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The lessons from 2004 - written about extensively by RFK, Jr., Mark Crispin Miller, Greg Palast, Bev Harris and Clint Curtis - is that we can't trust "black box" machines with proprietary code. As Thom Hartmann has said many times (with Kucinich agreeing yesterday), the idea of our civic vote being outsourced to for profit companies is absurd.
But what's our only evidence that counters the black box machines? - the exit polls. Yet, I'm disturbed to hear, last night on Countdown - from Nate Silver of all people - as well as today on Morning Joe, a repetition of the idea that exit polls are to be ignored, since they lean Democratic. If the exit polls are thrown out, how will we have any clue about those black box machines?
