Blast from the Past

This is from a blog entry (in a different blog) that I wrote in December 2004, after the fiasco that passed for the Presidential Election that year. The Wikipedia entry that provided this quote has since been edited and the original link is no longer there. However with a little googling I found that it was written by Thomas Crampton of the International Herald Tribute:

International monitors at a polling station in southern Florida said Tuesday that voting procedures fell short in many ways of the best global practices. The observers said they had less access to polls than in Kazakhstan, that the electronic voting had fewer fail-safes than in Venezuela, that the ballots were not so simple as in the Republic of Georgia and that no other country had such a complex national election system...

This is an example of what happened then, and what I hope we don't see a repeat of this year.