Obama working on the Fundamental Transformation of Canada

Canadian Free Press/ By Judi McLeod 

News guaranteed to shake Canadians off their duffs: Obama covets Canada.

King-of-the-World-Legend-in-his-own-Mind Barack Obama sees Canada not as a Parliamentary Democracy, but as part of his Marxist-inspired empire.

Nine months after Canada’s May 2011 federal election where Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper took 40% of the vote winning 166 seats for his first majority, the same groups that put Obama in the office to which they are hellbent to return him come November 6,  work to overturn the results of the Canadian election. 

The coming battle for the protection of Canadian sovereignty could be called the People’s War against a North American Union on Steroids.

Overturning Canadian democracy is being aided and abetted by the leaders of documented Obama groups,  including Ben Brandzei, a former advocacy director for Moveon.org, as well as Ross McGregor, Director of the Tides Canada Foundation.  And yes, that is the Canadian branch of George Soros’ Tides Foundation. 

Virtually and almost overnight,  Arab Spring has become Canadian Spring.

Glenn Beck boosted Sun Media’s exposé on the attack on Canadian democracy on GBTV last night.

Canadian alert: Spooky Dude has come to Dodge.

Thanks to the Andrew Breitbarts of Canada at Sun News Network, the stealth attack on Canadian democracy didn’t go down without a shot to Canadian adrenaline: “While the United States presidential election is raging on, several Canadian politicians are complaining about what they call “American-style dirty tricks” up north—specifically, the increasing use of robocalls.  The problem is that many of the politicians complaining about this behavior are themselves working closely with American left-wing groups closely affiliated with the Obama campaign. (Sun News Network’s Brian Lilley).

 

“What has happened is that the left has imported what they claim they hate…

“This group has an entire campaign to push people to contact Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the other party leaders, RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson and William Corbett, the Commissioner of Canada Elections—he’s the lead investigator for any wrongdoing in the election…

“These are high level Americans with deep ties to the left wing of the Democratic Party now trying to overturn Canadian democracy.”

Activists behind the move are claiming that an online petition represents a “grassroots” move of the Canadian people.  Social media has become Socialist media in this Web grassroots petition.

In short, the “grassroots” is the same group of New Democrat Party, Liberals and the Greens who tried to form the coalition to take down the Stephen Harper Government when it was still in its second minority status.

They may sound new on the latest news-bite, but they are the same old-same old.

Canadians who care about sovereignty should know that the NDP, the Liberals and the Greens are now working in tandem with Obama on what boils down to the Fundamental Transformation of Canada.

While Obama and his activists have worked an agenda that will push America into the abyss, the Canadian far left have been working their way out of the nine-month-old tizzy the last federal election left them in. 

The far-left dubbed “Scary” Stephen Harper got his majority leaving the left with no battle ground from which to con Canadian voters.  Well regulated Canadian banks are safe and Canada is one of the few western countries not headed towards certain bankruptcy.

When Obama threw Israel under the bus, Harper took a strong stand to support it, which he continues to the present day.

When Obama turned up his imperious nose at the 30,000-plus job-providing Keystone Pipeline, Harper looked to China as a customer for Canadian oil.

Obama tries to force world-failed Socialism on the USA.  Harper leads Canada from the values of small-c conservatism.

The once preposterous warning that the US would annex Canada is now reality with Obama in the White House.

Meanwhile, there’s no better time than today for Canadians to kickstart the ‘Back Off Baraka’ Campaign.

Sarkozy: France has too many immigrants

By Reuters

French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed during a TV debate on Tuesday to halve the number of immigrants and impose a minimum tax on profits of big listed companies as he sought to bolster support for his re-election bid in April.

Sarkozy, grilled by veteran Socialist Laurent Fabius and journalists for three hours on the primetime show, defended his record on tax reform, public finances, and unemployment - which rose on his watch as economic crisis battered the world.

The conservative leader, lagging behind Socialist challenger Francois Hollande in the polls, was also made to apologize for old gaffes and explain his personality traits in a lengthy section about awkward moments in his early presidency.

Sarkozy, said by critics to pander too much to the far right as he seeks to maximize support for the April 22 first round, said he would cut the number of immigrants to 100,000 a year from 180,000 and tighten up the rules on foreigners' access to French nationality and benefits.

The debate with Fabius - a former finance and prime minister who is destined for a top job if Hollande wins - comes as Sarkozy is struggling in opinion polls. Having gained a few points at the start of his campaign, Sarkozy slipped back last week as he suffered setbacks on the campaign trail.

Hollande, who launched his campaign months before Sarkozy, regained momentum by proposing a 75 percent tax rate on earnings above a million euros, a move 61 percent of French people would support, a poll by TNS Sofres and Mediaprism showed.

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Canada: "Robocall" at the House

By Aaron Wherry 

From QP this afternoon, a classic of the genre

Bob Rae. Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives cannot even answer an interesting, clear, factual question. A poll was commissioned by the Conservative Party. The Conservative candidate said, “It was not me; it was the party”. The government House leader said, “It is okay, it is just free speech”, and the Speaker of this House said, “It is reprehensible”. I am asking a very simple, direct question to the Government of Canada. Does it agree with the Speaker of this House that such a tactic, spreading false information, carrying out a poll based on a false assumption, is reprehensible? Does the government agree with that, yes or no?
Dean Del Mastro. Mr. Speaker, it is reprehensible to make baseless, unsubstantiated smears in this House. That is what the leader of the Liberal Party has undertaken for more than the past week. The leader of the Liberal Party knows full well, every household that they called, every originating phone number they called them from, and in fact when those calls were made. When will he make those phone records public, because I believe when those phone records are made public, the Liberal Party will have fingered itself for each and every one of these calls that they allege had taken place.

Mass arrests as anti-govt protesters stage Moscow sit-in

Russia Spring: ‘iPads have replaced rifles,’ says blogger

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Teary-eyed Putin addresses 110,000 crowd near Kremlin

They get what they want: Putin wins, Communists 2nd

Preliminary results show Vladimir Putin securing 63.18 per cent of votes in Russia's presidential election, with his closest rival Gennady Zyuganov taking 17.33 per cent.

So far, the Central Election Commission has counted some 25 per cent of the ballots. Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Mikhail Prokhorov are waging a real political battle for third place, with both winning the support of roughly 7.35 per cent of voters. Sergey Mironov is running fifth, with some 3.67 per cent of votes cast.

Could Vladimir Putin be in power until 2024?

Reuters/ Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Communist party leader Gennady Zyuganov, tycoon and independent candidate Mikhail Prokhorov, Nationalist Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky and A Just Russia party leader Sergey Mironov will battle for the country's presidency on Sunday.

More than 100 million Russians will go to the polls on Sunday to elect a president who will be in office for the next six years. Msnbc.com's Alastair Jamieson examines the potential outcomes -- and what's at stake.

What do the polls suggest will happen?

Most polls indicate it will be an outright victory for Vladimir Putin, the current prime minister and former president who has made a deal with his ally Dmitry Medvedev, the former prime minister and current president. Despite initial public outrage over their job swap, Putin is consistently polling at around 50 per cent – well ahead of the fragmented opposition.

And even if voters do not endorse Putin, his victory is likely to be assured with the help of regional officials loyal to his United Russia party. Having extended the presidential term of office from four to six years, Putin would remain in charge until 2018 – or 2024, if he won a second term. By then, Putin would have chalked up 24 years in power out of the 33 years since the collapse of Communism thanks to his previous terms as president and prime minister. If the outcome is such a certainty, why should the U.S. and other Western countries care?Experts agree the U.S. will find Russia harder to deal with on Putin’s return. On Wednesday, British think tank Chatham House warned that “Russia’s stability is at increased risk” due to Putin's determination to stay in power. “The overriding objective of Vladimir Putin and his team is to preserve the narrow and personalized ruling system that they have built over the past 12 years,” it said in a report. “Real change, necessarily involving accountability and devolution of power, would disrupt the system.

 

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But without real change, Russia cannot develop as effectively as it could, and the Putin system is vulnerable to shock.” Opposition leaders believe Russia at a crossroads in this election, according to NBC News correspondent Jim Maceda.“The choice is stark: six, perhaps 12, more years of an authoritative regime that is belligerent to critics ... and which sees the U.S. and its allies as Cold War rivals -- or a new, more democratic Russia that respects its neighbors and no longer snubs the West,” he said.

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Chavez interrumpe cierre de campana de Capriles/ Pablo Perez: "Desde La Habana se toman las decisiones"

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Perfiles de candidatos opositores a Chavez

Desde el blog de Martha Colmenares

Los candidatos son los siguientes Leopoldo López, Diego Arria, María Corina Machado, Henrique Capriles, Pablo Pérez y Pablo Medina.

Algunos datos biográficos de los candidatos a las primarias de la oposición:

Henrique Capriles

El gobernador del estado Miranda es conocido por empezar sus jornadas muy temprano, se mueve en moto para evitar el caos vehicular de Caracas, viste buzo, gorra, polos deportivos y, al igual que Chávez, soñaba de niño con ser beisbolista profesional.

Abogado, centroizquierdista, soltero, nieto de inmigrantes polacos que llegaron a Venezuela escapando del nazismo y admirador del brasileño Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, ingresó a la política a los 26 años cuando fue electo diputado del entonces bicameral Congreso venezolano.

Presidió la Cámara de Diputados, pero su gestión duró muy poco ya que Chávez, que juró como Presidente en febrero de 1999, instauró una Asamblea Nacional Constituyente que aprobó una nueva carta magna que definió la unicameralidad del Congreso.

En el 2000 Capriles fue electo alcalde de Baruta, en la capital Caracas, y cuatro años más tarde se convirtió en el primer alcalde reelecto de dicho municipio.

En su primera gestión se vio envuelto en un hecho durante el breve golpe de Estado a Chávez en abril del 2002 que le valió cuatro meses de cárcel antes de que la causa fuera sobreseída.

En medio de la confusión que reinaba cuando militares le pidieron la renuncia a Chávez, opositores trataron de ingresar a la embajada de Cuba en Caracas para verificar si el vicepresidente Diosdado Cabello se escondía allí.

Capriles trató de mediar -según propia versión-, pero el entonces embajador cubano lo acusó de saltar el muro de la legación diplomática e inspeccionar el lugar. Por eso fue llevado a prisión y durante los primeros 20 días no se le permitió “ver la luz del sol”.

Pese a haber sido declarado inocente, en el 2008, en plena campaña para las elecciones regionales, se le reabrió el proceso. La acción no avanzó y ese año peleó la gobernación de Miranda con Cabello y ganó con el 52,5 por ciento de los votos.

Miranda es el segundo estado más poblado del país con casi 3 millones de habitantes, pero política y geográficamente es el más importante porque comprende parte de Caracas.

“Dios mediante, me tocará ser el Presidente más joven de la historia de Venezuela, con 40 años, que es la edad que tendré para las elecciones”, dijo Capriles, quien ha adelantado que de llegar al Palacio Presidencial emularía el modelo de Lula.

Pablo Pérez

Actual gobernador del rico estado petrolero y ganadero Zulia, en el occidente y el más poblado del país con cerca de 4 millones de habitantes.

Su predecesor Manuel Rosales anunció la candidatura de Pérez a mediados de agosto desde su asilo en Perú y éste la formalizó en un lujoso hotel de Caracas diciendo que Venezuela tiene que ser como su selección de fútbol conocida como “vinotinto” que logró un histórico cuarto puesto en la reciente Copa América.

El político de 42 años es miembro del partido de centroizquierda Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT), está casado y con tres hijos, es el mayor de cinco hermanos y natural de Maracaibo, capital del estado que gobierna desde diciembre del 2008.

Abogado como su padre, inició su carrera política en el partido Acción Democrática (AD) cuando aún no se había recibido. Ingresó a la Alcaldía de Maracaibo en 1995 con Rosales como alcalde y siguió a su lado en el 2000 cuando su mentor logró la gobernación del Zulia.

Comparte con Rosales el currículum político, pero muchos creen que debe desprenderse de esa paternidad para alzar vuelo en las encuestas que lo colocan como segundo. Chávez lo ha calificado como “un imbécil que no sabe ni hablar”.

En el 2004, Pérez tentó la Alcaldía de Maracaibo, por el partido opositor UNT, pero fue derrotado por un punto porcentual ante el candidato de Chávez.

De discurso conciliador, deportista y amante del básquet, recibió el apoyo de los partidos políticos tradicionales y de la izquierda opositora, lo cual le granjea una poderosa maquinaria que podría catapultarlo al primer lugar de las preferencias.

“La única guerra y los únicos enemigos que tenemos nosotros son el desempleo, la impunidad, la corrupción, la pobreza y el alto costo de la vida. Es a ese enemigo que vamos a derrotar”, dijo en un recorrido por el país presentando su candidatura.

María Corina Machado

Ingeniera industrial de 43 años, ambiciosa e inteligente, es diputada de la Asamblea Nacional, cargo al que fue electa con la mayor cantidad de votos en el 2010.

Las encuestas ubican a esta mujer casada y madre de tres hijos en el cuarto lugar entre los candidatos a las primarias. Es la mayor de 4 hijos del matrimonio entre un empresario siderúrgico y una psicóloga.

Lanzó su precandidatura a mediados de julio del 2011 y dijo que asumía “el reto de ser la primera mujer presidenta de Venezuela“. Desde entonces, su popularidad ha ido en ascenso.

Sin embargo, es resistida por la mayoría pobre del país, una opinión exacerbada tras un vídeo donde parece limpiarse la boca luego de saludar con un beso a una mujer campesina.

Machado es muy popular entre las élites caraqueñas, pero ha sido criticada hasta la saciedad por haberse dejado fotografiar sonriente junto al ex presidente estadounidense George W. Bush en la oficina oval de la Casa Blanca en el 2005.

Ha liderado varias asociaciones civiles y estuvo impedida de salir de Venezuela durante tres años acusada de recibir dinero de Estados Unidos -el enemigo ideológico de Chávez- para financiar campañas de traición a la patria y rebelión.

La organización civil Súmate, de la que fue presidenta y una de las fundadoras, encabezó la petición para un referéndum revocatorio contra Chávez en el 2004 y del cual el militar retirado salió bien parado.

Calificada por el New York Times como la adversaria política más detestada por las filas oficialistas, es vista en casa como una figura muy polarizadora y asociada con la derecha venezolana que gobernó el país desde el retorno de la democracia en 1958 hasta la asunción de Chávez en 1999.

Diego Arria

Es posiblemente el candidato con la mayor experiencia política del grupo, pero con la menor resonancia.

Arria, de 73 años, tuvo una activa vida política durante los 40 años que duró la alternancia de los partidos tradicionales venezolanos.

Fue gobernador de Caracas, ministro, director de medios y diplomático, alcanzó la presidencia del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU y fue representante permanente ante esta organización.

Aunque ahora corre como independiente con su pequeño partido “DAR”, fue cercano al ex presidente Carlos Andrés Pérez y a las políticas de AD, por lo que sus detractores le achacan vicios y la corrupción que marcaron las gestiones de ese partido.

A fines del año pasado introdujo una demanda penal para llevar a Chávez a un juicio internacional por delitos de lesa humanidad, acusándolo de incitar el odio entre los venezolanos que argumentó ha devenido en 155.000 víctimas en más de 10 años de gestión.

El mandatario ordenó la expropiación de una hacienda donde Arria se dedicaba a la ganadería.

Pablo Medina
Fue trabajador siderúrgico, líder sindical, guerrillero izquierdista, diputado y senador del antiguo Congreso venezolano.

De 64 años, es uno de los fundadores en la década de 1970 de la Causa R, partido político de tendencia marxista de donde luego saldría Patria Para Todos (PPT) que apoyó la candidatura presidencial de Chávez en 1998.

A pesar de haber conspirado con Chávez en los hechos que llevaron al fallido golpe de Estado de 1992 contra el entonces presidente Carlos Andrés Pérez, ocho años más tarde se convirtió en uno de los más radicales opositores al punto que partidarios del chavismo le espetan: “Pablo Medina, ex camarada, tu traición nunca será olvidada”.

Why we can't use machine learning to predict presidential elections

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  The UNIVAC 1 is a machine with important historical significance to the computer industry because it was the first mass-produced computer to be sold to corporations. It's also the computer that has the distinction of being the one that Walter Cronkite used to correctly predict the outcome of the 1952 Presidential Election. 

By Chris Wilson/

Slate ran an article outlining why you can’t build a model to predict presidential elections. The logic there still holds: You can predict any outcome you like depending which data you choose to use. One of the most powerful aspects of the algorithms we studied in this class was their ability to compute tremendous amounts of data and scale it down to the most important factors. Researchers also have ways of preventing their models from “overfitting” the data. In other words, one could probably create an algorithm that predicted past elections with great accuracy, but it might be so finely tuned to the quirks and turns of that historical data that it would be meaningless in 2012. It may seem preposterous to think that any mountainous pile of polls, unemployment rates, approval ratings, the stock markets, and a million other factors could, if correctly parsed by a smart machine, predict human behavior. But by and large, people behave rationally, and machines, if we learned anything, can model rational systems very well. And they’re getting better every day.  

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Añadir leyendaRemington Rand's Univac computer was big and expensive. But it built its reputation quickly as a predictor of presidential elections.
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#Russia - Billionaire Prokhorov picks a fight with Putin

Putin accuses Clinton of sparking post-election protests in Russia

By msnbc.com wire services

Updated at 5:45 a.m. ET: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned Thursday that Russian authorities might take an even harder line against protesters who have taken to the streets alleging election-rigging.

"We need to think about strengthening the law and holding more responsible those who carry out the task of a foreign government to influence our internal political process," he said.

Moscow has already put 50,000 police and troops out on the streets, backed by water cannon.

The demonstrations have been some of the biggest and most sustained protests Russia has seen in years, and police have detained hundreds of protesters.

Published at 4:55 a.m. ET: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States of encouraging protests over Russia's parliamentary election and said hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign funds were used to influence the vote.

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In his first public remarks about daily demonstrations by protesters alleging Sunday's vote was fraudulent and unfair, Putin said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "gave a signal" to Kremlin opponents.

"She set the tone for some opposition activists, gave them a signal, they heard this signal and started active work," Putin said.

 

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Gorbachev: Annul Russian election results, hold new vote

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MOSCOW - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev urged Russian authorities to annul the results of the scandal-marred parliamentary election and hold a new vote, Russia's Interfax news agency reported Wednesday.

The news came a day after thousands of Russians rallied in Moscow and St. Petersburg and faced off with police and Interior Ministry troops, who detained and arrested hundreds of protesters, including journalists.

"The country's leaders have to admit that there were numerous falsifications and rigging and the results do not reflect the will of the people," Gorbachev told Interfax, according to the AFP.

"Therefore I think they can only take one decision — annul the results of the election and hold new ones."

Thousands of security forces were out in the Russian capital and helicopters roamed the sky Wednesday in a show of force following the protests over the election that saw Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's party struggle to keep a majority. More >>

Hundreds arrested as thousands protest Russia's vote [Video]

The parliamentary election results have left opposition supporters in an angry mood. Moscow has seen crowds of up to 10,000 take to the streets; over 300 have been arrested, reports RIA Novosti news agency. Police have counted 2,000 demonstrators, but unofficial estimates say up to 10,000 people made their way to Chistye Prudy Park to attend a meeting staged by the opposition movement "Solidarnost" (Solidarity). "Shame!" chanted the crowd. The demonstrators claimed the United Russia party had rigged the voting results. Meanwhile, as the Central Election Commission has almost done its counting, United Russia is coming in with almost 50 per cent of the vote. Police had already cordoned the area off for a meeting, which only 700 people had been authorized to join. As the stream of people increased, the designated area overflowed and the crowds spilled into a neighboring area. When they started to block the traffic, police began arresting protesters. 

#Russia - Putin party suffers setback in Russia vote

msnbc.com staff and wire services

Updated at 6:30 a.m. ET: Reuters reports that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's ruling party lost 77 seats in parliament in an election held on Sunday, according to projections made by the Central Election Commission based on preliminary results.

Updated at 5:40 a.m. ET: European monitors said that Russia's parliamentary election has been tilted in favor of the ruling party and marred by violations, The Associated Press reports.

The monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and other European institutions highlighted issues including limited political competition and a lack of fairness.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's United Russia party saw its parliament majority weaken sharply in Sunday's vote despite allegations of widespread violations.

The European observers said the vote was tainted by frequent procedural violations and instances of apparent manipulations, including serious indications of ballot box stuffing.

Earlier, Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov dismissed the official results as "theft on an especially grand scale." His party made big gains in Sunday's election.

However, Zyuganov told Reuters that police had barred Communist monitors from several polling stations and "some ended up in hospital with broken bones".

Updated at 4:50 a.m. ET: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's United Russia received nearly one-third fewer votes than in 2007, Reuters reported.

Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganovm, whose party was on target to increase its representation from 57 to 92 in the Duma, alleged that some ballot boxes were stuffed before voting began.

"The country has never seen such a dirty election," he added. 

Updated at 4:40 a.m. ET: With about 96 percent of precincts counted, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's United Russia was leading with 49.5 percent of the vote, Central Election Commission chief Vladimir Churov told The Associated Press.

He predicted that it will get 238 of the Duma's 450 seats, a sharp drop compared to the previous vote that landed the party a two-thirds majority in the Duma. The Associated Press described the result as a "humiliating setback" for Putin, "who has steadily tightened his grip on the nation for nearly 12 years."

About 60 percent of Russia's 110 million registered voters cast ballots, down from 64 percent four years ago.

"Sunday's vote badly dented (Putin's) carefully groomed image," The AP's Vladimir Isachenkov wrote. "It reflected a strong public frustration with the lack of political competition, ubiquitous official corruption and the gap between rich and poor, which will pose a growing challenge to Putin's power."

By msnbc.com's F. Brinley Bruton -- published at 3 a.m. ET: Vladimir Putin's ruling party lost its crucial two-thirds majority in parliament in Russian elections held on Sunday, a damaging setback for the country's prime minister who is running for president once again next year. More >>

Egipt: Spring Revolution or Muslim Brotherhood Revolution?

By Charlene Gubash

CAIRO – The Muslim Brotherhood has already started coloring outside the lines in order to win a majority in Egypt’s parliamentary elections. 

The organization, which gave its political branch the more ambiguous title, The Party of Freedom and Justice (FJP), is expected to win 40 percent of the seats in the lower house of parliament, according to analysts estimates.  Official results from the first round of voting will be announced Thursday.

Based on our own observations at polling stations across Cairo and anecdotal evidence, they seem to have won support at the polls by bending the rules in their favor.

Free food and cheap meat
In Cairo’s Saida Zeinab neighborhood, at one of the busiest polling centers in the city, we saw a party member and two other supporters of an independent candidate passing out leaflets to voters waiting in long lines to cast their ballots – in clear violation of election laws. Soldiers who were on site for crowd control, did nothing to stop them. At the same spot, a tech-savvy FJP member sat on a bench, laptop in hand, to conduct exit polls. At other polling stations, they provided polling information to baffled voters. 

In a more economically disadvantaged part of Cairo known as “The Slaughterhouse,” Hanan Nasr, a mother of three, watched FJP members pass out free packages of rice and oil to voters on their way to the polling station – again in contravention of campaign law. They also bussed in party members from surrounding neighborhoods.

Voter confusion played into the hands of the FJP. Many voters simply did not know who the candidates were because of the sheer number of mostly unknown candidates (4,000), unknown parties (35 new ones since President Hosni Mubarak fell from power) and a complicated voting system requiring choices of farmer, labor and independent candidates.

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Matemática electoral o la manipulacion posible

Microsiervos

En cuatro enlaces: la propuesta de reforma de la Ley Electoral para la Comunidad de Madrid, los recelos que despierta, el análisis matemático y por último –pero no por ello menos importante– el cómo se hackea ese nuevo sistema (en Italia ya lo hicieron). Todo lo que hay que saber para quien le interesen más los numeritos que la política, vamos. Y es que como ya sabíamos no hay sistema perfecto, tan solo aproximaciones mejores o peores al problema de la democracia como «gobierno de la mayoría».

(Estos enlaces se los vi mencionados a Josu de Malaprensa y Roger y Cives de Materias grises.)

'Russia for Russians' strikes electoral chord

Mariano Rajoy ganó las elecciones en España