If You Doubted This Would Be a Difficult Election...

This page has up a list of all of the ballot issues, lawsuits, and voting irregularities already cropping up across the country. If you had hoped this election cycle might be less weird than the Florida Debacle of 2000, then we are already seeing it is a pipe dream. I am still hopeful for a Bush win large enough to forestall any major lawsuits, but I think things have gotten so acrimonious in the last few weeks of the campaign that I suspect Kerry/Edwards will be filing court challenges out of sheer spite, if they do not win. And I doubt that partisans on the Republican side will be psychologically capable of doing the same thing, if their side loses. Sigh. I hope 2008 is an election with less malice, where we can get back to the business of just voting on election day. America may have too many lawyers, but do we really have to make a literal federal case out of it every time someone loses an election?