Additionally, it looks like the Pentagon has taken definitive steps to ensure that military ballots will NOT be discarded this year.
Hope it's sort of like the war on terrorism - there are things going on in the background that we don't know about, and we will win, and President Bush will win in a landslide.
I certainly hope so, too, but I just don't want us to become complacent. We cannot take a Bush victory for granted. The other side is just too dirty.
In 2000, people who weren't even registered to vote were permitted to vote for Gore in Allegheny County, Pa. Also in Allegheny County, residents of Mayview state mental hospital were bused to the polls (by the head of the Pittsburgh NAACP) and told how to vote - even thought they weren't registered in that district. Homeless people were given cigarettes in Milwaukee in exchange for their Democrat votes. The polling places in overwhelmingly Democrat St. Louis stayed open beyond the legal hours.
We can't expect these things won't happen again, no matter how much we try to keep an eye on them. That's why we have to do all we can to persuade the undecideds, the shut-ins, the apathetic to vote for Bush in 2004.