When will it end? Sadly, there's no answer...

This editorial from today's WSJ discusses more of the election manipulation tactics that are being taken. Unfortunately, winning at any cost has become the politically acceptable standard. The cost may be our democracy:

"Not that the partisans care, but there's a larger principle that is in danger of being trampled here. A fair election requires two things: The ability to cast a ballot but also the confidence that any vote is honestly cast. The count-'em-all-legal-or-not-and-sue strategy stomps on the second principle in order to serve the first. Denying the right to vote was common in many areas before the Voting Rights Act of the 1960s, but there is no evidence that it was
a problem at all in 2000.

What we are seeing now isn't an attempt to prevent injustice but looks to be a calculated political strategy to create enough confusion at the polls to justify legal challenges that will cloud any close Presidential outcome. Let's hope we have a clear winner on Election Night, or we may all wish we were in Afghanistan."

I acknowledge that voter fraud and dirty tricks have been a part of politics for years. Death hasn't been a deterrent to voting in Chicago for some time now. But the stakes are too high and the spotlight too bright for the US to embarrass ourselves this way.