Ethan Zuckerman's musings on Africa, international development a - Wed, 01/07/2009 - 6:00pm
There are countless ways to screw up a fragile democracy. Two aspects of the democratic process seem to be especially vulnerable - elections, and term limits. Recent events in Iran have reminded us that elections are surprisingly easy to rig if you’ve got adequate control of electoral commissions. (Ideally, you should never need to rig [...]