A humourous comment about the US presidential elections in Slashdot:

Wait a minute... something just occurred to me!

If some insidious government officials were to approve the installation [sic] an easily-corruptible voting system in order to co-opt the election according to their agenda, and if the mass media then convinced the masses that the election is really close and could go either way, then it wouldn't be quite so transparent when the election was rigged in favor of one candidate!

Holy crap!

Either the above comment is true, or Americans really do prefer Bush. I don't know which of the two possibilities is scarier.