It seems that right wing parties across the English speaking world are trying to lower voter turn out. The Repugs in the US are notorious and the Tories running a November election with no useful information available looks tactically equivalent. There have also been widespread but unproved allegations about the Conservatives in the last Canadian federal election. They are accused of using robo-calling to direct people to the wrong polling stations.
I think maybe now the Cold war is over the Right doesn't see the need for democracy as an anti-communist tactic.
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Date: 2012-11-18 04:43 pm (UTC)I think maybe now the Cold war is over the Right doesn't see the need for democracy as an anti-communist tactic.