HACK THE VOTE

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman unveils a startling detail about the Republican owner of an electronic-voting systems company.

"I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year," writes Walden O'Dell, head of Diebold Inc., a company who supplies Georgia with its paperless, electronic voting systems.

Georgia, as Krugman points out, "scored spectacular upset victories in the 2002 midterm elections."

Yet the idea of certifying the security of such sensitive software has been continually stifled. Why?