Best of BS Opinion: US' election system, privatisation of discoms, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Contrary to the opinion polls predicting a Joe Biden victory, the US elections are too close to call. This is not the first time this has happened in the past two decades and the principal problem lies in an electoral system that is excessively decentralised and prey to arbitrary state rules. The result, as the lead edit says, is that “America’s claim to leadership of the democratic world can hardly hold up given its elections are unreliable indicators of the political will, are in danger of being ignored by unelected judges and incumbents, and are so slow, complex and inefficient.”