Now Wash Your Hands?

2024 is the year for elections across the world
 the most in the shortest period of time for years
which incudes many a vote that is not even to renew
 the choice of candidate, even autocrats like
to be voted back into power too, even fraudulently.
 
However the vote renews the mandate 
of the country, and either puts new men or women 
at the top, or returns the old guard-
all that is left for voters to do after their 
democratic duty is for us to wash their hands
and wait for the charges of mis-accounting
the vote to come after.

 When the lawyers and judges have finished
the government that will set to work
and who knows what the result will be?