Fraud and pressure marred Russian election: monitors
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Corruption, official pressure on voters and Soviet-era turnout figures were features of Russia's parliamentary election, won by President Vladimir Putin's party in a landslide, independent monitors said on Tuesday.
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Problems loom for the presidential election including voting equipment changes that could delay the outcome past Nov. 2, a group of international observers said Tuesday in a report.
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TBLISI, Georgia (Deutsche Welle) - Contrary to their previous reports, European election observers said voting fraud took place during Georgia's recent election that returned President Saakashvili to power. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which sent election observers to Georgia, initially said the Jan. 5 presidential vote met international standards. But problems with the election continue to surface. "There was crass, negligent and deliberate falsification during the vote counting," German diplomat Dieter Boden said in an interview published in the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper.
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Afghanistan&#39;s first election was marred by controversy when all but one of the presidential candidates alleged voter fraud and vowed to discount the results.
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GROZNY, Russia - The Russian government's candidate to lead warring Chechnya easily won a presidential election held in the wake of last week's terrorist destruction of two airliners, election officials said Monday. The opposition charged voting was tainted by fraud...
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His call came after opposition candidate Viktor Yuschenko declared himself the winner of weekend elections, which he charges were rigged by massive vote fraud.
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Russians head to the polls in 14 regions in elections that have been criticised by opposition parties.
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The only team of Western observers  monitoring Russia's presidential election next month said on  Friday it could not deem the contest fair if all the contenders  were not given an equal chance.
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Russian opposition challenger Mikhail  Kasyanov should be disqualified from a March 2 presidential  vote because of forged registration documents, the secretary of  the Central Election Commission said on Thursday.
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Up to a quarter-million people braved the bitter cold in Kiev&#39;s Independence Square yesterday to charge the government with stealing Sunday&#39;s presidential elections by rigging the vote.
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Russian opposition challenger Mikhail Kasyanov should be disqualified from a March 2 presidential vote because of forged registration documents, the secretary of the Central Election Commission said on Thursday.
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First presidential election was thrown into chaos after 15 candidates opposing complaining of fraud and improper procedures.
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GROZNY, Russia  - The Russian government's choice for president of war-ravaged Chechnya appeared to be the victor Sunday in an election tainted by allegations of fraud and shadowed by last week's terrorist destruction of two airliners.
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that Russia was concerned by the West's attempts to influence the situation in Ukraine, where allegations of vote fraud have sparked a political crisis that has brought the rival candidates' supporters into the streets.
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Ballot-box corruption marred Morocco&#39;s legislative elections this month, a report from a group of Moroccan observers alleged Thursday, despite an all-clear from international monitors.
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GROZNY, Russia - The Russian government's choice for president of war-battered Chechnya overwhelmingly won an election that opponents claimed was riddled with fraud, news agencies reported Monday, citing preliminary results.    Although the Kremlin portrayed Sunday's election as a step toward stability, terrorism cast a shadow over balloting with the downing of two Russian airliners five days earlier...
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MOSCOW -- Russian voters went to the polls yesterday in regional elections dominated by two pro-Kremlin parties, a result that critics said presented the appearance of democracy without its substance.