Sudan, Britain and democracy

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Sudan, a country that has spent the last generation under a bloody tyranny and fighting a civil war, recently had a general election. More electors turned up than the facilities were able to handle; so, by common consent, the electoral commission allowed the polls to stay open for an extra day. In spite of widespread fears, there seems to have been no violence, and everyone who wanted to vote was able to.

Britons were called to vote yesterday. For God knows what reason, unexpected numbers of electors - no less than 20% more than last time - showed up to vote, mostly for the same discredited cretins that have so mismanaged the country for the last several decades. This submissiveness of the electorate was properly rewarded by the authorities, who closed the polls at 10 in the evening, depriving thousands, maybe tens of thousands of would-be electors of their democratic rights.

Sudan gives Britain lessons in democracy. And the British, being idiots enough to reward the villainous three leading parties for their villainy, deserve the insult. They will pay for it, too, when the monsters who have destroyed British manufacturing, devastated British society, run up a debt that makes Greece's seem small, and lined their own pockets like it was going out of style, now make the citizenship pay for their errors.

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In Italy, where these things are done rationally, elections are ALWAYS held on Saturdays and Sundays, the two days when most people are likely to be free to vote, And having once worked in an electoral station, I can testify that we did not close till the last voter who wished to vote had gone - bar absurdities like someone turning up at two in the morning. The whole process took twenty-four hours of work on the second day, but circumstances were exceptional - there were votes to be counted for several national referenda as well as for the general elections.