Togo to pick new leader in key democracy test vote

Voters in the small west African country of Togo go to the polls on Thursday to pick a new president in a poll seen as a test of democratic progress in a nation notorious for electoral violence. Six opposition candidates are challenging the outgoing President Faure Gnassingbe, who came to power in 2005 after the death of his father, General Gnassingbe Eyadema, whose dictatorial rule lasted 38 years.Duration: 01:16

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[sondreborseth]

remember the chaos. stayed on a vessel in togo fro a while

[Steadno]

@tee how do you verify your votes...yours and your countryfolk???????????????

[Steadno]

@tee now you tangent off into open and direct insult attempts. this mean you are getting to the bottom of the barrel. listen up i might have some of those attributes but what redeems me is that i am just an average person who will likely never be rich or famous. now can you say the same thing too?

[teemuruskeepaa]

I figured 4th character for you. Somewhere in USA there are those narrowminded people who kind of just live the local American life, sure about their supremacy and unaware of symbols outside the country as it is. You don't really have understanding of anything. You are simple and shallow, mediocre person. But in your little world nobody has ever confronted you and you always win your community members in games irrelevant to us. I picked the ice and found your ignorance and your social method.

[Steadno]

@tee you didnt answer the question i keep asking you. how do you verify your votes...your and your countryfolk?????

[teemuruskeepaa]

I wrote you already what it means. I suggest you start reading all my comments through really slowly and carefully. I give you the permission to ask help if you can't see their factual value. You may begin now. Ass spanking? Who is doing that anyway?

[Steadno]

@tee you must not know what 'pseudo' means. i think you are mistaking it for 'quasi.' look them up and return for your bare ass spanking.

[teemuruskeepaa]

I live a pseudodemocracy, which is thought to be true democracy but truly is not. You are trying to say we don't democracy because pseudodemocracy to you is the only possible form of democracy. I've proved you wrong, like it or not.

[Steadno]

@tee again over calibration. spend more time thinking and less time analyzing minutia. the only power you have is maybe to be a tad annoying. in reality you or i have zero power. people with power dont desire democracy cause this causes them to give power to the majority of the populous.

[Steadno]

@tee you must be a freshman psychology major at your local community college. you are trying too hard and in turn are completely missing my point. i will smelt it all down to this. If you believe that you live in a democracy when and how do you verify that your vote AND the votes of your coutryfolk as well? let me know meh.