i don't think the last

election was 'right' and i don't think the upcoming one is going to be 100% 'right' either. sure, we're better than zimbabwe but if you think everything that happened in the last presidential election was above board you're fooling yourself

Justice Dept called uncooperative on voting rights
Associated Press
The House Judiciary Committee chairman on Wednesday said the Justice Department is stonewalling efforts to make sure this year's presidential voting operates fairly.

Chairman John Conyers told Attorney General Michael Mukasey there hasn't been enough cooperation with Congress on voting rights issues. Conyers also said the work that has been done hasn't been effective.

"As we sit here today, probably 100 days before the election, we don't know specifically how our government will respond to the problems that made the elections of 2000 and 2004 so problematic and so controversial," Conyers told Mukasey at the start of the panel's oversight hearing - likely the last House appearance for the attorney general.

Conyers, D-Mich., said it's unclear whether voting machines will be fairly allocated and how federal election monitors will be deployed across the country......

is this a vision of things to come?

Voting Not Smooth in South Carolina

By BRUCE SMITH The Associated Press
SURFSIDE BEACH, S.C. -- Nasty weather in the north and dysfunctional voting machines in one coastal county marred South Carolina's Republican primary Saturday.
Nearly 200 voting machines in Horry County didn't work at the start of voting and residents in at least one precinct were turned away when officials ran out of paper ballots.
It was not clear how many voters would be unable to make their choice known after up to 90 percent of the county's voting machines failed to turn on when polls opened at 7 a.m. ........