Indigenous polling officers wait for voters in one of the polling stations in San Bartolome Quialana, Oaxaca state, Mexico. (JUAN CARLOS REYES, AFP/Getty Images / July 4, 2010) |
Indigenous polling officers wait for voters in one of the polling stations in San Bartolome Quialana, Oaxaca state, Mexico. (JUAN CARLOS REYES, AFP/Getty Images / July 4, 2010) |
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But if you read the article, as opposed to the headline, there was no violence related to the actual vote and vote count, it was all during the run-up to the election, and it is unclear whether all of it or any of it was political violence, but rather the daily narco-violence that Mexico is subject to. The headline makes it sound like the elections were a chaotic failure, they weren’t. In fact, the Mexicans managed to weed out their bad apple candidates BEFORE the election, unlike some other nations I might name.
WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! This is all okay. Obama, Napolitano, Reid and Pelosi say this is all okay. What’s the big deal?
Violence and intimidation? So what? That’s LEGAL now in the US!!!