Iraqis Do It. Ukrainians Do It... Let's vote right.   Deroy
Murdock  After casting ballots in widely applauded elections
January 30, Iraqis dipped their digits in ink, to prevent
multiple voting, then pointed their purple fingers toward a
brighter future. Ukrainians cleanly elected Viktor Yuschenko
president December 26, after he lost an earlier, fraud-encrusted
runoff. Afghans elected President Hamid Karzai in a properly run
October 9 vote.  Too bad Washington State’s latest election
failed Iraqi, Ukrainian, and Afghan standards. Washington’s
November 2 gubernatorial race remains murky due to illegitimate
ballots, others that were miscounted, and still more that
emerged from…who knows where? This morass is prosecution-grade
proof that America’s inadequate voting system screams for
modernization.  Democrat Christine Gregoire took office January
12 after edging Republican Dino Rossi in a third recount by 129
of the 2.8 million votes cast. Rossi has sued for a re-vote, a
reasonable request given that the number