America, remember the Australian ballot? Here are more electoral wonders from Down Under to try

What a mess.

You know what I mean, so I’m not going to list all the problems and alleged irregularities that have plagued the presidential election; there’s plenty about it in the news and on the social media already. Perhaps the underlying problem is that the constitutional arrangements leave too much (i.e. almost all) of responsibility for elections to the states. This is fine for state and local elections, but produces widely differing outcomes when it matters the most: the national poll. And while many states (too many to name, but big ones like Florida and Texas stand out) perform very efficiently, others verge on the Third World standards (with a caveat that some developing nations have much better safeguards…