The Republican Outline for Election Day :: Tilting at Windmills

Alarmingly credible post on the consequences of Republican skullduggery and election day malfeasance. It seems very 19th century - like a return to rotten boroughs and vote-payments. There was an interesting series of passages in a book by David Liss I read over the summer - A Spectacle of Corruption of Paper - about the manipulation of voters in 1720s England that mirror this. Depressing really, especially when you think of the UN sending teams of election officials (mostly Americans) to other countries to inspect and certify their elections. Makes you wonder about whether the US would pass muster.

Slate.com had a thorough article on the failure of electronic voting machines, as well as the Nation and a host of blogs.