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...hesitate to use the police to crack down on his opponents, with arrests, kidnappings and beatings becoming a daily occurrence. Despite the dramatic escalation in political violence, Kostunica succeeded in uniting the anti-Milosevic Serbia. Opinion polls demonstrate that he would win in a landslide if no electoral fraud were to occur...
Despite a two-to-one advantage in the electorate, however, Kostunica's victory is far from certain. Milosevic is preparing to commit fraud on a level never seen before. Electoral committees are state-controlled and DOS can do little to ensure the legitimacy of the election process. The regime will eliminate the opposition supporters from the lists of eligible voters while allowing its supporters to vote under several names. Employees of state-run enterprises will receive pre-filled voting slips in advance. As if that was not enough, Milosevic is ready to openly steal the votes of the Kosovo Albanians...
...attempts to mount massive protests in the past year, many in Yugoslavia are pessimistic. Some analysts, on the other hand, point out that the Milosevic power structure is much less homogeneous than usually assumed. They assert that the people will not sit calmly in the face of clear electoral fraud and notice that the Serbian pro-democracy movement has found new resilience in the past year, as demonstrated by the "Otpor" movement...
...without character. Though Bush at times makes an ideological pitch, that he trusts the people with their own money while Gore puts his faith in archaic bureaucracies, it may never be sharp enough to punch through general contentment. So Bush is left trying to argue that Gore is a fraud, his promises hollow. It is as though he is saying, "We both want to save Social Security and give Grandma cheaper drugs and fix the schools, but he's a liar. You can't trust him to get it done, and I'm a leader...
...leery of online auctions. I am worried that if I start fooling around on eBay, I'll end up getting ripped off or selling to someone who never pays up. Last week's FBI report indicating that online auctions are the No. 1 source of Internet fraud hardly helped calm my fears...