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She's the ultra liberal candidate they put up first before submitting the more moderate 'second' choice that ultimately gets nominated.
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Decently researched ESPN story into Chuck Blazer's role in the investigation of FIFA: http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/14767250/the-exclusive-story-how-feds-took-fifa
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Prince Ali bin al-Hussein requests postponement of Fifa presidential election. Because he want's transparent booths. http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/feb/23/prince-ali-bin-al-hussein-suspension-fifa-presidential-election
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It's kind of amazing to watch all these Arabic autocrats flaunt their total lack of interest in democracy on the global stage. Usually it's confined to their own nasty little regimes, but we're literally having an election for a global sporting body where candidates have suggested that they should be allowed to run unopposed or that we should do away with secret ballots. All this with a backdrop of everyone involved in FIFA being banned for corruption, and Blatter having openly come out and said that Qatar was Platini's fault because he was bribed to change the result of the already-rigged vote at the last minute.
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Lladre posted:Prince Ali bin al-Hussein requests postponement of Fifa presidential election. Out of all the candidates, Prince Ali of Jordan is probably the least objectionable.
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What's wrong with a public vote? These FA presidents aren't giving their personal vote. They're voting on behalf of the clubs and players in their nation with no way to prove how they really voted.
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yeah i thought everyone itt agreed that secret ballots just let corrupt FAs hide their corruption more easily
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jyrka posted:What's wrong with a public vote? These FA presidents aren't giving their personal vote. They're voting on behalf of the clubs and players in their nation with no way to prove how they really voted. A secret ballot allows them to vote for the actual best candidate without the potential of retribution against themselves, the clubs and players in their nation, their FA, and their national team from FIFA, the newly elected FIFA people, the defeated FIFA candidates, and the heads of their continental confederations. With public ballots, there is big pressure on the members of (for example) CAF and the AFC to vote along with the head of their confederation, who have already said that their confederations will unite and vote as a bloc for certain candidates. With secret ballots, every single member of those confederations is theoretically empowered to vote for the actual best candidate and then act bewildered when the votes don't add up the way the heads of their confederations said they would. In theory, this leads to fairer results because each person is free to vote their conscience and then lie about it. In practice, in an organization as corrupt as FIFA, I can't imagine it would make a huge difference because all these people are corrupt enough that instead of voting their conscience they will vote for whoever bribes them, and then either lie about it or be brazen about it, who gives a poo poo. Bring on the transparent booths so we at least know who bought whom.
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The transparent booths are not meant to be so that they know who voted for who, it's so that you can check that no one is recording their vote or something.
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Serious allegations have brought, implying that South Africa actually lost the voting in its World Cup bid to Morocco, with FIFA officials fudging the vote. If transparent voting had been in place this would not have been possible. In that sense, though it is sad, it probably would be good to have.
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Sepp Blatter: FBI investigating FIFA because U.S. missed 2022 World Cup No poo poo
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TheBigAristotle posted:Sepp Blatter: FBI investigating FIFA because U.S. missed 2022 World Cup Well, they had been investigating all this long before the 2022 vote, but the timing of the arrests was definitely meant to send a message not to collude against the US.
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Feb 24, 2016 16:12
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Hadn't he said that before? Like last year?
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Platini and Blatter just had their bans cut by two years "in recognition of their services to football".
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Troy Queef posted:Platini and Blatter just had their bans cut by two years "in recognition of their services to football". It's like they all have an addiction and can't control themselves
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foobardog posted:So one of the assholes on the Supreme Court died and the rumor is that the current expected nominee is Loretta Lynch, the Attorney General driving the FIFA investigations. This is one of the worst posts I have ever read. Are you John Oliver IRL
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Troy Queef posted:Platini and Blatter just had their bans cut by two years "in recognition of their services to football". I thought the bans were recognition of their services to football.
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tk posted:I thought the bans were recognition of their services to football. 
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Spangly A posted:It's like they all have an addiction and can't control themselves https://twitter.com/DamianCollins/status/702428537656090625
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Apparently Blatter is very upset because the 100 million quid Fifa museum that was his baby has had most of the content regarding him removed. One of my friends who has already been there ahead of the opening to write about it tells me that if this is with minimal Blatter content then must have been on every surface before.
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Troy Queef posted:Platini and Blatter just had their bans cut by two years "in recognition of their services to football". Just in time to attend the 2022 World Cup, what luck!
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Skinty McEdger posted:Apparently Blatter is very upset because the 100 million quid Fifa museum that was his baby has had most of the content regarding him removed. One of my friends who has already been there ahead of the opening to write about it tells me that if this is with minimal Blatter content then must have been on every surface before. The god of football needs his temple and they can have no god but him.
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Hooray for election day! For us insomniac Americans, it'll be televised on FS1 and on ESPN3 online.
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Feb 26, 2016 08:12
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Don't worry, I'm sure the guy who tortures people from Bahrain already bought enough votes.
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B.B. Rodriguez posted:Don't worry, I'm sure the guy who tortures people from Bahrain already bought enough votes. There's an American guy running?
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El Hefe posted:There's an American guy running? No he got arrested for buying a $10m apartment for his cats.
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My hope for election day is that the Swiss police turn up and arrest everyone who voted and then burn the FIFA building to the ground. I can't see another positive outcome.
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PlantHead posted:My hope for election day is that the Swiss police turn up and arrest everyone who voted and then burn the FIFA building to the ground. What other opportunity will they have to get all those corrupt scumbags in the same room? That's a law enforcement wet dream right there.
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If I were the Swiss police, even if they're not going to arrest anyone (which would be loving hilarious if they just raided the place mid-election), I'd just have a significant and obvious presence outside. That way when every single one of the corrupt fucks arrive, they'll take one look, assume that the Swiss ARE about to raid the election or arrest you on your way in, and most of them will say 'oh gently caress THIS' and run off. Then the only folks who are left will be the ones who actually have nothing to fear, or the ones who just don't give a gently caress.
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Sky Shadowing posted:the ones who just don't give a gently caress. So, all of them?
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Sexwale has beached himself.
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Montserrat as FIFA member has neither domestic league nor football club and gets the same vote as Germany.
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Shrapnig posted:Sexwale has beached himself. The dream is over.
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Healbot posted:Montserrat as FIFA member has neither domestic league nor football club and gets the same vote as Germany. I agree. FIFA should be ran as an efficient Western organisation. The Caribbean, Africa and Asia need to take the back-seat(if a seat at all.)
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Wow. Just found out "Prince Ali" and "Sheikh" are two different people. Wild.
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jyrka posted:I agree. FIFA should be ran as an efficient Western organisation. The Caribbean, Africa and Asia need to take the back-seat(if a seat at all.) It needs to be run as a 2 tier organisation like the UN, where there is a main council of the key nations who have all the powers, and another body of all nations who has sod all powers yet gives the nations a presence.
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jyrka posted:I agree. FIFA should be ran as an efficient Western organisation. The Caribbean, Africa and Asia need to take the back-seat(if a seat at all.) Unironically this. Instead we get some Arab oil Prince who oversaw the murder of footballers in his nation
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Assign voting weigh based on the fifa country coefficient. The best football nations should have more to say and might make friendlies marginally more interesting
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