This article from Harper's Magazine describes each step taken -- before, during, and after the 2004 election -- to deny certain segments of the Ohio public their right to vote, to rig the results, and to cover up the scandal. With a complicit national media and an opposition candidate too wimpy to challenge any of it, they succeeded, and then labeled anybody who questioned the process a "conspiracy nut".

Representative Democracy in America is now a fiction. Deal with it. The current "elected officials" have no interest in reforming anything, because they're the beneficiaries of the broken system.