Ghana's election watchdog gives its own party vote a clean bill of health

It is easy to praise an election you won; it is harder to audit your own. Ghana's independent Election Watch Ghana congratulated the New Patriotic Party on peaceful delegates' elections on October 4 and commended the Electoral Commission for professional, low-error management, with security agencies keeping order throughout. The watchdog also flagged honest concerns — the cost of deploying more than 3,000 police officers, the influence of money in politics, and women's underrepresentation. A referee that calls its own game fairly is democracy working as designed.