There are many news stories detailing how each state or electoral district is improving its voting infrastructure so there won't be any problems in the 2008 Presidential election. But how many are going to be able to positively say that they are prepared to prevent electoral mischief during the Presidential Primaries. Not even speaking of those districts (like in central and southern Ohio) that are now planning how to get away with election fraud when somebody IS watching. Now get your fitted Tinfoil hat and wonder WWRD (What Would Rove Do).
If you are Karl Rove and can possibly influence the outcome of several Democratic Primary elections through electoral theft, what would you do. Would you make (in your warped but experienced estimation) the least likely-to-be-elected-in-November candidate win (I'm talking big three now and maybe another late entry contender like Gore or Clark). Or would you make sure no candidate had enough votes before the convention so any Republican anointed in the Republican Primaries has three or four months of Republican support building and advertising and interviews in the noise machine (watch, spin, repeat) before the Democratic Party chooses our Presidential candidate.