Ministry of Stupidity

03.30.2004

That's what you'd call a commission that plans to have a referendum election w/o any pre-electoral propaganda (for "yes" or for "no"). Welcome to Bolivia. Parliament's hoping to pass a referendum law — a law that allows for & outlines the gas referendum — that explicitly prohibits any political propaganda. Of course, the obvious question is: How the hell do you enforce this? What counts as propaganda? And why do you want a public referendum where two million voters are asked to discuss a complicated, technical issue w/o the benefit of an information campaign?

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