What about a country where one relies on the courts to decide the outcome of the elections?
Where the holder of power claims victory in the middle of the count and calls for an end to the count by ignoring millions of ballots?
Where does the prospect of a verdict contrary to the wishes of a camp pose the threat of violent reactions?
While the conquest of the White House remains suspended by a thread - or rather a few thousand votes in a handful of states - one wonders where has gone the
“luminous city”
exalted by Ronald Reagan.
The
“beacon”
of American democracy flickers like a flashlight before going out.
Yet there is an obvious way out of the electoral slump in which the United States threatens to get bogged down.
It suffices to count, until the last, the ballot papers validated by the electoral authorities of each State.
Several million votes cast by correspondence remain to be counted.
Joe Biden or Donald Trump could they
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