Go read Bradblog's transcript of the unaired 2006 interview with Rev. DeForest Soaries, Former U.S. Elections Assistance Commission Chair. The whole thing is one humongous money quote, but this is the bottom line:

"There is no prototype. There are no standards. There is no scientific research that would guarantee any election district that there’s a machine that can be used to answer these very serious questions. And so, my sense is that the politicians in Washington have concluded that the system can’t be all that bad because, after all, it produced them. And as long as an elected official is an elected official, then whatever machine was used, whatever device was used to elect him or her, seems to be adequate. But there’s an erosion of voting rights implicit in our inability to trust the technology that we use and if we were another country being analyzed by America, we would conclude that this country is ripe for stealing elections and for fraud.

Gosh, a "major network" didn't air it. I wonder why not?

Too busy running stories about missing white women while the Republicans shove Democracy down the tubes?