Zimbabwe Results
It’s taking Robert Mugabe a long time to rig the results of the Zimbabwe elections. He used to be far more efficient at it, and do it within a day. Now we are up to three days and no results.
How can any results be credible?
I loved the line from the Mugabe Ambassador to the UN:
A Zimbabwe diplomat told CNN the delay in releasing the presidential results is simply to ensure every vote is counted.
Indeed, but first they have to create all the extra votes for Mugabe, so they can count them. And it is a new system of counting votes that you only give out a total at the end, rather than any progress results.
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Tags: electoral fraud, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:30 am
Hulun Helenz Feminazi Tyrant H1 Klark and Kullen Sullen have been watching closely and will surely rig our election.
Oh what a sorry place New Zealand is under these socialist bottom feeder lickspittle scum.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:33 am
They’re using STV?
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:20 am
No doubt Uncle Bob is exhorting his people to vote early and often….
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:26 am
It is a sad sad situation.
Mugabe has obviously not got the result he wants, the people of Zimbabwe have !. I think in some ways the authorities are trying to prevent an explosion of ethnic cleansing anger and chaos in a “banana republic”. Things are happening behind the scenes, don’t believe what some underlings are saying.
The major theme is -”how do we get Mugabe out of the scene without his body being dragged down the boulevards of Harare like Mussolini during World War 2″
I fear for the MDC transitional government if and when it comes. People are going to have massive expectations, I don’t think they will achieve. Perhaps I am racist, but with the departure of the middle managing state servants and the white productive farmers Zimbabwe has lost so much of its potential. Remember in 1960, the Old Rhodesia(Now Zimbabwe) was a net exporter of food to the rest of Africa.Today the land is still there but since the expertise of the farmers has been lost Zimbabwe has regressed probably 100 years.
An important implication- South Africa needs to take heed of what has happened when Zimbabwe cleaned out the skilled white civil servants,professionals and producers. Mr Zuma, likely incoming ANC Chief and President, has a rather mixed record on race relations. Much different to Mandela and even Mbeki.
The consequences of colonialism lives on, a result of patronising behaviour by Britain in the past.Ask the Zimbabweans whether they would prefer the empty rhetoric of Mugabe or a full stomach and a peaceful home life. I think we all know the answer.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:40 am
Repeated
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:44 am
Whats different this time is that they are running Presidential, parliamentary and local council results at the same time.
National in NZ would follow a different path to rigging an election since they cant manipulate the votes cast they will legislate to prevent enrollments.
Notice that John Howard changed the cutoff date for enrolments to 2 days after the date the election is announced ie about a 6 weeks before the actuall poll. This is to prevent younger and more mobile voters who would probably not vote Lib/Nat
Here in NZ you can enroll the day before the voting. National will allmost certainly change this.
DPF has been making noises about voter fraud since there is no requirement for showing identity ( this is also being pushed in the US by the GOP) and even DPF was displeased by some not marking DHB voting papers at all so everybody should be disenfranchised. Mugabe take note!!
Not a shred of evidence and even if 5 cases where found would this mean that we reverse a practice in NZ since voting began for 1.8 million voters
No doubt the election enrolment centre would not be seen as a ‘core public service’ so would have its budget and staff slashed. All these sort of changes the aussie / Us consultants will be pushing to maximise nationals votes and diminish Labour/ Green /Maori
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:20 am
Ghost – you are a wanker for implying that National would consider a different path to election rigging. It is Labour who brought us the Electoral Finance Act and have tried to shut down opposition. In spite of this (or because of it all polls are showing National around 50% in the polls. It is Labour who are getting feral in their desperate attempts to hold onto power.
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:52 am
You mean I cant run an election billboard that says.
Mugabe salutes DPF and the Free Speech Coalition who say if you cant vote properly then you cant vote at all.
I would merely have to put a name and address on the corner under Labours laws.
How undemocratic is that.
Even if Mugabe never said any such thing its still Ok
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:15 pm
As I said – It is Labour who brought in the Electoral Finance Act. The EFA has corrupted our democracy. You do whatever you want – National will win the election in a landslide because the people of NZ are sick of labour and their arrogant rule.
Mugabe would have been proud of the EFA. That is the point. The same EFA that National voted against – and Labour and their lickspittle parties voted for.
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:51 pm
The election result is that the opposition party will be the largest in parliament, however a group which broke away from it will hold the balance of power. They will say they might form a coalition government with Zanu-PF.
In the Presidential race, the the opposition leader will win the first run-off, but without 50% of the vote. In a run-off a late swing to Mugabe will make this a close race with it going to the wire, c50-50 – the result as with the coalition government dependent on
1. if the international community will end sanctions after free elections (if Mugabe stays in power)
2. what guarantees of immunity Mugabe and his party get under any new government.
The “delay” is somewhat convenient to ensure calm with any transition or any continuance (remember the Kenya results?).
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:40 pm
I suspect the total vote vastly exceeds the population of Zimbabwe such was the overwhelming rejection of Mugabe that stuffing the ballot boxes could not fix the overall rejection of this most dreadful man of pure evil.