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Latin America

Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts) Sun May 25, 2014, 05:50 PM May 2014

Runoff election for Colombia

results on home page of http://www.eltiempo.com/

74% voting stations in. Zuluaga 28.79% Santos 25.74%

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Runoff election for Colombia (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 May 2014 OP

Here's one thing i don't get Marksman_91 May 2014 #1

Remember what Stalin said: COLGATE4 May 2014 #2

Marksman_91

(2,035 posts)

1. Here's one thing i don't get

Reply to Bacchus4.0 (Original post)

Sun May 25, 2014, 07:04 PM

May 2014

Colombia has a much higher number of voters than Venezuela, and doesn't enjoy the supposed "best electoral system" on the planet, which happens to be electronic and automized, and yet in Colombia the results are announced only a couple of hours (and even at that they give periodic bulletins showing the tendency as more votes are counted) after the polls close, while in Venezuela the results are often announced by the CNE at late hours in the night, some times even close to midnight. Really makes you wonder...

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)

2. Remember what Stalin said:

Reply to Marksman_91 (Reply #1)

Mon May 26, 2014, 01:48 AM

May 2014

"it's not who votes that counts. It's who counts the votes".

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