[Cowperson]

''We didn't have one election for president in 2004,'' says Robert Pastor, who directs the Center for Democracy and Election Management at American University. ''We didn't have fifty elections. We actually had 13,000 elections run by 13,000 independent, quasi-sovereign counties and municipalities.''

One of the strongest tests of the veracity of any conspiracy theory is the number of participants required for it to function . . . . . . and that quote in the paragraph above, taken from Kennedy's own piece, tells you this is another one requiring thousands of participants, pretty much all of whom would also need to stay silent or of a like mind over a lengthy period of time, an unlikely event given human nature.

The more people involved, the more compliance required, the more time involved, the less likely a conspiracy theory becomes.

It was also somewhat humourous he would cite the New York Times and Washington Post as dismissive of this bombshell given the former has flat out stated its a "liberal" newspaper and the other is often accused of the same.

None of that should change the obvious fact the hodgepodge nature by which Americans count their ballots is medieval in many ways.

Cowperson