The Coming Ballot Meltdown

—By

| Thu Jun. 29, 2006 1:32 PM PDT

Thought the Help America Vote Act (prompted by the realization that the U.S. electoral machinery was barely up to banana republic standards) solved our balloting problems? Oh, please. Andrew Gumbel--a veteran reporter not given to alarmism--raises the curtain on..."The Coming Ballot Meltdown" in The Nation. Read it and weep.

Get Mother Jones by Email - Free. Like what you're reading? Get the best of MoJo three times a week.

Advertisement

 

Photo Essays + Slideshows

Drone Pilots: "Overpaid, Underworked, and Bored"

Photo essay: Military drone operators put their "Top Gun" dreams on hold to spend their days spying from the skies.

House Porn: Size Doesn't Matter Edition

Adorable, cheap, and green living spaces? Yes, please.

Photo Essay: Plastic Surgery Tourism

Images from a two-week trip to the land of lipo and breast lifts.

PHOTOS: Out of Saddam's Shadow

Ten years after the US-led invasion, Iraqi Kurdistan is thriving.

See All