[lbo-talk] Egyptian ref passing passing with close to 100% support

[Gar Lipow]

I'm sure it was also.  The rigging of the Morsi election was a bit more
subtle and did not require banning people from voting. It was the standard
rigging that happens in any first-past-the-post election with more than two
candidates, plus holding an election too soon, so that the revolutionary
forces had no time to organize leaving the people with a choice between the
military and the Brotherhood. And incidentally, the same people rigged it
who rigged this election - the military.I continue to the think that those
supporting the military will regret it in the long run. e The military are
already arresting members of groups that are liberal or left, and have been
since early after the coup The crackdown will get worse and will continue
not be confined to Islamists. I doubt the military will prove a lesser evil
in the long run.

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:


> Evidently the election that the Muslim Brotherhood won was not rigged.
>
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:05 AM, Gar Lipow <gar.lipow at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Of course that nearly 100% support might have something to do with the
> fact
> > that anyone campaigning for a "no" vote was arrested. And slogans like
> "You
> > will be judged on your vote" by supporters.  And that the military
> controls
> > the  vote count. So maybe all the lbo talk about how strongly the
> Egyptian
> > people love the military is true. Or maybe, just maybe such a blatant
> > rigging of the election is needed because the military is not as
> confident
> > as some posters on lbo talk are the people love them all that much.
> >
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