After the earthquake

Karl Rove's dreaded 72-hour election-stealing conspiracy ended up looking more comical (annoy-a-thon robo-calls purporting to be from the other candidate) than sinister this time around. Are the faults of electronic voting machines finally starting to get enough attention that the villains are afraid to monkey with them? Or was Ohio never really stolen in 2004 after all? I still haven't seen a plausible non-fraud explanation for the discrepancies between exit polls and certified tallies in '04.