The New York Times offers this report, which begins: “The federal Justice Department has threatened to sue New York State over its failure to modernize its voting system, saying New York ‘is further behind’ every other state in complying with new guidelines stemming from the 2000 presidential election dispute.” This should not be too much of a surprise to anyone who has read Ron Hayduk’s book, Gatekeepers to the Franchise: Shaping Election Administration in New York.