"What Mexico can teach the United States."

John Fund discusses the lessons that we can learn from Mexico's recent elections. What could have been an explosive debate over election fraud will probably be resolved smoothly because of all the protections that exist in the system.

Mexico is likely to weather the controversy over its photo-finish election despite the protestors that losing candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador brought into the streets on Saturday to claim the election had been stolen. Mexico's nonpartisan National Election Commission has built up a decade of credibility in running clean elections and international observers have certified the count as fair. Indeed, in its successful efforts to overcome its old reputation for corrupt vote-counting Mexico has a lot to teach the United States. . . .