Church vows to exorcise 'demons of electoral fraud'

[dArKeR]

As candidates in Cameroon square up to each other for presidential elections in October, the Catholic Church is doing its best to ensure that the poll will not be an occasion for "politics as usual" in the West African country.

“We’re going to shine a spotlight on the need for free and transparent elections in order to catch the attention of political decision makers, especially those in power . No one should be able to say to the winner that he stole the election,” Joseph Tonye Bakot, the Archbishop of Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde, told the press recently.

Since the return of multiparty politics to Cameroon in 1991, there have been serious irregularities in the elections (one municipal and legislative, two presidential) that have been held in the country.

According to several NGOs that monitored the polls, vote-rigging tactics included the use of fictitious voter lists, secret polling booths, stuffed ballot boxes and false voter registration cards.

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=67598

Why didn't the Church step in and stop the GOP Fraud in Florida and the Supreme Court?

[sundancekid]

1. OMG, maybe "WE ARE THE THIRD WOLRD COUNTRY" ...

... who turn out to need the supervision of elections after all!!!!

Where is that same church in our country? More hypocrasy? Are those church leaders limited to threatening to deny the Eucharistic sacrament to pro-choice believers (unlike the Christ who invited and served even Judas at His Last Supper)?