In the middle of composing a post on the large and small outrages that will inevitably happen today, Atrios got there first.
Obviously our election system is completely stupid and in an ideal world we’d have only a small fraction of all of these problems, but not all of these problems are evidence of massive conspiracy.
…adding, voting issues are serious, but the inability to distinguish between the important and the not so important obscures what the real problems are.
If you read only leftwing blogs today you will get the impression that outrages mostly happen to Democrats. Weirdly enough a rightwing blog reader will feel like he lives in an alternate universe where the opposite is true. By the end of the day either perspective will have a wealth of compelling anecdotes to bolster its case, because in a country with over a hundred million strongly opinionated voters there is room for incredibly stupid people on both shoulders of the bell curve.
Like Atrios said, investigating and punishing the genuine abuses (there will be those) gets easier if we don’t pull the fire alarm every time someone screws up in good faith.