2004: a report card: the appearance of a disaster averted obscures an election system that's still badly broken.
American Prospect, The, January, 2005 by Wang, Tova Andrea
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AMERICANS KNOW THE 2000 ELECTION WAS A fiasco. What they don't know is that the 2004 election, in many ways, might have been even worse. The purported margin of victory in November has led many to believe that the process went relatively smoothly. But the appearance of a smooth election obscured troubling developments, from simple human errors to likely felony violations of federal law.
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In addition to the ineptitude and faulty machinery that led to the problems of 2000 (both of which persisted), 2004 should be remembered as the year that a number of partisan election officials and ...
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