International Herald Tribune : Global monitors find faults

"... [I]nternational monitors at a polling station in southern Florida said Tuesday that voting procedures being used in the extremely close contest fell short in many ways from the best global practices.

The observers said they had less access to polls than in Kazakhstan, that the electronic voting had fewer fail-safes than in Venezuela, that the ballots were not so simple as in the Republic of Georgia and that no other country had such a complex national election system.

'To be honest, monitoring elections in Serbia a few months ago was much simpler,' said Konrad Olszewski, an election observer stationed in Miami by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe."

Looks like the American democratic process falls short of that of fledling democracies like Venezuela. Yet the US dared question the Venezuelan results just a few months back. Will Venezuela question the US results this time around?