Posted on 09/11/2016 5:29:22 AM PDT by brucedickinson
An embarrassing postponement of Austria's high-stakes October 2 presidential election looked all but inevitable Saturday, because of technical problems involving glue failing to stick on postal votes.
The last election result from May was annulled after Austria's highest court upheld claims of procedural irregularities made by the narrowly-defeated far-right.
This necessitated fresh elections but this time there appear to be problems with glue on postal votes not sticking, making them invalid.
On Saturday independent ecologist Alexander Van der Bellen joined his rival in the vote, Norbert Hofer from the far-right, in saying he now expects a postponement.
"I don't believe that October 2 is possible any more," Van der Bellen, 72, told a news conference. "I hope that (the new election) can still take place this year."
Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka meanwhile made his clearest indication yet of a postponement, saying that "it does not look like" the problems can be resolved in time.
He is due to make an announcement on Monday.
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"I don't believe that October 2 is possible any more," Van der Bellen, 72, told a news conference. "I hope that (the new election) can still take place this year." But they may not... because the glue on the same postal votes that were used to rig the last election is "no longer sticking."
Expect nonsense like this here in the US soon- postal glue, voting machines not polished to lustre, moon out of alignment etc.
How can such grotesque incompetence be permitted in a so-called “modern” society??? Is Austria officially joining the Turd World?
Theyll put it off til after the US election. They expect the US to be the leader. They will adjust accordingly.
The left will do the same thing here if Hitlery is projected to lose . ‘Postpone’ the election. Obama president for life.
Such a signed order would be an Obama death warrant.
He has destroyed the military and removed it’s least conforming general officers. What is left will be used to fight the civil war.
Or not. But I see this as the directions he has been heading since 2009.
Vaquero:
You and I, our marshaled 1911’s, ARs and shotguns will be used to fight that war when it comes.
It seems likely, no?
Be vigilant, compadre and, in true Texan style,
!MOLON LABE!
Words and thoughts fail!
GLUE failure?
Just imagine 78 years ago and the proposed March 1938 Anschluss plebiscite vote with such a failure. “So sorry, Chancellor Hitler, but we will need to delay this to get better glue!”
Anyone care to think about what the response would have been? Since that planned plebiscite was actually superseded by the German troops ‘invading’ without resistance, the results were the same except that people now embarrassed would have been people then (probably) DEAD!
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