Burma prepares for an election where the winner is already past the finish line... "By Burma?s voters go to the polls in November weighed down by the depressing certainty that, however they cast their ballots, the government of the country will be placed in the hands of legislators committed to the policies followed by the military regime they replace. The regime won?t even have to indulge any further in the kind of vote-rigging it?s clearly been engineering in the campaign so far. The two pro-regime parties will field three times the number of candidates representing all the remaining 35 parties and are assured of large majorities in the national and regional parliaments..."