International observers weigh in after visiting Florida:

The observers said they had less access to polls than in Kazakhstan, that the electronic voting had fewer fail-safes than in Venezuela, that the ballots were not so simple as in the Republic of Georgia and that no other country had such a complex national election system.

"To be honest, monitoring elections in Serbia a few months ago was much simpler," said Konrad Olszewski, an election observer stationed in Miami by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

And I’m proud to be an American… where at least I know I’m free…

There are still hundreds of thousands of absentee and provisional ballots to be counted.

What Rove knows and Democrats are only now just learning is that the endgame in an election isn’t the final tally; it’s framing the narrative in how the final tally is counted.

There are still hundreds of thousands of absentee and provisional ballots to be counted.

Right this minute — right now, go, seriously — contact the national media, plus every media outlet in the close states that you can find — and demand that they not call any results final until the results are actually final.

There are still hundreds of thousands of absentee and provisional ballots to be counted.

The perception that the uncounted votes aren’t important could congeal in the next 24 hours.

If we can get a genuinely partisan organization like Sinclair to pay attention, we can get ordinary newspapers and TV stations to listen.

Let’s email this to our friends, make our calls, and get some real pressure going.

Let’s Sinclair the holy hell out of Ohio. 

Let’s win the endgame this time.

FAIR’s media contact list is here.

Newslink’s complete media list, indexed by state, is here.

Ohio TV stations.  Ohio newspapers.  Ohio radio stations.

GOTV is done.  Now let’s Get Out The Media.

Other stuff… not a lot of good news out there.  Damn.

GOP is gaining roughly four seats in the house.  Senate looks firmly in GOP control.

Seven states are banning gay marriage.  Because that’s so damned important to our society.

Florida will now require parental notification before minors can get an abortion.  Which is really gonna help parental abuse victims a lot.

Incidentally, the two jackasses in robes who OK’d voter challenges in Ohio, favoring the GOP, are both nutjobs appointed by — guess — the GOP.

See, this whole separation-of-powers thing is fragile as hell.  And the courts are already more than half-filled with ideologues willing to skew the process.  If Bush gets to stick 3 right-wingers of his choosing on the Supreme Court, ratified by a GOP-controlled Congress…

Going over Ohio’s precincts.  My home state.  I know the place pretty well.  Can tell you the difference between Cuyahoga and Coshocton.

I don’t think anybody has made any projections.  I just did some math, based on the numbers at 4:15 am London time, which I guess is 11:15 pm back in Ohio.  Here’s mine, and I hate it:

We’re going to the courts.  Ohio is the next Florida.

Hope I’m wrong.