CUBA: BUSH WINS LANDSLIDE IN MOCK ELECTION FOR 100 DISSIDENTS

[Mika]

CUBA

BUSH WINS LANDSLIDE IN MOCK ELECTION
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/americas/10095599.htm

HAVANA -- About 100 Cuban dissidents invited to the home of the top U.S. diplomat in Havana voted in a symbolic ''U.S. election'' and picked President Bush by a broad margin. Bush got 83 percent of the vote, while Sen. John Kerry received 16 percent in a paper-ballot election held Tuesday night at the home of James Cason, head of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana.

Along with the choice of president, the ballot also asked what kind of political party they would favor in a post-Castro Cuba. Sixty-eight people favored a Christian Democratic Party, traditionally seen as center-right in Latin America. Eleven favored a Communist Party.

The announcement that 11 voters had chosen a Communist Party was greeted by booing. But dissident leader Vladimiro Roca, of the All United movement, said: ``They have the right to be represented. That's democracy. Anything else is what they're doing to us.''

LOL

[robbedvoter]

1. Hey, we had a mock election here too on November 3! same result!

[Mika]

2. US interest sec (in Cuba) mock elect for "dissidents" used paper ballots

Cubans in Cuba would not accept black box voting.


FYI, Cuba uses paper ballots in all of their real elections. Counted and recounted by hand - in public.

[WyLoochka]

3. The title of your post

is misleading. The vote was taken of 100 DISSIDENTS, not the whole country of Cuba. I sugggest an edit if you have time left.

[Mika]

4. OK. I went with the original, but, suggestion taken.

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:hi: