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Caribbean-Latin America
Cuba Says 96.66 Percent of Voters Voted
2005-04-19
Cuban officials on Monday said that nearly 97 percent of registered voters in the country participated in municipal elections over the weekend. Justice Minister Roberto Diaz Sotolongo, who presides over the National Electoral Commission, said nearly 8.2 million Cubans, or 96.66 percent of those registered, went to the polls Sunday to elect 169 municipal assemblies across the island of 11 million. "I don't think any other country has such a high voter turnout," Cuban President Fidel Castro said in a fifteen-hour televised address after Diaz presented the results.
Pointless details of Cuba's "voting" process at link.
Posted by:seafarious

#10  I forgot about that stuff. Can you imagine? It must truly suck to be forced to endure those things. Talk about torture and human rights abuses!
Posted by: Tkat   2005-04-19 11:36:12 AM  

#9  Maybe Fidel can threaten them with another 8 hour speech if they don't do better next time.
Posted by: Xbalanke   2005-04-19 11:33:03 AM  

#8  I could forgive them the low turnout if there had been mass demonstrations and people chanting "Fidel! Fidel! Our blood for you!" But this is just unsat. It's like they're not even trying.
Posted by: BH   2005-04-19 10:24:13 AM  

#7  Back in his heyday Soloth Sar could bring in 100% of the vote in Cambodia any day of the week if he desired. It's got to feel a little weird to be the spokesperson making the great pronouncement of Cuban voter turnout. Doesn't the word "election" imply there is some real choice in the matter anyway? At last check, Castro doesn't offer choice beyond what he provides. It's not healthy over the long term to insist on calling a pig a beautiful dove. It's odd for the Cuban regime to insist on drawing attention to the farce when most cubans surely know the difference, despite what they think of it.
Posted by: Tkat   2005-04-19 9:32:52 AM  

#6  What else are they going to do? Go to the mall? Watch TV?
Posted by: eLarson   2005-04-19 7:55:39 AM  

#5  Posers! Some places (King County) of the Peoples Republic of Washington State had 110% turnout.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2005-04-19 3:42:30 AM  

#4  Saddam used to put this to shame, Tito too.
Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom   2005-04-19 2:21:36 AM  

#3  Not quite up to the Socialist Communist Standard. They need 99-44/100% minimum. Shame on Castro in his Golden Years.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2005-04-19 2:01:39 AM  

#2  ..nearly 8.2 million Cubans, or 96.66 percent of those registered, went to the polls Sunday to elect 169 municipal assemblies across the island of 11 million.

And the best thing about it is,.....it's 100% Castro approved!!
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-04-19 1:30:12 AM  

#1  96%? Slackers. Any decent totalitarian state should be able to claim at least 98%. Wotta second-rate grabass dictatorship.

"I don't think any other country has such a high voter turnout"

Or has less reason to.
Posted by: .com   2005-04-19 1:27:10 AM  

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