Election Day

[chuckaloonie]

I'm so dissapointed and angry. I still can't believe that Rodrigo Medina is going to be our next governor.

How can people vote for someone without bothering to do any kind of research whatsoever? How is it possible that they're willing to sell their vote for some pocket change? It's the future of our state we're talking about!
We had an incredibly competent candidate, who's not as corrupted as most of our politicians; but they had to go and vote for the one who has links with drug cartels.

So now we're back to living in fear; back to be afraid to have a nice car, or wear nice clothes because we may become a target for the kidnappers. The owners of small business will have to keep on paying the cartels a weekly fee (or face possible death if they don't). I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE IT.

All we can do now is pray for our familie's safety. God help us.

Comments

[killerxshark.livejournal.com]

jesus. i'm sorry you have to go through that - it sickens me that people have to live in fear that way, and that some people are so desperate for power and don't care if anyone is hurt as a result.
can there be a large protest or petition or something? or is it like the states where even though they say the people voted, it's really the sneaky fuckers on the inside who decide who gets in. :(
i hope that you will be safe and well. <3

[chuckaloonie.livejournal.com]

This is Mexico, so the corruption is 10 times worse than in the US. People from the political parties go to the poor neighborhoods and offer the people 200 pesos (about 17 american dollars) for their vote. What they do is called "carruselazo" and it works like this: they give you a sheet with the vote already marked, and you hide that in your purse or your pant pocket, and then you go to vote and you get a blank sheet like everybody else. You have to submit the sheet they gave you, and then give the blank sheet to the people that paid you. This way they make sure that they´re getting a vote for their money, because sometimes people just took the money but voted for somebody else. So they get a blank sheet, which they mark with a vote for their party and give it to someone else, who in exchange will give them another blank sheet, and so on and so forth.
They also buy the sheets from the people who didn´t vote, which in this election was 43% of the registered voters.

I hope it wasn´t too confusing... the bottom line is: they are fucking criminals, and they´re the one who´ll be running the state.

[killerxshark.livejournal.com]

i can't believe people actually sit there and come up with shit like that. like, what kind of fucking time do you have on your hands to actually devise a plan like that and EXECUTE IT. how can you do that to people? why is everyone so mean :(