Slate: Tin foil doesn't look good on anyone's head

Slate does a pretty good job of addressing the theories that optical voting in Florida was hacked. As you may recall, the argument was that in counties with huge majorities of registered Democrats, Bush still won by seemingly impossibly large margins. Clearly a case of fraud, right?

Slate thinks this is

a bit, well, crazy. Take a look at the geography: All four counties are either in Florida's panhandle—known by some as the Redneck Riviera—or the northern part of the state. Like their neighbors in Georgia and Alabama, northern Florida voters tend to be very conservative. Baker, Dixie, Franklin, and Holmes counties are represented in the House by two Republicans and a Blue Dog Democrat who lists his No. 1 issue as 'Second Amendment rights.' Democratic registrations here are more an artifact of history than evidence of massive fraud.