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Albania votes: an emerging democracy, emerges.
Tirana, Albania
YEARS ago, the columnist Charles Krauthammer joked about what he called "the Tirana Index." This was a way of measuring how unfree a country was. For example, election returns out of this capital would tell us that the Communist dictator, Hoxha, had received 98.6 percent of the vote. (You had to wonder about the other 1.4 percent.) The greater a dictator's vote, the more unfree the country was. That was the Tirana Index. Of course, Saddam Hussein, in Iraq, improved on Hoxha by securing a full 100 percent of the vote.
They don't do things like that in Albania anymore. I am in this country with a group monitoring elections. It is headed by ...
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