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11.24.2004
OMFL... incoming from the Very Large Array*... a message from the Ironic Universe: U.S. Rejects Tally, Warns Ukraine (washingtonpost.com): "'We cannot accept this result as legitimate because it does not meet international standards and because there has not been an investigation of the numerous and credible reports of fraud and abuse,'" Colin Powell commenting on the Ukranian election. (For the record, I am convinced that there was some fraud involved in the last election; at the very least there is a suspicious lack of verifiable votes with the paperless e-voting. Like one person commented upon somewhere else, "If someone took a box of votes into the back room, counted them, burned them, and told you who won, would you accept that?") More irony... Exit polls on election day had put Yushchenko well ahead, and U.S. and European observers said there were widespread irregularities. Obviously what Ukraine needs is an effective propaganda/media class who will do its work ensuring the people that everything went great, that the exit polls must have been erroneous and that the people demonstrating in the streets are "sore losers" who should just get on with their lives and "accept the will of the people". Any bets that the Ukrainians get in touch with Diebold for their next election? *And you thought the VLA was only used for album covers...? |
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