On the eve of an election in a great nation trying to sell
the idea of democracy to the rest of the world, it is a scandal that so many
Americans are wondering whether judges and lawyers -- not voters -- will decide
the outcome. It is a scandal that one side suspects the other of trying to
depress turnout in the name of fighting fraud. It is a scandal that all this
talk of a disputed election may discourage some voters from going to the polls.
It is a scandal that we have taken a basic act of citizenship and turned it into
a complicated, litigated, chad-infested, technologically convoluted and
anxiety-ridden act.
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