Stephan:   Red state voter suppression has always been a problem but, since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act it has been getting worse. Maricopa County: was it just the incompetence of the woman who oversees voting in Maricopa, or was there a deep motive? Hard to say, at this stage, but this is obviously a serious problem in those states. And then there are the issues critics have raised about the security of computerized voting.  This article describes the situation. It is impossible to have a properly functioning democracy if voting is not a closely supervised and protected activity freely available to all citizens. The only thing that will assure that, however, is the passionate demand by citizens that it be so.