Posted on 08/20/2009 11:13:28 PM PDT by myknowledge
It was supposed to be the simplest and most effective defence against election fraud, but the supposedly indelible ink daubed on every Afghan voter’s index finger seems to have caused more problems than it solved yesterday.
Many people said they were too scared to vote because the Taleban had threatened to cut off voters’ ink-stained digits.
Two voters in the southern province of Kandahar were reported to have been hanged by militants who spotted their blackened fingertips.
Other Afghans -- including at least two presidential candidates -- complained that the ink at some polling stations came off too easily, allowing people to vote more than once as many did at the last presidential election in 2004.
At some polling stations in Kabul, voters were seen experimenting with various cleaning fluids, ranging from washing up liquid to industrial bleach with varying degrees of success.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
If you were an Afghan voter, you would want to vote again.
Obama’s fault.
We should ink here, and eliminate “lifetime” absentee ballots while we’re at it...
thugocracy for ya
And... could the skin be pre-treated with something to make the ink release easily? Like a silicone?
I remember leftists in this country planning Al Queda’s next move of cutting off ink stained fingers of democratic voters, those rotten stinking pieces of filth that should be deported.
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