Italy to recount 700,000 ballots in Senate polls
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Some 700,000 blank, spoiled and contested ballots cast in Italy's hard-fought senatorial elections in April are to be recounted in seven of the country's 20 regions, a Senate parliamentary committee said.
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Rome- Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi was due to address the Senate later on Tuesday ahead of a do-or-die vote of confidence taking place in parliament's upper house on Wednesday.Comment
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Electoral authorities in Florida say they will resend tens of thousands of absentee ballots on Friday, after failing to determine the fate of 58,000 ballots that were sent out but not received by voters.
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Washington state's unresolved race for governor will be extended further with a hand recount of the 2.8 million votes cast, after Democrats agreed to pay for another tally of the ballots which had their candidate losing to the Republican contender by 42 votes.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi was set to defend his government's record before the Senate Tuesday on the eve of a confidence vote that could decide his political future.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will submit his resignation to the president after a major defeat in a Senate vote on foreign policy on Wednesday, a minister said.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will brave a confidence vote in the Senate on Thursday despite expectations that he will lose and be forced to resign.
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Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi will  put his weakened government to a vote of confidence in both  houses of parliament, he told the lower house on Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi officials said yesterday that they must recount votes from about 300 ballot boxes because of various discrepancies, delaying the final results from the landmark national elections. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of other ballots were declared invalid because of alleged tampering.
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Italian prime minister wins chamber of deputies backing but faces closer decision in senate
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Hong Kong's main pro-democracy party  demanded on Monday a partial recount of the vote in the city's  legislative elections, after officials had failed to announce a  single result eight hours after polls closed.
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Italy's Silvio Berlusconi underwent more hospital checks on Tuesday after fainting at a rally this weekend, but the ex-prime minister planned to get straight back into the political fray after his discharge due on Wednesday.
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The final vote tally from Iraq's  election was due to be announced on Sunday, two weeks after the  historic polls that are expected to confirm Shi'ite political  dominance but marginalize the restive Sunni Arab minority.
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Recount Begins in Wash. Governor&#39;s Race; Republican Dino Rossi Led by 261 Votes in First Count. Washington Governor-elect Dino Rossi, right, listens to a Friday, Nov. 19, 2004, address by Homeland Security
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Italy's president will decide on Saturday whether Romano Prodi deserves another chance to lead the nation as prime minister after a Senate rebellion forced his shock resignation.
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ROME, Feb 22 (IPS) - The Italian government is in crisis after it failed   to win a vote Wednesday on its foreign policy programme.  Although the  ruling centre-left coalition held only a very  slight majority in the  Senate, the defeat of the motion came as  a major surprise to Prime  Minister Romano Prodi.
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Elezioni legislative anticipate il 30 settembre