this was sent to me by a friend on a different list. Although he couldn't verify
the Zimbabwe Professor,  it does make one stop and think for a minute... Take
this with a grain of salt, or whatever...   but ask yourself, can we really
trust Bush?  :-)  I don't... :-(  And that's hard for me to say,   I want to
trust my leader... but until he shows he is worthy of my trust, I'm distrusting
him.
Mike Collis...  (Putting on my flame retardant suit, now!!!   lol)

> Interesting Perspective From Abroad
>
>   This is from an article in which a Zimbabwe politician was quoted as
>   saying that children should study this event closely for it shows that
>   election fraud is not only a third world phenomena....
>
>   1.  Imagine that we read of an election occurring anywhere in the third
>   world  in which the self-declared winner was the son of the former prime
>   minister and that former prime minister was himself the former head of
>   that nation's secret police (CIA).
>
>   2.  Imagine that the self-declared winner lost the popular vote but won
>   based on some old colonial holdover (electoral college) from the
>   nation's pre-democracy past.
>
>   3.  Imagine that the self-declared winner's 'victory' turned on
>   disputed votes cast in a province governed by his brother!
>
>   4.  Imagine that the poorly drafted ballots of one district, a district
>   heavily favoring the self-declared winner's opponent, led thousands of
>   voters to vote for the wrong candidate.
>
>   5.  Imagine that members of that nation's most despised caste,
>   fearing  for their lives/livelihoods, turned out in record numbers to
>   vote in  near-universal opposition to the self-declared winner's
>   candidacy.
>
>   6.  Imagine that hundreds of members of that most-despised caste were
>   intercepted on their way to the polls by state police operating under
>   the  authority of the self-declared winner's brother.
>
>   7.  Imagine that six million people voted in the disputed province and
>   that  the self-declared winner's 'lead' was only 327 votes.  Fewer,
>   certainly, than the vote counting machines' margin of error.
>
>   8.  Imagine that the self-declared winner and his political party
>   opposed a  more careful by-hand inspection and re-counting of the
>   ballots in the disputed province or in its most hotly disputed district.
>
>   9.  Imagine that the self-declared winner, himself a governor of a
>   major  province, had the worst human rights record of any province in
>   his nation and actually led the nation in executions.
>
>   10. Imagine that a major campaign promise of the self-declared winner
>   was to appoint like-minded human rights violators to lifetime positions
>   on the high court of that nation.
>
>   None of us would deem such an election to be representative of anything
>   other than the self-declared winner's will-to-power.  All of us, I
>   imagine, would wearily turn the page thinking that it was another sad
>   tale of pitiful pre- or anti-democracy peoples in some strange
>   elsewhere."
>