"A Bad Electronic Voting Bill" (editorial, Aug. 3) criticized the fact that a bipartisan bill being considered by the Senate Rules Committee would require that all states provide voters with a paper record or other means of verifying votes on electronic voting systems.
Three cheers for your extensive editorial on electronic voting.
Donald B. Patterson Troy, Mich., Sept. 28, 2008 To the Editor: Your editorial portrayed electronic voting machines as notoriously unreliable, prone to miscounts and easily hacked.
After the photograph of the trio came across the Post's electronic network to the editorial desk, the temptation was too much for the Style section's art director, who, with a few quick clicks of a mouse and a gyration or two of the wrist, blurred the faces of Berman and Pecker.
Within a couple of years, the duo had graduated to making comics in Groove Magazine, a storied German print editorial covering electronic music culture.
Indeed, falling subscription rates have led many newspaper publishers to branch into electronic editions and to incorporate editorial blogs and forums for reader feedback; thus, some of the distinctions between the media have already been blurred.
The Times is performing a public service by continuing to sound the alarm about the dangers of electronic voting ("Insurance for Electronic Votes," editorial, July 23), but at this point in time, the only realistic means of avoiding these dangers is a federal law requiring all polling places that are using equipment without a paper trail in the fall election to use paper ballots instead.
It featured professionals working in genres ranging from pop to electronic, chosen by the Music Week editorial staff from a list of individuals nominated from within the music industry.
It told its editorial employees in an electronic posting late last week that it planned to hire six journalists in Bangalore, India, to do basic financial reporting on 3,000 small to medium-size American companies.
For more on the Grammys relationship to electronic music, read THUMP's recent editorial "Understanding the Failures of the Grammys Best Dance Recording Category".
The journal will use Editorial Manager as the electronic submission system.
