Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman have been studying the 2004 Ohio election story maybe even since before it happened. In their book
How the GOP Stole America's 2004 Election and Is Rigging 2008 (www.Freepress.org, ISBN 0-9753402-8-X) they propose a program to
Honor Every Voter; Count Every Vote
including
"3. There must be a Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing all American citizens the right to vote, and to have those votes fairly counted.
4. There must be uniform federal standards for all elections, and those standards must support the right of all American citizens to vote, and to have those votes fairly counted.
5. Uniform federal election standards must include a guarantee that balloting is supervised by non-partisan commissions, not partisan Secretaries of State."
Sounds like a start.
BTW, Harvey Wasserman was part of the anti-nuke Clamshell Alliance back in the day and is now working on wind farms for farmers in a practical example of the needed shift from nukes and carbon-based fuels to renewables, systems efficiency, and the resilience of community scales of production.
Honor Every Voter; Count Every Vote
1. Properly trained election observation and verification teams from the United Nations and accredited governmental and non-governmental organizations must be guaranteed access to all Ohio and US polling stations.
2. Access to polling places by partisan challengers must be banned.
3. There must be a Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing all American citizens the right to vote, and to have those votes fairly counted.
4. There must be uniform federal standards for all elections, and those standards must support the right of all American citizens to vote, and to have those votes fairly counted.
5. Uniform federal election standards must include a guarantee that balloting is supervised by non-partisan commissions, not partisan Secretaries of State.
6. The idea of universal, uniform paper ballots to be hand-counted must be considered.
7. Electronic voting machines must be banned unless they provide a voter-verified paper ballot and audit trail, counted and recounted by independent, non-partisan citizen groups at the precinct level.
8. All voting machines must run on open source code, transparent software that is owned by the public, not subject to proprietary restrictions imposed by owners or developers.
9. On a federal basis, it must be made easier, not harder, to register to vote.
10. There must be no bans on the voting rights of ex-felons.
11. A bi-partisan Constitutional Amendment proposed for the November, 2005 Ohio ballot, would create a non-partisan authority that would supervise redistricting of districts for the state legislature districts, and for US Congressional districts in a fair manner.
12. The non-partisan redistricting authority would establish a mathematical system by which any alternative redistricting proposal would be evaluated and selected, including such factors as compactness and competitiveness.
13. A Constitutional Amendment proposed for the November, 2005, Ohio ballot would require that elections be run by an executive selected by a non-partisan entity, rather than being controlled by a Secretary of Staste or other partisan official with a vested interest in the outcome.
14. A Constitutional Amendment proposed for Ohio 2005 would restore limits on campaign spending, a good step towards starting to deal with the massive problem of campaign finance reform.