Our own senior editor John Fund has a
crucially important column today about how the Mexican voting
system is probably safer than our own, and about the importance of
improving our ballot security in this country. Well worth a read.
Particularly important in the U.S. is that all states ought to
require photo IDs for voting. Meanwhile, as for the Mexican
elections, this paragraph from Fund's column, relating word from
our friend (and acknowledged expert on just about all things
political) Michael Barone, is particularly telling:
Michael Barone, the co-author of the authoritative
Almanac of American Politics, spent a week in Mexico reporting on
its election and the safeguards it has taken to ensure an accurate
vote. "I have more confidence in Mexico's election procedures than
I do in those in much of the United States," he concluded.