MD Gov calls for verified voting

I'm not a huge fan of Maryland's Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich but he's scored a hearty round of applause from me with his call for a verifiable paper trail for touch screen voting machines.

Ehrlich submitted a long list of questions to Board of Elections Chairman Gilles Burger yesterday about the cost of early voting and any contingency plan if elections officials do not certify the Diebold machines for use in the election.

"I believe that it is time for the board to get aggressive in responding to citizens' concerns over public confidence in the elections system," Ehrlich wrote.

Hear hear.