Republican Vote Fraud

Excellent interview with Mark Crispin Miller on this topic here.

I recently read Miller's "Fooled Again", which reports on how right-wing fanatics committed vote fraud during the 2004 presidential election. I thought the first couple of chapters were outstanding, and overall the book documents a great deal of Republican malfeasance.

However, for me, the book fell down at the end, by not putting the big picture of the election together. There was no mathematical analysis of the final vote and how the various Republican schemes might have altered the outcome. More oddly, there was almost no discussion of stealing votes with electronic voting machines, and the religious right influence on the companies that make these machines (Diebold, ES&S). I suppose Miller just wanted to stay with hard facts regarding fraud, but I found his last chapter fairly disappointing. Nonetheless, the book is still an important read, albeit both maddening and depressing.