Every Vote Counts...If You Are a Blind Vietnamese Person

A BIG surprise! Errosion of voting safeguards and deliberately confusing new regulations promise to choke polling sites and disenfranchise voters...yet again. Of course, its mere coincidence that the states and districts expected to have the most voting challenges are also those home to the closest races.

Lead from the above hyperlink to the Times:

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 — New electronic voting machines have arrived in Yolo County, Calif., but there is one hitch: the audio program for the visually impaired in some of them works only in Vietnamese.

And that's the good news.

This is the United States of America in the year 2006, and we are asked to belive that voting is hard to get right. We must not have the technology, know-how and dedication to democratic principals that folks have in, oh, say...Chad.