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I found this very interesting...

A Zimbabwe politician was
quoted as saying that children should study this U.S. election
event
closely
for it shows that election fraud is not only a third world
phenomena.

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.

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
another sad
tale of pitiful pre- or anti-democracy peoples in some strange
elsewhere."



Jake

--
Jacob T. Meyer, MD


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