Is there a risk that media coverage of or about possible upcoming voting problems such as voting fraud and voting suppression can veer into the line of hysteria and even suppress the vote if the coverage comes in September or October? Are there dots that need to be connected in various instances of voter suppression and allegations of voting fraud? Which has shown to be the more document-able — voting fraud or voting suppression? What have experts found when they try to hack electronic voting machines? Is it hard or easy to do? How hard or easy?
A great discussion of all these issues can be heard if you CLICK HERE to listen to this segment from On The Media.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.