Leave This Off Your Fu*kin Charts

[snurri]

You may not have seen this on your news (at least not in the US; the Beeb, for one, is usually better about such things), but yesterday there was an election in Kenya. The vote itself seems to have gone smoothly, but now both sides are claiming victory, and violence is breaking out. Last night the opposition had a hefty lead, but overnight the incumbent Kibaki accumulated a suspicious amount of votes, and they're still counting. Even if there hasn't been any election tampering, a close vote could make things worse, because the two candidates essentially split the nation along tribal lines. While everyone is worried about Pakistan, and about a U.S. election that's nearly a year away, it's worth remembering that democracy is tricky all over.