Further imagine that in South Africa, the whites who once held power but had lost it, were murdering blacks and threatening them if they dared show up at the polls to vote.

Do you think the major story would be on the failure of the ANC to control the “security situation”?

Do you think there would be proposals to delay elections for a while?

Do you think there would be a debate about whether the elections would be legitimate if blacks were frightened and decided not to vote?