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	Electoral Backgrounder 14: Electoral Fraud and Multiple Voting
		In many cases, allegations of electoral fraud are made because the complexities of the federal electoral system, and the in-built accountability and transparency measures that guard against such fraud, are not completely understood or appreciated, leading to suspicions about the integrity of the organisation conducting the election.
		In other cases, allegations of electoral fraud may be deliberately intended to cast doubt on the legitimacy of an incoming government, or to raise suspicions about forthcoming elections so as to discredit the result in advance, and may be part of a wider campaign of political mischief.
		Electoral fraud is a term used to refer to a range of offences contained in the Electoral Act, and can be applied to the overall conduct of an election, to the maintenance of the electoral rolls, or to more specific instances of enrolment and voting behaviour.
	www.aec.gov.au /_content/how/backgrounders/14/index.htm (5275 words)

	Electoral fraud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Electoral fraud is illegal interference with the process of an election.
		Acts of fraud tend to involve affecting vote counts to bring about a desired election outcome, either by increasing the vote share of the favored candidate or depressing the vote share of the rival candidates.
		Some notorious examples of electoral fraud in the United States of America include the widespread election manipulation committed by the Daley Machine in 20th century Chicago and Tammany Hall in 19th century New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Electoral_fraud (1513 words)

	Mexico: mass protest against electoral fraud acquires insurrectionary proportions
		The electoral fraud of July 2 to the detriment of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) is creating an unprecedented and deep social impact.
		Now he is linking the struggle against electoral fraud with a general struggle against privatisations, against poverty, against corruption, for access to the media and for a clean-up of the institutions.
		It is the continuation on the electoral plane of the struggle of millions of people who either individually or collectively have been waging a struggle against poverty and oppression.
	www.marxist.com /mexico-protest-electoral-fraud-revolution.htm (1719 words)

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		Majority fraud is probably far easier than minority fraud: for minority fraud to be successful the minority must fool the majority party within its own state, which probably controls the election machinery.
		Majority fraud requires merely that the party which probably controls the election machinery must manage to fool or silence a group that is already a minority.
		But in a majority-rules system, majority fraud is just as effective as minority fraud -- boosting a candidate's vote within a state from 60% to 70% helps tip a national election just as much as boosting it from 30% to 40% or from 45% to 55%.
	www.psych.cornell.edu /Darlington/electorl.htm (830 words)

	Harvard's Hausmann & MIT's Rigobon speak out about Venezuela's electoral fraud \| www.vcrisis.com
		This result opens the possibility that the fraud was committed only in a subset of the 4580 automated centers, say 3000, and that the audit was successful because it directed the search to the 1580 unaltered centers.
		Fraud is nothing other than a deviation between the voters’ intention and the actual count.
		Finally, after an arduous negotiation, the Electoral Council allowed the OAS and the Carter Center to observe all aspects of the election process except for the central computer hub, a place where they also prohibited the presence of any witnesses from the opposition.
	www.vcrisis.com /index.php?content=letters/200409061610 (1392 words)

	Electoral Fraud is OK - Victorian Electoral Commission.
		That certainly seems to be the case with the saga of electoral fraud and vote-rigging in the Frankston East by-election.
		Signed by the Electoral Commissioner C. Barry, the letter effectively says that electoral fraud is within the law as far as the VEC is concerned.
		In plain English it means that electoral fraud as perpetrated by the major parties is allowable and therefore serves to perpetuate the undemocratic two-party rule in Australia.
	www.smuggled.com /MedRel65.htm (514 words)

	Electoral fraud strikes at the heart of democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In Blackburn, where a Labour activist was sentenced to three years and seven months in jail for electoral fraud last week, they have risen from 7,603 to 20,351.
		It's also clear that their will be plenty of allegations of electoral fraud, particularly from candidates who lose by a narrow margin.
		Electoral fraud strikes at the heart of democracy, so this is worse than Labour's abolition of the rule of law, their use of detention without trial, their authoritarian plans for identity cards, their "control orders" by which they can put people under house arrest (again, without trial).
	www.cabalamat.org /weblog/art_540.html (1031 words)

	THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE: Bulwark Against Fraud (Good Read) [Free Republic]
		That is the electoral college, where each state is represented by its population, so the President is elected on popular basis, but in our federal system it is the popupar vote of each state that counts, not the popular vote of a nation.
		And if the electoral college is eliminated the populatoins would gravitate to the cities for the access to the various gubment handouts and to grab the ear of the power brokers.
		Each state has two electors to appoint as its legislature sees fit, but the rest are assigned one per congressional district and have to vote for the majority winner in that district (if any) or be directed by their state to vote for one of the top two (otherwise).
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a0c8d450dca.htm (1902 words)

	Council stops electoral registration fraud
		She was paid a set rate for the delivery of addresses and for visiting households from which forms had not been returned.
		The matter was referred to the council's internal audit counter fraud team, who began an investigation, which involved interviewing residents and taking statements.
		Thompson was interviewed by counter fraud staff where she admitted she had completed some of the forms herself, where she had not received a reply, including forging signatures.
	www.newham.gov.uk /News/2006/March/electoralregistrationfraud.htm (339 words)

	Electoral fraud audit - SourceWatch
		An electoral fraud audit is a forensic audit to detect electoral fraud.
		Bev Harris, an investigative writer, claims that her methods for isolating financial fraud have resulted in convictions or settlements from embezzlers and financial fraudsters.
		She, Andy Stephenson and Kathleen Wynne were in Florida, at the time of this release to investigate in particular the Diebold counties to determine if the Diebold margin in Florida warrants sufficient detailed examination of the internal audit log of Diebold voting machines used in Florida's counties, and a few of Ohio's.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Electoral_fraud_audit (428 words)

	Electoral fraud - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Electoral fraud is possibly the single most effective propaganda technique ever created.
		The Roman Empire as consolidated under Emperor Augustus Caesar used the technique, with the Emperor's friends and family running for the electoral offices that had been established under the old Roman Republic.
		As with today's electoral frauds, a great pomp and circumstance would accompany the elections to posts of Consul, Tribune, etc..
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Electoral_fraud (589 words)

	The Electoral Commission : Your area : Northern Ireland : Electoral registration in Northern Ireland
		The Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 brought about the most significant change to electoral law and practice in Northern Ireland for many years.
		The Act was introduced primarily to combat perceptions of electoral fraud that had existed in Northern Ireland for many decades and introduced fundamental changes to the voter registration process.
		The Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002: Statistical analysis of the Northern Ireland register.
	www.electoralcommission.org.uk /your-area/registrationresearch.cfm (408 words)

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		Force the question of election fraud and demand an answer, and the most likely response will be a string of ad hominem insults – “sore losers,” “paranoid,” “conspiracy theorists” -- attacks on the messenger and a dismissal of the message.
		Persist, and you might get as a reply, not evidence that the elections were honest and valid (there is very little of that), but rather some rhetorical questions as to the attitudes and motives of the alleged perpetrators and to the practical difficulties of their successfully accomplishing a stolen national election.
		Miller’s sub-text throughout his book is that the great electoral hijack has been accomplished with the cooperation, one might even say the connivance, of the mainstream media, without which the crime could never have succeeded.
	www.crisispapers.org /essays6p/evidence.htm (1861 words)

	Election Updates: Joshua Tucker: paper on electoral fraud in post-communist nations
		Electoral Fraud, Collective Action Problems, and the "2nd Wave" of Post-Communist Democratic Revolutions." Tucker is a professor in NYU's politics department, studying politics and elections primarily in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
		Second, the term electoral fraud is intended to refer to situations in which electoral results were knowingly tampered with in an effort to advantage one candidate (or set of candidates) over another.
		Put another way, the arguments that follow assume that if the fraud is corrected, there is a strong chance that a different group of political forces would come to power.
	electionupdates.caltech.edu /2006/12/joshua-tucker-paper-on-electoral-fraud.html (497 words)

	True Blue Liberal » Mexican Electoral Fraud Wins Round One - Round Two Now Begins
		It was no surprise on Sunday that the Mexican Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) ruled its partial recount of about 9% of the ballots cast in the disputed presidential election held on July 2 showed ruling National Action Party (PAN) candidate still the winner.
		Lopez Obrador aides cited evidence of overwhelming fraud in at least one-third of the polling stations and that any failure to do a recount in all of them would show clear IFE bias toward its announced winner on July 6 and would not be accepted without a concerted fight.
		The fraud uncovered so far showed the preliminary vote totals were manipulated to allow PAN candidate Felipe Calderon to be the winner.
	www.trueblueliberal.com /2006/08/15/mexican-electoral-fraud-wins-round-one-round-two-now-begins (829 words)

	The Electoral Commission : Media centre : News releases: campaigns
		The seminar run jointly by ACPO and the Electoral Commission was attended by representatives of all police forces and other parties.
		"Electoral fraud is a crime which we are committed to tackling.
		With tighter procedures for postal and proxy voting this year, as well as stricter penalties for those breaking the law, we believe the electoral process is now much better protected.
	www.electoralcommission.gov.uk /media-centre/newsreleasecampaigns.cfm/news/619 (522 words)

	Malta: Electoral Reform
		Through public pressure and pressure by the political parties on the Electoral Commission, the political parties were given a number of new facilities to oversee the electoral process to ensure that no electoral fraud occurred.
		Today, the district electoral quota is 16.6% of all valid votes polled in that division which, in an extreme case, means that even through a party polls slightly less than 16.6% of all the votes nationally, it might still not elect a single Member of Parliament.
		In addition to the electoral agent which each candidate has at present, the right of parties to nominate party agents has been introduced and the parties will have the right to nominate a number of agents equal to the number of ballot boxes (as in fact happened in the general elections of 1981 and 1987).
	www.maltadata.com /white.htm (3566 words)

	ePluribus Media Community \|\| ALMO Claims Mexico Electoral Fraud Unveiled
		It seems elections only appear to be democratic throughout the world wherever the US has a strategic interest, such as in Colombia and Peru in 2006 and Iraq and Afghanistan in 2005 which these days means everywhere.
		While progress has been made in developing and strengthening Mexican electoral institutions, it is evident that the country is still in the process of consolidating democratic practices.
		Electoral fraud in the form of coercion and vote buying continues to be a problem in many areas of Mexico.
	scoop.epluribusmedia.org /story/2006/7/26/9429/78339 (2003 words)

	G&G \| The Matrix Hides Electoral Fraud
		The fact is, there was far more fraud in 2004 than in any previous year, and if the errors were random, about half would go in Kerry's favor.
		The psychology of electoral domination has two parts: what is being done to people, and how they allow it.
		The extent of fraud and ignorance of it are mind-boggling.
	www.garlicandgrass.org /issue8/Diane_Perlman.cfm (3248 words)

	Mexico's Fractured Electoral Landscape
		Large photos of Ugalde slugged "Wanted for Electoral Fraud" were slapped up on central city walls, and tens of thousands of protesters waved homemade signs dissing the IFE official in colorful epithets unfit for publication on this website.
		He has called upon supporters in all of Mexico's 300 electoral districts to initiate a national march on Wednesday that will converge on the capital on Sunday for what may turn out to be the largest political demonstration in the nation's history.
		Evidence of widespread ballot box manipulation was presented to the nation's top electoral tribunal (known as TRIFE) by the Sunday midnight deadline in an effort to persuade the seven justices that a hand recount is the only way to determine who will be the next president of Mexico.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20060717/ross2 (1031 words)

	SocietyGuardian.co.uk \| Local Government \| Electoral fraud squad arrest Birmingham woman
		A woman was arrested today for alleged ballot fraud in a Birmingham electoral ward that last year experienced a postal voting scandal which a judge said "would disgrace a banana republic".
		The arrest came as London's Metropolitan police said they were investigating possible electoral fraud in seven London boroughs, with George Galloway's Respect party saying it had evidence of "widespread" postal fraud in his Tower Hamlets stronghold.
		"Police tasked with monitoring potential fraud in the forthcoming local elections on May 4 have arrested a woman on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud the local election process in Birmingham," the police said in a statement.
	society.guardian.co.uk /localgovt/story/0,,1761916,00.html (556 words)

	Mozambican Opposition Leader Cries Foul Before Election Ends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		According to one report, the electoral commission on Thursday used canoes and helicopters to get ballot papers to some remote areas that they had not been able to reach the day before.
		Dhlakama accused the ruling FRELIMO party of fraud in the last two elections as well, although international observers declared those polls to be fair.
		The head of the electoral commission said he was dismayed by the low turnout, and appealed to voters to get to the polls immediately.
	www.voanews.com /english/2004-12-02-voa71.cfm (975 words)

	Electoral Fraud.org - Stamping Out Electoral Postal Vote Fraud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Despite an electoral court in Birmingham condemning the British postal voting system as one which ‘would disgrace a banana republic’, the government has no intention of changing the system ahead of the forthcoming General Election on the 5th May 2005.
		Worse still, the government actually blocked a proposal by the Electoral Commission which would have banned political parties from handling postal ballots and which would have gone some way to prevent fraud.
		Health Secretary John Reid described the problem as ‘a minor one affecting 2 wards’, which rather neatly sums up the attitude of politicians as long as they are the beneficiaries of such a hopelessly insecure system.
	www.electoralfraud.org /index.html (248 words)

	Electoral Fraud And Rebellion In Mexico By Roger Burbach
		This evidence of fraud in the election is overwhelming.
		In 1995 when fraud occurred in elections in the state of Tabasco, Lopez Obrador led numerous road caravans and marches over a period of several months, culminating in a rally in Mexico City.
		The national security team of the Bush administration surely must know that fraud was committed in Mexico’s election, but this did not stop Bush from calling Felipe Calderon to congratulate him when Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute announced its rigged results on Thursday.
	www.countercurrents.org /mex-burbach110706.htm (960 words)

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