Blogger Says GAO Election Report Not Covered Enough

BradBlog.com's Brad Friedman says major wire services and American newspapers have given little or no coverage to last month's Government Accountability Office (GAO) report confirming election irregularities.
Friedman made his criticism in an article titled "Mainstream Media to American Democracy: Drop Dead!" It appeared Friday on HuffingtonPost.com, which is named after syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington of Tribune Media Services.
The GAO report -- released two weeks ago by the nonpartisan federal agency -- said "concerns about electronic voting machines have been realized and have caused problems with recent elections, resulting in the loss and miscount of votes."
Some observers, such as author Mark Crispin Miller, have said these problems may have swung the 2004 election to George W. Bush.
"The release of the report was accompanied by a bipartisan news release which lauded its findings," wrote Friedman. "That's right. Six high-ranking U.S. Congressmen -- three Democrats and three Republicans -- issued the incredibly rare joint news release together. Two of those Congressmen were Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), chairman and ranking minority member, respectively, of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee."
Friedman also wrote: "The electronic voting machines which are proliferating in counties and states across America...are not secure, not accountable, not recountable, not transparent, not accurate, and not adequately monitored or certified by anybody."