Comments on: DRC: Optimism on Eve of Landmark Election http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/07/30/drc-optimism-on-eve-of-landmark-election/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:00:10 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Good News from the Congo? « The World InSight http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/07/30/drc-optimism-on-eve-of-landmark-election/comment-page-1/#comment-1575286 Good News from the Congo? « The World InSight Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:15:23 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/?p=13498#comment-1575286 [...] DRC, election | by aidemocracy If you were among the one hundred AID campuses that screened “The Peacekeepers” last year, you’ve become acquainted with some of the desperate conditions that have ravaged [...] [...] DRC, election | by aidemocracy If you were among the one hundred AID campuses that screened “The Peacekeepers” last year, you’ve become acquainted with some of the desperate conditions that have ravaged [...]

]]> By: Black River Eagle http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/07/30/drc-optimism-on-eve-of-landmark-election/comment-page-1/#comment-205336 Black River Eagle Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:05:49 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/?p=13498#comment-205336 Foli was doing pretty good until that last part: "...I even called over the woman supervising the machine to make sure. The poor woman could not do anything for me. So I pushed the levers back to their original positions and I tried the Republican side. My X was placed exactly in the square next to Bush!!!–after I left, I told my wife that the machines had been manipulated and my vote would not be counted just as the votes of all those who fulfilled their duty as voters at machines that had been similarly manipulated." If he felt that his voting machine was faulty and/or that his vote was being stolen or "manipulated", there should have been at least one responsible official at this New York City polling station who could help him out other than "a poor woman who could not do anything...". Remember all of those poll workers down in Florida looking for holes in voting cards after the 2000 Presidential Election? Obviously, the U.S. government will go to great lengths (and cost) to make sure that every vote counts and is counted correctly AND you can take your complaints all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if you're not happy. Other than that Foli Kat has written a good post and has a healthy perspective on the DR Congo's first multi-party elections in over 40 years. Much appreciated. Foli was doing pretty good until that last part:

“…I even called over the woman supervising the machine to make sure. The poor woman could not do anything for me. So I pushed the levers back to their original positions and I tried the Republican side. My X was placed exactly in the square next to Bush!!!–after I left, I told my wife that the machines had been manipulated and my vote would not be counted just as the votes of all those who fulfilled their duty as voters at machines that had been similarly manipulated.”

If he felt that his voting machine was faulty and/or that his vote was being stolen or “manipulated”, there should have been at least one responsible official at this New York City polling station who could help him out other than “a poor woman who could not do anything…”. Remember all of those poll workers down in Florida looking for holes in voting cards after the 2000 Presidential Election? Obviously, the U.S. government will go to great lengths (and cost) to make sure that every vote counts and is counted correctly AND you can take your complaints all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if you’re not happy.

Other than that Foli Kat has written a good post and has a healthy perspective on the DR Congo’s first multi-party elections in over 40 years. Much appreciated.

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