India, a nation of one billion, was able to hold an election using electronic voting. And by saying an election, I should remind you that it was an earthquake of an election leading to many changes and surprises, and because of the system they set up, none of the players questioned it. There were no complains of fraud or lost votes, no there was confidence. Is it that American’s just don’t trust anyone, or is it something bigger that the people we trust can’t be trusted.

The chief executive officer of electronic voting company Diebold who once famously declared that he would “deliver” Ohio for President Bush has resigned effective immediately, RAW STORY has learned.

“The board of directors and Wally mutually agreed that his decision to resign at this time for personal reasons was in the best interest of all parties,” the company’s new chairman said in a statement.

This comes after rumors of possible fraud charges being bought against O’Dell and Diebold. Additionally after a GAO report that listed the possible ways in which the current electronic voting system could be tampered with. truthout provides an analysis of the report and some of its more disturbing findings.

The Brad Blog has excellent coverage over the resignation and imminent legal woes to face the company and O’Dell.

But back to India. The land of tech support was able to get electronic voting right, and yet we in America can’t demand or perhaps our leaders in Congress don’t think we deserve the same security. How can a nation of one billion have a better system of election than America? Back in February of 2004 the BBC put together an article explaining the Indian voting system. They even had a redundant back up system, something that our nation refuses to adopt, one can only be left asking why.