Blackboxvoting.org Review

A nonprofit 501c(3) organization, blackboxvoting.org calls itself the country's "official consumer protection group for elections," and it has a reputation on the progressive (aka liberal) talk radio scene for being exactly that. Funded by donations, the site also claims to be non-partisan, and at first glance it may well be. The focus is narrow, concentrating on election irregularities, the fights in favor of and against electronic voting machines and updates into unofficial and official investigations into contested election results nationwide.

But ... good luck finding anything specific on the site's main page. It's a cluttered mess. Almost couldn't be any worse. Thankfully, the forums, investigations and news links lead to highly organized pages. One gets the impression that the forum is inhabited by that certain sunlight-deprived sub-species of liberal who refers to himself as a progressive as if the term describes a third party. Warning: Angry people live here, but make no mistake - there's also a huge amount of relevent information.

Overlooking the messy front page and tenaciousness within its forums, blackboxvoting.org IS the Web's preeminent site in consumer protection for elections. You can visit it here.

• May 27, 2006

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