America’s Institutions are Broken — Including our Election System.

The vast number of “undervotes” and other irregularities are not new. But they are particularly American.

America likes to think of itself as an exceptional country, a unique political experiment, different from all the rest. For some, this is a good thing; the US stands apart but on high, that “shining city on a hill”.

For others, however, it is a land of exceptional inequality, violence, corruption and greed. And, for the…