{"id":197263,"date":"2008-02-19T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/19\/there-are-limits-to-electoral-fraud\/"},"modified":"2008-02-19T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T22:36:00","slug":"there-are-limits-to-electoral-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/19\/there-are-limits-to-electoral-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"There are Limits to Electoral Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Musharraf&#8217;s party has been absolutely crushed in Pakistani elections, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/19\/world\/asia\/19pstan.html?ex=1361077200&amp;en=0969be8e2ea4a8d9&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/02\/19\/pakistan\/index.html\">here<\/a>, and that there is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/2008-02-19-musharraf-pakistan_N.htm\">growing pressure for  him to resign &#8211; USATODAY.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are still some seats outstanding, but right now, the Pakistan People&#8217;s Party ( Benizir Bhutto) has won 87 seats, the Muslim League-N party (Nawaz Sharif) has won 66 seats, and Musharraf&#8217;s Muslim League-Q won only 38 seats.<\/p>\n<p>There are 272 seats in the Pakistani National Assembly, so they need 137 for a majority, and 181 for the 2\/3 vote to remove Musharraf, and t gether the parties have 155 seats right now.<\/p>\n<p>There is a question as to whether the PPP and MLN can work together though, they are like the hatfield and the McCoys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Musharraf&#8217;s party has been absolutely crushed in Pakistani elections, here and here, and that there is now growing pressure for him to resign &#8211; USATODAY.com. There are still some seats outstanding, but right now, the Pakistan People&#8217;s Party ( Benizir Bhutto) has won 87 seats, the Muslim League-N party (Nawaz Sharif) has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}