GOP Forces Country to Electronic Ballots... So Why Does Iowa Get Hand-Counted Paper Ones?

On Iowa Caucus day 2012, Brad Friedman makes the salient point that while the GOP has pressured the country into using electronic ballots, they're maintaining the more reliable, accountable hand-counted method for today:

In other words, Republicans will be relying on"Democracy's Gold Standard" when it comes to casting and counting ballots in their own election, in which they setall of the rules, even if they will not allow the same standards to be applied to elections in which Democrats will take part.    Read more