"Group claims fraud in presidential vote
MONROVIA- A group of Liberian opposition parties said yesterday that they are pulling out of a recent presidential election and threatened to refuse the results over allegations that election officials are skewing the outcome in favor of the president. The statement was signed by eight parties, including those of second-place Winston Tubman and third-place Prince Johnson. The latest partial results gave President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf a narrow lead (AP)."
Is there an honest election anywhere in the world?
"Clash leaves 1 dead on eve of Liberia’s presidential runoff; Opposition leader continues push for boycott of election" November 08, 2011|By Jonathan Paye-Layleh, Associated Press
MONROVIA, Liberia - Violence broke out at opposition headquarters yesterday, leaving at least one person dead hours before Liberia’s presidential runoff, a vote that tests the West African nation’s fragile peace after a devastating civil war.
Despite sharp criticism from the United States, the UN, and election monitors, opposition leader Winston Tubman kept urging supporters to boycott today’s runoff....
Tubman is trailing in the polls by more than 10 points and the boycott is seen by many as an effort to tarnish the election in the face of his likely defeat. The move will not stop incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, from winning, but it could undercut her victory.
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Worse, it would also cast doubt on an election that was supposed to solidify the nation’s peace, just eight years after Liberia emerged from a horrific 14-year civil war that left its rolling hills and towering forests dotted with mass graves.
The 73-year-old Sirleaf made history in 2005 when she became Africa’s first elected female president and again last month when she received the Peace Prize for her role in stabilizing the country after a 2003 cease-fire.
The Harvard-trained economist is credited with luring hundreds of millions of donor dollars to her destroyed nation and getting $5 billion of its external debt wiped clean.
Another globalist tool running an African nation. You have seen what happens (Libya) to those that are not.
Her critics, however, note that two out of every three Liberians still live in dire poverty and the country remains one of the least developed on the planet, according to World Bank and UN statistics.
Sure looks like a Harvard program.
Corruption and cronyism continue to erode institutions, and Tubman and running mate George Weah, a former soccer superstar, have complained that the country’s electoral process was stacked in Sirleaf’s favor....
The head of the Carter Center’s observation mission in Liberia, Alexander Bick, said his staff had traveled to all 15 counties in the Tennessee-sized nation and while small irregularities were noted, there was no evidence of systematic fraud.
Oh, well, if Carter signed off on it.... sigh.
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"Boycott undermines Liberian election" November 11, 2011|By Associated Press
MONROVIA, Liberia - Africa’s first and only female president handily won reelection yesterday with 90.2 percent of the vote, but her victory has been rendered hollow and her government may struggle to prove its legitimacy because the opposition boycotted the poll.
Hours before the results were announced in an election that was supposed to solidify Liberia’s shaky peace, opposition leader Winston Tubman said he would not accept the outcome of this week’s presidential runoff....
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Haven't seen anything since.
Also see: Former Liberian Leader in Limbo
Late to Liberia
I'm sorry.
