Values of negative 25 million showing on voting machines, software glitches, and black screens. Among the growing accounts of questionable vote results generated by electronic voting, this story coming from Youngstown, Ohio.

Also, there were 20 to 30 machines that needed to be recalibrated during the voting process because some votes for a candidate were being counted for that candidate's opponent, Munroe said.

There are a variety of reasons for that problem, including static electricity, Munroe said. Munroe said he strongly believes that the calibration issue didn't mark people's votes improperly because when a vote is cast for a candidate, their name is lit up in bright blue and the name comes up as a review of a vote before it is finalized.

About a dozen machines needed to be reset because they essentially froze.

How does Mr. Munroe know for sure? How does anyone know for sure that the vote tallies are accurate, when there is no audit trail for most of these electronic voting machines. Even an ATM prints out a paper receipt and the deposits and withdrawls must balance out to the bank's money.

All night, I heard the election news coverage repeatedly stress how smooth the voting went, and how few problems there were, and how this vindicated the electronic voting machine makers. Again, how would anyone know if anything was astray? What checks and balances are employed to ensure accuracy and integrity? And why is proprietary technology used, hiding the process from the public?

And who can forget the bold statement of Walden O'Dell, CEO of Diebold, a voting machine company, who last year informed fellow Republicans in a fund raising letter that he would do all to help the Bush cause:

I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.

And this presidential election all boiled down to Ohio, which was the deciding factor.

blackboxvoting.org is launching a massive freedom of information action act to obtain internal computer logs and other documents from 3,000 individual counties and townships.

I am no luddite by any stretch of the imagination, but black box voting without a full, comprehensive audit trail is just an open invitation for vote fraud. And, even more tragically, there's no way to detect its presence, without suitable validation of the integrity of the process.