Reply #13: Wikipedia definition of Cuban candidates:

[Judi Lynn]

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No party is permitted to campaign or endorse candidates for election, including the Communist Party. Candidates are elected on an individual referendum basis without formal party involvement, though elected assemblies predominantly consist of members of the dominant party alongside non-affiliated candidates.<1>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Cuba

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We all know better than that. You are wasting your time. There are DU'ers here who have been in Cuba during election seasons, and they have a wildly different picture from the one you're attempting to sell here.

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Cuba’s Electoral System
by Jorge Soberon, Cuban Interests Section in Washington (April 2005)

Municipal level
Every two and a half years between 2 and 8 candidates to be delegates to each Municipal Assembly (Cuba has 169 Municipalities) are elected directly by the electoral constituency with more than 50 percent of the vote. To be part of the electoral constituency or to be elected at this level anyone needs to be 16 years old or more. There is no propaganda only photographs and biographies of the candidates. Voting is secret and voluntary. In the end the elected delegates to the Municipal Assemblies happens to be half of the delegates to the National Assembly of the Peoples Power. The Provincial Electoral Commission determines the size of each electoral constituency within its territory. Any organization at all, not even the Communist Party, proposes any delegates to the Municipal Assembly. Any person, whether is a member of the Communist Party or not, can propose anyone to be a delegate. The size of the electoral constituency at the Municipal level is different according to the number of the population at that level. In the case of Municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants there can be different electoral constituencies within the territory. Cuba has more than 11 million inhabitants and about 15 000 electoral constituencies.

Provincial and National Level

Every five years delegates to each Provincial Assembly (Cuba has 14 provinces) and delegates to the National Assembly of the Peoples Power are elected. To be a delegate at those levels or to elect any delegate at those levels you have to be at least 18 years old. The Municipal Assemblies created by the Municipal elections described above, postulates all the candidates to be delegates to the Provincial Assemblies and to be delegates to the National Assembly of the Peoples Power, in a date that is determined by the Council of State. All this candidates are either already elected delegates to the Municipal Assemblies or personalities that live in the specified territory. Again, there is no propaganda only photographs and biographies of the candidates at both levels. Voting is secret and voluntary. Any organization at all, not even the Communist Party, proposes any delegates to these levels. Any person, whether it is a member of the Communist Party or not, can propose anyone to be a delegate. Delegates to both levels proposed by each Municipality Assembly are elected with more than 50 percent of the vote of each Municipality electoral constituency. There are delegates of the National Assembly that are priests, other delegates are not members of the Communist Party.

More:
http://www.cubasolidarity.com/aboutcuba/topics/government/0504elecsys.htm