Well they were bashing him without a real need, weren't they? Actually I don't know too much about this, I might be wrong. Still, I think this campaign helped reelect Bush.

I saw a report about the US elections on tv november second, and I saw multiple things I thought were utterly wrong.
There were some non-US election observers who researched elections in other countries too. The first problem was that the elections were organised by political parties with agendas, in stead of by some neutral organisation. Second are all the different ways of voting. This is far less efficient than a standardized way of voting, and makes electionfraud easier (not saying I have seen any fraud). Third is the difficult ways some votingmachines work. They showed the original video manual of one of those machines, and I really had to pay attention to comprehend the complex system. Obviously I know such difficult machines are only a small part of the grand total, but still... The observers said they had seen elections that were better organised in some really backward countries.

Voting in my country works a lot better, I think. Everybody who's allowed to vote gets an electioncard at their registered homeadress months before the elections. Everybody gets them at approximatly the same time. When it's time to vote you take your card, go to the building where you have to vote (indicated on the card), wait in line for 0-5 minutes, show your card + ID to the volunteers. They look look up your name in their register, and you can vote. The machine shows the names of all the candidates (grouped by their party), and you can select your candidate by pressing the button with their name. The display now shows that name, and you can press the big vote button. The machine now indicates that you have voted, and you're done. Looking up your name in the register plus the actual voting takes about a minute, or less. Seriously, every retard who's able to read can do this. http://www.zowerkt.nl/rechten/images...ine_detail.jpg

Obviously my country is a lot smaller, but if it can work for 16 million people it can work for more too.