GREG PALAST New York, Dec. 2, 2003
"Last year, with little fanfare and less scrutiny, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act, which effectively orders all states to buy the computerized voting machines that Mr. Krugman rightly dreads. Worse, the law requires all states to computerize their voter rolls and purge those lists of suspect voters, à la Florida.
Heaven help us when President Bush and Congress tell us that they are going to "help" us vote. "

The writer, an investigative reporter, is the author of a book about the disenfranchisement of black voters in Florida in the 2000 election.