When Saddam camne up with his election just pre-war and found he'd won it by a landslide, everyone (quite reasonably) sneered at it.

I only wish he'd used an electronic voting system. That might have helped discredit this kind of absurdity.

I just cannot conceive how anyone can be willing to trust any voting system that doesn't provide hard evidence that can be checked carefully and with safeguards. And it doesn't matter how long it takes.