<HTML>In a message dated 3/16/2002 9:41:28 AM Eastern Standard Time, pbond@wn.apc.org writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">* 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]; </BLOCKQUOTE> Is this Zimbabwe or Florida you are talking about? :-) "I believe in the Church of Baseball"                    Annie Savoy,                    Bull Durham (1988)</HTML>