The first election I paid attention to as it was happening was 2004, when there was a lot of suspicious activity with the Diebold machines in Ohio (and don’t forget, Diebold was bought out by Dominion in 2010). I’m convinced they rigged it. Not because Kerry would have been any different from Bush, but because the election that year was framed as a referendum on the Iraq war and they wanted to create the false impression of public support for it.