Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 05:51:35 11/11/00
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On November 11, 2000 at 06:18:40, Graham Laight wrote: >I don't think you appreciate how bad the situation looks from overseas. Zimbabwe >is offering to send election monitors: Cuba is calling the USA a banana >republic: you can read it all at >http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1016000/1016830.stm > >Votes can arrive up to 10 days after polling has closed. Voting forms are >unclear. Votes have gone missing. > >Worst of all, there's no doubt in my mind that the arguments over the result of >this election will never, never, never go away. > >-g good that i am not the only person having these ideas concerning the elections. its sad. when we vote, the locations shut the doors at 6h p.m. and the same evening peole know who was voted. the next day you can read the official numbers in the newspapers. of course USA is a big country. this makes it difficult. but - it is a rich nation, they are completely computerized. if they should not get it done, who else should cope with it ? no - the problem must be in the laws. it seems the laws are oldfashioned. they maybe worked in older days where NEWS had to run arround the world on horses. but not anymore in our days.
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