Efforts to bribe unsuspecting voters, allegations of candidate intimidation and a court challenge to an election result have cast a spotlight on the tumultuous, ruthless politics of a tiny west Canadian community. British Columbia’s supreme court this week weighed in on the row, upholding the fiercely contested results of a recent municipal election, Pouce Coupe, a town of fewer than 800 people near the border with Alberta. “All politics is local,” wrote justice Ward Branch in his decision, before wearily recounting years of simmering feuds and grievances that have riven the community. The judge lamented it had become the scene...