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2005-04-19 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by seafarious 2005-04-19 00:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 96%? Slackers. Any decent totalitarian state should be able to claim at least 98%. Wotta second-rate grabass dictatorship.

"I don't think any other country has such a high voter turnout"

Or has less reason to.

Posted by .com 2005-04-19 1:27:10 AM|| 2005-04-19 1:27:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 ..nearly 8.2 million Cubans, or 96.66 percent of those registered, went to the polls Sunday to elect 169 municipal assemblies across the island of 11 million.

And the best thing about it is,.....it's 100% Castro approved!!

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-04-19 1:30:12 AM|| 2005-04-19 1:30:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Not quite up to the Socialist Communist Standard. They need 99-44/100% minimum. Shame on Castro in his Golden Years.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-04-19 2:01:39 AM|| 2005-04-19 2:01:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Saddam used to put this to shame, Tito too.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-04-19 2:21:36 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-04-19 2:21:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Posers! Some places (King County) of the Peoples Republic of Washington State had 110% turnout.

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-04-19 3:42:30 AM|| 2005-04-19 3:42:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 What else are they going to do? Go to the mall? Watch TV?

Posted by eLarson 2005-04-19 7:55:39 AM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-04-19 7:55:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Back in his heyday Soloth Sar could bring in 100% of the vote in Cambodia any day of the week if he desired. It's got to feel a little weird to be the spokesperson making the great pronouncement of Cuban voter turnout. Doesn't the word "election" imply there is some real choice in the matter anyway? At last check, Castro doesn't offer choice beyond what he provides. It's not healthy over the long term to insist on calling a pig a beautiful dove. It's odd for the Cuban regime to insist on drawing attention to the farce when most cubans surely know the difference, despite what they think of it.

Posted by Tkat 2005-04-19 9:32:52 AM|| 2005-04-19 9:32:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 I could forgive them the low turnout if there had been mass demonstrations and people chanting "Fidel! Fidel! Our blood for you!" But this is just unsat. It's like they're not even trying.

Posted by BH 2005-04-19 10:24:13 AM|| 2005-04-19 10:24:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Maybe Fidel can threaten them with another 8 hour speech if they don't do better next time.

Posted by Xbalanke 2005-04-19 11:33:03 AM|| 2005-04-19 11:33:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 I forgot about that stuff. Can you imagine? It must truly suck to be forced to endure those things. Talk about torture and human rights abuses!

Posted by Tkat 2005-04-19 11:36:12 AM|| 2005-04-19 11:36:12 AM|| Front Page Top

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