tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post4469831957061028813..comments2024-03-23T00:46:27.084+02:00Comments on Egyptian Chronicles: #Egyelections : Army and Police to Vote and the debate goes onZeinobiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290387395565291310noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-59081770870940035202013-05-27T12:30:00.023+02:002013-05-27T12:30:00.023+02:00As a foreigner
Bottom line is Egyptians have a lo...As a foreigner<br /><br />Bottom line is Egyptians have a long way to go in learning and practising honesty. This is fundamental in the voting process.<br />Secondly every citizen should be allowed to vote and that includes army police and felons in prisons.<br />All campaigning must stop 48 hours before any election and that must be rigorously upheld and any violations must have swift charges brought against them and punishment as a deterent.<br />Sadly the majority of Egyptians who in fact are Muslims are the most dishonest people I have ever known on every level, every class and every age.<br />I have no idea what is being taught in the mosques of Egypt but it sure as hell isn't Islam.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-89043424172772995732013-05-27T11:58:44.100+02:002013-05-27T11:58:44.100+02:00It is pretty funny to find liberals (like hamzawy ...It is pretty funny to find liberals (like hamzawy or abose'da) defending the the military voting!<br />So we went from down-down-military to yeah-baby-yeah-military!Yousfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-47434676378121264412013-05-27T10:47:37.240+02:002013-05-27T10:47:37.240+02:00Restricting army personel from voting is common on...Restricting army personel from voting is common only (ironically enough) in military dictatorships! Most democracies (stable or not) allow their military personel to vote, because otherwise it would be depriving them of their right as citizens. <br />As for restricting the Police, that is very rare, and so far the only countries I know of that do (or did) that is Egypt and Indonesia!<br /><br />The thing is, there needs to be laws preventing political advertising in police stations and military areas, and strict laws punishing any member of the armed forces or the police who talks about politics or promotes a certain political party in his place of work, or belongs to any political party or view. <br /><br />The only time when the army will be in danger of splitting is if the above laws aren't implemented, and judging by the MBs gameplans in the past, they almost never do what is universally the correct way to do it, they always do their own thing and it always blows up in their faces, and in this case, it might be on purpose. They have by far committed the most violations during the elections by advertising outside of polling stations and pushing people to vote for their candidates inside the stations without any punishment, there is no reason to think they will conduct their campaigns without violations with Police and Army personnel this time either.<br /> <br />The right to VOTE has nothing to do with practicing politics. This is a common misinterpretation of basic civil rights. But we need laws to govern it, and with the MB in charge its difficult to imagine they will implement proper ones.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07742450379237590224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-88075266687458466162013-05-27T09:44:40.700+02:002013-05-27T09:44:40.700+02:00The first two times I voted, I was in the US milit...The first two times I voted, I was in the US military. In the US, active duty military personnel are prohibited by law from participating in any political activities, so campaigning should not be an issue. Troops can't attend political events such as rallies, nor are politicians permitted on military bases to campaign. As far as the actual voting, when I was in we were all issued paper "absentee" ballots to vote by mail based on our home address (rather than our military address). It really was quite easy. They passed the ballots out in the afternoon and anyone who wanted to vote filled them out, put them in the envelope, and walked over to the nearest mailbox (or maildrop) and deposited them. <br /><br />I think it's always been done that way, and the only problems I've ever heard of are politicians trying to get the military votes excluded before they were counted. Al Gore famously tried that in Florida in the 2000 election.<br /><br />Anyway, that process works well, here. Whether that would work in Egypt or whether or not anyone could tamper with the vote if it was done that way in Egypt, you'd probably know better than I.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-75877364466207863922013-05-27T04:17:44.032+02:002013-05-27T04:17:44.032+02:00Every citizen has the right to vote.In America onl...Every citizen has the right to vote.In America only convicted felons lose the right.Misrscribenoreply@blogger.com