President Mugabe’s government has ordered nine million paper ballots for Zimbabwe’s upcoming elections.
Zimbabwe has 5.9 million voters.
They also ordered 600,000 mail-in ballots, to make sure that the country’s few thousand civil servants serving abroad aren’t disenfranchised.
I’m sure they’re just trying to have enough spare ballots on hand, just in case somebody mis-marks theirs, like by not checking off the box next to MUGABE.
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March 24, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Zimbabwe’s voting ballots look something like this:
( ) I vote for Mugabe
( ) I do not vote for Mugabe *
* If you have checked this box, please write your home address and names of immediate relatives (wife, children, parents) in the space provided below for follow-up.
How does the T-shirt go … “Come to Rhodesia to see the ruins of Zimbabwe. Come to Zimbabwe to see Rhodesia ruined.”
March 25, 2008 at 10:01 am
[...] sure it was done to ensure that there’s no room for misunderstanding. I’m sure the extras are just to make sure there are blanks in case someone accidentally [...]