Voting Fraud. An ugly phrase, and in this case, and uglier reality.
"Ghost Voting" they call it. But whatever it is, reforming HOW America votes (on anything) starts with principles. And no amount of tinkering with technology can fix social engineering problems.
An article on the best and worst of election reform in 2007 appears in the progressive Century Foundation available here.
It looks like there may some movement away from the current situation in which U.S. elections are increasingly outsourced and
Here is a first-ever admission: a real software bug in a real voting system can drop real votes, and has