Whoever desigbned it is irrelevgant. It may have been a mistake, it may have been a criminal conspiracy. It doesn't matter. Either way people were denied the right to vote for the candidate of their choice.

And a man calleed Geoerge Bush is trying to obstruct any efforts to find out what happened, to hold a re-run of a vote that should clearly be declared null and void - or even to find out accurately wehat the vote was.

In so doing, he has shown that he is not a trustworthy person. I am astonished that decent and honourable Republicans are not clamouring to be heard and to distance themselves from this squalid attempt to steal an election.

Just because he's your man you don't stand by him when he's trying to do something wrong. Isn't that what Republicans complained about Democrats doing in respect of Monicagate? And messy as that was, it doesn't begin to compare with trying to steal a presidential election and corrupt the constitution.