Admit it, no one was surprised by the outcome of Thursday’s General Election. The spin, the hype and the mood of this being a genuinely generation-defining vote turned out to be little more than a reiteration of the electorate’s long-held prejudices and an exposure of a voting system heaving under the weight of successive governments’ failure to implement reform. Lebanon, you may not have heard, is having its own elections at the moment: the 2010 Municipal Elections, which decide the make up of municipal councils and local mukhtars (sort of like mayors). Britain – both its candidates and its public – could learn a thing or two from the way these local votes are conducted: 1. Be less strict at polling stations. One of the…