Shock! "In Nigerian Vote, Chaos and Fraud"

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

I am shocked - shocked I tell ya!

In Nigerian Vote, Chaos and Fraud

Observers Easily Detect Abundant Irregularities

By Craig Timberg
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, April 22, 2007; Page A17

RUMUJI, Nigeria, April 21 -- The young men were gathered in a huddle, a stack of ballot papers on a table, a clear plastic ballot box at their feet. One pressed his inky thumb onto the ballots, one after the other, as another man stuffed them into the box.

The scene, at a half-built concrete building in this town outside the oil capital of Port Harcourt, was just one of many irregularities easily visible in Nigeria's presidential election Saturday. A vote that outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo predicted would be a historic step forward for this eight-year-old democracy was instead chaotic, violent and, by many accounts, blatantly rigged....

...Observers detailed numerous problems: Some saw ballot boxes stuffed or stolen. Polling stations opened hours late, closed hours early, or both. Serious delays in delivering ballots forced the postponement of legislative elections across the country...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/21/AR2007042100198.html?referrer=email

[sasha031]

1. can you imagine that happening to a country

I am as shocked as you:sarcasm:

[Bobbieo]

2. And this is where all the 419 scammers originate! Altho

I think Haiti is in worse shape. They just can't afford the computers to start the scams.