Help America Vote Act of 2002:

"HAVA, is a United States federal law, which was authored by Christopher Dodd,and passed in the House 357-48 and 92–2 in the Senate and was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 29, 2002. The bill was drafted (at least in part) in reaction to the controversy surrounding the 2000 U.S. presidential election, when the Supreme Court narrowly ruled that Bush had won the election."

..."establish a program to provide funds to States to replace punch card voting systems, to establish the Election Assistance Commission to assist in the administration of federal elections and to otherwise provide assistance with the administration of certain federal election laws and programs, to establish minimum election administration standards for States and units of local government with responsibility for the administration of federal elections, and for other purposes."

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If the Repubs are not running a sting operation, they have only themselves to blame for letting another election to be stolen. At this point, collusion would have to be considered.