In Morocco, a Hush at the Polls
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RABAT, Morocco, Sept. 11 -- In a political system geared to block the rise of Muslim extremism, the most worrying voice in Morocco's parliamentary elections was the silent one, politicians and analysts said.
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Elections in the next few weeks  will bring new faces and new hope to a clutch of African  countries, but many of the poor, war-damaged continent's  nascent democracies face major hurdles in the coming year.
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As Election Day progresses, scattered reports of malfunctions surface.
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With the election of its first president with Islamist roots, the country enters a new era. Just what it will bring is the question
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Quirky questions, voices from the typically unheard emerge online during Spanish elections.
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U.S. officials hoping to stop a  possible al Qaeda attack before the November election face the  difficult task of providing enough security without scaring  voters away from the polling stations.
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Many voters may not be aware that New York City has an election this year.
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Moroccans began voting on Friday in parliamentary elections expected to show gains for opposition Islamists promising to clean up corruption in the north African kingdom of 33 million.
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A radical cleric's refusal to endorse the election foreshadowed a less than overwhelming voter turnout in Iraq.
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He has since won three presidential elections with more than 99 percent of the vote, all criticised by rights groups. millions of tourists from Europe, was showing signs of opening the democratic tap slightly.
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In large swaths of the country, there is a campaign in the shadows, where candidates, ordinarily eager to get their messages to the public, are often too terrified to say their names.
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Opposition Islamists pushing an anti-corruption message are expected to make gains in Moroccan parliamentary polls on Friday, exploiting disillusion among the poor with the liberal elite's vision of secular modernity.
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Elections in the Middle East, it appears, have increasingly become a tool used by authoritarian leaders to claim legitimacy.
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Morocco is struggling to decide what kind of democracy it should become after years of cautious reform helped the north African kingdom shed a repressive past.
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Morocco is confronting the stains of past human rights abuses with public testimony about tortures and disappearances in the kingdom.
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U.S. officials hoping to stop a possible al Qaeda attack before the November election face the difficult task of providing enough security without scaring voters away from the polling stations.
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Morocco's conservative Istiqlal party, a member of the kingdom's ruling coalition, won most seats in parliamentary elections that opposition Islamists said were skewed by vote buying.