Bob Bauer’s latest post begins: “Rick Hasen has attempted to describe for a foreign audience, Australians, the dilapidated, ever-on-the-brink-of collapse electoral process in the United States. He says that things are generally a mess, spread among jurisdictions that are free to run elections as they wish, are overseen by partisans and are only irregularly held to professional standards. Such a foul state of affairs predictably produces a Bush v. Gore or a spoiled Congressional election like Florida’s 13th. It is just good fortune that elections are only rarely decided by a hair, when dysfunction is consequential and hard to ignore, and we can get by more generally, with limited discomfort, because of the apparently infinite tolerance of the voter.”