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	UNDP-POGAR: Programme on Governance in the Arab Region: Elections
		The last presidential election was conducted in 1998, but instead of holding a new one in 2004, the parliament passed a constitutional amendment to extend the incumbent president’s term exceptionally for an additional three years.
		Elections are governed by the Electoral Law, the most recent version of which was promulgated in 2000.
		The elections were conducted according to the electoral law of the year 2000 despite the admission by most political parties and leaders that it is an unfair law as far as the distribution of electoral districts is concerned.
	www.pogar.org /countries/elections.asp?cid=9 (1679 words)

	The 2005 Egyptian Elections: How Free? How Important?
		It is the little-mentioned elections for parliament—likely to take place over several weeks in October and November—that will ultimately determine whether the new rules allow for truly competitive elections in the future, or whether they merely consolidate the grip of the ruling NDP over Egypt's political landscape.
		The main obstacle to meaningful multiparty elections, however, is not election day ballot fraud but the continued lack of political freedom and the atmosphere of intimidation of the press, opposition politicians, and the public.
		Just as the U.S. government is funding Egyptian NGOs to undertake poll-watching, so statements on the need for open press coverage should be supported by vocal U.S. backing for journalists and news outlets that are subjected to government censorship or intimidation.
	www.brookings.edu /views/papers/wittes/20050824.htm (3874 words)

	Vote under occupation
		Notwithstanding the Anglo-American spin on the polls, the legitimacy of the January 30 elections has been openly questioned both in terms of international law and on grounds of the methodology that was adopted for their conduct.
		Elections are also unlikely to diminish the influence of the more than 40,000 American civilian and military "advisers" who have been deputed to the Iraqi ministries.
		It said that all Iraqis were waiting for an opportunity "to hold comprehensive, free and just elections that have legitimacy...after the withdrawal of the occupation".
	www.hinduonnet.com /fline/fl2204/stories/20050225001105000.htm (1594 words)

	Iran government spokesman: Free, just elections guarantee high voter turnout
		Government spokesman Abdullah Ramezanzadeh, speaking in Zanjan on Wednesday, highlighted the need to reassure people that the upcoming elections of the Majlis would be just and free, stressing that this would guarantee a high voter turnout, IRNA reported.
		He said the obstacles that hamper people's participation in the Majlis elections must be removed, adding that people need to receive assurances that the MPs who are elected for Majlis seats will have an effective contribution to the decision-making of the country.
		Ramezanzadeh stressed that the government never follows the policies that are beyond the Constitution regarding the Majlis elections.
	www.payvand.com /news/03/nov/1077.html (269 words)

	GENERAL ELECTIONS IN RUSSIA
		As the general elections approach, political analysts point to the lack of competition between the political parties and the feeble motivation on the part of the electorate.
		The low participation rate recorded on 6th October last during the election of Valentina Matvienko as governor of St Petersburg (28,25%) was a warning shot for the political authorities and also a warning about the upcoming general election on 7th December.
		As the general elections have drawn closer all of the national or private TV channels have been placed under the control of groups that are close to the Kremlin (the last independent general TV channel, TVS, was closed on 22nd June this year).
	www.robert-schuman.org /anglais/oee/russie/default.htm (2243 words)

	What Every Texan Needs to Know About Elections in Texas
		Electioneer or loiter within 100 feet of the entrance to the polling place or inside the polling place.
		The election officials in the polling place are trained on the voting process, and are there to help you.
		Maybe you want to vote for just one office on the entire ballot, because that is the only office up for election that you know about, or care about.
	www.sos.state.tx.us /elections/pamphlets/everytexan.shtml (2795 words)

	Can Taylor Presiding Over Free And Fair Democratic Elections In Liberia?
		For most Liberians, the way out of this bad governance and the pariah status superimposed by the NPP government on the people of Liberia since 1997 is to once more go through the ballot box as required by the constitution of the country.
		Taylor cannot preside over an election in which he also is a candidate and expect the process be to be free and fair.
		Taylor is also using the so-called LURD insurgency as a pretext for not submitting to free and fair democratic elections as required by the Liberian constitution.
	www.theperspective.org /Taylor_freeandfairelections.html (1325 words)

	Elections \| The Ledger: Lakeland, Polk County, Florida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Discrepancies in the first round of testing of Sarasota County's touch-screen voting machines were the result of human error, not problems with the devices, state elections officials said Thursday about the audit in a disputed congressional race.
		SARASOTA - Katherine Harris is staying out of the bitter fight over the election results in the race to fill her congressional seat.
		Elections can settle turmoil within the body politic, or they can further unsettle matters.
	www.theledger.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=ELECTIONS (1010 words)

	Andrés Gentry: Free elections in China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		However, in provincial elections, what for them will be considered true national elections, they will be a political force to be reckoned with and while they may not win power in the first elections, nor will they be a permanent opposition.
		Han in these provinces are likely to be represented by the local wings of the GNP or CP rather than have parties of their own, especially as they are likely to feel under siege and will want the enhanced protection of national Han parties rather than local ones.
		They will be talking about holding elections, what system to use for choosing representatives, the division of power between the national legislative, executive, and judicial branches, and the nature of a federal state.
	www.andresgentry.com /thoughts/2004/11/free_elections_.html (2412 words)

	New Zealand elections - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Zealand general elections occur when the Prime Minister requests a dissolution of Parliament and therefore a general election.
		The elections of 1984 and of 2002 occurred a few months early in periods of governmental instability or potential instability.
		In particular, the 1978 election and the 1981 election both delivered outcomes that many deemed unsatisfactory; the opposition Labour Party won the highest number of votes, but Robert Muldoon's governing National Party won more seats.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand_elections (2240 words)

	Free Society Collective
		While election seasons are widely seen as times when the polity practices politics, this is an illusion; electoralism that accepts the premises of representative democracy is conceptually distinct and incompatible with practicing true politics.
		Insofar as citizens choose to vote in the national election, they are making a private and politically ineffectual choice between the bewildering threat of Bush and no positive alternative.
		But voting is not what gives power to politicians, just as abstention cannot take it away from them; they have decisionmaking power because representative democracy intentionally places it in the hands of a few, and because we fail to take it away from them by deliberately applying it ourselves through horizontal forms of self-governance.
	www.freesocietycollective.org /archives/cat_electionsvoting.html (678 words)

	Azerbaijan Elections 2005
		Among positive moments the mission stressed providing free airtime to candidates on television channels financed by the government, usage of special inks to mark electors' fingers and lifting restrictions on monitoring elections by NGOs with 30% foreign funding.
		These are, particularly, interference of local executive authorities into election process, providing assistance to pro-governmental candidates, restrictions on staging demonstrations and even use of inadequate force by policemen against participants of unauthorized demonstrations.
		The statement reads that during the election campaign they had no opportunity to meet with military and on November 6 elections in these units have been falsified in favor of one of the candidates.
	www.eurasianet.org /azerbaijan/news/wire_turan110905.html (1595 words)

	Voting rights groups 'block' talk of machine-free elections
		Second, it proposes spot audits, which leaves the counting of ballots in the hands of the very election officials who prove with each new election how truly inept or completely evil they really are.
		And third, the only time paper ballots will be counted is in case of a "close" election, ensuring that perpetrators of vote fraud will steal a sufficient number of votes to avoid triggering a recount.
		Moulder why the conference was not discussing the machine-free/paper-only election option, she said that people just weren't "there" yet.
	www.onlinejournal.com /evoting/121704Landes/121704landes.html (1341 words)

	Elections in Cuba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elections in Cuba have two phases: (1) election of delegates to the Municipal Assembly, and (2) election of deputies to the Provincial and National Assemblies.
		On January 19, 2003, an election was held for the Cuban National Assembly, with just 609 candidates - all supported by the regime - vying for 609 seats.
		People not supporting can be threatened with losing their home and jobs."[22] and "The nomination of candidates for election to the Municipal Assemblies is done by nominating assemblies, in which all voters are entitled to propose candidates.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Cuba (3422 words)

	Same Faces Behind Sham US And Iraqi 'Elections'
		As internationalists and media pundits praise the "free and fair" Iraqi elections, a closer look reveals that the polling in Iraq was fundamentally flawed and lacking transparency in the same way as elections in the U.S. No wonder that the same people are behind the organization of both.
		Sham "democratic" elections have been used by the occupying powers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine, to bestow an aura of legitimacy on their puppet governments.
		They are part of the election process dictated by the Anglo-American occupiers and the internationalist organizations that have worked with the occupying powers.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/february2005/040205shamelections.htm (1652 words)

	Official Elections Canada ballots being used in classrooms?
		Like many Canadians, Canada Free Press hoped that Prime Minister Paul Martin didn’t know something they didn’t when he insisted so adamantly yesterday that he was certain to win Monday’s federal Election.
		Just as we were comforting ourselves that the Thomlea Secondary mock vote was a one-of-a-kind classroom exercise, a worried parent from Burlington called CFP this morning with the same complaint.
		Canada Free Press founding editor Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media.
	www.canadafreepress.com /2006/breaking012006.htm (383 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions
		For the purpose of determining the effective date of a voter’s registration, if the 30th day before election day falls on a weekend or a legal state or federal holiday, the document is considered timely if it is submitted on the next regular business day.
		Therefore, once you have completed the punishment phase (including any term of incarceration, parole, or supervision, or completed a period of probation ordered by the court), you would be eligible to register and vote in the state of Texas.
		For information on the local option liquor petition and election process in Texas, you may review our office’s educational materials that are posted on our website.
	www.sos.state.tx.us /elections/pamphlets/faqs.shtml (1992 words)

	When 'free elections' means just further legitimizing terrorism
		If the election can be held with the assurance that most who want to vote are able to do so and whoever wins the presidency can survive political intrigues and assassination attempts, the effect will be profound and possibly transforming for Iraq and her neighbors.
		Unlike the other three elections, which have been, or will be, based on a principle that people should be free to select the leaders of their choice, the Palestinian election will be something quite different.
		Free elections cannot be a byproduct of societies where regimes accord certain rights to their subjects, eliminate their opponents and brainwash their population with hate education."
	www.jewishworldreview.com /1204/palest_elections.php3 (1138 words)

	E-ELECTIONS.com - Free Web addresses for the nation's issue-oriented campaigns
		Yet those who speak of "online" elections usually are referring to "Internet" elections, whereby votes are cast over the Internet, whether from a public polling place or from a personal computer.
		It seems safe to predict that Internet voting could increase participation in special and "off-year" elections when few issues are on the ballot because voter turnout in these special elections is most often a tiny fraction of the registered population.
		People just don't find time to go to a polling place to cast a single vote for a contest that has not captured the public's attention.
	www.e-elections.com /html/political_pages_B1.html (1446 words)

	Amazon.ca: Just Elections: Creating a Fair Electoral Process in the United States: Books: Dennis F. Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In light of events such as the contested 2000 presidential election, it is imperative that voters are able to intelligently judge "the process of elections independently of the outcomes," this book argues.
		The 2000 election showed that the mechanics of voting such as ballot design, can make a critical difference in the accuracy and fairness of our elections.
		Accessible and wide ranging, Just Elections masterfully weaves together the philosophical, legal, and political aspects of the electoral process.
	www.amazon.ca /Just-Elections-Creating-Electoral-Process/dp/0226797635 (1657 words)

	Iraq elections, 2005
		The question for Iraqis in their January 30, 2005 historic election was, do you want freedom or not.
		Their answer was "yes." We watched the January 30 elections unfold in Iraq through a photo gallery begun on December 19, 2004, and updated nearly daily.
		Iraqis defied threats of violence and calls for a boycott to cast ballots in Iraq's first free election in a half-century.
	www.talkingproud.us /InternationalElections11.html (540 words)

	Just $6 \|
		Watch "Votes for Sale," the PBS special on the public funding of elections.
		Once elected, our leaders would be free to focus on our nation's challenges rather than having to worry about financing their next campaign.
		Public funding is already working in Arizona and Maine, and was just passed by the Connecticut legislature.
	www.just6dollars.org (327 words)

	WHO IS BEHIND THE SHAM ELECTIONS IN IRAQ AND USA? PIC
		Unlike the Palestinian election, which disenfranchised all Palestinians not living in Palestine, in the recent Iraqi election children with an Iraqi father were eligible to vote anywhere in the world.
		All ballots from the recent election are being tabulated, in secret, at the "national tally room" in the "Green Zone" in U.S. occupied Baghdad.
		The fundamental rules for transparency in a democratic election were all broken in the Iraqi election - just as they are in U.S. elections.
	www.rumormillnews.com /cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=64563 (1862 words)

	UN Envoy Stresses Importance of Holding Lebanese Elections on Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Larsen told a press conference in Beirut that Secretary-general Kofi Anan hopes the parliamentary elections, scheduled for May, can be held on time in an atmosphere of freedom and honesty and away from any foreign intervention.
		He said he discussed with Lebanese officials and opposition leaders the need to hold the elections on time in order to guarantee stability, sovereignty and unity of the country.
		Larsen stressed that the UN resolution calls for holding free and just elections and protecting the sovereignty and unity of Lebanon.
	www.un.org /radio/print.asp?NewsID=1859 (130 words)

	Elections, Middle East Style
		Egypts "elections" can only have candidates from recognized political parties and all candidates must be approved of by the national assembly.
		Iran proves that an election may not be a real election, and that the country is governed by inept thugs.
		Kuwait, which just 15 years ago was a total monarchy, has now given the right for women to vote and run for office.
	www.theconservativevoice.com /articles/article.html?storyid=6391 (390 words)

	Analysis of Presidential Elections [ Free State Project - Liberty in Our Lifetime ]
		In Tennyson's report Analyzing the Freedom Orientation of Existing State Populations, he analysed the results of the 2000 presidential election and what it means to the FSP and its members.
		However, one election is just that – one election, and cannot be considered the whole picture.
		Maybe, just maybe, the 2000 presidential election really does provide us with a very good look at the ideology of the candidate states.
	www.freestateproject.org /archives/state_reports/PrezElections.php (651 words)

	The Road to Peace - NORAID Online
		Following the election of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, the posts of Ministers will be allocated to parties on the basis of the d'Hondt system by reference to the number of seats each party has in the Assembly.
		All three institutions will meet regularly and frequently on this basis during the period between the elections to the Assembly, and the transfer of powers to the Assembly, in order to establish their modus operandi.
		The achievement of a peaceful and just society would be the true memorial to the victims of violence.
	www.inac.org /roadtopeace/gfa.html (8947 words)

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