The day had begun as a test of a new $32 million voting system that replaced the one blamed in the 2000 presidential election debacle.

Those guidelines were intended to spur states to modernize their systems to avoid an election debacle like the one in Florida in 2000.

But the paper reported that the People's party had at least engaged in an internal debate about the election debacle.

The 1876 election debacle served as a cautionary tale, they said.

After the 2000 election debacle, Congress gave the states large grants to replace faulty voting machines, including the kind that produced hanging chads.

We have had four years to fix this system, and here we sit blithely sailing into another election debacle.

After the 2000 presidential election debacle, Florida rushed to acquire new electronic voting equipment.

It took an election debacle of historic proportions to achieve the necessary changes.

Now, in the wake of the election debacle in Florida, the banner of enfranchisement is being raised again.

"We have to get used to things like this," he said of the election debacle.