Slog - Comments on The Other Election http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3 The most explosive election in Zimbabwe since 1980 and what's showing on TV? Yes, this is on ZBC: HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe’s main opposition party said Sunday that it had won a landslide victory, insisting that unofficial election results showed that the Movement for Democratic Change had unseated President Robert G. Mugabe, the man who has led this nation for 28 years. Those results had been compiled by adding the vote counts posted at hundreds of individual polling stations, and were not formally released by the government. Indeed, the nation’s chief election officer warned that the opposition’s boasts were premature... Copyright 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:32:00 -0800 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:20:55 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Art I like this strange new informative and interesting Charles Mudede.

]]> Art http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3#c985956 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3#c985956 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:50:38 -0800 Comment by Abby To be fair, that was a totally awesome team.

]]> Abby http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3#c985958 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3#c985958 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:54:09 -0800 Comment by Zander Reminds me of another country where people watch American Idol and Project Runway instead of, I don't know, dealing with stuff that matters.

]]> Zander http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3#c985963 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3#c985963 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:10:30 -0800 Comment by eclexia Under the military dictatorship in Brazil, the newspapers would signal to readers that the government was censoring them by printing a recipe for chocolate cake on page 1.

]]> eclexia http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3#c985966 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3#c985966 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:26:11 -0800 Comment by feom @4:

"let them eat cake."

[those officials are probably thinking that to themselves.]

[maybe that was what the government thought its people were capable of doing.]

terrible that governments in this day and age do that. innovative in the way newspapers show their displeasure.

now if those cakes were actually baked then thrown at these officials, that'd be great.

resistance is tasty.

]]> feom http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3#c985977 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3#c985977 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:55:56 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Total Football, yeah. Changed the world.

I hope Zimbabwe is OK. I'm afraid for them tonight.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3#c985978 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3#c985978 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:03:28 -0800 Comment by unPC So, um, with our new desire for a changed foreign policy including talking to folks, shouldn't Clinton and Obama say something about Zimbabwe? And explain what they would do if they were president.

I do believe a couple of times that other president Clinton rattled a saber or two when when Latin American rightists were about to defraud voters.

Why isn't South Africa and the OAU doing something, too?

Oh maybe we should do nothing because we are capitalist. Then, when Mugabe stays in power, we can do something! We can join with the Zimbabweans in exile here who make good points that everything bad in Zimbabwe is due to global capitalism, centuries of white rule and colonialism, etc. etc.


]]> unPC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3#c985981 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3#c985981 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:11:29 -0800 Comment by Will in Bush Regime Seattle Have to agree, the problem is, we're used to living in a nation where elections are stolen, so why should we be surprised when it happens in Zimbabwe?

]]> Will in Bush Regime Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3#c986005 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3#c986005 2008 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:04:08 -0800 Comment by Andrew In America when elections are stolen our news outlets talk about how close of an election it is and pretend that nothing is wrong. The corrupt government officials can actually count on telvised news coverage to never actually cover stuff like the news.

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]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3#c986026 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3#c986026 2008 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:17:14 -0800 Comment by Gentry Of course in Washington State, when we remove all the polling places, with Vote-By Mail, and have already stopped the process of posting vote tallies at the polling place, and instead really on the central vote totals produced by secret machines like Diebold's scanners... well you get the point I think?

Mugabe would have done well to secure a better electronic voting machine before this election. Then the official totals could never really have been challenged.

]]> Gentry http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3#c986122 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3#c986122 2008 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:14:55 -0800 Comment by Steve Great site you have! Would you like a Link Exchange with The Internet Radio Network?? At the IRN you can listen for free to over 70 of America's top Talk Shows via Free Streaming Audio...

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]]> Steve http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3#c986380 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_3#c986380 2008 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:20:55 -0800