The only mention of oil I've seen in this thread is from Wolfgang.

That's a distortion of the truth, Doug. The main complaint against the 2000 election was that a crucial count was interrupted, in order to favour one candidate who happened to be ahead at the time, and that there were numerous voting irregularities.

The complaints about the Electoral College system was that it produced a perverse result, and that the system needed to be reformed - which is the complaint that Doug's compadrés would surely have made, if the vote in Ohio had been a little bit different this time, and Kerry had got to the White House with three million votes less than Bush.

Anyway, I'm sure we all hope that the situation in Ukraine (where they don't have an Electoral College) means that the winner is the candidate that the Ukrainians actually want.

And that their Supreme Court does an honest job in determining that, or ordering a fresh election if the electoral regularities are serious enough to have prevented a fair election.