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	Election promise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Elections promises are part of an election platform, but platforms also contain vague ideals and generalities as well as specific promises.
		Election promises have been broken for as long as elections have been held and this is likely to continue.
		Promises are usually based on the rosiest of possible futures, a strong economy and cooperative leaders of legislatures and sub-national entities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Election_promise (929 words)

	Election - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Democracy Watch (International) website, further defines fair democratic elections as, "Elections in which great care is taken to prevent any explicit or hidden structural bias towards any one candidate, aside from those beneficial biases that naturally result from an electorate that is equally well informed about the various assets and liabilities of each candidate".
		In the 2004 Iranian parliamentary elections almost all of the reformist candidates were ruled unfit by the Guardian Council of religious leaders.
		In order for democratic elections to be fair and competitive, opposition parties and candidates must enjoy the rights to freedom of speech, assembly, and movement as necessary to voice their criticisms of the government openly and to bring alternative policies and candidates to the voters.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /election.htm (2267 words)

	Election promise -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Elections promises are part of an (additional info and facts about election platform) election platform, but platforms also contain vague ideals and generalities as well as specific promises.
		In the (additional info and facts about 2003 Ontario election) 2003 Ontario election the (additional info and facts about Ontario Liberal Party) Ontario Liberal Party also made all three promises and was forced to raise taxes once it found itself in government.
		Adding caveats to promises based on economic performance would hurt the politician, and is also impossible in ten second news (A very short speech; usually on radio or television) sound bites or thirty second (A commercially sponsored ad on radio or television) commercials.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/el/election_promise.htm (1076 words)

	Election
		An election is a process a vote is held to elected candidates to an office.
		Elections are held in many settings from student councils to corporate officers.
		Over the last few centuries since elections began to be held in the United States, France, Britain and other nations there has been a long struggle to expand the franchise to excluded groups.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/e/el/election.html (2008 words)

	Election Article, Election Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Elections areheld in many settings from student councils to corporate officers.The study of elections is called psephology.
		In the 2004 Iranian parliamentary elections almost all of the reformist candidates were ruledunfit by the Guardian Council of religious leaders.
		In order for democratic elections to be fair and competitive, opposition parties and candidates must enjoy the rights to freedom of speech, assembly, and movement as necessary to voicetheir criticisms of the government openly and to bring alternative policies and candidates to the voters.
	www.anoca.org /elections/states/election.html (1922 words)

	Kerux...The Online Journal of Biblical Theology
		Thus, election is seen to have a concrete point of reference with regard to the covenant, viz., in a testament.
		If abstract proof of the doctrine of election was all that mattered to Paul, he might have argued from the election of other Old Testament individuals and presented a catalogue of the elect on the pattern of the catalogue of faith saints in Hebrews 11.
		Election is one theological premise in the larger argument for faith alone.
	www.kerux.com /documents/keruxv12n2a1.asp (4308 words)

	Breach of Contract case being heard, involving broken election promise.
		Worse, McGuinty had spent the fall 2003 election campaign trumpeting his message of "I won't lower your taxes, but I won't raise them, either." He took this pledge a step further, by signing the CTF Taxpayer Protection Promise on September 11, 2003, undertaking not to raise taxes or run deficits and to respect the TPA.
		Since the election, the Premier's public statements have been to the effect that he could not keep the deal because he was blindsided by a deficit of $5.6-billion, as opposed to the $2.2-billion that was expected.
		If politicians can't be held accountable for their promises, then the public need other means, such as recall laws, to hold them to account.
	ruralcouncil.ca /breach-ont-041112.htm (850 words)

	League of Women Voters of California. Vote Yes on Proposition 52.
		Elections officials say they have found that 15 days is not enough time for them to prepare adequately for election day.
		Registration on election day would require a valid California driver's license or two other forms of identification from a list approved by the Secretary of State to insure that eligible potential voters are at the correct polling place.
		Election day voter registration will help turn the tide, guaranteeing that the voices of everyone eligible to vote can be heard on election day.
	ca.lwv.org /action/prop0211/prop52.html (955 words)

	[343 NLRB No. 124] DynCorp, 9-CA-37324
		It is well established that an employer’s promise or grant of benefits during an organizing campaign is presumed to influence employees to relinquish their support for the union, and a violation is made out unless the employer establishes a legitimate reason for the timing of its announcement.
		It is further ordered that the election held on March 8, 2000, in Case 9–RC–17352 be set aside, and that this case be severed and remanded to the Regional Director to conduct a new election when he deems it appropriate.
		A second election by secret ballot shall be held among the employees in the unit found appropriate, whenever the Regional Director deems appropriate.
	www.nlrb.gov /nlrb/shared_files/decisions/343/343-124.htm (13328 words)

	Opinion: Forgotten promise of election help
		The Legislature had promised $16-million this year, but when the House revealed its budget recently, it contained no money for voting machines or other election improvements.
		They cleaned up election law and promised $32-million over two years, most of it for counties to replace punch cards with optical scanners or touch screens.
		A bill that looked promising would have paid states $6,000 per precinct to modernize their voting equipment, which would have meant about $2-million for Pinellas County.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/03/13/news_pf/Opinion/Forgotten_promise_of_.shtml (495 words)

	Death Ends Fun: Promise to cheat
		This was in clear contrast to the Shiv Sena-BJP election promise, which was that they would not extend the cut-off date past 1995.
		That is, by subscribing to this party promise, the various Congress and NCP MLAs who won election made this commitment to their voters: that all slums built before 2000 would be allowed to stay intact.
		It seems to me that this may be a fit case for taking our politicians to court for false election promises: because this is a specific, clearly worded commitment, the failure to keep which has caused specific damage to the property of a specific person (if we can find such a person).
	dcubed.blogspot.com /2005/02/promise-to-cheat.html (1054 words)

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		Officials said the National Election Board was still investigating allegations of fraud and vote-rigging in more than 200 remaining constituencies.
		Claims of vote-rigging in Ethiopia's third ever elections sparked violence, in which at least 36 people were reportedly shot dead by police in the capital, Addis Ababa, in June.
		Election chief Kemal Bedri said delays in releasing the tally had been caused by the need to look into widespread complaints.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=48057&SelectRegion=Horn_of_Africa&SelectCountry=ETHIOPIA (581 words)

	Welcome to the Dalton McGuinty Promise Breakers Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		McGuinty repeated some of his campaign promises last night, but he was careful not to quantify them or to say when they would be kept.
		Too bad he didn’t think of that last year, before he made all those promises he is now finding difficult, if not impossible, to keep.
		We had an election in October in the middle of those municipal elections.
	www.promisebreakersclub.com (3054 words)

	Messiah's Covenant Community Church - Articles Detail
		The promise is to believers and their children, not just to the elect.
		By equating the promise of salvation with the promise of election, the eternal and unchangeable decree of God is made conditional upon the faith of the one baptized (contrary to Canons I: Art.
		Third, to declare that at baptism God promises that you are really one of His elect (elected in Christ to life eternal) is contrary to what God Himself says about certain individuals who have received the sign and seal of the covenant.
	www.messiahnyc.org /ArticlesDetail.asp?id=46 (2965 words)

	Fredonia Campus Greens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Election officials in that county now say a cartridge from a voting machine generated errors after the precinct closed - and only 365 people voted for Bush.
		Before Election Day, Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell (a Republican who co-chairs President Bushs statewide campaign) was challenged by voters-rights organizations for denying citizens their voting rights on the basis of a rule (later rescinded) requiring voter registration forms be printed on 80 pound paper stock.
		Ralph Nader calls upon John Edwards and John Kerry to be serious about their post-election promise: "Our offices are being flooded with faxes and e-mails asking for assistance in resolving these irregularities - a lot of them are citizens who voted for you.
	www.fredonia.edu /sa/campusgreens/avotenaderdem.html (797 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		State and local election officials say a massive vote-by-mail program could effectively provide access for all voters, regardless of location, but the hurdles are daunting: •The Federal Emergency Management Agency has agreed to mail election-information packets on behalf of the state of Louisiana to people who have evacuated New Orleans.
		When Arnie was running for election against then governor Gray-out Davis, he promised the world-a complete accounting of state funds, cost cutting measures at every state office and removing barriers for businesses to...
		Opposition parties promised rallies this week in protest against what they predicted would be widespread election fraud, although analysts say there is unlikely to be a repeat of the popular revolts that followed disputed polls in fellow ex-Soviet states Ukraine and Georgia.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=election (5168 words)

	The sound of breaking promises
		Yet only 5 days after the election it became apparent that the coalition was having second thoughts about its promise about airspace.
		Despite the election promises of continuing with NAS, despite the public statements on our side, in private the Minister was assuring Airservices he would not issue a Direction to prevent them rolling NAS back.
		With a government prepared to walk away from its promises, and the most anti-GA Minister we have ever had back in the saddle, aviation reform in Australia is dead for my lifetime.
	www.airsafety.com.au /promise.htm (1232 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Arafat under pressure to reform
		A meeting of the Palestinian Electoral Commission on Sunday said it was ready to propose a timetable to Mr Arafat for elections which he has promised to hold.
		Mr Shtayyeh made it clear that no election would be possible without co-operation from Israel, whose forces are restricting Palestinians' movement in the West Bank and between the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
		There have been suggestions municipal elections could be held later this year with legislative elections taking place in early 2003.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/1996356.stm (603 words)

	Politics \| Duncan Smith: Brown broke election promise
		You've broken your promise to the British people," he told Mr Brown, after Labour MPs had cheered the chancellor to the rafters for a rise in health spending of 9.4% of GDP by 2007-8.
		He said: "The one thing we do know is that you have broken one major election promise - by putting up national insurance, a tax on income.
		He said: "At the last election it was the Liberal Democrats who pointed out what was blindingly obvious to those who use the NHS - that extra investment was needed to save public services.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4396198-110366,00.html (687 words)

	CTV.ca \| Ont. Grits dogged by 'promise-breakers' label
		Raising taxes after explicitly promising not to "was a very unpopular move" and left some voters feeling "deceived" by the Liberals, said John Shields, a politics professor at Ryerson University in Toronto.
		After last fall's election victory, the Liberals' honeymoon was brief and the first few months set a negative tone for the year.
		To add to that misery, the Liberals also retracted their promise to balance the budget immediately, instead planning to put the books in the fl by the last year of their mandate.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1096742459515_252 (1254 words)

	CBC - Manitoba Votes 2003
		During election campaigns, politicians tend to make a lot of promises.
		Throughout the 2003 Manitoba election campaign, CBC Manitoba is keeping track of those promises.
		Promise Box: Find out what politicians are vowing to do this time around.
	www.cbc.ca /manitobavotes2003/features/promises.html (2032 words)

	Printer version - Schroeder reneges on election promise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In spite of their much-publicised "No" to participation in a US-Iraq war during the recent election, the German government agreed last week at the NATO summit to give the USA all-important fly-over rights and the use of their air bases, in the event of an ever more likely attack on Iraq.
		This new agreement with the US is being viewed throughout Germany as a violation of his vote-winning promise, angering the SPD's coalition partner, the Greens, and even attracting criticism from within the ranks of the Social Democrats.
		Talk of reinstating a tax on the wealthy and increasing the price of cigarettes in order to find a way out of the country's exceedingly dismal financial troubles were condemned by the opposition, who has the majority in the upper house, and decried in the nation's tabloids.
	www.crikey.com.au /columnists/2002/11/27-germany.print.html (1146 words)

	PM - Bracks Government unpopular over no-toll broken promise
		Yesterday's stunning u-turn on a key election promise has Victorian Labor under attack from all sides, an unusual experience for a Government that seemed untouchable in its first term.
		I understand that we have changed our position, changed the position that we took to the election and subsequently, and of course there is disquiet about that.
		What he's hoping is that admitting it will soften the blow and that the public will acknowledge that it was a hard decision that had to be taken for the good of the budget.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2003/s833090.htm (735 words)

	Let's Talk Taxes - Recalling an Election Promise
		As the first province to implement fixed budget and election dates, BC is the country's leader in democratic reform.
		Long before his 2001 election promise, Campbell was trying to amend The Recall and Initiative Act.
		Although the BC Liberals have made some great strides to stem the growing democratic deficit, Gordon Campbell needs to "recall" his 2001 election promise to make recall and initiative workable.
	www.taxpayer.com /main/news.php?news_id=1526 (804 words)

	Time For Govt to honour pre-election broadcasting promise - Green Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One mechanism to achieve this would be to allow the organisation to retain 70 per cent of its potential dividends, rather than the 30 per cent it is allowed to retain at present.
		This policy would deliver on the promise the Labour Party made in its broadcasting manifesto before the last election.
		Ms Kedgley said she was disappointed by the Broadcasting Minister's comments in parliament yesterday that she expected the Charter to be implemented progressively, which would "allow costs to be managed over time".
	www.greens.org.nz /docs/press/010404broadcasting.htm (335 words)

	CBC News: Martin reaffirms election promise
		Prime Minister Paul Martin has reaffirmed his promise to call an election within 30 days of the release of the final sponsorship scandal report.
		Some have suggested that might be a possibility, since there's little appetite for an election among Liberals, Conservatives and the general public.
		During the sponsorship scandal hearings in the spring, Martin promised an election after the Gomery report was released as a tactic to buy himself more time to govern and persuade the opposition to delay a non-confidence vote.
	www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2005/08/24/canada-election-20050824.html (276 words)

	ODA: Press Releases. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Because the Harris government has repeatedly refused to take any steps to live up to an important election promise to people in Ontario with disabilities, a board based disability coalition has come up with a novel approach to get the entire Legislature to publicly force Mike Harris' hand.
		During the 1995 election campaign, Mike Harris said he would work with the Ontarians With Disabilities Act Committee to develop and pass a law which would achieve and guarantee a barrier-free society for people with disabilities.
		When Sheila Copps resigned her federal seat because she did not keep an election promise, Mike Harris heartily applauded, saying he too would resign if he did not keep his election promises.
	www.odacommittee.net /press1.html (404 words)

	Sligo Weekender: Farm body seeks election promise
		THE Irish Farmers Association is seeking firm commitments from all European and local election candidates that they will only support a Nitrates Action Programme for Ireland which does not undermine the livelihoods of farmers and rural communities.
		These are to provide for organic nitrogen limits up to 250 kg Nitrogen per hectare with practical conditions, to engage immediately with farmers in the development of the detailed measures to be included in the Action Programme, and to ensure all economic and local authority sectors play their part in protecting water quality.
		Gilligan said IFA County Executives are meeting all candidates in the run-up the June 11 elections to press for their full support for IFA’s stance on the Nitrates Directive at home and in Europe.
	www.sligoweekender.ie /news/story.asp?j=17916 (276 words)

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