Diebold black box voting

Let's see . . . 20% of the electorate use touchscreen voting with no paper trail . . . That will be enough to ensure Republican victory in 2004.
Florida has a snazzy new system:

But Floridians don't seem convinced that bytes beat butterflies: A quarter say that they are "not at all confident" in the new technology, and half believe that it's important for machines to preserve a paper trail of votes—something that's not currently done.

If anything, though, voters may not be skeptical enough. A joint report, released this summer, by researchers at Rice and Johns Hopkins universities, found that the system developed by e-voting manufacturer Diebold "is far below even the most minimal security standards applicable in other contexts."

Also mentioned in the article:

Diebold CEO Walden O'Dell is a major GOP fundraiser who told Buckeye State Republicans in an August fundraising letter that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."

There is a bill in Congress to mandate voter-verifiable paper printouts: but it's stuck in committee with no Republican sponsors. (link found on Electrolite.)