Not just Ukraine, Romania too got a revote. Challenger won.

robbedvoter

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Sun Dec-26-04 10:53 PM
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Not just Ukraine, Romania too got a revote. Challenger won.

here's the old ignored story:
Call to scrap Romania poll result
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4055345.stm

Basescu says his fight is "to restore democracy"
Romania's opposition leader has called for the results of presidential and parliamentary elections to be annulled amid claims of voter fraud.
Traian Basescu, who heads the centre-right Justice and Truth Alliance, alleged that election authorities handed extra votes to his opponent.
With most votes counted, Mr Basescu's party trailed Adrian Nastase's Social Democrats by around 470,000 votes.
European election observers on Monday expressed concern over possible fraud. "

Basescu is now taking office.

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robbedvoter

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Mon Dec-27-04 12:38 AM
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1. Thought you'd care. Not recount - revote. They asked, they got it.

Sorry for intruding in your busy schedule. :shrug:

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New Earth

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Mon Dec-27-04 12:42 AM
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2. i did read it when you posted it

i just didn't reply :( sorry.

i just saw over in LBN that Yuschenko just won the re-vote by over 10%.

it seems to work in other countries, why not in the U.S.? :shrug: :(

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proudbluestater

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Mon Dec-27-04 01:03 AM
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3. I've heard calls for revotes in Ohio, too.

It seems some poll workers disposed of the original tabulating tapes. Can't really do a recount properly without them.

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Stand and Fight

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Mon Dec-27-04 02:59 AM
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4. No doubt in my mind..

That if this same thing was done here in Amerika -- fairly and transparently -- our own challenger, John Forbes Kerry, would also be the winner. We need to attack this on two fronts. Front one: investigating the fraud. Front two: a re-vote in all suspect states, if not all states. I am confident that John Kerry would win -- there is not a single doubt in my mind.

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robbedvoter

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Mon Dec-27-04 12:51 PM
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5. Why is fraud cause for a re-vote in Romania, Ukraine, but here

even dems say - well, yeah, but how big a fraud?
Why is the notion of democracy forgotten in "the land of the free"?

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McCamy Taylor

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Mon Dec-27-04 01:00 PM
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6. See? I said Time's Man of the Year should have been Election Fraud

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BattyDem

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Mon Dec-27-04 01:05 PM
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7. So ... everyone understands how Democracy works ...

except the good ol' USA. :eyes: :-(

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TR Fan

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Mon Dec-27-04 01:13 PM
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8. This is factually inaccurate

The "second election" in Romania was neither a recount nor a revote. It was the SCHEDULED runoff between the two top vote getters for President. The election results noted in the BBC article were not, in any way, reversed. It was, however, a suprise to most Romanians (including my wife) that Basescu won, as Nastase was widely regarded as the chosen successor to Iliescu.

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