Certainly the outlook for democracy seems pretty bleak-and how could it be otherwise? The surest way to make a problem worse is to pretend it isn't there, which is exactly what our press and politicians have been doing; and the rest is, unfortunately, history. Full Story »
Posted by Melva Hackney
Some good ideas; a few grossly unrealistic and/or unneccesary. But the biggest problem with the article is that these ideas address only the "mechanics" of elections, which really are the least of the problems facing US democracy. Sadly, election fraud is just the latest step in democracy's decline in the US. Had the title of the article been "A 12-Step Program to Dissuade Election Fraud," I would have given it a higher rating (though my first sentence would still apply).
