If we rig now, what will happen next year?

Dec 15, 2005

SIR — I had travelled to my home village Kanoni in the new district of Kiruhura (President Museveni’s district) to see my ailing mother when the NRM primaries for district Woman MP were held on Wednesday, November 30.

SIR — I had travelled to my home village Kanoni in the new district of Kiruhura (President Museveni’s district) to see my ailing mother when the NRM primaries for district Woman MP were held on Wednesday, November 30.
I am not an NRM supporter but I decided to go and see how the polls were faring. What I saw was total chaos.
At the station there was no voter register and some people voted more than once and openly boasted about it.
Others had bundles of ballot papers which (we were told) had been distributed the previous night by agents of one of the candidates.
By 2:00pm, the agents of the other candidate had been overwhelmed by the chiefs and intelligence officers and had to abandon the station. Then ballot box stuffing continued unabated and openly, to the disbelief of the general public who were looking on.
After counting, the total votes cast exceeded the number of estimated voters (electoral college) in the Gombolola.
If the NRM can cheat its people, what will happen to us in the other parties next year?

John Mugisha
Kampala

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