Jimmy Carter, professional mineshaft canary

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In his grand tradition of travelling to third world hellholes and helping them run a democracy, Jimmy Carter has travelled to Florida -- poor bastard -- and found that "basic international requirements" are not being met by the state's voting apparatus.

Carter touches on stuff we all knew about, like the effort to get Nader on the ballot; a "fumbling attempt" to disenfranchise 22,000 black voters; and the obvious biases of everyone who works for the President's brother. But it does sort of put things in perspective. I mean, don't we usually send him to other places where democracy doesn't work?

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It's MY Carter Center.