Comical and contradictory

Dear Editor,
I was recently perusing the print media on the post-election and recount imbroglio and listening to stories from the Recount Centre, and it struck me that UG students could have interesting material for MA theses. They could analyse the comical and contradictory incidents and statements, as well as the contradictory ones. Actors and observers could immortalise themselves by writing their experiences, which could be used as primary material.
I will give a few examples of the comical and contradictory:(i) One political party loudly proclaims it had won the Elections, but equally loudly proclaims that the same Elections were fraudulent!
(ii) One female politician, while admitting that the adversarial party had won the Elections, claimed that they did so by rigging, and the method used was to make hundreds of exact replicas of GECOM ballot boxes and then switch the genuine ones at the end of the Election.
(iii)One political party claimed that over 8200 of the Joint Services votes were disqualified because the ballot papers did not have the polling station stamp. This claim was due to ignorance of the voting procedure, and, in any case, only less than 100 votes were spoilt because of being unstamped, and none of them was Joint Services’. Joint Services personnel smile at the ignorance of politicians, who often treat them as intellectual inferiors.
(iv) One party has been making claims that thousands of dead or emigrated persons had voted, but these names were taken up at random. Eventually, that party even begun to put its own supporters as dead or emigrated! “Moon jump jump til he carry day”.
Such studies would contribute to a new area to historical, political and sociological research, and UG would gain international recognition.

Yours sincerely,
Paul Vallidum
Ramlochan