Editorial: Sham elections: the day after

TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL   In the first elections after World War II, precisely on December 2, 1945, ordinary Albanian citizens could cast their vote by inserting beads in a box. They had to hold the bead clenched in their fists and insert their hand in both ballot boxes and drop it in the box they preferred. They say that the boxes representing the opposition, the side competing with the Communist party, had a metal lining on the bottom which would click therefore revealing the “traitor” that was dropping the bead there.  Back then, the Democrats were running with independent candidates…