Editorial: 'It's not the voting … it's the counting'

“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.”
— Playwright Tom Stoppard, in Jumpers
Quebec’s director-general of elections, Pierre Reid, says he plans to act with “rigour and speed” to get to the bottom of vote-counting irregularities in the riding of Gaspé and will take whatever action is necessary. Quebecers expect no less.
In the meantime, a judicial recount has overturned what had first been announced as a narrow Liber