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	U.S. presidential election, 1996 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The U.S. presidential election of 1996 was a contest between incumbent President Bill Clinton and Senator Bob Dole of Kansas.
		In those elections, the Republicans, led by Newt Gingrich, captured the majority of seats in both the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate for the first time in forty years.
		The Republican National Convention formally nominated Dole on August 15, 1996 as the GOP candidate for the fall election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_1996 (950 words)

	Federal Elections and Voting Statistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Federal Elections '96 - a compilation of vote results for Presidential, Senate, and House campaigns during 1996
		1996 Presidential Candidates on the General Election Ballots of Each State
		National and State Voter Registration and Turnout in Presidential Elections: 1960-1992
	www.fec.gov /pages/pubrec.htm (48 words)

	General Elections Law No. (27) 1996
		Elections committees: The main committee and subcommittees which are responsible for administering the elections starting with the candidacy applications through the balloting process and up to the tallying of votes.
		Election District: The area which is part of the election districts of the republic and where the citizens exercise their electoral rights in accordance with the constitution and the provisions of this law.
		The exact number of blank ballot papers submitted by the Supreme Committee to the election administering committee in each electoral district shall be confirmed and recorded in minutes to be signed by the head of the said committee, the other two committee members as well as the candidates or their representatives.
	www.al-bab.com /yemen/gov/off5.htm (9110 words)

	Lebanon_1996_elections.html
		The election process in Mount Lebanon was characterized by abnormal levels of fraud, particularly in the North Metn and Ba`bda regions.
		The elections in the North Metn district took on particular importance as they involved a contest between two leading opposition figures, the Greek Orthodox former deputy Albert Mukhaybir, and the Maronite deputy Nassib Lahoud, on the one hand, and the interior minister, Michel al-Murr, on the other.
		On the eve of elections, officials responsible for polling stations, who were from the north, were substituted by others from the south and the Biqa`, regions in which Amal is strong.
	www.lcps-lebanon.org /pub/tlr/96/fall96/1996_elections.html (10206 words)

	JMCC / Politics in Palestine
		In preparation for the 1996 elections, the CEC was actively engaged in voter education and registration activities.
		All phases of the 1996 election process, from the registration of voters, to the campaigning period, to the actual day of voting within the polling stations, were open to monitoring.
		In the 1996 elections, six seats were reserved for the Christian population, and one seat was kept aside for the Samaritans.
	www.jmcc.org /politics/pna/election/election96.htm (975 words)

	CPUSA - 1996 Elections: the struggle continues
		When seen along with the near-defeat of other members of the Gang of 73, the outcome of the 1996 elections shows that it is possible to achieve total defeat of the ultra-right in the future.
		The Communist Party in the 1996 elections was in harmony with the majority of working class voters.
		From the primaries through the general election we carried on a crusade in the pages of the People's Weekly World to alert labor and the people's movements to what was at stake.
	www.pww.org /archives96/96-11-16-1.html (1718 words)

	Indigenous participation in the 1996 elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ecuador's 1996 national election brought a new develoment for the Indian movements in Ecuador.
		After the first round of elections, the "Indigenous Vote" was seen as such a critical swing vote that many people talked about the caza del voto indígena (hunt for the Indigenous vote).
		Just before assuming their positions in government on August 10, 1996, the national Indian organization CONAIE organized an Encuentro de autoridades indígenas del continente (a meeting of Indigenous leaders of the continent).
	abyayala.nativeweb.org /ecuador/96elect (252 words)

	1996 Elections
		The lesson of 1996, as it has been for decades, is that money provides access to legitimacy in a political campaign, but it cannot assure a victory.
		However, the special Senate election took an interesting turn a few weeks before election day A union group ran a radio ad that accused Smith of murder because there had been industrial accidents in which employees died at his plant.
		As polling across the country began to focus on hot issues in the 1996 election, it became clear that environmental concerns were among the top five influential election issues in all parts of the country.
	www.ti.org /Moore.html (2306 words)

	Hoover Essay in Public Policy
		The most important aspect of the 1996 elections was that for only the third time since 1930 the Republican Party had an opportunity to retain control of the House of Representatives.
		To lose the House in 1996, the Republicans would have had to lose many of the freshmen from the 104th House because Republicans were supposed to gain seats from Democrats in open southern and border seats.
		The 1996 elections were characterized by independent political groups, such as the Sierra Club and other interest groups, choosing to spend their resources themselves rather than through the official campaigns of candidates for office.
	www-hoover.stanford.edu /publications/epp/epp75.html (5363 words)

	The 1996 Forum Elections
		The elections of May 30, 1996, were for delegates to the peace talks and to the Northern Ireland Forum which ran in parallel with the two-year talks process.
		The very idea of holding elections was controversial and is believed by some to have contributed to the resumption of violence by the IRA in February of that year.
		This graph contrasts the 1996 elections with the elections for the Assembly in 1998, the Assembly in 1982, the Constitutional Convention in 1975 and the Assembly in 1973.
	www.ark.ac.uk /elections/ff96.htm (952 words)

	See How They Run: Elections of 1996:0205271510:Larry J. Sabato:eCampus.com
		An insider's view of the 1996 elections -- the facts, and the analysis.
		See How They Run: Elections of 1996 is the first comprehensive, insightful and timely review of the 1996 elections, at both the federal and state level.
		It includes up-to-the-minute commentary and analysis on the 1996 general election, primaries, congressional and state elections.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0205271510 (172 words)

	Geostat Center: Collection: US and Virginia Election Data & Maps
		This collection of data is built upon precinct level data tapes obtained from the Virginia Board of Elections.
		Elections included are President, Senator, Representative, Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, and General Assembly (Senate and House).
		Because this project is based on a study from the ICPSR, use is restricted to members of the ICPSR Virginia Federation.
	fisher.lib.virginia.edu /collections/stats/elections (184 words)

	The 1996 Legislative Elections and the Question of Democracy in Lebanon
		This chapter treats the paradox of the 1996 parliamentary electoral round in South Lebanon: the district that saw the least important change in parliamentary representation also saw the most important electoral battle in terms of its implications for political polarization and its revealing a situation of genuine pluralism and fierce competition.
		The 1996 elections were characterized by the lack of competitiveness that had been known in the past.
		It also compares the 1996 elections with previous elections: the first post-war election in 1992, and previous pre-war elections beginning from independence in 1943 tothe last election held before the outbreak of war, in 1972.
	www.lcps-lebanon.org /pub/books/98/elections96/summ1.html (2600 words)

	Russian Presidential Elections-96
		VCIOM conducted a poll (published on October 3, 1996) among 1,600 Russians, in which respondents were to name the most trusted politicians) revealed the following: Lebed was named by 34%, Zyuganov by 15% and Yeltsin by 12%.
		By that time, the commission announced, nominees would have to submit their tax returns for the two years before the election in addition to a list of signatures supporting their nomination.
		Under the law on presidential elections, candidates had to collect at least 1,000,000 signatures, with no more than 70,000 signatures from any one region of the Russian Federation.
	www.cs.indiana.edu /hyplan/dmiguse/Russian/elections.html (1294 words)

	AllRefer.com - Gennady Zyuganov (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Early in 1996, as head of the Communist party of the Russian Federation and the representative of a broad coalition of nationalists and other opposition parties and movements, he announced that he would run for president of Russia against Boris Yeltsin in the 1996 elections.
		A critic of the war in Chechnya and a supporter of a mixed economy, Zyuganov promised to aid a population suffering severe economic hardships from a rapidly imposed free-market economy.
		After the Dec., 1999, parliamentary elections, the number of Communist seats in the Duma was reduced, largely because of electoral support for the government's invasion of Chechnya in Sept., 1999.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/Z/Zyuganov.html (591 words)

	Math Forum: T2T: Mathematics and Elections
		Bring elections into your elementary and secondary classrooms, on topics ranging from the electoral college to campaign finance, political humor and more.
		Election Theory, Fair Division, Graph Theory, Counting Techniques, Discrete Probability, Matrix Models, and the Mathematics of Iteration/Recursion.
		Election Central is an online resource that helps teachers and students explore the electoral process past and present, in the United States and around the world.
	www.mathforum.org /t2t/faq/election.html (1078 words)

	Campaigns & Elections
		Election Data Services Inc. is a political consulting firm specializing in redistricting, election administration, and the analysis and presentation of census and political data with GIS (geographic information systems).
		The Election 2002 Web Archive is a selective collection of nearly 4,000 sites archived between July 1, 2002 and November 30, 2002.
		The Election 2000: an Internet Library is a selective collection of nearly 800 sites archived daily between August 1, 2000 and January 21, 2001, covering the United States national election period.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/indiv/usgd/campaign.html (2900 words)

	Joel Mowbray on Yasser Arafat on National Review Online
		Come Election Day, most of the "independents" who actually won council seats were Fatah members kicked off the official slate by Arafat.
		A month before the election, Jerusalem's largest Palestinian newspaper, Al Quds, was told by the PLO to run a story about Arafat's meeting with a Greek Orthodox leader on the front page.
		While monitoring the 1996 election, former President Carter ignored all evidence of Arafat's wrongdoing, and instead zeroed in on the role of the Israeli Defense Forces patrolling Jerusalem.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-mowbray042502.asp (1119 words)

	Elections and Electoral Systems by Country
		Parties and Elections in Europe in English and German
		Election information can be found on Agora Net
		Presidential election 200 and State Duma election 19th Dec 1999
	www.psr.keele.ac.uk /election.htm (1455 words)

	Election Integrity Endnotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		General elections for the Bosnian and Republika Srpska (RS) Presidencies, for the Bosnian, Federation, RS parliaments, and for Federation cantonal legislatures were held in 1996 and 1998.
		The number of MPs elected at these elections was as follows: 80 MPs were elected at each of the 1954, 1957, 1960 and 1966 elections; 84 MPs were elected in 1969, and 87 MPs were elected at each of the 1972 and 1975 elections.
		Amendments passed in 1996 require registered parties to disclose significant donations annually, limit the amounts registered parties may spend on advertising at a general election and require registered parties to disclose their election expenditure (limits on election spending by candidates have existed since 1895).
	www.aceproject.org /main/english/ei/eiz_001.htm (4218 words)

	Edward Said: Palestinian Elections Now
		Palestinian elections in the Sharonian scheme are quite unimportant.
		He has announced that elections will take place in early 2003, but his real concentration is to reorganise the security services.
		In other words, the old basis for elections and reform, which had been Oslo, is now null and void.
	www.counterpunch.org /said0617.html (2372 words)

	NDI - National Democratic Institute
		As part of a comprehensive international observation effort for the January 9 presidential election, NDI organized a pre-election assessment mission to examine the technical preparations and political dynamics surrounding the election.
		NDI also organized smaller delegations to monitor the local elections conducted on December 23, 2004 in the West Bank and January 27, 2005 in the Gaza Strip.
		In 1996, in cooperation with the Carter Center and former US President Jimmy Carter, NDI organized an international election observation mission that monitored preparations for the first Palestinian elections and observed the balloting process in more than 200 polling stations in all 16 electoral districts.
	www.ndi.org /worldwide/mena/gaza/gaza.asp (923 words)

	Kerala Assembly Elections 1996-- brief backgrounder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		However, there was little change in their constitution between 1991 and 1996, except for the split in the Kerala Congress (M) led by Mr.
		The Socialist Republican Party (SRP) and the National Democratic Party (NDP), which were constituents of the UDF, disappeared as political entities with the 1996 elections.
		Nayanar was later elected to the Assembly from Thalassery in a by-election.
	www.keralaassembly.org /brief96.html (162 words)

	H-Net Review: F. Alan Coombs on Losing to Win: The 1996 Elections and American Politics
		People in Utah's second congressional district may miss the saga/soap opera of Representative Enid Greene Waldholtz and her now-ex-husband Joe, but one would hope that their situation was atypical enough to justify exclusion from this kind of analysis of larger trends.
		Then there is the central idea of "losing to win." The sequence of events described does establish a plausible case for the proposition that excesses following successes on both sides have led to subsequent failures, but any number of criminal statutes require proof of intent for a conviction.
		Whether the elections of 1996 will be regarded half a century from now as more important than they often felt to those who lived through them, and whose enthusiasm was reflected in the lowest voter turnout with no noticeable enthusiasm, remains to be seen.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28552893446471 (1302 words)

	Palestinian National Authority (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first Palestinian elections took place in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on 20 January 1996 for selecting the PNA president and 88 members to the legislative council.
		For the elections, the West Bank was divided into 11 electoral districts and Gaza Strip into 5 districts.
		The Central Elections Commission reported that the proportion of registered voters exceeded 88% of eligible voters.
	www.pna.gov.ps /Government/gov/Elections_in_Palestine.asp (184 words)

	China Had Covert Plan for 1996 Elections
		Intelligence showed that China funded a covert operation to influence the 1996 U.S. elections, focusing on congressional candidates believed to be sympathetic to Beijing's concerns, a Senate Intelligence Committee report said on Friday.
		In the report of its activities during the 1999-2000 Congress, the committee said it had looked at whether allegations that China had conducted a covert program to influence the elections in 1996 through political donations and other means, were substantiated by intelligence.
		Intelligence information showed that the intermediary between Chung and the Chinese official was Liu Chao-ying, the daughter of General Liu Hua-qing, formerly the highest ranking military officer in China, the Senate Intelligence Committee report said.
	www.taiwandc.org /nws-2001-09.htm (541 words)

	Geostat Center: US Presidential Election Maps: 1860-1996
		The data utilized in the construction of these maps were made available by the Inter-university Consortium for Political Social Research (ICPSR Study # 7757).
		The Data for the Candidate and Constituency Statistics of Elections in the United States were originally collected by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.
		A map of the 2000 presidential election, based on different data, is available at 2000 Presidential Election Resources.
	fisher.lib.virginia.edu /elections/maps (102 words)

	China Tried to Influence 1996 Elections, Intelligence Committee Finds [Free Republic]
		WASHINGTON — China had a plan to funnel money to help congressional candidates deemed favorable to Chinese interests during the 1996 elections, but did not try to directly influence individual lawmakers, the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded.
		A report detailing the activities of the committee during the last Congress says U.S. intelligence confirmed China's efforts to influence the 1996 elections.
		Clinton and his minions did in the 1992 and 1996 campaigns.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b77fc3f6aec.htm (836 words)

	Presidential Elections, 1789–2004
		The election of 1804 was the first one in which the electors voted for president and vice president on separate ballots.
		NOTE: The Constitution specifies that the president and vice president be chosen through the votes cast by electors chosen by the states, rather than by a direct popular vote.
		One elector from the District of Columbia left her ballot blank to protest the city's lack of representation in Congress, leaving Gore with 266 electoral votes instead of 267.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0781450.html (699 words)

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