Like a base 10 system is even statistically relevant when gassing of your parents has given you 14 fingers.
Give me my banjo and get the fuck out of my face.
What if
everyone decided to get together and all vote no?
Would he kill his entire country?
I think we’re missing the true intent of the “election.” I don’t think they expect anyone to really believe the results. What they want is to make a show of defiance against the Zionist Americans. From what I’ve seen so far, this goes over very well in the Mid East, and I’m guessing their intent is to draw more support from their Arab neighbors, or at least keep them out of an American coalition. This is good way to do so without their military.
Yeah, I suspect he would, vanilla. I think Hussein’s huge ego simply could not bear the mere idea that he would get less than 100% of the popular vote even if it was more realistic to give him say, 92% or something else equally feasible. So 100% it was. I’m sure that in the next “election” he’ll go ahead and let all the people who’ve died vote for him. “They love me so much, they come back from the dead and vote for me.” And he’ll expect people to believe it.
EasyPhil, you’ve been registered on this board about as long as I have and you haven’t yet learned that there is literally nothing in this world that could get 100% consensus? As others pointed out, you couldn’t get 100% of men to agree that blowjobs are a good thing or that up is up. If someone posted that they saw a man beating up a baby and had him arrested, you would find someone somewhere who would think the poster should’ve minded his own business and that the man had the right to do what he did.
ABCnews had an article about the election. The author of the piece interviewed people coming out of the polls (through an Iraqi translator) and they couldn’t find anyone who said they voted negative, even people of whom the author claimed he saw the negative votes. And a poll of the Kurds in northern Iraq, who aren’t under Hussein’s control, showed that 94.5% of them would not have voted him back into power. (Um, I know I didn’t just make that last sentence up, but I can’t find my cite.)
Buckner wrote:
That’s exactly what it is.
It is a flaming crock of shit, and I still would not believe Iraqis want Saddam as thier leader, How can it be an election with out another candidate? How can you know what the people truly want when the penalty for dissent is death?
I daresay you couldn’t get results that were more false if you had to count them with the maggots from Saddam Hussein’s corpse.
As it happens, somebody actually did poll the Kurds. From yesterday’s story.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/10/16/iraq.elections.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/10/16/kurd.opinion/index.html
Actually, it certainly is. Canada runs its federal elections using hand-marked ballots and we know the full results within 12 hours of the polls closing. I don’t remember any election we’ve ever had where they hadn’t finished counting pretty much all the ballots by the next morning. If you have enough volunteers and a good system it’s not that hard. Canada has a much larger population than Iraq, IIRC.
The reason this election is ridiculous bullshit is because of the result, not the speed with which it was “counted.” If God Himself returned to Earth and ran for election, He would not get 100% of the entire eligible vote in a real election. It is totally impossible.
Yeah, but RickJay, Canada has (I presume) an intricate technological system set up that lets them count the ballots electronically as they’re fed into a machine. In addition, they can transmit those results to a central location quickly via fiber optics or satellite transmitters.
Although it’s certainly within the realm of possibility that some of Iraq is wired enough to be able to do this (primarily Baghdad and the surrounding area), you’d have to convince me that every polling place in the country has sufficient technological resources to pull this off.
Kurds.
This article explains a lot about the “election” coverage:
http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021028&s=foer102802
Apparently Iraq considers foreign journalists to really be spies using journalism as a cover. If Iraq doesn’t approve of the published reports, journalists have been threatened and denied re-entry to Iraq. In one case, an Iranian-born British journalist was tried as a spy behind closed doors and hanged. Also:
Dude, that’s…uncanny.
How long have you been spying on me?
Actually Sauron intricate technology isn’t necessary to conduct an election. Australia still hand tallies about 12 million votes, across an area equivalent to the lower 48 and until recently the counts from each polling station were phoned in to a central tally room. Results are typically known within 3-4 hours of poll close.