Posted on 10/11/2021 11:12:32 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Chaotic scenes and embarrassing irregularities at Berlin’s ballot stations at last month’s general election have shaken confidence in Germany’s election system, while providing ammunition for the many people who question the German capital’s bureaucratic efficiency. On Thursday, October 14, final election results will be published, giving the green light for what is expected to be several legal challenges.
On September 26, Berlin held elections at federal, state and local council levels, as well as a referendum on socializing major housing companies. This saw many voters in the German capital waiting for hours at voting stations as election volunteers ran out of ballot papers, or ballot papers were delivered to the wrong districts.
The trouble had been predictable, given the simultaneous elections (voters often spent several minutes in their booths sifting through five different ballot papers), and yet voting stations seemed unprepared, forced into ad hoc measures to ease the impasse. Extra booths were set up, while new ballots were sent for from other voting stations — only for couriers to find their paths blocked by the international marathon that Berlin authorities allowed to go ahead on election day.
The confusion appeared to lead to several violations of electoral rules: There were reports that volunteers offered to allow people in if they didn’t mind only voting in the federal elections, or even turned voters away though they were in line at the cutoff time of 6 p.m., when stations officially closed.
There have been no serious allegations of deliberate rigging, but confidence in the system has been shaken. …
(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...
Are there anymore fair elections anymore? It seems that “mistakes” are way too common and always in the same direction no matter what country.
Wow. My grammar anymore was awesome anymore....
I will go sit in the dunce corner with my pointy hat.
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Manufactured confusion, the model being used by the U.S. Dims merely employing different methods and means.
Never mind that “any more” is still two words 😉
I need to sit in too corners now....
Yes, “too” was intentional.
Wow. Confusion and incompetency during an election, and the result is that the Social Democrat Party and the Green Party win enough votes to form a coalition government.
Color me shocked.
All part of the Great Reset: electoral corruption, forced demographic change, control of energy, and managed economic collapse. The idea, I suspect, is that by the time a society recognized it, it will be too late to stop.
“Recognizes.” Dang it, now I’m doing it.
Seems like the advent of AI without the requisite ethical imperatives of (or even lip service to) Christian morality is in the process of undermining the entire concept of democracy. An atheistic populace led by leaders completely unconstrained by morals can not sustain a free republic.
Relax, ... it’s hard to type with a finger stuck in a dike.
It’s interesting that German media, even German state media, actually bothers to cover things like this.
Since one of the goals of the communists was a “democratic constitution” (per “The Principles of Communism”), the difference between a democracy and a free republic is quite stark.
The dictionary doesn’t recognize the distinction as exclusive anymore for ‘anymore’ adverbs.
From the Cambridge dictionary:
“Especially in American English, any more, as an adverb, can be written as one word, anymore:
He doesn’t cycle anymore.”
I do wonder if Mr. Knight’s going to get a stern talking-to.
anymore | ˌenēˈmôr | (also any more) adverb [usually with negative or in questions] to any further extent; any longer: she refused to listen anymore | you don't get men like him anymore.And yet it shows up in my dictionary.
Looks like they’re excusing the typos of debased US media screedwriters here, particularly by accusing the error of being an Americanism. Neologistic inflections exchanged for past inflections? (e.g. “forasmuch” for “for as much”, “inasmuch”, et al.)
Lots of bad grammar shows up in dictionaries these days. You probably have back-formations like “surveil” (from “surveillance”, instead of “survey”), and “trial” and “gift” as verbs listed too.
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