. "Fifty years of the blockade and they have not given in, he said.Cubans went to the polls to elect a Communist Party-selected slate of 612 deputies to the National Assembly and more than 1,000 delegates to provincial assemblies, at a time of change in how they live and work, but not in how they vote.President Raul Castro and other leaders were also shown on television casting their ballots and comm" . . .