I understand #2 and #3 (and #9) to be features, not bugs. The lack of national standards or national election management body create a system that's especially

I understand #2 and #3 (and #9) to be features, not bugs. The lack of national standards or national election management body create a system that's especially resilient, because the decentralized, diverse system can handle many failures and still produce something pretty close to a representative result.