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	Austria - MSN Encarta
		Austria’s economic recovery was greatly facilitated by United States aid given under the European Recovery Program.
		The presidential election in 1986 was won by the People’s Party candidate, Kurt Waldheim, former secretary general of the United Nations, despite allegations that he had lied about his complicity in Nazi atrocities while serving in the German army during World War II.
		In 1994, five years after it was first submitted, Austria’s application to join the EU was endorsed by the European Parliament and approved by Austrian voters in a nationwide referendum.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761575697_12/Austria.html (1382 words)

	Austria - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Austria’s government collapsed in September 2002 after Haider mounted a revolt within the Freedom Party that forced the resignation of Freedom Party leader and Austrian vice chancellor Susanne Riess-Passer.
		The elections were a clear victory for the People’s Party, which gained 42 percent of the vote, and a rebuke for the Freedom Party, which saw its share of the vote decline to just 10 percent.
		In Austria’s 2004 presidential election, a candidate backed by Schüssel’s conservative coalition was defeated by Social Democrat Heinz Fischer, who received 52 percent of the vote.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761575697___41/Austria.html (7120 words)

	Latvia Election Report [Complete Document] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE monitored the elections in Latvia at the invitation of the Latvian Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
		In the elections to the Saeima on 5-6 June 1993, the status of the Soviet-era immigrants was one of the main issues, along with Soviet troop withdrawal and economic reforms.
		Legislation was adopted in the summer of 1995 to address the issues of pre-election canvassing on the electronic media and political party financing.
	www.hri.org /docs/inter/95-10-25.doc.html (5511 words)

	History of Austria
		Representatives of the new Republic of Austria convinced them that it was unfair to penalize Austria for the actions of a now dissolved Empire, especially as other areas of the Empire were now perceived to be on the "victorious" side, simply because they had renounced the Empire at the end of the war.
		The German-speaking parts of western Hungary, now christianed Burgenland, joined Austria as a new state in 1921, with the exception of the city of Sopron, whose population decided in a referendum (which is sometimes considered by Austrians to have been rigged) to remain with Hungary.
		Austria joined the European Union in 1995 (Video of the signing in 1994), and Austria was set on the track towards joining the Eurozone, which it did in 2002.
	www.travelaustriaplus.com /history.html (2109 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet / Recursos Electorales en la Internet
		The results of legislative elections held in Sweden from 1973 to 2006, as well as an overview of the proportional representation system used to choose members of the Swedish legislature are available in Elections to the Swedish Riksdag.
		The results of legislative elections held in Norway from 1985 to 2005, as well as a description of the proportional representation system used to choose members of the Norwegian legislature are available in Elections to the Norwegian Storting.
		Elections to the New Zealand House of Representatives and Elections to the German Bundestag describe the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) representation system used in both countries, with results of parliamentary elections held in New Zealand from 1996 to 2005 and in Germany from 1972 to 2005.
	www.electionresources.org (1464 words)

	Austria
		Legislation went into effect to increase protection for women against domestic violence, which has been a problem and is considered to be greatly underreported.
		Austria has signed the 1951 U.N. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, but subscribes to the "safe country" concept, which requires asylum seekers who enter illegally to depart and seek refugee status from outside the country.
		In 1994 the European Court of Justice ruled that the country's law prohibiting women from working nights was not permissible and gave the Government until 2001 to adapt its legislation to gender-neutral European Union (EU) regulations.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/1999/317.htm (6448 words)

	Austria Regional Country Austria
		Austria (German Österreich), republic in central Europe, bounded on the north by the Czech Republic; on the northeast by Slovakia; on the east by Hungary; on the south by Slovenia, Italy, and Switzerland; and on the west by Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Germany.
		Austria is a democratic, federal republic governed according to the constitution of 1920, as amended in 1929 and subsequently modified.
		In 1994, five years after it was first submitted, Austria’s application to join the EU was endorsed by the European Parliament and approved by Austrian voters in a nationwide referendum.
	www.latifm.com /look/Regional_Austria.htm (9362 words)

	Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1999 - Austria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Legislation went into effect to increase protection for women against domestic violence, which has been a problem and is considered to be greatly underreported.
		Austria has signed the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, but subscribes to the "safe country" concept, which requires asylum seekers who have entered illegally to depart and seek refugee status from outside the country.
		Legislation was passed in 1997 to provide law enforcement agencies with expanded investigative tools, such as electronic eavesdropping, merging of databases, and witness protection programs.
	www.usemb.se /human/human1999/austria.html (6512 words)

	Austrian Press and Information Service \| Washington, D.C. - History II
		In 1925 Austria issued a new currency in the form of the schilling and the rigid control exercised by the League of Nations was withdrawn.
		Austria and its politicians, who had learnt from the bitter experiences of the past, together turned their attention to the reconstruction of the country and the restoration of full sovereignty.
		Austria's efforts to join the EEC met with harsh comments from the Soviet Union as one of the signatory parties of the State Treaty.
	www.austria.org /history-ii (6127 words)

	Austria
		Austria is a constitutional democracy with a federal parliamentary form of government.
		In 1994 the European Court of Justice ruled that the country's law prohibiting women from working nights was not permissible and gave the Government until 2001 to adapt its legislation to gender-neutral EU regulations.
		Austria is particularly attractive to traffickers due to its geographic location and to the fact that citizens of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary do not require visas to enter the country.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/eur/674.htm (7072 words)

	1993 Human Rights Report: AUSTRIA
		Opposition groups, including political parties and human rights organizations, maintain that Austria's strict new asylum laws violate the right to apply for asylum and the right of asylum seekers to reside in Austria while their rejected asylum requests are appealed.
		Elections are free and regularly draw high levels of participation.
		Austria has enacted extensive legislation setting occupational health and safety standards, under which the Labor Inspectorate of the Ministry of Social Affairs conducts inspections and ensures the effective protection of workers.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/democracy/1993_hrp_report/93hrp_report_eur/Austria.html (3026 words)

	Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2000 - Austria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1994 the European Court of Justice ruled that the country's law prohibiting women from working nights was not permissible and gave the Government until 2001 to adapt its legislation to gender-neutral EU regulations.
		During the national election campaign, the Freedom Party exploited the fears of many citizens that EU expansion and a continued influx of asylum seekers and refugees from the Balkans and other areas would result in uncontrolled immigration.
		Austria is particularly attractive to traffickers due to its geographic location and to the fact that citizens of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary do not require visas to enter the country.
	www.usemb.se /human/2000/europe/austria.html (7037 words)

	Expatriate Austria Vienne, International removals, Movins Relocation, Aparthotel
		Austria is a member of the European Union since the 1st January 1995.
		In the presidential elections in 1986, a conservative, Mr Kurt Waldheim is elected.
		Austria also profits from its geographical proximity to the developing eastern European countries (15% of its exports go there, compared to an average of 10% for other European Union countries), and has 14,000 companies installed in the Central European and Eastern countries (CEEC).
	www.expat-today.com /country_file/austria/expat1.htm (1269 words)

	Venice Commission - Commission de Venise
		The situation in Germany and Austria is different, in as much as these countries have no minorities which constitute the bulk of the population in any particular region.
		In Austria, the Constitutional Court has recognised that the right to instruction in the Slovenian language for persons belonging to that minority in Carinthia is guaranteed by the Federal Constitution.
		The other rules on behalf of minorities are enshrined in the legislation of the L?nder and provide for certain entitlements for minorities to receive education in their own language, and also for measures of affirmative action.
	www.venice.coe.int /docs/1994/CDL-MIN(1994)001rev2-e.asp (3019 words)

	Austrian People's Party Information
		In particular, it is expressly not interested in strengthening Austria's incomplete separation of church and state and appears to be somewhat skeptical of affirmative action, gay rights, and other forms of real or perceived Social engineering.
		In particular, it is backed by a majority of Austria's civil servants, a remarkably large and influential group due to the size and scope of Austria's government bureaucracy.
		Austria's blue collar workers, by comparison, tend to endorse the Social Democratic Party and the Freedom Party.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Austrian_People's_Party (1011 words)

	Elections in Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Austria elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature.
		From 1945 to 1986 Austria had two strong parties and a third party that was electorally successful; since 1986, four parties (for a few years 5) are represented in parliament.
		The voting age is 18 for federal elections and for other elections in most states, although recent years have seen it lowered to 16 for state and local elections in some states.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Austria (297 words)

	Crosswalk.com - The 'Blame Bush' Game Rolls On
		Carter whines that Republican election officials have tried to disqualify 22,000 African American voters in Florida, voters who are, he says, "likely Democrats." Carter neglects to mention that the disenfranchised are convicted felons who, by virtue of their non-virtue -- their felony -- are automatically deprived of their civil rights, including the right to vote.
		During the 2000 election, 46,000 people were registered to vote in both New York and Florida, according to election records in both states.
		Because election records are routinely purged, there is no way to tell how many people -- from either party -- voted twice, but the fact that George W. Bush won Florida by even one single vote is nothing short of a miracle -- and I use "miracle" in the literal, biblical sense.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/election/1287666.html (1630 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet: Federal Elections in Austria - Elections to the Nationalrat
		The Parliament of the Republic of Austria is composed of a lower house, the Nationalrat or National Council, whose members are directly elected by universal adult suffrage, and an upper house, the Bundesrat or Federal Council, whose members are appointed by the legislatures of the Länder or states of Austria.
		For the distribution of constituency seats, the Hagenbach-Bischoff rule was replaced by the Hare method, in which the electoral quota is calculated by dividing the total number of valid votes by the number of seats to be filled; unallocated seats continued to be apportioned by the d'Hondt rule.
		After the State Treaty of 1955 made Austria fully sovereign (as well as neutral), and Soviet troops withdrew from the eastern part of the country, the KPÖ's fortunes declined: in 1959 it lost the few seats it held in the National Council, and in subsequent elections it gradually lost most of its remaining support.
	electionresources.org /at (1631 words)

	Domestic Observers Group - First page
		On the election day the electoral procedures and vote counting process were organized in a comparatively quieter environment.
		Campaigning began in France Monday for the June 10 and 17 legislative elections, in which President Nicolas Sarkozy's ruling UMP party is expected to win a comfortable majority.
		Council Directive 94/80/EC of 19 December 1994 laying down detailed arrangements for the exercise of the right to vote and to stand as a candidate in municipal elections by citizens of the Union residing in a Member State of which they are not nationals.
	www.electiondog.net (1183 words)

	Federal Chancellary of Austria
		The election reference date is mainly relevant to all candidates or groups whose nominations have not been signed by three Members of Parliament.
		Austria was the first foreign country to which Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány paid an official visit (11 July 2006) after his re-election as head of government.
		The representative of the Chinese embassy in Austria, Embassy Counsellor Liang, emphasised that this was the moment to present the exhibition as China was very open to new fields like architecture and was undergoing a radical transformation.
	www.austria.gv.at /site/infodate__24.07.2006/4970/default.aspx (4375 words)

	WTO \| Trade policy review - Pakistan 1995
		Matters not referred to in either list, may be subject to laws made by a provincial assembly; however, whenever any provision of an act of a provisional assembly contradicts an Act of Parliament, the corresponding provisions of the act of the provincial assembly are void.
		It is the understanding of the Secretariat that trade matters are under the legislative authority of the Federal Legislature.
		The tariff reform programme, to be implemented between 1994 and 1997, is expected to improve the tariff structure not only through reducing the still high taxes on international trade, but also through further simplification of the tariff structure through elimination of most tariff exemptions and concessions.
	www.wto.org /english/tratop_e/tpr_e/tp1_e.htm (4564 words)

	Election Observers
		The week of the elections observers were oriented, trained and involved in the electoral process in the communities 2 days prior and the day of the elections.
		Given the fierce competition in the 2003 elections at the municipal level, in the run-up to the 2004 Presidential elections, most political parties, despite voicing strong protests against floating votes, attempted to exploit this legal loophole to their advantage.
		In the final weeks of the campaign, up until the day before the elections, Mission Observers were informed of several cases of vote buying and influencing in rural communities in which voters had to give up their voting cards or promise to vote for a particular party.
	www.cis-elsalvador.org /election_observers_finalreport2003.htm (8155 words)

	Austria: Angus Reid Global Monitor
		Austria was once part of the Hapsburg Empire, and became a partner in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the 19th Century.
		Soviet troops would liberate Vienna in 1945, and Austria was occupied by soldiers from the Soviet Union, Britain, the United States and France.
		In April 2004, SPO member Heinz Fischer won the presidential election with 52.41 per cent of the vote in a contest against Benita Ferrero-Waldner of the OVP.
	www.angus-reid.com /tracker/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=12652 (1781 words)

	Electing a President - Two-Round Systems — ACE Electoral Knowledge Network
		As in legislative elections, one way to avoid candidates being elected with only a small proportion of the popular vote is to hold a second ballot if no one candidate wins an absolute majority on the first round.
		For example, in the 1990 elections in Peru, Alberto Fujimori obtained 56 per cent of the votes in the second round, but his party won only 14 of 60 seats in the Senate and 33 seats of 180 in the Chamber of Deputies.
		In Brazil in 1989, Fernando Collor de Mello was elected in the second round with just under half of the votes, but his party won, in non-concurrent legislative elections, only three of the 75 Senate seats and only 40 of 503 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.
	aceproject.org /ace-en/topics/es/ese/ese01/ese01b (458 words)

	District Level Electoral Data on the Internet
		We are in the process of generating codebooks for each of these elections files; in the meantime, the abbreviations used are taken directly from the on-line source.
		When downloading results from national election authorities, users should be aware that a number of countries' websites are only compatible with Microsoft Explorer.
		The link for “results” at the bottom of the page links to a page listing the various districts and the winning candidate; complete results for each district are then available by clicking on the district name.
	www.duke.edu /~mms16/DistrictLeveldatasources.htm (869 words)

	Ohio Magazine Election Guide 2006 \| Ohio Magazine Ohio Magazine is a magazine dedicated to Ohio by providing Ohioans ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The general election is Nov. 7, with polls open from 6:30 a.m.
		We also introduced new voting equipment to all 88 counties before the first federal election in 2006 to be one of the first states to meet this deadline.
		It includes instituting weekly conference calls with local elections officials, creating a daily blog to keep local boards informed, increasing ethics training, and issuing clear, comprehensive directives and advisories to remove election process confusion at the local level.
	www.ohiomagazine.com /election (5869 words)

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