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Re: Presidency 2000 - A View From Abroad
This is why they are still Third World Dictators. To much imagination not
enough reality.
Cliff
----- Original Message -----
From: katetegeilwe rwiza <rwiza@hotmail.com>
To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 11:29 AM
Subject: 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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