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In present day America, there have been many problems with voting. Twain’s novel, Huck Finn, criticizes this because, as it turns out, many problems with voting are racial in basis. This doesn’t mean other forms of corruption do not exist, but "The DNC report believed differences in the voting experience between African-American voters and white voters caused voter disenfranchisement by the state of Ohio…" (wikipedia). This could change outcomes in elections The elections lately have been using electronic based voting machines. There is always concern about this because a report from several companies say that the "systems were identified as containing significant vulnerabilities…" (wikipedia). This could indeed be troublesome, for votes can be lost, changed, or some division or multiple of a vote can be counted. An example is the movie, "Man of the Year". The presidential candidate, Dobbs, Robbin Williams, wins the election because of the two "B’s" in his name. What is frightening is that it could happen in America with any election now, because "It is unclear how many of these security risks had been fixed by Election Day" (wikipedia) for the previously said vulnerabilities in 2002. Other problems that have been in America since universal male suffrage was installed are racial conflicts. It has been reported that people have been scared out of voting, have been deterred from voting, or where corrupt pollers have taken votes and then destroyed them. In Ohio, there was a problem with wait lines "for an African-American was 52 minutes, as compared to 18 minutes for whites." (wikipedia). A later DNC report said the problems could have dealt with machinery or some outside interference. Despite this, voting is still an institution that shouldn’t be denied people, and these crimes of racially discriminating voters should be resolved to have America be what the founding fathers saw it could be.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_U.S._presidential_election_controversy_and_irregularities