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Presidency 2000 - A View From Abroad
Third World Dictators have really enjoyed this election. It seems to me
that, from now on the USA 2000 elections will be a reference point going by
the article below:
A Zimbabwe politician was quoted as saying that children should study this
event closely for it shows that election fraud is not only a third world
phenomenon:
1.Imagine that we read of an election occurring anywhere in the
third world in which the self-declared winner was the son of the former
prime minister and that former prime minister was himself the former head of
that nation's secret police (CIA).
2.Imagine that the self-declared winner lost the popular vote but
won based on some old colonial holdover (electoral college) from the
nation's pre-democracy past.
3.Imagine that the self-declared winner's "victory" turned on
disputed votes cast in a province governed by his brother.
4.Imagine that the poorly drafted ballots of one district, a
district heavily favoring the self-declared winner's opponent, led thousands
of voters to vote for the wrong candidate.
5.Imagine that members of that nation's most despised caste,fearing for
their lives/livelihoods, turned out in record numbers to vote in
near-universal opposition to the self-declared winner's candidacy.
6.Imagine that hundreds of members of that most-despised caste were
intercepted on their way to the polls by state police operating under
the authority of the self-declared winner's brother.
7.Imagine that six million people voted in the disputed province and that
the self-declared winner's "lead" was only 327 votes. Fewer,
certainly, than the vote counting machines' margin of error.
8.Imagine that the self-declared winner and his political party
opposed a more careful by-hand inspection and re-counting of the ballots in
the disputed province or in its most hotly disputed district.
9.Imagine that the self-declared winner, himself a governor of a
major province, had the worst human rights record of any province in his
nation and actually led the nation in executions.
10.Imagine that a major campaign promise of the self-declared winner
was to appoint like-minded human rights violators to lifetime positions on
the high court of that nation.
11.Imagine that the decision whether the hand recounts should be
completed and validated rests solely with an official from the self-declared
winner's party, an appointee of the self-declared winner's brother.
None of us would deem such an election to be representative of anything
other than the self-declared winner's will to power. All of us, I imagine,
would wearily turn the page thinking that it was just another sad tale of
pitiful pre- or anti-democratic peoples in some Third World country.
End of Quote.
Rwiza
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