America's voting integrity reputation dropped to the level of a third world country?

[mugsy]

You have every right to be upset at voter fraud or election rigging shenanigans in any election but if you believe that such things, even very widespread, are new or haven't always been a part of American politics then you are on some powerful meds. Dead people have been voting forever in Chicago and the South was replete minority voter intimidation for decades. The forms have of rigging have changed but there are always powerful people who do not want to let the people speak without an "assist".

 

[cmhbob]

Good place to post this article.

Foreign election officials amazed by trust-based U.S. voting system
For the head of Libya's national election commission, the method by which Americans vote is startling in that it depends so much on trust and the good faith of election officials and voters alike.

"It's an incredible system," said Nuri K. Elabbar, who traveled to the United States along with election officials from more than 60 countries to observe today's presidential elections as part of a program run by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES). Your humble Cable guy visited polling places with some of the international officials this morning. Most of them agreed that in their countries, such an open voting system simply would not work.

"It's very difficult to transfer this system as it is to any other country. This system is built according to trust and this trust needs a lot of procedures and a lot of education for other countries to adopt it," Elabbar said.

The most often noted difference between American elections among the visitors was that in most U.S. states, voters need no identification. Voters can also vote by mail, sometimes online, and there's often no way to know if one person has voted several times under different names, unlike in some Arab countries, where voters ink their fingers when casting their ballots.

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/p...icials_amazed_by_trust_based_us_voting_system