On or Off Cuba Ping.
Posted on 04/17/2005 10:02:43 PM PDT by freedom44
Havana, April 17 (AIN) President Fidel Castro announced the conclusion of Election Day voting at 6pm Sunday after Cubans went to polls in massive numbers to elect delegates to the country’s 169 municipal governments.
At the beginning of his special televised address Sunday evening, the Cuban leader said that preliminary voting information would be available in the coming hours. He noted that as of 3pm, 92.09 percent of the 8.3 million registered voters had gone to the polls; a figure he said was similar to previous elections.
The large vote is seen on the island as a counterpunch to an official Bush administration document that advocates the overthrow of the Cuban government and the reinstatement of the system prior to the 1959 revolution. Back then, according to Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon, voting was a privilege instead of a right and gangsters allied to the US government decided who would be the candidates.
Fidel Castro initiated his words at the Havana Convention Center with the latest voting information before continuing his analysis and denunciation of the presence in the United States of the notorious international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.
On or Off Cuba Ping.
Well this news should make Jimmy Carter & Senator Dodd very happy
Ole Sad-dam got 99%+, as I recall.
Cuba, I believe, is on our to-do list, right after our urgent problems get resolved.
John Kerry just ran in front of a camera and said "And if only the same number of voters who could fit in Lambert Field changed their votes, I'd be President!"
New meaning to the "Vote or Die" mantra of the left huh?
In other news.... There has been a sudden decrease of about 8% in the population of Cuba...
wow what a coincidence!
Castro needs to work on his popularity then. He's a loser compared to Saddam.
I think Saddam got 99%.
Poor Cubans -- no freedom there.
Period.
Lends new meaning to the leftist liberals cry here of , "vote, or die" in Cuba it is for real.
92.09 Total
92.00 Castro
00.09 Hanging Chads !!! ;-))
A U.S.-made vintage car drives past the Russian Embassy in Havana, April 12, 2005. Little recalls the heyday of Soviet-era ties with Havana in the empty corridors of the massive concrete building that once was teeming with diplomats. Moscow's effort to revive trade with its oldest partner in Latin America have made scant headway, bogged down by Cuba's large debt to the former Soviet Union and persistent Cuban acrimony over the demise of Eastern bloc communism. PICTURE TAKEN APRIL 12 REUTERS/Claudia Daut/FEATURE/CUBA-RUSSIA
Thats funny, I'm also pretty sure she didn't vote this year.
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92 percent voted--or else!
Yes. They just love the supreme leader for life.
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