Fw: Pretty scary...

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>   Pretty scary...
>   Imagine ...
>
>    1. Imagine an election in a third-world country in which the
> self-declared winner was the
> son of the former prime minister - and
>   imagine   that the former prime minister was himself the former head
> of that   nation's
> secret police.
>
>   2. Imagine that the self-declared winner lost the popular vote, but
> won   based on some old
> colonial holdover from the nation's pre-democracy past.
>
>   3. Imagine that the self-declared winner's "victory" turned on
> disputed votes cast in a
> province governed by his brother.
>
>   4. Imagine that the poorly drafted ballots of one district - a
>   district   heavily favoring the self-declared winner's opponent - led
> thousands of   voters
> to vote for the wrong candidate.
>
>   5. Imagine that that members of that nation's most despised caste of
>   former slaves, fearing for their lives/livelihoods, turned out in
> record   numbers to vote in
> near-universal opposition to the self-declared winner's   candidacy.
>
>   6. Imagine that hundreds of members of that most-despised caste were
>   intercepted on their way to the polls by state police, operating under
> the   authority of the
> self-declared winner's brother.
>
>   7. Imagine that six million people voted in the disputed province,
> and   that the
> self-declared winner's "lead" was only 327 votes-fewer,
>   certainly,   than the vote-counting machines' margin of error.
>
>   8. Imagine that the self-declared winner and his political party
>   opposed   a more careful, by-hand inspection and re-counting of the
> ballots in the   disputed
> province, or in its most hotly disputed district.
>
>   9. Imagine that the self-declared winner was himself a governor of a
>   major province, and that his province had the worst human-rights
> record of   any province in
> his nation, and actually led the nation in executions.
>
>   10. Imagine that a major campaign promise of the self-declared
> winner   was to appoint
> like-minded human-rights violators to lifetime positions on   the high
> court of that nation.
>


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