The new campaign

Canada Free Press ^ | November 8, 2004 | Henry Lamb

[MikeEdwards]

Before the first vote was cast, Finnish Senator Kimmo Kiljunen, one of the international election monitors, asked Senator John Kerry to "work for uniform election rules for the entire country at the federal level."

After the election, Konrad Olszewski, another international monitor stationed in Miami, complained that Venezuela, Republic of Georgia, and Serbia, all had a better system of voting than America does.

"They have one national election law and use the paper ballots I really prefer over any other system," Olszewski told the International Herald Tribune. . . . .

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[Wonder Warthog]

Excellent article. You can't tell it from the excerpt, but the article actually lays out the major DISADVANTAGES to a "national election system" and argues for keeping the electoral process "under local control" (i.e. at the county level).