Rigging the election 101.

Here's a shocker : electronic voting machines are fallible. Well, we knew that, but today it became fairly important news. You see a computer crash erased detailed records from the country's first widespread use of touchscreen voting machines. The crashes occurred in May and November of 2003, erasing information from the September 2002 gubernatorial primaries and other elections.

And where, oh where, did this problem happen?

Miami-Dade county, Florida.
(Story here)
That's right folks - the Jeb Bush state that bollocksed-up the 2000 Presidential elections and wound up assigning El Busho as president. Let's not forget that despite it being the deciding state, and despite Al Gore getting more votes whichever way you counted them, somehow Florida's voting system managed to make El Busho win.
Here's an idea - reduce the electoral college vote for Florida so it's no longer an important state, educate the public on how to vote ("tick the box" - it's really not that difficult), and burn all the Diebold machines. If that doesn't happen, El Busho will get 4 More Years Wars.

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