North Korean local elections 'achieves 99.97 per cent turnout'

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North Korean elections 'achieves 99.97 per cent turnout'
Worker's Party expected to fare well in polls this Sunday with only one name on ballot paper and punishment for anyone who fails to endorse Kim Jong-un's policies
By Julian Ryall, Tokyo, and Andrew Marszal

LONDON: -- North Koreans went to the polls on Sunday for tighly controlled local elections that saw a 99.97 per cent turnout, state media reported.

Pyongyang's state news agency reported that voters were "singing and dancing" as they cast their votes in polls to elect new provincial, city and county representatives put forward by the ruling party.

All polling stations were "clad in a festive atmosphere", according to official Korean Central News Agency.
The elections were the first at the local level since Kim Jong-un, the supreme leader and first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, inherited the leadership of the world's only hereditary communist dictatorship in December 2011.

Full story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11748166/North-Korean-elections-not-too-close-to-call.html

-- The Telegraph 2015-07-20

[dabhand]

Presumably the non voting 0.03% had passed away since compiling the voters roll.

If not, they soon will be

[canopus1969]

The other 0.03 will be shot Tuesday morning

[trogers]

"...with only one name on ballot paper and punishment for anyone who fails to endorse Kim Jong-un's policies"

Why even waste time and money on a poll?

[Just1Voice]

Ohhhhh, the Generals here in LOS are just SOOOO Jealious!

[max72]

Thailand in on the same way.....

[oneday]

No excuses will be allowed for missing the vote, including be deceased.

The .03% that did not show up will be executed later today with a new chemical weapon NK is testing.

[Baerboxer]

Thailand in on the same way.....

Did you forget your meds again?

[klauskunkel]

voters were "singing and dancing" as they cast their votes in polls

[Time Traveller]

"...with only one name on ballot paper and punishment for anyone who fails to endorse Kim Jong-un's policies"

Why even waste time and money on a poll?

The Greeks are asking the same question

[Basil B]

It was a counting Error...

There was a 100.97% turn out.

[Seastallion]

So, state media publish a figure that indicates only 0.03% of the population are terminally ill, medically incapacitated, house-bound, etc etc or have died since voter registration,

A very healthy population by any measure.

What's "mai pen rai" in Korean?

[wabothai]

A circus that cause me shivers all over my spine.

[wabothai]

Why bother to have elections when the whole world included the N. koreans know it is a sham.

Face (please change) and inflated ego of the beloved and his supremeness I suppose. Just incredible.