Election Hangs on How Votes Are Counted

Thanks in part to Chief Justice John Roberts and a deadlocked Supreme Court vote last month that upheld a Pennsylvania state Supreme Court decision regarding late-arriving mail-in ballots, America has now come face-to-face with two venerable sayings about political power: “It’s not who votes, but who counts the votes,” and “quis custodiet ipsos custodies,” or “who watches the watchmen?”