[NYTr] Domestic Pigeons: Alternative Communication Means in Cuban Elections
 
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:10:25 -0500 (CDT)

Via NY Transfer News Collective  *  All the News that Doesn't Fit
 
[These are real pigeons, not the kind the CIA or Alcohlics Anonymous 
talk sbout -- i.e., messenger birds, avian pigeons. Real ones. Like ham
radio. This is why Cuba will survive: HAM RADIO AND HOMING PIGEONS
ARE STILL SKILLS/HOBBIES IN CUBA. BILL GATES HAS NOT BOUGHT CUBA.
This is how the Vietnamese won, over the Chinese, the French, and even
th Amerikkkans.  -NYTr]

Domestic Pigeons: Alternative Communication Means in Cuban Elections

Las Tunas, Eastern Cuba, Oct 21 (acn) Over 150 domestic pigeons are 
playing an important role in Sunday's municipal election in eastern Las 
Tunas province as they are being used a communication means.

The pigeons carry electoral reports from voting stations in remote 
rural areas, in Las Tunas province, to district electoral commissions. 
They are attached the reports and then released back to their pigeon 
holes, where their owners pick the messages from their leg rings and 
take them to the commissions.

But not only domestic pigeons are being used as an alternative
communications means in the eastern province to guarantee the flow of 
electoral information. More than 470 cyclists and 146 horse riders are 
also guaranteeing communications.

Although the major communications means is the telephone, in some 
remote areas they are using radio transmitters to contribute to an 
appropriate flow of information, said engineer Julio Pla, member of the 
Provincial Electoral Commission in Las Tunas. Some 1,773 voting 
stations opened in the eastern province early on Sunday, where over 
386,000 voters will elect their representatives at the People's Power 
municipal assemblies (municipal governments).

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