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On Sunday the small West African Country Togo will hold parliamentary elections.

The election is supposed to mark the first free and fair election in
over forty years. Since 1993 all main donor countries have frozen aid
to the country because of bad governance, first under President
Gnassingbe Eyadema and later under his son Faure Gnassingbe, who came
to power in 2005.

International pressure forced Faure Gnassingbe to hold presidential
elections later that year. Although fraud was suspected Gnassingbe
officially won the elections with more than 60% of the vote.

According to Reuters Africa, the
Togolese people hope that Sunday's elections will mark a change to the
40 year rule of the Gnassingbe family and will put the country on a
path towards real democracy.

Either it is constitutional, or it's not - right?

But the good news is:

"Today, Judge Ann Aiken of the Oregon Federal District Court ruled
that two provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
(FISA), "50 U.S.C. §§ 1804 and 1823, as amended by the Patriot Act, are
unconstitutional because they violate the Fourth Amendment of the
United States Constitution.""

Source: Kurt Opsahl on EFF - Deep Links

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