What if we had an election without electronic voting machines?

[merrily]

12. Why would I? It's moot. Besides,

I lived that campaign and that election. When she ran against Brown, she was possibly the worst candidate I've witnessed in my life--and I'm including Todd Akins. Let me give you just a tiny taste: when asked about her foreign policy expertise, she cited having visited her sister in Europe twice. And don't even get me started on Schilling.

Also, best I can tell, the DNC and every Democratic politician with a national reputation left Coakley to twist in the wind. http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1280&pid=43335

On top of all that, local media was in the bag for Scott Brown, whose wife had worked at a local Boston TV station for years. The female reporter assigned to the place where Brown announced his victory literally jumped up and down during the announcement. On camera.

All those things are, to me, much more suspect than the outcome of that election, which was no surprise to anyone, and all those things are also much more relevant to future elections than whether Coakley should have demanded a recount. In any event, she didn't demand one and it's too late now.

If your point is clean elections, I'm with you. If your point is Coakley actually won, forget it.