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Are America's Elections Free and Fair?

Six years after the presidential debacle in Florida, there still is no national system to oversee federal elections.   Will electronic voting machines provide accurate vote counts?   What about technical snafus, ill-trained poll workers and partisan manipulation?  Plus, President Bush declassifies an intelligence report on terrorism and, after months of dire predictions that it would never happen, the price of gasoline is declining.   Is it politics, the market or both?