NewsWhore
05-08-2006, 03:10 PM
In his editorial column in Diario Libre, Adriano Miguel Tejada comments on irregularities he is observing in the Central Electoral Board's handling of the upcoming Congressional and Municipal elections. "There can not be any argument that can legally prove that the voters who have been relocated to a place where hardly anyone chooses to move to are legitimate in the light of electoral regulations," he writes. [He is referring to the same 171,000 voters that were transferred to new voting stations suggests a fraudulent pattern in a quest for Senate seats, with thousands of people being relocated to vote in the least populated provinces, where there are greater possibilities of altering the results, as another writer, Juan Bolivar Diaz reported in an analysis in the 6 May issue of Hoy newspaper.]
Tejada also comments today, "There is no argument that obliges, as the JCE has instructed, that by voting for one deputy you are also voting for the other deputies in the province and the senator of the province on the party ticket - the so-called "arrastre". If that agreement was reached among the political parties, then they are equally guilty or fools, as the judges, but we as voters have been tricked." He says that this is not a problem for those who vote for a party, but voters who want to vote selectively are not convinced by the method that one vote pulls all. He mentions that in La Vega, for example, if you vote for a good candidate of the Pink Alliance, then you will also be voting for Radhames Ramos Garcia. Ramos Garcia was sentenced for the illegal trafficking of Chinese nationals when he was a consul in Haiti.
"Do not find it strange if there are an enormous number of annulled votes in the Congressional ballot, because there is no law in the world that can oblige anyone to vote for an unpopular candidate. Do not count on my vote for that," he writes.
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Tejada also comments today, "There is no argument that obliges, as the JCE has instructed, that by voting for one deputy you are also voting for the other deputies in the province and the senator of the province on the party ticket - the so-called "arrastre". If that agreement was reached among the political parties, then they are equally guilty or fools, as the judges, but we as voters have been tricked." He says that this is not a problem for those who vote for a party, but voters who want to vote selectively are not convinced by the method that one vote pulls all. He mentions that in La Vega, for example, if you vote for a good candidate of the Pink Alliance, then you will also be voting for Radhames Ramos Garcia. Ramos Garcia was sentenced for the illegal trafficking of Chinese nationals when he was a consul in Haiti.
"Do not find it strange if there are an enormous number of annulled votes in the Congressional ballot, because there is no law in the world that can oblige anyone to vote for an unpopular candidate. Do not count on my vote for that," he writes.
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