Bihar is considered one of India’s more lawless states yet a three-phase election is being conducted there relatively peacefully. It is fairly certain that the results will be declared on a specific date (November 10) and accepted by all parties concerned. None of these certainties can be assumed for the United States, the world’s most powerful democracy, where the counting for the presidential election is underway. Law and order problems have broken out in some battleground states, the president has filed a barrage of lawsuits, and who knows when the results will be declared – or accepted. The high percentage