… in the US, plus the UK, in the conduct of national elections:
First off … concerning Fulton County not informing the GOP it was counting over the weekend, no GOP observers present … out and out fraud. For a start, I’m both used to and actually was, on more than one occasion, a “scrutineer”:
I’m stunned that the concept does not exist in the USA, at least in Federal elections … maybe they call it “observer” … whereby parties with over X% of the vote last election get to appoint one scrutineer per counting table, the count only taking place between certain set hours … very strictly for obvious reasons.
As for vote flipping machines controlling the count from overseas via intranet or internet … I’m just stunned. How on earth can an electoral process take place under those conditions and not be called third world? And counts going past midnight on election day, without troops being detailed to watch from outside the counting room?
Having said all that … just how does an incoming party, as in the UK, get to promise their manifesto, get in on 20% of the eligible vote, then promptly reverse the policies they were returned on the basis of? How does that keep happening if there’s an independent and fair MSM?
I'm sure I read that when the last Labour lot were in government, someone took them to court to try to get a ruling on manifesto commitments.
ReplyDeleteAs I recall, the judge ruled that the government had no legal obligation to do what they had promised during the election.
Anonymous: It was Gordon Brown that went to court because the Labour party failed to invoke one of their manifesto promises and a private individual took them to court because they didn't enact his pet promise. The party successfully argued that a manifesto is just a list of aspirations with no legal basis of expectation of those promises ever being carried out. And that has been the legal status of manifestoes ever since: Just a list of promises with no expectation of enactment. Basically it gave carte blanche for politicians to lie like a cheap chinese watch and get away with it.
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