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In other words: it doesn't matter who is voting, what matters is who is counting the votes.
by Drdrdrq 11y ago
In other words: it doesn't matter who is voting, what matters is who is counting the votes.
- usrusr 11y agoGiven the highly volatile ethnic mix of Kazakhstan and the lurking destabilizing effect of foreign interests longing for abundant mineral resources, a strong majority for stability over freedom is hardly surprising. Nonetheless, 98% seems very much out of this world. But with the "right" mix of fearmongering and early divide-and-conquer intervention when a moderate opposition ist starting to organize? Certainly not unthinkable. There's so much more to a healthy democracy than not miscounting the votes.
- AnAfrican 11y agoI don't know why you're downvoted. I agree a hundred percent. People from stable democracies tends to underestimate how afraid people can be of chaos and how easy it is for some goverment to associate democracy with chaos. When a moderate opposition starts to organize, a non-moderate one (or one that takes advantage of ethnic fault lines) does too.