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	Contests for Cause / Election Objections - 2006 Elections
		If the judgment should be that the general, special general, or special election was invalid, a certified copy thereof shall be filed with the governor, and the governor shall duly call a new election to be held not later than one hundred twenty days after the judgment is filed.
		on the sixth day after a primary or special primary election, or county election contests held concurrently with a regularly scheduled primary or special primary election, and shall be accompanied by a deposit for costs of court as established by rules of the supreme court.
		(b) In primary and special primary election contests, and county election contests held concurrently with a regularly scheduled primary or special primary election, the court shall hear the contest in a summary manner and at the hearing the court shall cause the evidence to be reduced to writing and shall not later than 4:30 p.m.
	www.hawaii.gov /elections/factsheets/html/fsbo115.htm (1912 words)

	Chilean presidential election, 1970 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A presidential election was held in Chile on 4 September 1970.
		Because he did not obtain an absolute majority, his election required (and received) a further vote by the National Congress of Chile which resulted in Allende assuming the presidency in accordance with the Chilean Constitution of 1925.
		Registration and turnout were reasonably consistent with earlier Chilean presidential elections, although both registration and participation have been considerably higher since the restoration of elections, beginning with the election of 1989.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1970_Chilean_presidential_election (641 words)

	General Elections 1970 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		There were only 120 candidates contesting the elections on the ticket of Pakistan Peoples Party, out of which 103 were from the constituencies in the Punjab and Sindh.
		Elections on nine National Assembly and 18 Provincial Assembly seats, however, could not be held on these dates because of the cyclone that hit a large part of East Pakistan.
		Elections for these seats were held on January 17, 1971.
	www.storyofpakistan.com /articletext.asp?artid=A140&Pg=2 (411 words)

	Islamic Pakistan
		In December, 1970 elections were held simultaneously for both the national and five provincial assemblies.
		Thus the general elections of 1970 produced a new political configuration with three distinct centers of power:(i) the AL in East Pakistan: (ii) the PPP in Sindh and the Punjab; and (iii) the NAP-JUI in Baluchistan and the NWFP.
		On December 22, 1970 the Secretary of the Awami League, Tajuddin Ahmed, claimed that his party having won an absolute majority had a clear mandate and was quiet competent to frame a constitution and to form a central government on its own.
	ghazali.net /book1/body_chapter_5.htm (1748 words)

	NYC School Boards
		Among them: city council and school board elections in Cambridge, Mass.; parliamentary elections in the Republic of Ireland; local elections in northern Ireland; senate elections in Australia; nearly all student council elections in British universities; and, yes, nominations for the Academy awards.
		Better media coverage would reach a broad range of New Yorkers who are involved in the school board elections and are in a position to the improve the climate of the elections, from currently misinformed community leaders to potential voters.
		One of the most important audiences would be election officers, who are now not required to attend training sessions on choice voting and far too often misinform voters right at the polls.
	www.fairvote.org /library/geog/cities/ny_school_board.htm (4901 words)

	Allende wins the elections: first coup attempt
		Early in 1970, Salvador Allende Gossens, a physician and a socialist politician with a long record of service, was chosen as the Popular Unity's presidential candidate.(3) Allende promised, if elected, to move gradually in enacting the UP program and, in particular, not to alter the situation of the nation's military establishment.
		On September 4, 1970, the elections took place, and it was known by 3:00 the following morning that Allende had received a plurality of the votes cast.
		Still, the day before Allende's election was to be ratified, a group of terrorists apparently attempted to kidnap General Rene Schneider Chereau, Commander in Chief of the Army.
	www.geocities.com /educhile_1970s/Allende.html (1020 words)

	Election Laws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		In the elections of 1945-46, nearly 15 per cent of the population was entitled to vote on a qualifications of literacy, property, income and combatant status.
		In April 1954, elections were held for East Pakistan Legislative Assembly, which marked the fall of the Pakistan Muslim League in East Pakistan and heralded the rise of Bengali nationalism.
		The turnout was high: 98.96 per cent in the NA elections and 97.8 percent in the PA elections.
	www.hrcpelectoralwatch.org /his_persp.cfm (2181 words)

	Elections: Latin American Studies: Collections: SSHL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Schoultz 1972: "The election of 1970 was the first in 24 years in which the Colombian voters were given the opportunity to choose a radical candidate and reject the traditional policies of the National Front" (page 35).
		The election took place in an atmosphere of escalating violence, and the public received with widespread skepticism the official announcement that the Conservative candidate of the National Front, Misael Pastrana Borrero, had won by a narrow margin of 65,000…Pastrana was the last president to be elected under the provisions of the National Front.
		Chronicle of parliamentary elections 12 1978: "Congress passed on December 1, 1977, a bill which provided for the election, in June 1978 (parallel to the presidential election), of a Constituent Assembly whose task would be to modify certain chapters of the present Constitution, notably as far as local government and the Judiciary are concerned.
	sshl.ucsd.edu /collections/las/colombia/1970.html (7361 words)

	U.S. Dept. of State FOIA - Church Report (Covert Action in Chile 1963-1973)
		However, the United States sought in 1970 to foment a military coup in Chile; after 1970 it adopted a policy both overt and covert, of opposition to Allende; and it remained in intelligence contact with the Chilean military, including officers who were participating in coup plotting.
		In the 1970 election, for instance, the CIA used "fl" propaganda to sow discord between the Communists and the Socialists and between the national labor confederation and the Chilean Communist Party.
		The groundwork for the election was laid early in 1961 by establishing operational relationships with key political parties and by creating propaganda and organizational mechanisms capable of influencing key sectors of the population.
	foia.state.gov /Reports/ChurchReport.asp (14170 words)

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		The 1960 parliamentary elections were contested by three parties and a number of independent candidates.
		The elections were contested by the right-wing Democratic Rally, the centre Democratic Rally, the centre Democratic Party, the New Progressive Front and the Unlon of Centre, socialist EDEK and left-wing AKEL and PAME.
		The elections were contested by four parties - the right-wing Democratic Rally, the centre Democratic Party, the socialist EDEK and left-wing AKEL - as well as independent candidates.
	www.kypros.org /Elections/news.html (344 words)

	History of Seychelles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Elections in 1963 were contested for the first time on party lines.
		In the November 1970 elections, the SDP won 10 seats, and the SPUP won 5 in the Legislative Assembly.
		The President's popularity in elections jumped to 66.6% in 1998 from 59.5% in 1993, while the SPPF garnered 61.7% of the total votes cast in the 1998 National Assembly election, compared to 56.5% in 1993.
	www.historyofnations.net /africa/seychelles.html (984 words)

	General Elections 1977 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		According to the original schedule, the second general elections in the history of Pakistan, and the first after the dismemberment of the country, were to be held in the second half of 1977.
		Throughout their election campaign, instead of giving their own agenda, P. leadership mainly concentrated on echoing the alleged misdeeds of Bhutto's Government, corruption, mismanagement of national wealth, heavy expenditures on administration and disastrous economic policies evidenced by inflation.
		In an interview to Associated Press of Pakistan, Sajjad Ahmad Jan, the Chief Election Commissioner admitted that the failure of the electoral process was by and large due to the candidates of the ruling party, who exploited their position and party machinery and thus destroyed the sanctity of the ballot box.
	www.storyofpakistan.com /articletext.asp?artid=A142 (813 words)

	SSHL: Latin American Election Statistics: El Salvador elections and events 1970-1972 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		El Salvador, año político 1971-72 1973: Gives number of voters registered for the election (1,119,699) and explains that this number is 300,000 less than the number registered in 1970 because all eligible citizens had to re-register to vote in the 1972 election (page 53).
		The UNO demands that the election be nullified, the departmental electoral board invalidates the election, but the PCN appeals, and the CCE reverses the lower body’s ruling and declares the results official (pages 175-176).
		All material contained in Latin American Election Statistics: A Guide to Sources is protected by copyright, and duplication or sale of all or part of any of it is not permitted, except that material may be duplicated by you for your personal research use or educational purposes in electronic or print form.
	dodgson.ucsd.edu /las/elsal/1970-1972.html (2170 words)

	Allende wins the elections: first coup attempt
		Early in 1970, Salvador Allende Gossens, a physician and a socialist politician with a long record of service, was chosen as the Popular Unity's presidential candidate.(3) Allende promised, if elected, to move gradually in enacting the UP program and, in particular, not to alter the situation of the nation's military establishment.
		On September 4, 1970, the elections took place, and it was known by 3:00 the following morning that Allende had received a plurality of the votes cast.
		Still, the day before Allende's election was to be ratified, a group of terrorists apparently attempted to kidnap General Rene Schneider Chereau, Commander in Chief of the Army.
	grace.evergreen.edu /~arunc/texts/chile/torre/Allende.html (1020 words)

	Nelson - Political Science-Canadian Politics on the Web/Elections
		Some useful material on different election systems can be found at the U.K. Electoral Reform Society, which has been campaigning for electoral reform in Britain since 1884.
		The data from the 1997 election study are available on-line; the raw frequencies for a number of variables in their massive survey can be read directly with your browser, or you can download the full data set in SPSS format to analyze on your own computer.
		Elections Canada provides the interim election results for the country as a whole, by province and by major metropolitan area.
	www.nelson.com /nelson/polisci/elections.html (1123 words)

	Thomson Nelson - Political Science Resource Centre
		The raw survey data from the 1997 and 2004 elections are available for the CES and for the 1984-2000 election studies from York University.
		Canadian Elections offers a table comparing the votes and seats won in 2004 by parties on a national and provincial basis.
		Elections Canada provides the official results of the 1997 and 2000 general elections on line.
	polisci.nelson.com /elections.html (1396 words)

	1970: Wisconsin - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
		1970: Wisconsin - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
		In the November elections the Democratic Party swept dramatically into power in this traditionally Republican state.
		For the past two years Republicans controlled all statewide offices and both houses of the legislature.
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_1741580959/1970_Wisconsin.html (144 words)

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		The 1960 parliamentary elections were contested by three parties and a number of independent candidates.
		The elections were contested by the right-wing Democratic Rally, the centre Democratic Rally, the centre Democratic Party, the New Progressive Front and the Unlon of Centre, socialist EDEK and left-wing AKEL and PAME.
		The elections were contested by four parties - the right-wing Democratic Rally, the centre Democratic Party, the socialist EDEK and left-wing AKEL - as well as independent candidates.
	kypros.org /Elections/news.html (344 words)

	Chapter7a
		Bhutto won the 1970 elections on the clarion call of roti, kapra aur makan (food, clothing and shelter), a slogan he picked up from the East Pakistani peasant leader Maulana Bhashani.
		In his anxiety to win the 1977 election by a landslide Bhutto had allowed some rigging,[25] by no means a new feature in the national life of the country.
		He defeated it handsomely in the general election in 1970 but by 1974, unlike Khawaja Nazimuddin, a weak man, Bhutto, the strong man, was not able to meet the challenge posed by the anti-Ahmadi agitation.
	www.ghazali.net /book/Chapter7a/chapter7a.html (2519 words)

	The Pakistan People's Party: Rise to Power
		First in 1970 elections, Bhutto had led his Pakistan People's Party to victory in the country's key province, Punjab, by galvanizing the common man behind his programme of Islamic socialism and promises of roti, kapra, makan ('bread, clothing, housing').
		The election victory of the PPP in the Punjab represented the breakthrough of the mass public into the political sphere, and signaled a fundamental and irreversible alteration in the relationship between the ruler and the ruled.
		The book includes several appendices covering the election results of 1970 and two hitherto unpublished interviews with Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, one of which was conducted by the author just before Zia's coup.
	www.dukandar.com /ppp.html (266 words)

	Pakistan Elections 2007
		In the 1970 elections, Nurul Amin was elected to the National Assembly as one of only two non-Awami League members.
		He lost the elections in 1993, and remained aloof from politics for sometime and served as the Rector of International Islamic University.
		In the general election of October 2002, Chaudhry Shujaat was elected the National Assembly member from Bhakkar and Gujrat but later vacated his Bhakkar seat and acted as the PML-QA parliamentary party leader in the National Assembly.
	www.elections.com.pk /contents.php?i=10 (5911 words)

	DAWN - Opinion; October 6, 2002
		In the “mid-term” congressional elections (unaccompanied, and unaided, by the glamour of a presidential election) voter turnout figures are even lower: for instance, 42 per cent of the eligible persons in 1998 and 45 per cent in 1994.
		On the eve of elections and in their aftermath, the parties in search of power and the common people in their struggle for survival should seek compromise and not confrontation.
		A free and fair election cannot be held under the rule of a gun, whether the gun is trained on you by the state or by an insurrection.
	www.dawn.com /2002/10/06/op.htm (4294 words)

	Main
		Considering that the party got 93 seats, the vote bank had increased over 1970 elections when it got 81 but was far less than in 1977 when it had won 155.
		Also, in 1990 elections, the Pakistan Democratic Front, of which the PPP was a part, got 45 of the 207 NA seats while PML and its allies in the IJI got 105.
		The statistics, on the basis of which we concluded a retrogression for the PPP from 1970 to 1997, prove the silent protest theory is an illogical assertion.
	www.syberwurx.com /jrc/publications/p-11.html (1306 words)

	Richard Nixon: Remarks About the 1970 Elections. - November 1st, 1970
		I WOULD LIKE to talk to you for a moment about one of the most important decisions you will be making in your life, a decision that will affect your future and the future of America: your vote on November 3d.
		It is customary as we get close to an election to speak of voting Republican or voting Democratic.
		There is one final note I would like to leave with you as we approach this election: In recent weeks and in recent months, you have seen on your television screens some of our young people engaging in violence, trying to shout down speakers, and engaging in activities that you disapprove of.
	www.presidency.ucsb.edu /ws/print.php?pid=2808 (580 words)

	Pakistan Link - Letter & Opinion
		The same thing was repeated in 1970 when they voted to end exploitation by the privileged classes.
		Moreover the past performance in elections of religious parties was flaunted as reason enough to ignore it.
		One distinguishing feature of the period in which we had some sort of democratic rule (1988-99) was the refusal of the opposition to accept the results of the elections and start antics from day one to have the government pack up.
	www.pakistanlink.com /letters/2002/Oct/25/06.html (852 words)

	Pic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Sheikh Mujib campaigning for the general elections of 1970.
		Mujib had stayed with Shurwardi and in 1970, he had emerged as the leader of the Awami League.
		Bhasani boycotted the elections since he knew the elections would be a farce anyway.
	www.geocities.com /glorybangla/bn01.htm (680 words)

	University Press of Florida: Mighty Peculiar Elections
		In Mighty Peculiar Elections, Randy Sanders captures a moment in a time of transition when four gubernatorial races in 1970 revealed a great deal about the politics of race and changing attitudes in the South as well as the nation.
		The 1970 elections marked the first time that large numbers of African-Americans voted in the South, resulting in fl-white coalitions that discouraged campaigns dominated by racial harangues.
		In turn, candidates eschewed the traditional politics of racial discord and demagoguery to appeal to hope rather than fear, and the harmonious tone of moderation began to resonate in a region long beleaguered by the cacophony of racial discord.
	www.upf.com /book.asp?id=SANDEF02 (333 words)

	Labour Party (United Kingdom) - Related Items - MSN Encarta
		1970: Great Britain And Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Of
		After a double reversal of expectations, the Conservative Party was voted into office in June.
		In January it seemed inconceivable to most people that the Labour government could recover sufficiently in the estimation of the electorate to be returned to office at a general election, which had to be...
	encarta.msn.com /related_761563922_5.2/elections_of_1970.html (76 words)

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