Progress?

Or a reaction, at least. Don't know how I missed this, but I did. From CNN for Tuesday.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office plans to investigate complaints of several systemic problems with this month's elections, a group of Democratic lawmakers said Tuesday.

The investigation comes in response to two letters written by lawmakers to the GAO which address numerous media reports of irregularities in the 2004 vote and call for those to be reviewed.

The GAO said it will not investigate every charge listed by the Democrats, but will examine "the security and accuracy of voting technologies, distribution and allocation of voting machines and counting of provisional ballots." ...

As part of the inquiry, the group said it will provide copies of specific incident reports received in their offices regarding the election, including more than 57,000 complaints provided to the House Judiciary Committee.

There have been cases where the GAO has been bullied into timidity by threats to its budget but it usually does reasonably independent investigations. We'll have to see what happens with this one - and keep an eye on attempts at intimidation by the GOP.