IntroductionOn September 28, 2007, Judge Winifred Smith of the Superior Court of Alamada County, California, took the extraordinary measure of invalidating an election result - an event that has only happened once before in California's history.[1] Measure R, originally voted upon in November 2004, was ordered back onto next year's ballot not because of electoral fraud or force majeure, but because 96% of the results from the election had vanished.[2] There… [read post]