Glenn Greenwald: "Nations far poorer and less technologically advanced -- including Brazil -- have no problem holding quick, efficient elections. A system suffused with this much chaos, error, protracted outcomes and seemingly inexplicable reversals will sow doubt even among rational citizens."

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What they've done will ensure focus on this election for years to come. It is eminently clear that the signal/noise ratio is now hopelessly out of control. Both sides (but more clumsily and extremely obviously the Democrats) have added so much noise to the system (games they are playing corrupting the voter information/voting/counting process) that determining a genuine legitimate result becomes impossible. The only thing that seems clear from living through this is that the country is truly split close to 50/50, and neither of the sides is willing to acknowledge the other side's legitimacy. That's not a good recipe for harmony...