Dan Wallach of Rice University was one of the computer scientists who worked on California’s landmark 2007 “Top to Bottom Review” of the state’s electronic voting systems. He’s also a voter in Harris County (Houston), TX where a fire destroyed all 10,000 of the county’s 100% unverifiable voting systems just a few weeks before the start of early voting.

His report on his personal experience at the polls on Election Day, where the county was forced to have paper ballots on hand this year as they scrambled to find enough borrowed e-voting systems (for some stupid reason) to replace their destroyed ones, is well-worth reading. It begins this way…

Wallach goes on to describe how difficult it was for him to actually get a paper ballot, despite their availability at his polling place this year, and how, even after various difficulties towards that end, he was still able to complete his vote before his wife, who chose to vote on the unverifiable, virus-prone e-voting system…

His report, particularly given his intimate, expert knowledge of the voting systems that most Houston voters were strongly encouraged to vote on, is, as noted, well-worth reading in full…

Oh, and by the way, where is all the evidence of that “massive Democratic voter fraud!!!” we were breathlessly told by the Houston Republican gr … er … I mean independent “Tea Party” group in Houston was scheduled to occur this year (in minority areas, naturally)?