Guns Make Voting Even Harder

If you want to feel truly dispirited about the health of U.S. democracy, skip the stories about Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell and go straight to today's report on the American voting experience.

The report, by a presidentially appointed commission that included the campaign attorneys for both President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, looked at the problems that plague U.S. elections -- everything from needlessly long lines at the polls, inaccurate voter lists and aging voting machines to a failure to make polling places accessible for the disabled or those with limited English.