With new voting machines coming online in more and more states, questions arise about how these machines work and if our votes are safe.

While slightly alarmist in nature, Ronnie Dugger’s article, How They Could Steal the Election This Time, does raise some very good points about the technology behind the machines, and questions why not even basic error checking was included.

But articles such as this miss the BIG question: Did Florida 2000 ruin our belief in the validity of our voting system?