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...fact, the objections to a popular vote are more serious than mere mechanics. In an election segmented into districts, voter power is higher--an individual's vote matters more because it has a much greater probability of swaying an election. No national contest could, like the present election, be decided by a few hundred votes. A districted election would also force candidates to have wider geographic appeal, a factor which may have lessened in importance since the constitutional convention but is still crucial to national unity...
COUNTRY WITH THE LEAST FAITH IN OUR ELECTORAL SYSTEM Russia, where nine Deputies in the Duma, concerned over possible voter fraud, proposed sending an envoy to monitor the election...
...turns out that voter fraud runs both ways. "The woman next to me couldn't see," Mama Ann told me. "The workers talk to one another. They don't pay attention. So I walked into her booth and punched Gore for her without anybody looking." This is going to be a long, drawn-out legal process...
Gore's grounds for action are far weaker than Nixon's. After all, there have been no serious charges of Republican misconduct, just voter confusion over a ballot--the "butterfly" ballot (in use, by the way, in Daley's Cook County)--designed and approved by Democratic Party officials...
...revotes and recounts in Democratic counties of Florida until the numbers come out right. Yes, there were 19,000 double-punched ballots in Democratic Palm Beach. But there were many times that many spoiled ballots statewide. Are we now going to settle elections based on the intent of the voter rather than his action? What next? Follow every election with voter interviews to determine how many wish to repunch their ballots...