Fwd: FW: elections fraud

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Subject: FW: elections fraud

> 
> 
> 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 the 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 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 hotly disputed
> province or province or in its most hotly disputed district.
> 
> 9. Imagine that the self-declare 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.
> 
> 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 it was another
> sad tale of pitiful pre- or anti-democracy peoples in some strange
> elsewhere.
> 
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> 

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