Foreign Perspectives

There are always recounts in elections: getting a count 100% right when there’s only a difference of a dozen or two in a total of 20,000 or more isn’t easy. Some constituencies are already through their second recount and looking at a third later this morning.

More interestingly this time around is the large number of people denied the right to exercise their vote due to the long queues at some polling stations.

Add those two together as has happened in some places and you’ve a sure recipe for legal challenges and potential reruns of those votes which ain’t good given the potential for changing the overall result of the election when it’s this close.

Perhaps it would be better to throw away this result and go for a rerun of the whole thing?