Saturday, June 03, 2006

More on the Kennedy article

Ohio State Professor Dan Tokaji, wrote a fairly extensive review of Robert Kennedy, Jr.'s Rolling Stone article on the 2004 election in Ohio. It's largely favorable, however he disagrees with the ultimate conclusion that the vote was somehow stolen. No matter which side you come down on, there seems to be overwhelming agreement that the system needs an overhaul of some sort to avoid the appearance of impropriety. Tokaji notes:
The most important question we now face, however, is not whether Kerry really won. It is instead what ought to be done about the very real and serious problems that emerged in Ohio and other states in 2004, which Kennedy exhaustively documents, for the most part quite accurately.
We are slightly over two years away from the next presidential election... assuming there is little chance of action in the waning days of this Congress, will the 110th Congress act, or will it rely on the current system?

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