One of the more delicious episodes in modern political history was the splendid Florida recount following the U.S. presidential contest of 2000. Anticipating challenge and recount, even before full results were in, Gore and Bush dispatched herds of lawyers and flocks of spin doctors via cargo jets to oversee the process. The days when people accepted an election result, confident both in the processes of democratic choice, and the oversight and monitoring of going to the polls, were over. If, as so seems the case, people are looking with astonishment and alarm at the 2016 campaign, just wait for the result. The forces behind Trump are already primed for seeing a “rigged” resultThe factions in contest will not accept any result but their candidate winning.

Source: National Post September 30, 2016 17:48 UTC