Voting in a third world country

This post from a TPM reader may have special interest for one of our co-bloggers here at Scatablog.

I live in Arlington Heights, IL, outside of Chicago. I'm in Mark Kirk's House District. This morning none of the electronic voting machines were working. Therefore the wait to vote was around 30 minutes, since they were using paper ballots.

As an aside, on the table next to the election judges was a box of donuts from the Republican Party of Wheeling Township, thanking the election judges for their service. Democray (and bribery) in action!

The problems in Columbus, Ohio seem to be especially bad though. So many that it swamped the phone system at the Board of Elections.

You'd think this was a third world country. We can't even get the voting process right.