The West’s Romance With Elections Is Dead… the Rules-Based Order Killed It

Aletho News ^ | 12/20/2022 | Eve Ottenberg

[Beave Meister]

It’s been a bad few months for democracy. Election results offensive to the European Union were annulled in Romania; an attempted coup occurred in Georgia over elections that didn’t go the way the west wanted; the French government, widely hated, teetered over the abyss as president Emmanual Macron tried to ignore the last election; on December 16, Washington’s pet German government fell; lots of funny-business happened in the Moldovan referendum and election, amid widespread disenfranchisement of Moldovan voters living in Russia; elections were long ago cancelled in dictatorial Ukraine; and South Korea hosted an attempted coup. In short, western democracies’ storied enchantment with elections is over. As western populations grow sick and tired of their political class and vote against it, what are elites to do? Annul, cancel, overturn and ignore the elections, that’s what. The problem, for the west, is the voters.

What will happen if far-right Alternative for Deutschland sweeps the early German elections in February, or if far-left France Insoumise does the same in France? Will the U.S. through its NATO and EU tentacles annul those votes? Don’t think it won’t try. And Washington doesn’t even have to give the order, because its European puppets know exactly what’s expected of them. Granted, the Romanian front-runner, so feared by NATO, Calin Georgescu, was far right. But so what? Besides, I doubt that’s what led to the constitutional court vacating the vote. More likely it was his opposition to the Ukraine War – hence the court citing “foreign influence” (translation: Russian) via TikTok as its flimsy basis for negating the election. Incidentally, reports are coming in that the heat and internet to Georgescu’s house have been cut off, and, surprise! he can’t get anyone on the phone to help with this.

[BroJoeK]

House Atreides: "For sure the ruling elite globalists will try that.
They are ALREADY DOING THAT IN THE NATION OF GEORGIA because they didn’t like the (anti-EU) result of that election and Georgia’s new ELECTORAL COLLEGE system of choosing their president."

Massive daily protests in Georgia
reaching hundreds of thousands since elections in late October 2024:

There is a long list of problems with the country of Georgia's recent elections, including:

1. Government control -- provisions of new laws that allow greater government control over the Central Election Commission (CEC) and other election bodies.

2. Registration limits -- new regulations make it more difficult for ethnic minorities and rural populations to register to vote.

3. Media restricted -- limits on independent media reports about election-related issues.

4. International observers -- reduced ability of international observers to monitor & confirm elections.

   The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) reported:

5. Parliamentary elections in Georgia passed with "massive violations" that undermined public confidence and violated the country's international obligations.

6. Violations of voting secrecy -- instances where the secrecy of the vote was compromised, affecting voter privacy

7. Intimidation and pressure on voters -- reports of voters being intimidated or pressured.

   Edison Research reported:

   

8. Exit polls showed the ruling Georgian Dream party received only 41% of the vote, while the official results showed 54%.
   Edison Research stated that the 13-point difference could not be explained by normal variation alone and suggested local-level manipulation

   HarrisX reported:

9. Exit polling showed official results were "statistically impossible," with significant deviations from expected results, particularly in rural areas where Georgian Dream reportedly received up to 90% of the vote.

   Polls in Georgia show:

10. 79% of Georgians favor EU membership

11. 85% of Georgians favor EU membership

To me these all sound very similar to the US 2020 election, where there were many complaints, but none that resulted in significant overturns of results.

Georgia on my mind...