I am trying to figure out, just how many invalid votes there was in the US election in 2008.
Today I saw a newsarticle on CNN claiming there where hundreds of invalid votes in the recent Afganistan election. Well – I know there was quite a few in the last couple of national elections in the US as well. But how many?

2 secs. on Google gives me this: http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/commentary/articles.php?ID=5273

And this from Jakarta Post that has nothing at all to do with either US or Afganistan this: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/05/10/invalid-votes-10-abstentions-30.html

3 years ago an article from WSWS noted that the US election of 2000 and 2004 gave us this statement from OSCE:

In the US, elections are overseen in each state by the secretary of state, usually a political appointee of the governor. In 2000 and 2004, the secretaries of state in Florida and Ohio served as co-chairs of the Bush election campaign committees in their states. Both played major roles in what is widely regarded as the suppression of working class votes and other measures that tilted the outcome in Bush’s favor. The OSCE report dryly noted that such a state of a state of affairs “may raise questions of possible conflict of interest.”

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/sep2006/ukra-s14.shtml

I did not find a place where I could see the actual number of invalid votes in the US election – though I find several blogs and articles claiming that there where several houndreds in several states.

Now I wonder where the big news story in houndreds of invalid votes in the Afganistan election is. If it where thousands – i could see the common interest – but houndreds – not news to me.