A Recount in Mexico (NYT)

where was the NYT in 2000

when the election is close, for instance when power is changing hands and so you'll get a lot of them close in the process, it doesn't matter who wins, democracywise. It's 50/50 either way anyway.

What matters is that the election make some determination.

Undermining its finality in your own interests is treasonous.

If some party is corrupt and stealing elections, it just changes the 50% threshhold to 49%, but they'll eventually lose anyway. That's not a crisis for democracy. The election being indeterminate is.

While election officials for Mexico's presidential election need to do everything possible to assure voters the count was fair, the candidates must behave responsibly as well.