Vox Lucens

This week I finished up a fascinating book on international human rights, which I read for my Senior Seminar Paper. It discussed a number of world situations–hopefully I’ll blog more about those later, in book review fashion–and really focused in the last chapters on the potential tensions between promoting human rights and promoting democracy.

I found a news story today that made me think that the author missed an important detail, though. Those of you that follow international news know that East Timor, a hotspot of rights violations for decades, held elections recently. Here are the results, as posited by asianews.it:

With 90% of votes counted, the outgoing premier has won 753% of votes cast…

And THAT is the problem with international elections.

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