Salvadorans wait patiently, but they shouldn't have to

I woke up this morning to write a post on the aftermath of El Salvador's legislative and municipal elections but it looks like Tim already did with #EpicFail or Sabotage?

I think if there were a hashtag to describe the work of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal in El Salvador since Sunday's elections it would be #EpicFail.  Three days after the elections, no results have been announced, and a "final scrutiny" of the vote tally sheets is just beginning.  It might take as long as two weeks before there are results.

Click on over to get some coverage of the Tico Times and Reuters on Tim's site. I think it is dangerous that the TSE president is throwing around terms like "sabotage." There have been few accusations of fraud in El Salvador's postwar elections, FMLN in 2004 and ARENA in 2014, but the country is not that far removed from its pre-transition history of fraudulent elections.

Unfortunately, "we shall see" shouldn't be what I should have to say four days after El Salvador's national elections. While the TSE has done a pretty good job in the past, in this case, it appears that the country's main political parties are behaving exceptionally.