Is the U.S. right rigging elections?

After reading an article in the November 2012 issue of Harper’s (“How to Rig an Election” by Victoria Collier), I’m not as surprised that Barack Obama won the recent presidential election as I’m surprised he was allowed to win. The article points out that most votes in the U.S. are now tallied by voting machines, a technology with “enormous potential for electronic skulduggery.” Furthermore, this