Election Reform

Today's Progress Report has a worthwhile piece on all of the significant problems that remain in our electoral system. They cover hacking electronic voting machines, lack of paper trails, missing ballots, extra votes, long lines, unfair challenges and provisional ballots.

Its a good piece, but it completely misses the the paramount issue: The people who run the elections, the election referees so to speak, are partisan members of one of the two parties and are elected or appointed, often by the very same people contesting in the election. Think about that for a second. Could there be any better recipe for voter fraud? No other Western democracy does this. It's putting the fox in charge of the hen house. It's like putting Enron in charge of our energy policy. It is the root of all of the above mentioned problems and no one is even talking about reforming it.