Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Ukraine's Butchered Election - BBC Lists Key Complaints




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BBC Piece lists key complaints: expanded voting lists (ie 5% more voters listed or ballots nded in); intimidation of state employed voters (making them weigh their job against their vote);mis-handling of absentee ballots; bias in the still materially state run press.

From this standpoint - Russia appears to be accepting the 'pleaser' arrangement of the old pro-Russian guard. This approach can only worsen a world's appreciation and expectations of Russian democracy. Cancelling the results and re-casting th elections would appear to be the cheapest - and most democratic & legal - resolution


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