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To: Tamodaleko; kosta50
as you well know the Electoral Commission had representatives from every party.

If you'd bother to do some statistical checks on the 12 year history of Serbian elections you'd see that SPS-SRS support has been pretty consistent at some 1.3mm votes both before and after Oct 2000, so your charge that the Electoral Commission committed fraud prior to DOS coming to power is statistically unsound, however what did change was a dramatic increase in anti-SPS votes, espcially in Oct 2000..........

Belgrade has been a long standing anti-SPS region for quite some time........it is therefore safe to infer that the 120,000 fraudulant voters registered on the Belgrade rolls voted for anti-SPS candidates in Oct 2000.......

your charges of SPS voter fraud seem to be based on the premise "all my friends are anti-SPS, therefore everyone MUST be anti-SPS"

68 posted on 10/15/2002 2:32:28 PM PDT by vooch
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To: vooch
>>>>>your charges of SPS voter fraud seem to be based on the premise "all my friends are anti-SPS, therefore everyone MUST be anti-SPS"<<<<<

Works in Hague
69 posted on 10/15/2002 3:21:55 PM PDT by Tamodaleko
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To: vooch; Tamodaleko; Banat
Political maneuvering in order to win, or to hold on to power, is commonplace among politicians anywhere, and not something eclusively Serbian, Socialist, etc. Voter fruad charges have been plentiful in the last US elections and the 2-month haggling over "hanging chads" in Florida make everyone sick. Charges and counter-charges were flying left and right.

I think Banat's observation that -- exclusing Kosovo -- Serbia has only just over 7 million people, it is unreasonable to claim 6.5 million registered voters (that would be about 90% of the population!). Counting Albanians as "registered voters" is ridiculous. They have foresaken their right to vote by boycotts.

Now we are looking at an enigma as to how many voters could vote to begin with, and then there are some 120,000 non-existent voters in Belgrade, and so on. I think DSS has a legal basis for inquiry.

Tamodaleko, you are perpetuating a popular but unreasonable and naive myth that only Socialist bogeyman, Miloshevich, was cpabale of fraud and that -- by extension -- he is responsable or even guilty for everything that went wrong.

As for Djindjich being "Miloshevich's minnie me," he certainly seems to like controlling the media as much as his "bigger me."

The prevailing mindset in the Balkans is that the government is there to "rule," not to serve. That transcends the left as well as the right, and everyone inbetween.

70 posted on 10/15/2002 8:41:50 PM PDT by kosta50
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