Buying Votes - Syndicate of Engineers Elections (updated)

Posted by finkployd in Only in Lebanon
Sunday, April 6. 2008

so i got into a cab in the usa
said hello to the driver
who turned out to be lebanese

mid conversation he tells me he's heading down to lebanon soon
so i ask him, what's the occasion? family? business? que?
he responds with a, "i'm ashamed to say"
so i say, "do tell"

his response, "a politician bought me a ticket to go down for 3 days to vote in the na2abit el mhandsin elections"

he even offered to hook me up! problem is, once you're on the list you can never get off (kinda like hotel california's no checkout policy) funny thing is that the same policy applies to lebanese girls turned one-time prostitutes for a quick break (need money urgently or desperately) who find themselves being called up for duty until their glory days are over (you can't get off the list)

update - April 7 2008:
a friend of mine from saida just called me up to reaffirm the above anecdote. she said it's been going on for a while, with full planes chartered for that particular purpose...
oh and they are offering to pay for your registration in the syndicate (~1000$)

tags: corruption, vote rigging, buying votes, lebanese elections, syndicate of engineers, usa, america, politician, minister, parliament, lebanon, beirut, april 2008, saad, taxi, prostitute, prostitution, saida

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i dont think hariri is soo desperate that he would pay people on the other side of the globe to come to lebanon for 3 days for a vote. I live and travel extensively in the Gulf region and meet countless lebanese. Hardly anyone is going from here, and it's only 3 hour flight... i question the integrity of ur story

#1 sam on 2008-04-06 17:56 (Reply)

this is not presented as anything more than an anecdote of absurd happenstance. don't read too much into it.

#1.1 finkployd on 2008-04-06 18:02 (Reply)

The cab driver is full of sh...........

#2 Zman on 2008-04-06 18:56 (Reply)

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