“Voting in 2008: Lessons Learned”

Tova Wang offers this analysis at Common Cause. It concludes: “The truth is, if this election had been much closer, the outcry over the problems enumerated would be huge. If, for example, the presidential election had hinged on Indiana, where it was extremely close, there would have been microscopic inspection of that state’s election system and problems undoubtedly revealed. Litigation would likely have ensued. We dodged that bullet. But that does not mean our great democracy is everything it should be. The effort to make our system one in which every American citizen is able to easily vote and have his vote counted is far from over.”

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