Chinese puzzle

Election intrigue in Taiwan makes Florida in 2000 look tame | Marvin Olasky

TAIPEI, TAIWAN-IMAGINE-NO, DON'T-A U.S. election in which the president and vice president, trailing in the polls, are both slightly wounded in an assassination attempt the day before the election. Imagine a leading legislator charging that the "assassination attempt" was actually a desperate ploy by the incumbents to win the election by gaining a sympathy vote.

Imagine also the president winning by one-fourth of 1 percent of the vote as election officials declare invalid almost 3 percent of all votes. Imagine the defeated candidate demanding that the election be annulled, and every one of the county's ballot boxes sealed, with a nationwide recount a likely next step. Imagine the press playing up rumors that the bullet removed from the wounded president was a different caliber from the shell casings found at the scene.