I have studiously avoided paying attention to the post-election fracas that has been raging here, but here is something I found that sums up what I think a lot of people are dreading:

"If people end up feeling in the end this was settled ... as a result of who had craftier lawyers, or made mistakes in litigation, ... I suspect that will provoke even greater cynicism" in an electorate in which many already are disengaged.

Alexander Keyssar
Professor of history and public policy at Duke University and author of a new book, The Right to Vote.