Via Slashdot:

Blackboxvoting.org has raised the largest Freedom of Information request in history. At 8:30 p.m. Election Night, Black Box Voting blanketed the U.S. with the first in a series of public records requests, to obtain internal computer logs and other documents from 3,000 individual counties and townships. Networks called the election before anyone bothered to perform even the most rudimentary audit. Among the first requests sent to counties (with all kinds of voting systems — optical scan, touch-screen, and punch card) is a formal records request for internal audit logs, polling place results slips, modem transmission logs, and computer trouble slips.

When you pick up your dry cleaning, hang onto those coat hangers. You’re gonna need ’em.

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1. People misapplied the old “If you lose control of your car, you should steer in the same direction that you’re skidding” advice.
2. Diebold pulled it off.
3. Hollywood was right.
4. We’re a nation of idiots.

One last theory here from the “heart of America”: people snort crystal meth out here like you wouldn’t believe. Maybe the long-term effects have addled their brains.

‘Nuff said.

Well, this is just great, isn’t it?

Crooked Timber’s Ted Barlow writes:

Itís admirable that so many citizens were willing to wait for hours to cast their vote. But they shouldnít have to. Four-hour lines shouldnít function as inspiring symbols of human perseverance. Theyíre bugs in a voting system from which we have every right to expect better.