Electoral propriety

sean — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:50:00 +0000

Now I am not a black chopper guy, apart from anything else I think that there's enough bad crap out there that's openly admitted without distracting our attention with tenuous stories.

However, the more articles like this one on commondreams.org (amongst other sources) that I read, the more I wonder exactly how "free and fair" this little election the other day was.

Reserving judgement right now, but I'm keeping an eye on this story. (2004-11-08)

UPDATE: Simon responded with a link to a Salon article that concludes "The system is clearly broken. But there is no evidence that Bush won because of voter fraud." I don't really argue with that, although the suspicious voice inside me wonders what percentage of actual irregularities the evidence covers. As I said, I'm not a black chopper type, so I'll leave it at that for now.

Whether there was any deliberate wrong-doing, or just smatterings of incompetence and error, it makes the arrogant US attitude that they don't need foreign observers at their elections look even stupider than it did anyway - see for example this BBC article. (2004-11-11)

(by the way, Simon complained that comments are no more here. Well, I got bored of cleaning up spam. Anyone is welcome to email me comments which I will post verbatim if requested to - for those that don't know my email address you'll have to email sean@informage.net and look carefully at the bounce. Sorry about the hoops, but that's the way its gonna be).

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Electoral propriety