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If you're one of those people who has been worried about the possibility of electronic voting machines and electoral fraud, it is time to put up or shut up. The evidence of fraud in Florida's 13th district isn't just solid, it is nearly overwhelming. But a challenge is going to take money, and to date not nearly enough has been raised. Via Kos, and from the Orlando Sentinel:

the results of the Sentinel analysis, two experts said, warrant additional investigation.

"Wow," University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato said. "That's very suggestive -- I'd even say strongly suggestive -- that if there had been votes recorded, she [Jennings] would have won that House seat."

David Dill, an electronic-voting expert at Stanford University, put it this way: "It seems to establish with certainty that more Democrats are represented in those undervoted ballots." [...]

The results showed that the undervoted ballots skewed Democratic in all of those races, even in the three races in which the county as a whole went Republican [...]

Since Election Day, dozens -- if not hundreds -- of voters have reported problems at the polls. Some say their vote for Jennings never registered after they touched her name. Others say they never saw the congressional race on the machine's screen.