The point you're missing is that 55% voted no. Every eligible voter in Scotland had the opportunity to register their opinion and the majority won. It's called democracy, you see. The result was clear enough not to require any recount.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'