The first failure came well before the election when several Florida county governments chose to use inadequate voting machines and ballot designs. The second, also well before the election, came when the state legislature neglected to set uniform standards for conducting a manual recount of ballots that would more easily determine legal votes. Out of compassion for those who are upset by these results, all Americans should raise their civic involvement and work to bring about reconciliation and find solutions to those concerns. This flawed election shows just how much of a work in progress US democracy is. Improving it requires everyone's best thinking.
Politicians make laws and judges serve as the backbone of the rule of law.
But when laws and court decisions fail enough people, much of the burden falls back on citizens to work with each other in fixing the system. It's ours, after all. The Christian Science Publishing Society. All rights reserved.