11/01/2010 - Call it the Board of Elections' prayer: Let the weather be clear, let the turnout be heavy and let everyone who wins, win big.
The desire for clear-cut victories reflects election officials' awareness that razor-tight races magnify the foul-ups at the polls — late openings, lost ballots, machine malfunctions — that disenfranchise voters.
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Read the entire editorial A Decade After Florida Fiasco, Voting Remains a Hodgepodge on the USA Today Web site.