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daleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 10:17 AM
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51. 72% turnout - Here is a little math to show how impossible this is.
5200 polling stations
times
10 hours voting
times 60 minutes per hour
gives
3.12 million voter minutes at polls

Approx 15 million eligible voters
time
72%
gives
10.8 million voters

Or, a voter casting a ballot steadily every 20 seconds at every polling in the country station all day long.

Do you believe this? In a country that has never held an "election"? Where there are over 100 parties for voters to choose from? Where the polling stations locations were kept secret until two days ago? Where polls are actually being attacked? And tight security measures are presumably in place?

This is a fairy tale.
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