I have written an oped for today’s Roll Call, which you can access without a subscription here. You can also find an extended version of this oped, with hyperlinks, here. It begins:
- It is two months after Election Day, and we still do not know with certainty the winner of the gubernatorial election in Washington state or the mayoral race in San Diego. Meanwhile, the Internet is swimming with conspiracy theories that Republicans, mostly in Ohio and Florida, stole the presidential election for George W. Bush.
Post-election controversies are usually the stuff of close elections, and this year is no exception: The Washington state gubernatorial race, for example, features a 130-vote margin out of almost 3 million votes cast. But this year