World Blog by humble servant.Examples of electoral frauds.
Examples of electoral frauds
Reconstruction, an effort to secure the voting rights of former slaves, ultimately failed in the states of the former Confederate States of America as reactionary interests used violence and intimidation against freedmen as well as political legerdemain to disenfranchise African-Americans, including poll taxes and so-called literacy tests, for almost a century after the American Civil War, ensuring the continuing hegemony of élite agrarian interests at the expense of all other interests in the South until the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Politically enabled by the Reichstag Fire Decree on March 23, 1933, Hitler arrested or murdered all MPs from the Communist Party of Germany that were unable to flee or hide, and some from the Social Democratic Party of Germany. He also intimidated most of the other MPs into supporting him. This helped the NSDAP to get the needed two-thirds-majority to pass the Enabling Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers.
In Romania, the heavily-rigged election formalized the takeover by Communists and the destruction of a multi-party democracy in 1946.
Ferdinand Marcos, once fairly elected as President of the Philippines, remained in power and became increasingly dictatorial and kleptocratic, as he succeeded in marginalizing dissent and opposition through allegedly rigged elections.
Many 3rd World dictatorships and former Warsaw Pact nations held show elections in which results predictably show that nearly 100% of all eligible voters vote and that nearly 100% of those eligible voters vote for the prescribed (often only) list of candidates for office or for referendums that favour the Party in power irrespective of economic conditions and the cruelties of the government.
Slobodan Milošević was accused of rigging both elections in 1996 and 2000 which was followed by mass popular protests. He resigned in October 2000.[32]
It was widely held in the Ukrainian media that the Ukrainian election of 2004 was also hit by ballot rigging and voter intimidation on all sides.[33]
Both tabloid press accusations and several anecdotal public claims of postal vote fraud in both Birmingham and Hackney dogged many aspects of United Kingdom general election, 2001 and United Kingdom general election, 2005 which were reviewed in the court of appeal.[34][35][36][37][38][39][40] There were also claims made over postal vote fraud and intimidation at the 2004 European and local government elections in Birmingham)[41][42][43]
Both the Ugandan election of 2006[44] and the Kenyan[45] election of 2007 were marred by opposition claims that the ruling party had cheated its way back into power with the heavy use of electoral fraud.[44]
The Honduran general election, 2017 where considered fraudulent by a lot of citizens in the country. First during election day the polls closed earlier than in previous elections, then the first results where not known until 1:00 AM. In the first results the opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla was leading by more than five percent against the incumbent president (at the time 60% of the votes were counted) Juan Orlando Hernandez who was violating the constitution by reelecting himself. The Electoral council did not declare Salvador Nasralla as the winner even though the trend was irreversible, the Supreme Electoral Council argued that the rural vote had not been counted yet and that this vote could change the result even though the rural vote just represents a small part of the population and with the trend already set it would make no significant change to the results. After a week the vote counting system fell and there was an informational blackout, when the system started functioning again the president was winning, even though it was mathematically impossible according to multiple mathematicians. Also allegations of Ballot stuffing and Voter manipulation were common and in some cases proved.
Reconstruction, an effort to secure the voting rights of former slaves, ultimately failed in the states of the former Confederate States of America as reactionary interests used violence and intimidation against freedmen as well as political legerdemain to disenfranchise African-Americans, including poll taxes and so-called literacy tests, for almost a century after the American Civil War, ensuring the continuing hegemony of élite agrarian interests at the expense of all other interests in the South until the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Politically enabled by the Reichstag Fire Decree on March 23, 1933, Hitler arrested or murdered all MPs from the Communist Party of Germany that were unable to flee or hide, and some from the Social Democratic Party of Germany. He also intimidated most of the other MPs into supporting him. This helped the NSDAP to get the needed two-thirds-majority to pass the Enabling Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers.
In Romania, the heavily-rigged election formalized the takeover by Communists and the destruction of a multi-party democracy in 1946.
Ferdinand Marcos, once fairly elected as President of the Philippines, remained in power and became increasingly dictatorial and kleptocratic, as he succeeded in marginalizing dissent and opposition through allegedly rigged elections.
Many 3rd World dictatorships and former Warsaw Pact nations held show elections in which results predictably show that nearly 100% of all eligible voters vote and that nearly 100% of those eligible voters vote for the prescribed (often only) list of candidates for office or for referendums that favour the Party in power irrespective of economic conditions and the cruelties of the government.
Slobodan Milošević was accused of rigging both elections in 1996 and 2000 which was followed by mass popular protests. He resigned in October 2000.[32]
It was widely held in the Ukrainian media that the Ukrainian election of 2004 was also hit by ballot rigging and voter intimidation on all sides.[33]
Both tabloid press accusations and several anecdotal public claims of postal vote fraud in both Birmingham and Hackney dogged many aspects of United Kingdom general election, 2001 and United Kingdom general election, 2005 which were reviewed in the court of appeal.[34][35][36][37][38][39][40] There were also claims made over postal vote fraud and intimidation at the 2004 European and local government elections in Birmingham)[41][42][43]
Both the Ugandan election of 2006[44] and the Kenyan[45] election of 2007 were marred by opposition claims that the ruling party had cheated its way back into power with the heavy use of electoral fraud.[44]
The Honduran general election, 2017 where considered fraudulent by a lot of citizens in the country. First during election day the polls closed earlier than in previous elections, then the first results where not known until 1:00 AM. In the first results the opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla was leading by more than five percent against the incumbent president (at the time 60% of the votes were counted) Juan Orlando Hernandez who was violating the constitution by reelecting himself. The Electoral council did not declare Salvador Nasralla as the winner even though the trend was irreversible, the Supreme Electoral Council argued that the rural vote had not been counted yet and that this vote could change the result even though the rural vote just represents a small part of the population and with the trend already set it would make no significant change to the results. After a week the vote counting system fell and there was an informational blackout, when the system started functioning again the president was winning, even though it was mathematically impossible according to multiple mathematicians. Also allegations of Ballot stuffing and Voter manipulation were common and in some cases proved.
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