this year in Ohio and other states.
After all, he co-led the "Carter-Ford Commission" that rolled out the report on which the "Help America Vote Act" of 2002 was built. Dozens of people urged Carter to insist on MANDATORY national standards for elections, but NOOOOO! He was too WEAK to stand up to Republicans then, and now we all have to continue to suffer in Republican hell.
Rove, Delay, and company have used the "Help America Vote Act" to cement in place minority vote suppression, arbitrary rules to take away Democrats' votes in states run by Republicans, and voting machines with no paper trail.
See a very prescient newspaper column at
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnists/wickham/2001-08-07-wickham.htm and links to reports at
http://www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/e-gov/e-elecreformlinks.htm