Article: North Korea voting results

With no one else on the ballot, state media reported Monday that supreme leader Kim Jong Un was not only elected to the highest legislative body in North Korea, he won with the unanimous approval of his district, which had 100 percent turnout.

North Koreans went to the polls on Sunday to approve the new roster of deputies for the Supreme People's Assembly, the country's legislature. The vote, more a political ritual than an election by Western standards, is generally held once every five years.
 
malemies probably sent him flowers and a box of chocolates to congratulate him
 
To think this kind of crazy was widespread in Europe not so long ago

Voting in East Germany was relatively simple. To vote yes, a voter simply took the ballot paper, which contained only one name—that of the approved candidate—and dropped it into the voting box. A voter could vote against the candidate by crossing out his or her name, but had to do so in a separate voting booth without any secrecy. The consequences for such an act of defiance were severe—loss of one's job or expulsion from school, and close surveillance by the Stasi
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ISP cash cow said:
You say it was widespread in Europe.

What other countries were doing it "not so long ago" besides communist East Germany?
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you don't think the same sham elections took place in all the other communist block countries in Europe like say Romania :erm:

According to the official results of the March 9, 1980, election, which elected 369 deputies, 99.99% of the registered voters cast their votes. Of them, 98.52% voted for the official candidates, 1.48% voted against and just 44 votes were declared invalid.
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Alan said:
you don't think the same sham elections took place in all the other communist block countries in Europe like say Romania :erm:
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Then the common factor is communism .. rather dishonest of you to imply Europe.
Agenda much?
 
evilstebunny said:
Then the common factor is communism .. rather dishonest of you to imply Europe.
Agenda much?
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yeah Portugal, Spain, Greece all communist .....

Strange seems I've offended some PC sensibility here by pointing out dictatorships in Europe's recent past.
 
I like that it's 100% not even 99.9%
They don't want to make people think it's even possible someone didn't want to vote for Kim, yet 100%
is a physical impossiblity.
 
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