Why is Colin Powell even saying anything about the Ukrainian situation? If we don't want the world sticking its nose in our voting, then we certainly cannot stick our nose in other countries' voting.
That being said, this is just another example in what I see as the future of all vote-based democratic elections which exploded in Florida 2000: the apparent loser immediately claims fraud and throws the election result process into complete chaos. The result will be that neither side believes the results of the count, the recount, or the re-recount and the cries of conspiracy will echo long past when the election is--or should be--over.
Who will be able to say who the winner really is? Will we ever really know? Not until some better system gets developed.
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Everything may be explained by a conspiracy theory. All conspiracy theories are true.
No matter how thinly you slice it, it's still bologna.
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