Turkmenistan ballot boxes carried door to door
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Polling stations were nearly empty yesterday in elections for Turkmenistan&#39;s rubber-stamp Parliament, forcing officials to carry ballot boxes door to door in this nation ruled by a former Soviet Communist boss who has been declared president-for-life.
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Behind yellow rope and a ring of television cameras, the closest and most protracted gubernatorial election in US history came down to the contents of a few small boxes that sat atop
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By Mike Swift, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 12--Like a politician girding for an election, the San Francisco 49ers are knocking on doors across Santa Clara.
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An afghan electoral worker counts Yunus Qanooni&#39;s ballots papers at the counting center in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Oct. 18.
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HELSINKI, Nov 19 (IPS) - To human rights activists Turkmenistan is a âblack  holeâ because little of its human rights violations is known to  the outside world.
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Local officials are using election law to block independent candidates.
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ASHGABAT. Feb 18 (Interfax) - Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has said work will continue to switch ministries and government agencies of the financial-economic bloc to one computer network.
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Elections for a new president of Chechnya unfolded in ghostly emptiness here yesterday as many residents fled the city or stayed indoors to avoid potential
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Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov became gas-rich Turkmenistan's new president on Wednesday, pledging to follow a path set by late authoritarian leader Saparmurat Niyazov and respect existing energy contracts.
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An Afghan election worker puts ballot papers next to Hamid Karzai&#39;s name at Kabul&#39;s counting center on Thursday Oct. 14, 2004.
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They were priceless artifacts, and the Kabul Museum curators wrapped them carefully, some of them in pink toilet paper, others in newspaper, and put them in metal boxes. Then government people, eight to 10 of them, signed pieces of paper that were glued to the locks. No box would be opened unless all the signers were there.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Ballot boxes poured into vote counting centers across Afghanistan on Monday, while an independent panel will probe allegations the landmark election was marred by fraud.    Organizers of the vote are hoping the establishment of the panel - made up of about three foreign election experts - will end an opposition boycott that could seriously undermine the winner's ability to rule this war-ravaged nation...
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Multiple construction plans were announced at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan. A new phase in the implementation of a large-scale construction program in Turkmenistan was announced by President Saparmurat Niyazov.
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A local woman casts her ballot at a polling station in the city of Tashlik. Voters in Transdnestr took part in a referendum on whether to stick to the region's pro-Moscow separatist course or accept being part ...
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Polling stations were nearly empty Sunday in elections for Turkmenistan&#39;s rubber-stamp parliament, forcing officials to carry ballot boxes door-to-door
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So many candidates are running in  Bulgaria&#39;s local elections next month that ballots stretch to 2  meters (6-1/2 ft) and won&#39;t fit into the country&#39;s largest  envelopes.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Ballot boxes poured into counting centers Monday for a tally of the troubled presidential election in Afghanistan amid signs an opposition boycott was wavering after at least two candidates agreed to accept the ruling of an independent panel's inquiry.    Election organizers hope their decision, announced late Sunday, to establish a panel of about three foreign election experts to investigate the balloting will end the boycott, which many fear could seriously undermine the winner's ability to rule this war-ravaged nation...