California Voice: State can sidestep scandal, banish bias while counting votes 

Founding Father John Adams grimly warned, “There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

Two scandals exposing the cozy relationship between multinational voting machine corporations and the obscure officials who decide how our votes are counted may prove him right. If ever there was a place where faith in the legitimacy of our voting could explode, this is it.

Consider the multinational voting machine corporation Smartmatic. Federal prosecutors have alleged that...