As a person with a memory larger than a hamster, he understands pervasive election chicanery on both sides is nothing new whatsoever.

The next time Americans hear from their government that they need to impose democracy in other countries — through wars, invasion, bombing campaigns or other forms of clandestine CIA “interference” — they should insist that democracy first be imposed in the United States. An already frazzled, intensely polarized and increasingly hostile populace now has to confront yet another election in the richest and most technologically advanced country on earth where the votes cannot be counted in a way that inspires even minimal degrees of confidence.

I got exposed to this early in my life -- all the volunteers counting ballots were inexplicably from the ruling party in the county, and there wasn't even pretense of chain of custody. Unsurprisingly, the local administration essentially got everything it wanted all the time.