Click Here to Subsribe to the 'The Vance Report' Feed In a country where a democratic form of government seems light years away, voting fraud is the last thing you expect to hear about.
This past week, the China Daily website, the largest English portal in China, reported that “an online poll to solicit public opinion on a date for ‘national tourism day’ has received a staggering 4.2 billion votes.”
Staggering? How about impossible.
The entire population of China is only 1.3 billion people and as the newspaper points out, only 300 million people use the internet.
So unless there are another 4 billion people worldwide who really care about how China celebrates its proposed ‘National Tourism Day’, someone has figured out how to ’stuff’ the online ballot box.
As it turns out, the guilty parties may be two cities that are vying for the honor of having the date tied to an historical event of local significance.
Come on, people. It’s just a poll.
And you wonder why people say that democracy would not be an easy fit for China?
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