The machinery of an anxious democracy
`For the first time, representatives from the OSCE – the European body which has traditionally monitored elections in fledgling democracies – will observe as Americans elect their president.
[..] the Florida fiasco of 2000 with its hanging chads and voter purges has shaken confidence in the sanctity of the system, producing in the words of one observer, a climate of “unease, distrust and scepticism”.’
