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Summary
This document is a page from a report titled 'BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY,' specifically Chapter 1, 'Validating Autocracy through the Ballot.' It analyzes how modern authoritarian regimes use elections to maintain legitimacy compared to traditional dictatorships, citing examples from the Soviet bloc and Latin America. The document bears a 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT' Bates stamp, suggesting it was part of a document production for a congressional investigation, though the text itself contains no direct references to Jeffrey Epstein or his associates.
People (3)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Hugo Chávez | Quote Source/Former Leader |
Quoted in sidebar claiming Venezuela has democracy despite imperfections.
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| Alyaksandr Lukashenka | Quote Source/President |
Quoted in sidebar admitting to falsifying election results to lower his percentage to appear more 'European'.
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| Augusto Pinochet | Dictator (Chile) |
Mentioned regarding his stunning setback in a referendum on his dictatorship.
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Organizations (3)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| Communist Party |
Mentioned in context of Soviet bloc elections and 1990 local elections.
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| Freedom in the World |
Cited for 2015 statistics on electoral democracies.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019244'.
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Locations (13)
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Mentioned regarding historical sham elections.
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Mentioned as a country where opposition parties swept to victory.
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Mentioned as a country where opposition parties swept to victory.
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Mentioned as a country where opposition parties swept to victory.
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Mentioned as a country where opposition parties swept to victory.
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Mentioned as a country where opposition parties swept to victory.
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Mentioned regarding the stunning rejection of the ruling party.
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Mentioned regarding the referendum on Pinochet.
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Mentioned regarding 'political technologists' and leadership invoking poll victories.
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Mentioned as having counterparts to Russian political technologists.
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Mentioned as the only country in the study rejecting elections for political control.
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Mentioned regarding leadership invoking poll victories.
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Mentioned regarding leadership invoking poll victories.
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Key Quotes (2)
"We're not perfect. But we do have democracy. —Hugo Chávez"Source
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Quote #1
"Yes, we falsified the last election.... In fact, 93.5 percent [of ballots were] for President Lukashenka. People say this is not a European result, so we changed it to 86 percent. —Alyaksandr Lukashenka"Source
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Quote #2
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