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@adcock I haven't watched the video yet, but the Election Commission can reject complaints for various reasons, such as lack of evidence, or the number of votes in question are too few to affect the outcome.
I don't know anything about Burma / Myanmar, but the news said they'd previously had a military regime for around 50 years. No matter what the civilian leaders do, it is hard to give up that kind of power.
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@adcock > What they should say is that any military regime is bad
I think what they said works better. They stated reasons why this shouldn’t have happened:
* overwhelming voter support for the winning civilian party.
* electoral commission dismissed military parties’ complaints of cheating (that is, there wasn’t much evidence to support the claims or the number of votes affected wasn’t enough to change the outcome).
* belief that the voters voted for the civilian party because they didn’t want the military running & ruining the country.
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@adcock Related: US threatens sanctions vs Myanmar military regime https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-55722226
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@adcock > I wanted to make the point that just because when a party gets most votes doesn't mean election was fair.
Agreed. In reading about #Belarus last night, I saw that their leader won 80% of the votes in the past two elections, both of which are said to be fraudulent.
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