How can they screw it up again?

The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and Wired have all already reported on how America has screwed up yet another election. I honestly don't know how a country that holds it's head so high when it talks democracy just doesn't seem to understand how to make it work. Electronic voting machines going haywire, incumbent members being ID checked and even voters being threatened with arrest if they turn up have all marred what has turned out to be a golden day for Australia, though probably an ominous one for Iraq.