More shenanigans it looks like:
– خلت الدائرة الرابعة ÙÂيالمØÂاÙÂظة الوسطى منبطاقات التصويت قبل منتص٠النهار ونتج عنذلك توق٠لعملية التصويت.
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– ÙÂيالدائرة الثامنة ÙÂيالمØÂاÙÂظة الوسطى لم يتم ÙÂØÂص هوية المنقبات ÙˆÙÂÙ‚ الآلية الجاريالعمل بها.
The Bahrain Human Rights Society and the Transparency Society have published their findings regarding the elections, I’ve highlighted two points from several they have noted which are of interest, all their points raised are interesting of course and should be taken seriously by the government to implement for the run-offs and for future elections and referenda.
Why did I highlight these specifically? Because the first instance has a direct impact on the results of the contentious results of Dr. Munira Fakhro’s constituency where the report says that the voting centre ran out of ballots by mid-day! I’m sure they got more ultimately, but if the number of voters in a constituency are already known, wouldn’t you think that they will provide the exact number of ballots required?
The second instance is even more damaging, they allowed fully covered women to vote without ascertaining their true identity by matching their faces with that of the picture in their passports. That raises several questions, the most important of which is that there is no way for us to know that the person voting is the actual person who is supposed to vote, hence that gives rise to stories of buying votes by collecting passports, donning a ninja outfit, and repeatedly go and cast your vote using different passports all the time for the candidate that has paid the highest.
Are these infringements serious enough to re-call the elections in those districts?
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… AND approx 1,500 votes were cast outside the constituency at general polling stations so had these voters voted in the constituency the situation would have been even worse.
General polling station results should be counted and declared first – so as to prevent the charge that they are ‘allocated’ where necessary…..
What is this (Salah Ali) guy a doctor in, by the way?
No its not yet (technically)… its up to constituents to vote for candidates that have platforms that say this should not happen to ensure this becomes law before we go around cancelling votes over it… as much as I hate the idea that someone may have gotten elected over this sort of bullshit, procedures need to go through to ensure that the public demands this from their representatives and it is law, before it can substantially legitimize a recall.
to clarify… refering to the second incident primarily.
I agree with moclippa that it is not necessarily enough to re-call elections, but it is up to sites like Mahmood’s to ensure that the general public is aware of these problems. With luck, the blogosphere will effect change in areas like this.
This is off-topic but it also has a bit of relevance to the subject at hand :
I got this in e-mail today.
clicky!
I personally lol’d.
Lenin,
Dr. Salah Ali is a family physician