I am becoming very concerned about the electoral process in Ghana. With 207 results declared, John Ata Mills has a lead of 200,000 votes, but in the first round Nana Akuffo Addo had a majority of 170,000 in the constituencies yet to declare – and has been substantially increasing his lead in his strongholds in the second round, while falling back elsewhere.
I hve already mentioned the extraordinary leaps in the NDC vote since the first round in some Volta constituencies. And now we have this extraordinary result declared:
Evalue Gwira (Central Region)
Nana Akuffo Addo 10,818 (minus 36,182 on first round)
John Atta Mills 9,094 (minus 5,906 on first round).
Elsewhere we have the extraordinary appearance of 50% more NDC voters in just three weeks. Here we have the disappearance of 75% of NPP voters in the same period.
In my book The Catholic Orangemen of Togo I introduce the concept of the margin of cheating.. There is regrettably cheating in elections in every country in the World. The problem becomes acute where the amount of cheating exceeds the margin of victory. That is the suspicion which will always hang over the Bush election win in 2000. It looks like this Ghanaian election is going to be won by a figure within the margin of cheating.
Incidentally, in Blackburn where I stod against Jack Straw in the last general election, almost a third of votes were cast by postal ballot – three times the national average. The postal ballots favoured Jack Straw by a margin far higher than the “normal” ballots. I would estimate that Labout boosted its vote by cheating in Blackburn by some 20%.
"Election fraud reaches new low"
05/05/2005…
http://tinyurl.com/7rgbbo
"POLICE CONFIRM FRAUD AFFECTED ELECTION"…
http://tinyurl.com/7qwfmq
"major dirty tricks operation" during the general election"…
http://tinyurl.com/8vtrej
Even the names of the four Ministries by which we are governed exhibit a sort of impudence in their deliberate reversal of the facts.
The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation.
These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy; they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.
For it is only by reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely.
In no other way could the ancient cycle be broken.
If human equality is to be for ever averted ?" if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently ?" then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.
George Orwell 1984
Are you sure Blackburn post was 3x the national average? According to http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/str… the number of registered voters trippled from 7 to 20 thousand since 2001, but the same article suggests this is in line with the national average of 15%
above link anchor style.
"McCain HQ in office of Election Rigger! Greg Palast"…
http://tinyurl.com/76xups
Tom.
I asked the Electoral Commission at the time I wrote Murder in Samarkand and was told the national average was about 11.6%.
"FREAKING OUT THE WHITE HOUSE"…
http://tinyurl.com/8rp57o
I wonder if Rove will end up having an accident?.
I find your submission very skewed. You see in our part of the world we read very closely between the lines.
I have not seen any mention of the percent increase in Ashanti Region. I have one for your consideration. Bantama Constituency- an increase of 22,000