Not a People's Festival
Control of the 2004 elections is over-centralized, minimizing public participation, and missing the chance to make it into a people's festival.
April 6, 2004
THE 2004 elections are different. This applies not only to the method of voting and who to be elected, but also the
participation of the public. Because everything is controlled from the center, the people have an excuse not to participate, particularly in preparing the elections logistics. In previous elections, most of the polling stations' needs were supplied by the local people. Even polling day itself was turned into a people