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.

Comments

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whassup? there is a large time window and many schools close for the day, making the process pretty disruptive. that there is also the possibility of postal or proxy voting ensures there's really no reason to be disenfranchised. of course, in the places where there were insufficient staff - if that was indeed the problem - someone should have gone out and told those arriving late to leave, with staff staying late to allow all others. the situation where there weren't enough ballot papers is clearly unacceptable. names and addresses should have been taken, with those votes being completed by post. it would have only taken a few extra days to administer and declare and judging by the reports, would be unlikely to have a big effect on the outcome.