I have written this oped for Law.com and The Recorder. It begins:

It will be tempting for most Americans to believe that our system for running elections worked Tuesday. After all, John Kerry conceded defeat and George W. Bush no doubt will have a second term as President. But our election administration system is badly broken, and there’s good reason to believe the problems won’t be fixed in time for 2008, when the next election could create yet another Florida debacle.
We came much too close for comfort this time around. If the Ohio margin had been around 36,000 votes instead of around 136,000 (a small difference in percentage terms), we would have seen a battle royal over the 130,000+ provisional and absentee ballots that were yet to be processed and counted in the next week and a half. It would have been Florida all over again, only with more lawyers and controversy.