Avedon Carol: What the Papers Say

More whining Republicans: Governor Ehrlich (R-MD) is being a cry-baby over the fact that he is being investigated for his unethical firings of state workers in order to replace them with his own partisans. Naturally, he is accusing Democrats of "partisanship" for wanting to put a stop to it.

Ehrlich is also fighting to have paperless, hackable machines counting the votes in Maryland, which he probably needs desperately to stay in the Governor's mansion at this point. Even the WaPo can figure out that there's something wrong with that, although their insistence that, "Computerized voting systems are the way to go in Maryland and elsewhere," has some holes in it, too. And, as a reminder: "The state legislature did vote this year for an official review of electronic systems, but Mr. Ehrlich would not buy even this weak move; he vetoed the bill." Why is that? Why is it that Republicans are so adamantly against any moves to ensure voting integrity?