Appello all’OSCE
In Sicilia non esistono le condizioni minime che consentano elezioni libere.Affermo ciò alla luce di quanto successo alle elezioni comunali di Palermo del 2007 (documentato da filmati e argomento di una interpellanza parlamentare) e alle elezioni politiche del 2006.
Gran parte del territorio siciliano è controllato dalla criminalità organizzata e numerosi sono i casi di politici e amministratori collusi. Comitati d’affari fatti di imprenditori, politici e mafiosi tengono strettamente in pugno il potere.
Una non democrazia non può consentire che elezioni libere possano cacciarla via. Pertanto, utilizza ogni mezzo possibile per controllare il voto.
Alle scorse elezioni comunali, secondo l’interpellanza parlamentare, si sono registrate numerose gravissime irregolarità, prima, durante e dopo il voto.
Alcune di esse:
- al momento dell’insediamento dei seggi la domenica mattina, i plichi di schede risultavano aperti in molte sezioni e nella quasi totalità di tali casi da una a 100 schede risultavano mancanti. Ciò è gravissimo perché le schede mancanti possono essere utilizzate per far votare fuori dai seggi secondo le proprie indicazioni e sotto lo stretto controllo di uomini di Cosa nostra;
- in alcune sezioni sono stati rinvenuti nell’urna e regolarmente spogliati pacchetti anche di 160 schede che risulterebbero tutte votate dalla stessa mano e con la stessa grafia, in favore del medesimo candidato, e per di più con matite non corrispondenti a quelle copiative in dotazione ai seggi;
- in alcune ore (soprattutto la mattina presto) si è registrata una formale elevatissima affluenza di elettori che non appare sia stata corrispondente a un effettivo sovraffollamento dei seggi;
- diversi elettori sarebbero stati sorpresi all’interno delle cabine di voto intenti a fotografare la propria scheda con telefonini;
Maggiori dettagli sulle irregolarità possono essere letti qui.
Inoltre, è assai probabile che scrutatori poco ligi al dovere abbiano votato le schede bianche per i partiti e i candidati che sono stati loro segnalati da Cosa nostra, sia alle Comunali del 2007 sia alle Politiche del 2006.
Peraltro, la scelta degli scrutatori, a seguito di una scriteriata legge approvata alcuni anni fa dal centrodestra, non avviene più per sorteggio ma per nomina. In Sicilia, gli scrutatori sono nominati da una commissione presieduta da un dirigente del partito Udc, lo stesso partito dell’ex presidente della Regione Salvatore Cuffaro e di molti altri politici dalle frequentazioni ambigue, molti dei quali arrestati o indagati per mafia.
Il rischio di trovarsi intere sezioni elettorali controllate da uomini di partito è molto serio. Il rischio che il voto di queste sezioni elettorali sia completamente falsato a favore dello stesso partito è altissimo.
A seguito di tutto ciò, in quanto libero cittadino, ritengo indispensabile che le prossime elezioni regionali siano monitorate dall’OSCE e pertanto chiedo l’invio degli osservatori.
Ma se io volessi controllare che nel mio comune non ci siano brogli che devo fare?
puoi proporti come rappresentante di lista.
Mandaci una mail a info@soniapresidente.net con la tua disponibilita’, la citta’ e i tuoi contatti
questa è la traduzione dell’appello in inglese
In Sicily there are not the normal conditions for free elections.
I state this in the light of what occurred at the last council elections in Palermo, in 2007 (documented by videos and now a matter of a parliamentary inquiry) and at the general elections in 2006.
In Sicily, organised crime networks have a great influence on voters, and it has been demonstrated many a time that some politicians and administrators have made secret and illicit agreements for illegal purposes. Business committees, made up of businessmen, politicians and people colluded with mafia, hold the power tightly.
This no-democracy will provide no assurance about really free elections, since it uses any possible means to control the vote.
According to the parliamentary inquiry, in the 2007 council elections several severe irregularities have been registered, before, during and after the elections.
Here are some of them
Before the elections
In many cases the ballot papers have been certified and counted only by the chief electoral officer in the absence of the scrutineers before the inauguration of the polling station. In particular, it has been recorded that the chief electoral officers were summoned by the council offices to be entrusted with the polling papers on Saturday 12th May at 6 PM, while the scrutineers were summoned only on Sunday 13th May at 6 AM. The DIGOS (Italian general investigative and special operation division) found out that some of the chief officers were counting and stamping the ballot papers in the total absence of any other people. However, the DIGOS was not able to control all the polling stations because of the scarce number of officers on duty. This circumstance casts a light on the fact, as records reported, that at the moment of the inauguration of the polling stations on Sunday morning when the parcels containing the ballots were open, in almost every section from one to 100 ballots were missing.
During the election
According to what the press reported, the DIGOS found out that ballots regularly certified but not marked were found outside the polling stations.
In the ballot box of a few polling stations, a number of ballots up to 160 seemed to be marked by the same hand and with the same handwriting, in favour of the same candidate. Moreover, those votes have been cast by using felt-tip pens, which are not of the same kind as the ones supplied by law at the polling stations. All the ballots were regularly counted.
On early Sunday morning it was recorded a high voters affluence which did not seem to correspond to an actual overcrowding; in many cases the voters who went to cast their vote observed that identity card details had already been recorded next to their names, as if somebody had already voted in their stead (on this point, it would be useful to remind that in the past months, as the Registry office -run by the same manager of the Electoral Office- has reported, hundreds of blank identity cards had been stolen) .
In several polling stations there was an abnormal affluence of professed illiterates and disabled people in need of the assistance of the same helper; in some cases 20 percent of people claimed to have the right of special assistance (with an increment of 800 percent in comparison with the 2006 regional elections); It is even graver that no chief officers required any documentation of those presumed cases of illiteracy or disability , as our law states.
Hundreds of severe visual impaired people were helped by a few volunteers of the National Civil Service on duty for The Blind Italian Union of Palermo, the secretary of which is the city councilman who was a candidate for the second time.. This occurred in spite of the law, which allows a single helper to aid only one voter per election.
During all the voting hours, all the polling stations were guarded by the candidates and by their canvassers. They had parked cars and motorcycles along the access road leading to the polling stations in order to create a sort of forced path for the voters on their way to the polling stations.
Those anomalies have been always reported to the police operating inside the polling stations, however they often claimed that the area outside the polling stations was not in their jurisdiction; the consequent reports to DIGOS and to the Police rarely have been pursued, since, as it has been reported by the police headquarters, they had only a car available to patrol around all the 130 polling stations.
Several voters inside the polling booth have been caught taking pictures of their own ballot paper using a mobile phone; when asked, they answered they had to give evidence of their vote
It seems that the ticklish operation of transmission of sealed parcels and records addressed to the council electoral office lacked of the identification of the person who delivered the electoral material. Moreover, nobody was completely sure of the identity of the people who were actually carrying out the delivery. In confirmation of that, there are the statements of some scrutineers and the videos of a television troupe showing how anybody could deliver original or assumed records to the municipal building,
The failed identification of the consignees, when they left the polling station as well as when they arrived at the municipal building, made possible the alteration and substitution of the electoral material. This also can explain the several deletions, scrapings, alterations carried out with a Tipp-Ex present in many records from the polling stations. Furthermore, from the data given by the partisan observers and the council observers, there is evidence of a substantial reduction of votes to the detriment of the candidate Leoluca Orlando and in increment in favour of the candidate Diego Cammarata; an inspection of the data of 80 polling stations out of 600 hundreds has highlighted “data corrections” for approximately 2000 votes in favour of Cammarata: in most cases, those corrections correspond exactly to the records in which alterations are supposed to have been carried out
This inspection has highlighted how in those anomalous polling stations there were very few refused or blank ballot papers.
The records of a few polls are missing
Several candidates from either alignments have declared that they didn’t even found the vote they had given to themselves.
Several partisan observers have reported that, during the vote count, some chief officers have allowed strangers to handle the ballots with a pen in their hands. They have also reported that some officers had even tried to expel the partisan observers when counting the votes
The records have also reported that some electoral officers intended to privilege one candidate, granting him the vote even when the voter had written the name of the candidate together with offensive words;
According to what has been reported by the many partisan observers, many electoral officers had refused to record the notification of the ballots, and they have even requested the partisan observer to leave before the vote count started
During the counting of the votes, several partisan observers have noticed an intimidating attitude towards them, both from the polling station officers and from other partisan observers.
Despite several missing, altered or blank reports, and the doubtful correspondence of the records, the Mayor was appointed, and the city councilmen nominated;
A candidate who was not elected openly reported that soon after the elections hundreds of people went to the Banca d’Italia to change cut-in-halves banknotes; it seems that this kind of affluence was 20 times the avarage monthly affluence, which strengthens the sneaking suspicion that there might have been a vote purchase and ways of controlling the vote through the blackmail of the would-be deliver of the second half of the banknote.
Furthermore, following a bold law enacted by the right wing parties a few years ago, scrutineers are not drawn but directly nominated. In Sicily, scrutineers are appointed by a commission presided over by an executive belonging to the UDC party, the same party of the former president Cuffaro (On January 18, 2008, Cuffaro was found guilty of aiding and abetting several people sentenced for Mafia crimes and committed breaches of confidentiality; he was given a five-year sentence, during which time he will be suspended from all public offices) and other politicians, many of them are inquired or convicted of mafia.
The risk to find entire polling stations controlled by party men is still a serious one. The risk that the vote in these polling station might be manipulated is still very high.
As a result of what I have related, as a partly free citizen, I am quite convinced that the next elections must be supervised by the OSCE and therefore I ask for the attendance of the observers.
Magari si potrebbe inondare la casella mail della OSCE con i nostri appelli che ne dite?
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Luciano e CdP // Apr 5, 2008 at 03:00
Magari si potrebbe inondare la casella mail della OSCE con i nostri appelli che ne dite?
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Ti chiedo scusa Luciano, ma mi sembra una proposta assurda quella che avanzi…
Ma a che pro dovremmo fare una cosa del genere?
Proprio non capisco cosa vuoi ottenere in questa maniera…
Negli Stati Uniti e in Australia lo spam è un reato penale
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam#Aspetti_legali
Il fatto che NON lo sia in Italia non significa che sia MORALE farlo.
Non tutto ciò che è morale è legale e viceversa non tutto ciò che è legale è morale…
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morale
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalit%C3%A0
Detto questo non vorrei farti “il processo alle intenzioni”… ma almeno ti chiedo di voler cortesemente giustificare pubblicamente le tue (buone?) intenzioni sia pure in forma anonima…
Grazie per l’attenzione.
Sì, Luciano e CdP.
Bisogna inondarli.
Io avevo lanciato l’appello qualche giorno fa dal mio blog e credo che all’OSCE abbiano già ricevute tante email.
http://www.xantology.com/2008/03/28/ebbene-si-palermo-e-in-nigeria/
Continuiamo.
Mi è stato riferito che Sonia Alfano ha già parlato con un membro della OSCE che alla nostra richiesta ha risposto che non è possibile far niente dato che l’Italia è ancora un paese democratico.
Aspetto una conferma.
luciano, paese democratico? sulla carta, solo sulla carta. ke tristezza
Sul sito della Osce ho letto:
An OSCE/ODIHR EAM does not envisage systematic and comprehensive
observation of election day, but members of the EAM will visit polling stations around
the country on election day
QUindi suppongo che un minimo di controllo ci sarà
Ma porca miseria… ma Voi lo sapete che ogni elettore può assistere allo scrutinio nel proprio seggio ? La legge è così…. possibile che in Sicilia non si trovino un migliaio di persone disposte ad assistere allo scrutinio e (se necessario) a filmarlo ?
E poi, a mali estremi, si possono nominare anche i rappresenti di lista che possono controllare gli spogli e tutto l’andamento delle votazioni in più seggi.
Ed a proposito dell’OCSE questo è il rapporto degli osservatori sulle elezioni politiche del 2006 http://www.osce.org/odihr-elections/18270.html (è anche in italiano)… ci sono alcune cose veramente clamorose !!!! Cose che ovviamente la stampa “ufficiale” si è ben guardata dal citare !