jdb@qubix.UUCP (Jeff Bulf) (02/20/84)
I couldn't resist. Here is a pithy description of how one country used to deal with the issue. (quoted without permission from the North American Congress on Latin America's mgazine "Report on the Americas") [Bowdlerization is by me. Using the original spelling on the net would have meant rotating the whole article.] There is an old Anecdote which Nicaraguans tell about elections under Somoza. A Conservative opponent of Somoza's, the story goes, has just lost the presidential election. Next morning, he storms into the dictator's office. "Look here, you son of a b*tch", he shouts, "I've come to here you tell me the truth -- that I won the elections." With a smile, Somoza replies "Yes, it's true. You won the elections, but I won the count. And you should remember that the guy who loses is a bigger son of a b*tch than the guy who wins." -- Dr Memory ...{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!qubix!jdb