Albania: What Could Be More Perfect?
In gymnastics and girl watching, perfection is a 10. In bowling, a perfect score is 300. In a perfect baseball game, no one gets on base. Last week Communist Albania accomplished an astonishing record: almost perfect parliamentary elections. Every one of the country's 1,830,653 registered voters cast a ballot, and all candidates selected by the Albanian Labor Party won 100% of the votes counted. But alas, a single ballot was declared invalid by officials. Wait till next year.
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