Approximately 100 observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation of Europe are in Florida monitoring the election process there and finding the prospect of observing American elections daunting...

From International observers test their mettle in US elections (AFP via Yahoo):

...It is "not one election, but 13,000 elections," said Canadian expert Ron Gould, a member of a delegation from the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Miami for the 2004 US elections after observing some 70 elections around the world.

"We like to see the setup, how organized it is, whether they are disorganized, whether they are on time," he explained. Yet "it is impossible to assess a fragmented system," he said.

His notes and those of his colleagues will remain confidential until an official report is released in Washington later in the week.

The numerous local elections, decentralization of the federal electoral system, the power and independence of state electoral authorities and the indirect Electoral College system pose a huge challenge in trying to explain it all to the rest of the world.

"Most of the world does not understand that someone can win the popular vote and not the presidency," said Roberto Courtney, a Nicaraguan observer working here for the non-governmental Global Exchange...

A lot of Americans don't understand that either...