News & Politics   comments_image Comments  Rewriting Our Rotten
History of Elections  The history of American elections is not
pretty: Voting irregularities have been widespread since long
before Bush v. Gore, but now is the time to reverse course.   •
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the state of the union's elections are either peachy-keen or in
dire straits. With voting irregularities fast becoming the norm,
election officials moonlighting as campaign leaders and highly
suspicious differences in polling places from region to region,
there is an ill-disguised sense that perhaps our democracy is
not quite as strong as politicians and their mouthpieces would
have you believe.  As of now, with Republicans in control of
every branch of the federal government, much of the finger-
pointing is aimed at the GOP. After all, if election reform has
stalled in Congress since the 2000 election, it's likely that
Republicans have built and maintained the roadblocks holding it
up.  But it hasn'