Dead people voting
March 28th, 2008 at 7:17 pm by David FarrarKeeping Stock has a post on how there is likely to be many votes cast in the Zimbabwe election on behalf of dead people.
This is sadly no exagerration. A couple of years ago I was at an international political conference where various countries discussed their elections, and hat worked and what didn’t. One of the Opposition MPs from Tanzania (I think) got up and told us how their major accomplishment was that they reduced from one million to just 300,000 the number of dead people who voted!!
This made us realise how relatively trivial our problems were, such as people out until later so harder to contact them!
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March 28th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
this absolutely typical of you farrar you want to expose us maori voter with different name,
Vote:sign here dudes no questions asked since Maata Maori how to triple you vote, what you say peterquixote
March 28th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
with that Emperor elect here Bush thing and what i suppose it a good think post farrar,
Vote:March 28th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
No doubt the dead people will get a free car grom Mugabe.
Vote:Election buying, where have I heard this before?
March 28th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Just watch….once again, it’ll not be the voting that counts…but the counting that counts!
Vote:March 28th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Reminds me of the joke from the late 1970s about Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy and Mayor Daley going fishing. Boat sprung a leak and they decided someone would have to be dumped overboard. They drew straws: Carter one, Kennedy one and Daley 114. Oh well, it sounded funny at the time.
Vote:March 28th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
back when i was bunging around zimbabwe i thought was one of few places i could live. beautiful place. sad situation. tear
Vote:March 28th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
I would have thought potential vote fraud in the home of democracy since the introduction of electronic voting machines was far more serious.
Vote:March 29th, 2008 at 1:49 am
These dead people.
Vote:Are they Liarbour voters?
Or is the dead stuff the grey matter between their ears?
March 29th, 2008 at 8:20 am
VTO. I know exactly what you mean….
Vote:G
March 29th, 2008 at 9:55 am
South Auckland 2005 Vote early vote often
Vote:March 29th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Mr Farrar, when I suggest as I am inclined to, that you and your free speech coalition friends need to put some effort into setting up a serious independent exit-polling system next election, are you going to dismiss me as a paranoid right-winger? Can’t you see ANY ugly signs that all is not well with the very institutions apon which our democracy depends? For a start, can you see the NZ Plods investigating any alleged electoral monkey business? Wake up, man !
[DPF: I have full confidence in the vote counting process in NZ. Near impossible to rort. And exit polls are banned here. I have less confidence in the registration process and that only eligible residents are voting]
Vote:March 29th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Those dead voters will turn out to be voters, who voted against mugabe last time,around. Voting against him is more dangerous than smoking,i believe.Voting against mugabe should have a health warning and graphic pictures of torture on the ballot papers.:(
Vote:March 29th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
The dead, of course, can vote through those of us who are living.
I think GK Chesterton coined the phrase ‘democracy of the dead’ meaning, I think, our taking the views of deceased parents, grandparents etc. into account. Not a bad idea really.
Vote:March 29th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Cheers for the link DPF – I guess the next logical step in this saga would be for the dead to continue to vote for Mugabe once he joins their number!
Speaking of Mugabe’s death – I have a friend in Harare whose sole motivation for not emigrating from Zimbabwe in Mugabe’s lifetime is so that he celebrate Mugabe’s eventual death, and dance on his grave!
Vote:March 31st, 2008 at 11:26 am
Nice to know of your assurance re the voting system, DPF. Trust you really ARE sufficiently knowledgeable to KNOW. But that is an important distinction you make about the voter registration system.
Vote: