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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">"The people who submit the votes decide nothing.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">The people who count the votes decide eveything...." (Stalin)</SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">All over the world, parliamentary systems are being emptied of their democratic content by changes in the electoral system, removal of powers from elected institutions and their handing over to the technocrats of the European Commission, the World Trade Organisation and other standard-bearers of neo-liberalism, and the weakening or removal of civil rights in the name of a bogus “War on terrorism”. The most blatant attacks on democracy have, however, been in the United States, with the latest involving the introduction of a computerised voting system which is laughably easy to rig and virtually impossible to monitor. As Alfred Mendes reports, this has a long and dishonourable history in American politics.<?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O /><O:P></O:P></SPAN></B></P>
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