Democracy and Lawyers

 
In Canada we vote by marking a "X" on the ballot and putting it in a box. The person with the most "X's" wins.

If the vote is close, we count the ballots again and declare a winner.

It doesn't work that way in America as we learned in 2000. It took several truckloads of lawyers and many judges to count the ballots in Florida. Ultimately it was the US Supreme Court who decided that George Bush would be President.

Now they're doing it again, only this time it's a Senate race in Minnesota [Funny Business in Minnesota]. The lawyers and the judges will decide who actually won. Meanwhile, politicians in Washington will fight over which candidate they will put into the Senate while the court cases are being decided. Apparently the Senate doesn't have to accept the recount as long as the loser is unhappy.

This must be why they call America "the greatest democracy on Earth." It's because America has so many lawyers.

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