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	Finnish presidential election, 2006 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 2006 Finnish presidential election will take place in January 2006, with the aim of determining the holder of the office of President of Finland for the six-year term until 2012.
		Voting in the Finnish 2006 presidential election will take place from 0900 to 2000 on both of the two election days, with specifically designated periods for advance voting before both the first and second rounds.
		The preliminary counting of the votes given on the election day will begin at 8 pm, after which the votes are delivered to the central election committee in Helsinki, which will run a recount.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finnish_presidential_election,_2006 (762 words)

	Elections in Finland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In addition to the presidential and parlamentary elections, there are European Parliament elections every five years, and local municipal elections (held simultaneously in every municipality) every four years.
		An election was last held February 6, 2000 and the next will be held on January 15, 2006 (second round on January 29, 2006, if needed).
		In the parliamentary elections of 16 March 2003, there were two dominating parties: the Center Party (KESK) got 55 seats, and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) got 53 seats, in the 200-seat Eduskunta.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Finland (394 words)

	Statistics Finland - The first round of the Presidential election 2000 was held on 16 January and the second round on 6 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Statistics Finland - The first round of the Presidential election 2000 was held on 16 January and the second round on 6 February 2000 (in accordance with the Election Act 714/1998 that entered into force on 8 October 1998).
		The first round of the Presidential election 2000 was held on 16 January and the second round on 6 February 2000 (in accordance with the Election Act 714/1998 that entered into force on 8 October 1998).
		On the election night, tables and text descriptions according to the preliminary (100%) calculation result were issued and time series tables were updated on Statistics Finland's Presidential election 2000 pages (16.1.2000).
	www.stat.fi /til/pvaa/index_en.html?tulosta (295 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Federal sphere:Presidential elections, full renewal of the House of Representatives and renewal of one third of the Brazilian Senate (one of each state's three seats); State sphere: Gubernatorial elections, renewal of the State Legislative body (State Assembly) in all states.
		Gubernatorial elections in 36 of the 50 states (outlook)
		General election in Italy, probably for the first half of the year.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/2006 (1437 words)

	Elections - Vaalit.fi
		Next elections: Election of the President of the Republic (Presidential Elections) on 15 January 2006 (first round) and 29 January 2006 (second round, if necessary).
		General advance polling stations in Finland in the Presidential Elections 2006.
		General advance polling stations abroad in the Presidential Elections 2006.
	www.vaalit.fi /14173.htm (135 words)

	Finland - Uncyclopedia
		A presidential election is to be held in Finland in Febtember 2006.
		The Finnish liquor fleet consists of dozens of huge white ships sailing non-stop between Estonia and Finland, full of eager citizens willing to help their country fill its stocks of booze, although most of it is consumed during the trip.
		When visiting a Finnish family, it is customary to celebrate the arrival of the guests by offering everyone a bunch of grilled makkaras which will be dipped into a cup of Finnish coffee.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Finland (4129 words)

	Helsingin Sanomat - International Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He promised to be at the Centre Party's disposal for next year's presidential elections, and the announcement of his willingness to stand was made in front of a gathering of his own local party association.
		The brief statement to the Finnish News Agancy STT came as a complete surprise to any and all outside the Vanhanen family circle, but divorce as such is by no means such an unusual occurrence in 21st century Finland.
		In the last presidential vote the then National Coalition Party chairman Sauli Niinistö said that he had voted for Aho in the second round - but he only revealed this fact after the election was done and dusted.
	www.helsinginsanomat.fi /english/print/1101979197080 (2000 words)

	Finnish Foreign Policy 2000, March
		President Halonen noted at her first press conference in the Presidential Palace that she considered the procedure for working out the division of labour between the President and the Government in matters of foreign policy to be good.
		Liikanen added that the previous presidential country is asked their opinion because they are expected to support the decision.
		Lipponen’s wording began with a sentence: "as the results from the Russian presidential elections are ensured, we follow with great interest in the European Union the formation of the new government and Mr.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/chronology/chrono2000_03.html (4036 words)

	Election Law
		Created in 1975, the Federal Election Commission is an independent federal agency established to enforce limitations and prohibitions on contributions to federal candidates and committees, to require them to disclose their financial activities, and to administer the public financing program for Presidential elections.
		Because a primary was mixed with the Texas general election by reason of the District Court's order, the "straight-ticket lever" that Texas includes in its voting procedures could not apply to the House elections in the thirteen districts, which undoubtedly caused some voters unknowingly to fail to vote in the House races.
		This could easily have affected the results in a close election, since turnout in a December run-off figured to be far lower than in the November presidential election.
	www.electionlawblog.org (5421 words)

	Finnish - All About All findings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The grammar of Finnish and the way(s) in which Finnish is spoken are dealt with in separate articles.
		The Finnish national men's ice hockey team is one of the more elite ice hockey teams in the world, currently #7 on the IIHF world ranking.
		Linguistically Finnish Sign Language is closest to Swedish Sign Language, from which it began to separate as an independent language in the middle of 19th century.
	www.allaboutall.info /search/Finnish (706 words)

	Presidential Elections 2006 - Vaalit.fi
		According to the Finnish Constitution the President of the Republic is elected by a direct vote for a term of six years.
		If none of the candidates has received a majority of the votes cast, a new election shall be held on the second Sunday after the first election between the two candidates who received most votes in the first election.
		The next presidential elections will be held in 2006.
	www.vaalit.fi /15505.htm (290 words)

	The Election by Michael Shnayerson
		Election Systems and Software, the Nebraska-based company whose touch screens tallied the recent Broward-Palm Beach election in which 134 votes went unaccounted for has grown from a tiny start-up called American Information Systems.
		To Andrew, the pity is that HAVA came too late to replace paper-ballot machines in significant enough numbers for the November 2004 election-and that Democrats might lose the presidential election again through voting confusions and errors created by the old system, not the new one.
		Election Assistance Commission, is up and running at last, overseeing D.R.E.'s with the help of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a division of the Commerce Department.
	www.ejfi.org /Voting/Voting-18.htm (8014 words)

	Finker: Traveling & US Presidential Election
		The US presidential election takes place today and I'm afraid of the outcome.
		The Finnish media, for example, has been following the election for several months and YLE sends a live broadcast of the election starting at 2 am.
		It seems that the Finnish media is more concerned with this US presidential election than the any Finnish presidential election.
	www.finker.net /2004/11/traveling-us-presidential-election.html (368 words)

	Oregon Voter Rights Coalition \| The right to vote is the foundation for all other rights. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Boca Raton Democrat sued the state and two county elections supervisors in March 2004 because the touch-screen machines don't create physical ballots that can be counted by hand when disputes arise in close races.
		Especially in election recounts, we like to have actual paper ballots, marked by voters, to verify the validity of elections.
		Diebold pleaded with the court for an exemption from the statute's requirement to escrow "all software that is relevant to functionality, setup, configuration, and operation of the voting system" and to release a list of all programmers who worked on the code because...
	www.oregonvrc.org (3398 words)

	Embassy Of Finland, Singapore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Especially noteworthy is the important number of Finnish companies here in Singapore and thus the number of Finnish nationals living here.
		Upon the termination of the project and the expriences gathered the decision will be made of the possible future of the visa arrangements within the Nordic countries.
		In his residence at the Mount Korvatunturi in Finnish Lapland, Santa is preparing for the Christmas.
	www.finland.org.sg (378 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Finnish presidential election: Conan O'Brien is big in Finland
		This week, the Finnish tabloids and popular media are delighted because Conan O' Brien mentioned the Finnish president, Tarja Halonen in his talk show.
		The Finnish general public speculates that sending actor Lauri Nurkse to the talk show audience was a clever ploy to plant pro-Tarja election propaganda to the proceedings.
		Alienboy - yes, it's Finnish, and anyone by that name is related to me by blood or marriage, as it's a restricted surname.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/10/17/081902.php (1359 words)

	2006 FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Federal sphere:Presidential_elections, full renewal of the House_of_Representatives and renewal of one third of the Brazilian Senate (one of each state's three seats); State sphere: Gubernatorial elections, renewal of the State Legislative body (State Assembly) in all states.
		It's to be released on March 16, 2006 in Japan.
		The Republic_of_Ireland is expected to hold a referendum on the European_Constitution (although 2005 is possible, from statements made by minsters, 2006 is more likely).
	www.witwib.com /2006 (1571 words)

	WSJ Declares War on the FT By Alexander Chancellor
		The European Union's measures against Austria were an issue in the Finnish presidential election campaign, with the centrist candidate Esko Aho attacking them, and his Social Democrat opponent, Tarja Halonen, supporting them.
		Corriere said she won because the country has more female voters than male voters, and the women were determined to break the glass ceiling for the first time, even if that meant jettisoning a man known as "the Kennedy of Kannus" (Aho's hometown) because of a supposed resemblance to JFK.
		Election Day started a bit too early for me. I was startled from my sleep at 3:15 by a call...
	www.slate.com /?id=74472 (896 words)

	Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In national elections, all Finnish citizens of voting age are eligible, irrespective of their place of abode.
		In European parliamentary elections, those citizens of other EU member states who have notified the Local Register Office that they wish to exercise their voting rights here are also eligible to vote.
		The number of MPs to be elected from each electoral district through regular parliamentary elections depends, with the exception of Aland, on the number of Finnish citizens living in that electoral district at the end of the previous September, as evidenced by the Population Information System.
	www.vaestorekisterikeskus.fi /vrk/home.nsf/pages/D9B6132D7F4C9C7FC2256E520024E91C (921 words)

	Election Law: November 2005 Archives
		To the extent election administration problems can be recognized in advance, pre-election judicial review prevents future harm from occurring, rather than putting courts in the position of trying to undo the bad effects of a past harm.
		One of the concerns I had was a significant chilling of election-related activity in the 2006 elections out of fear that complaints would be filed with the FEC at a time of regulatory uncertainty (the FEC internet rulemaking remains pending).
		The cause of election reform took a serious blow Nov. 8, when voters in California and Ohio soundly rejected measures that would have reined in partisan redistricting and, in the Ohio case, changed the state's system of partisan election administration to a more bipartisan system.
	electionlawblog.org /archives/2005_11.html (11210 words)

	Finnish Foreign Policy 1999, February
		Koivisto stated that he was satisfied with his 1990 statement about Ingrians being eligible for the status of re-migrants as well as with the way the Ingrian issue was then handled.
		We must also consider this aspect.’ When studying the criteria for Ingrians’ re-migration in the early 1990s, it was sufficient that one of the grandparents was a Finn.
		Primakov stated that, in contrast to its previous opinion, Russia is now in favour of the construction of an oil pipeline from Russia to Porvoo, a coastal town in southern Finland.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/chronology/chrono1999_02.html (3665 words)

	Tuesday - All About All (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Tuesday is the usual day for elections in the United States.
		Federal elections take place on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November; this date was established by a law of 1845 for presidential elections (specifically for the selection of the Electoral College), and was extended to elections for the House of Representatives in 1875 and for the Senate in 1914.
		Tuesday was the earliest day of the week which was practical for polling in the early 19th century: citizens might have to travel for a whole day to cast their vote, and would not wish to leave on Sunday which was a day of worship for the great majority of them.
	www.all-about-all.info /article/Tuesday (366 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Specifically, Haydukevich was criticized for the party's poor showings in the parliamentary election of 2000, the presidential election of 2001, and in this year's local elections.
		According to the Socialists, all constitutional changes should take effect in 2006, after a new legislature and local councils are elected on a proportional basis.
		Sejm speaker Marek Borowski said on 5 September that he is not a candidate of the ruling Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) in the 2005 presidential election and that he is not considering running for the post, PAP reported.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2003/09/3-CEE/cee-080903.asp (2532 words)

	Election Globe - World Election News
		BERLIN (Reuters) -- Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder may be lagging in opinion polls ahead of next month's German election but he is leading the media battle after lacklust...
		S'pore presidential election to be held on Aug 27
		Presidential drive in Egypt ignites war of the crescent
	archive.wn.com /2005/08/06/1400/electionglobe (502 words)

	The Corner on National Review Online
		The most salient political fact in Iraq this year is that the Sunnis, who boycotted the elections in January, appear to have voted heavily in today's election.
		Today's elections, combined with the previous ones in January and October, are reshaping the political landscape of the Middle East.
		Romney cast himself as ``a red speck in a blue state'' during an October speech to a Washington think-tank, one of many similar comments across the country during the past year that had been viewed as disparaging Massachusetts the land of the Kennedys and two failed Democratic candidates for president portrayed as out-of-touch liberals.
	corner.nationalreview.com (12260 words)

	OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today
		Go back and look at the transcript of NBC's "Meet the Press" for Nov. 27, which we noted the next day--and in particular the journalist roundtable, which features five senior Washington journalists, all of whom seem to agree that democracy in Iraq is a dead letter.
		The only mention of Iraq's then-forthcoming election was in a setup quote from the White House press secretary.
		And yet the producers at CNN and Fox appear to have regarded a genuine election in Iraq as such a routine event that it didn't merit continuous live coverage.
	www.opinionjournal.com /best (1946 words)

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