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Voters Snub 'Sham' Zimbabwe Poll

World (tags: Zimbabwe )

- 104 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk

Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai...said that millions were refusing to vote despite government efforts to force them to take part. He also urged the world not to recognise the result.

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Ben Oscarsito (249)

Monday June 30, 2008, 12:21 pm
"It's not who votes that counts;
it's who count the votes"
(Josef Stalin)

Sara S. (70)

Monday June 30, 2008, 9:21 pm
Millions aren't voting? WHAT??!!! Are they crazy - to want to "throw away" their only claim to power?? How can they hope to change anything by not voting? (The world is actually reporting it but that's not the point.) How can they ever dare to complain if they have not voted?? (Mugabe is tying to force them to vote in order to legitimize his shameful rape of the people and their rights but that's not the point either. It is really not something we should stop and ponder if we who cherish our hard won vote and Robert Mugabe are both dedicated to making sure that people vote in totally bogus, fraudulent elections. Never let thought get in the way of a good, oft voiced and long held assumption, like 'voting, good - not voting, bad'.) Perhaps we should send in troops to force them to vote. What do you think?

Or maybe we should ask ourselves if people in a so-called third world, 'backwards' country are smarter then the average American. No in November isn't really so radical after all. The people of Zimbabwe have got there first. And nor are we defeatist, hopeless or unrealistic as the brainwashed nay sayers would like to believe! Quite the reverse! No in Zimbabwe and No in November!!!