Max Sawicky points us to a March Vanity Fair article by Christopher Hitchens. I don’t think of Hitchens as a flaming liberal or anything, but apparently he’s been looking over the 2004 voting results in Ohio, and believes there’s some real evidence of election fraud. At least enough to deserve our attention.

Whichever way you shake it, or hold it to the light, there is something about the Ohio election that refuses to add up. The sheer number of irregularities compelled a formal recount, which was completed in late December and which came out much the same as the original one, with 176 fewer votes for George Bush. But this was a meaningless exercise in reassurance, since there is simply no means of checking, for example, how many “vote hops” the computerized machines might have performed unnoticed.