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June 4, 2005
2005 CISS CONGRESS ELECTION "COMEDY" - VIEW POINT FROM EUROPE
By Rafael Pinkhasov Pinchas, CISS/Deaflympics Ombudsman
New York, USA - A reputable deaf online news magazine LBMAGAZIN
from Germany has recently published its reaction and opinion story
to this website's April 20, 2005 material titled 2005 CISS/DEAFLYMPICS
CONGRESS ELECTION VOTING FRAUD. 151 ( ! ) VOTES MISSING!
Please read the English translation of the LBMAGAZIN story below (
note: translation was made with the help of a computer ).
Deaflympics: Pinchas Accuses Committee of Election Deceit
Again the sport-shoe of Rafael pinches Pinchas.
Again it is about irregularities in the CISS system. This time
the ex-CISS Chairman of the Awards Commission from Uzbekistan
even accuses the Deaflympics Committee of election deceit!
What has put the good man into stick out?
Re-elections took place at the start of January of this year in
Melbourne. The Deaflympics Committee needed a new president, a
vice as well as three new board members.
The course of the election: with the congress, more than hundred delegates were present from 60 countries. Each country got 2 votes. 120 votes were handed over altogether with each election-round therefore. Five rounds were delivered - for each free job one. The new president was chosen in the first round. Here, the then interim president Donalda Ammons from the USA won the election and finally became a president. Since single rival candidate - Rukhledev - had lost Ammons in this election, he applied for the position of the vice-president. His competitor David Lanesman from Israel won the second election-round with 23 points margin. Despite the two relapses, Rukhledev tried again - it was finally still free 3 positions as member in the executive committee. Again, elections took place. Result: The positions were received by the Swiss Fosshaug, the Chinese Yang and the Turk Özdemir. Rukhledev went out empty and was not accepted consequently into the Deaflympics Committee. However Rafael Pinchas doubts at the legitimacy of the process. A few months later added up all votes the pristine board member from all rounds and must determine, that altogether 151 ( from 600 ) votes was missing.
Did these votes miss anybody? A quarter of all possible votes
after all!
For whom were these missing votes certain?
Maybe for Rukhledev?
It could be, that exactly these missing votes could have enabled
Rukhledev to win in one of the two last rounds. ( in the third
round Özdemir was the single candidate...)
The election made itself CISS congress delegates suspicious. Became here so - like also with the recent scandal-surrounded presidency-elections in the USA - observers put. Indeed they were independently as with the George Bush vs. John Kerry.
At CISS Congress, Tiffany Granfors, Ammons bosom-friend,
commuted and zigzaged from table to table and looked over the
shoulder of the congress delegate.
The best thing about this CISS Congress comedy is that many delegates-voters spoke little English or knew no English at all. Since all records were only written in English language and there were no translators on the spot, most understood only railway station.
Herbert Grill, a CISS Congress delegate and president of the
Austrian Deaf Sports Federation ( he is also Vice President of
the European Deaf Sport Organization ), said over the situation:
altogether 78 proposals were put, and partial, one didn't become
free the feeling, that many delegates did not understand at all
what it was all about there.
Besides Pinchas, congress delegates were of the opinion that the two election-commissioners were all other than impartial. One of the two was Jerald Jordan, ex-president of the CISS. He had massively fought for the re-election of Donalda Ammons and in considerable mass the competitor Valerie Rukhledev was incapable much delegate discriminates and makes unsure, such an observer. Why all congress delegates sat quietly and religiously at the congress at their table places then? Why did not anyone speak out nor fists fly?
A small revolution is there now and it is healthy, the big movie
actor Sean Connery said in the film '"Hunt on Red October" that
he had deserted to the Amises.
Maybe, all congress delegates have not understood the end of the
film or simply they all got confused...
( see German version of story below )
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