The author is correct that US electoral procedures are a mess. Mexico, Iraq and Afghanistan, among many others, do a much more effective and accurate job of counting the votes.
Whether the results of the election will be accepted by the losers is a cultural thing and has nothing to do with whether the election was well run.
Can anybody seriously claim that American elections are well run?
Not this freeper. I claim that Gore and Kerry received the Electoral Votes of FIVE (5) states in which the result was determined by fraud.
Just two examples: Maryland and Missouri. The DOJ sat down hard on the next elections in these two states and they both wound up solidly in the Republican column. Why couldn't that have been done in a presidential year?
Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Washington, New Mexico, California, Michigan? Fraud rules. Ever since JFK and LBJ stole Illinois and Texas from an uncomplaining Nixon (and Eisenhower) in 1960, the fraud thing has been spiralling up to massive proportions.
All of which is a round about way to agree with you.