A film smuggled out of the country shows Zimbabwean vote-rigging in process. In the film, a Mugabe crony watches carefully as people prepare their postal ballot.
There’s a lesson for us here as well. The secret ballot is the fundamental instrument of democracy, and the moves to vote-by-mail in several states endanger it. Absentee ballots are already the tool of choice for election fraud in the United States.
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