Posted on 03/23/2008 10:27:48 AM PDT by george76
Zimbabwe has the highest proportion of elderly voters in the world, according to the voters' roll being used for elections next week. A glance at one page of the roll yesterday for a ward in the Mount Pleasant suburb of Harare turned up a Fodias Kunyepa, who was born in 1901. Over the page was Rebecca Armstrong, born 1900.
Somewhat younger was Desmond Lardner-Burke, born 1909, who was the notorious Minister for Justice in the rebel Rhodesian Government and responsible for the harassment, arrest and detention without trial of tens of thousands of black nationalists, including President Mugabe, fighting against white rule in the 1960s and 1970s.
Mr Lardner-Burke left the country soon after the demise of the illegally constituted Rhodesian state in 1980, and the establishment of Zimbabwe's independence. He died soon after, in South Africa. Mr Kunyepa and Mrs Armstrong are also long dead.
Opposition campaign workers say that the voters' roll is stuffed with the names of the dead, of non-existent people, of those with fake identity numbers and with names repeated numerous times in different constituencies, sometimes in the same ward.
That way, supporters of Mr Mugabe and his ruling Zanu (PF) party will be allowed by compliant electoral officials to vote repeatedly.
“It also means that when they stuff the ballot boxes, a huge majority will not appear unreasonable,”
Mr Lardner-Burke, who was reputed to have a sense of irony, would be amused at the idea of posthumously helping Mr Mugabe, born in 1924, to win presidential elections and go on for another five years.
“There's one [person at least 100 years old] on nearly every page of the voters' roll for Mount Pleasant,”
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
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Robert Mugabe ‘cannot win the election - but he can steal it’
It’s good that this kind of thing doesn’t go on here in the U.S.
/sarc
The Democrat Party must be advising them.
Pretty funny when your (dead) enemies vote for you.
President Robert Mugabe 'raises the dead' to secure electoral victory in Zimbabwe
Well I'll be darned. I didn't know Mugabe once lived in Chicago?
Goes to show, ya learn sumptin new every day. /s
Mugabe’s inflation rate is nearly as high as Chicago’s tax increases. Mugabe has murdered so many people, it’s probably the equivalent of people moving out of Chicago.
"...Desmond Lardner-Burke, born 1909, who was the notorious Minister for Justice in the rebel Rhodesian Government..." Or this one, "...Burke left the country soon after the demise of the illegally constituted Rhodesian state..."
Everything beyond that is theatre.
Chi-town
That reminds me of the old joke about Chicago:
My grandpa from Chicago voted straight-ticket Republican all of his life, but has voted straight-ticket Democrat since the day he died.
lol
My grandpa from Chicago voted straight-ticket Republican all of his life, but has voted straight-ticket Democrat since the day he died.
Zimbabwe is the model that Democrats hope to replicate.
I think Mugabe just misses his mommy.
Who let him visit Mayor Daley of Chicago for an hour?
Perhaps a lot of people here have already heard the joke Lyndon Johnson used to tell without shame:
A little boy in TX was seen crying on outside his home. A neighbor asked what’s wrong. The boy replied my daddy has been dead for years, but last week he was in town to vote for Lyndon Johnson and he didn’t even come to see me!
Kind of funny but typical of Dems to boast about getting away with illegal activities. Perhaps they should hire Mugabe as a consultant to help them steal more votes in Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee et al.
Sounds like someone is pushing an agenda, oh wait, it's a UK news article. I suppose they are still kind of defensive about stabbing Rhodesia in the collective back.
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