[net.politics] How different countries do voting and elections.

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."

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	Dr Memory
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