We need electoral reform. Now.

The Salem Statesman Journal's Editorial Board is right on the money with this piece. In "Top democracy deserves first-rate voting system", they write:

Ballots mysteriously appeared or disappeared. Vote totals didn't add up. Regional officials barred a controversial candidate from the ballot. And hundreds of thousands of residents registered complaints.

In a developing democracy, such incidents would spark international condemnation and insistence on electoral reforms.

Americans and their leaders should join that chorus, even though those problems happened in Hometown, U.S.A.

The board continues by opining that there is no question that Bush won and Kerry lost.

The system worked. However, it has too many cracks, especially for a country that considers itself the world's leading democracy.

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Oregon's and America's election systems are pretty good, but we shouldn't settle for "pretty good" when it comes to the foundation of our democracy: elections.

It's a very interesting piece and you should check out the rest.