re: Why are federal and gubernatorial elections not subject to a set of standardized rules?

Because the national election would become as corrupt as it is in Fla. When that happens socialism would be upon us. Let the states figure it out. Some states out of 50 being corrupt is better than one massive corrupt vote counter for everybody

Aaaaaaaaactually you are wrong again.

Some rights should belong to the States as long as they aren't abusing them.

In these instances, your Brownskirt brethren are trying to steal an election and while they SHOULD be hanged for their foul deeds, we would settle with setting up some sort of Federal oversight to make sure these pukes aren't violating the Civil Rights of decent, honest, hard-working voters (that is to say Conservatives).