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Manjoo seems quite happy to dismiss the Rolling Stone article's allegations. He does so by name-calling, fudging numbers, conflating issues, and ignoring the most damning evidence. This does not represent a serious attempt to address a very serious issue.
Does Mr. Manjoo seriously believe that the Warren County polling station received a terrorist threat that (conveniently) required all observers to be cleared from the station until long after the votes were counted? The county officials cited an FBI threat, but the FBI has denied making such a report. Until Manjoo is willing to stake his personal credibility on such an obvious lie, he has nothing to add to the debate by showing up and trying to sweep serious questions under the rug.
A more serious approach to the Ohio debacle would start with the observation that we knew something very ugly happened there, but that we don't know whether the ugliness was itself enough to provide Bush's margin of victory.
I have let my Salon subscription lapse and articles like Manjoo's deter me from wanting to renew.
