting in California without once mentioning the name Diebold: the electronic voting systems company that was recently banned from selling its products in the state, and had its installed products there de-certified for election use. You might think it doubly hard to avoid the name if you were focusing on the California Secretary of State, who not only ordered the Diebold ban but threatened the company with civil and criminal charges for what he called its "fraudulent actions," its "despicable" and "deceitful behavior." The fact that Kit Seelye manages to pull off that trick may tell you all you really need to know about her article today, but if you want the details, we've got 'em ...

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