[GFischer]

How fast do you forget the 2000 election:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_elec...

If you want something less editable than Wikipedia:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1013552.stm

from the outside it looked irregular at least (and some of the voting practices seem very bad).

Here in Uruguay we have a very reliable manual voting mechanism... but if you want electronic, it seems Brazil did it reasonably well (didn't follow the elections that closely, but there's no contest to the voting methods), so you can copy them instead.

Not to mention in the US you don't have direct representation (for the presidential elections), and there are several shenanigans with the voting districts, so, I'd say that voting works less in the US than in several other places.

[eli]

The 2000 election was an ugly mess because damn near exactly as many people in Florida voted Bush as voted Gore, not because of rampant voter fraud.

Better technology could have helped, for sure, but there is always going to be some small margin of error and this particular race was decided by something under 1/100 of a percent.