Guest blogged by Steve Heller of VelvetRevolution.us
The New Vision (which bills itself as “Uganda’s leading website”) is reporting under the headline, “Election thieves to be imprisoned”, that the Ugandan Electoral Commission is advocating several reforms to Uganda’s election laws, and a number of them are excellent ideas which the United States would do well to emulate.
Among these reforms are:
Sounds like a great idea! And in America, we’d also like to extend that law to any and all election officials and even private citizens who are convicted of violating election laws. This would include issuing disinformation about voting or registration, illegal purges of the voter rolls, and ignoring state laws regarding the certification of election results.
It seems that Uganda understands what many American election officials and even many American voters don’t — that the accuracy of the results and the importance of counting every vote are more important than speed. Waiting a few days or even a few weeks for election results is well worth it if the extra time will lead to correct, every-vote-counted-and-counted-accurately results.
American politicians and election officials could learn some lessons from Uganda!
yay, you’re back!
Uganda. hunh…
good for uganda
i watched the new burris headlines on msnbc today,and i am just amazed,burris a life long dem has admitted he talked to other life long dems about his political aspirations and that they also tried to raise campaign money…um why is this a surprise?
i want the dems to work together,i see nothing wrong with burris asking a few peops for donations for gov rod b….and he didnt lie in the senate impeachment trial..he said YES he talked to his friends(i would assume dems would have dem friends)about him wanting to be the replacement senator,he was not successful in raising money and obviously it didnt keep rod b from naming him so obviously it was NOT exchange deal
my rambling point is,the repubs in illinois r full of crap and the dems r so worried that they will be dragnetted with gov rod b,burris that they r not standing up and making any sense
if the neo cons hate burris so much it makes me thing he is the best possible choice for senator
or
they just want to keep him in constant scandle until they have a chance to steal the senate with the new soe software
Making election thieves wait that long to wrap up the theft is just cruel. It’s stressful, don’t you know?