MORE CONCERNS ABOUT ELECTRONIC VOTING: Here’s a column by Dan Gillmor on security problems with electronic voting systems. SKBubba, who knows rather a lot about computers and security, has a roundup of links including one to a study by Johns Hopkins calling the Diebold system fatally flawed.

It’s easy for such critiques to shade over into paranoia — but on the other hand, a voting system that inspires paranoia is a bad thing in itself, even if it never produces widespread fraud. But experience suggests that a system that can be hacked will be, sooner or later, when so much is at stake.

And the solution is so easy that it’s criminal not to address the problem.