> * disenfranchising voters through the voter registration process;
>
> * registration of voters beyond 3 March 2002;
>
> * "correcting" the voters' roll;
>
> * control of voter education through the Electoral Supervisory Commission;
>
> * drawing election supervisors and monitors from the Ministries of Defence,
> Home Affairs and Education;
>
> * disallowing postal voting [i.e. preventing around a million votes from
> Zimbabweans abroad, which would have mainly gone to the MDC];
>
> * constituency-based voting [i.e., preventing voters from casting their
> ballots no matter where they happen to be, within Zimbabwe];
>
> * simultaneous holding of municipal and Presidential elections;
>
> * restrictions concerning the accompanying of ballot boxes;
>
> * printing of extra ballot papers;
>
> * very restrictive and oppressive Public Order and Security Act;
>
> * unequal access to the state controlled media, in particular the broadcast
> media, with a bias towards the ruling party;
>
> * restrictions concerning both local and international observers;
>
> * confiscation and destruction of identity cards by youths of the ruling
> party [i.e., thus preventing people from voting because an ID is required
> at
> the ballot box];
>
Is this Zimbabwe or Florida you are talking about? :-) "I believe in the Church of Baseball"
Annie Savoy,
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