Foreign Observers See Problems in Election
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Substantial threats to the integrity of the U.S. presidential election remain despite an improvement in election practices since 2000, an international delegation of election observers reported on Thursday.
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Russian and Western leaders are sharply at odds over the country's election crisis.
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Critics say preliminary results from their ballot inspections show signs of widespread irregularities.
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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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UNITED NATIONS -- Most international specialists assessing the fairness of Iraq's elections will monitor the Jan. 30 vote from the safety of neighboring Jordan, but a few observers will head to Baghdad and perhaps other Iraqi cities if security permits, UN and other officials said yesterday.
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The Ukranian government has been criticised for serious flaws in the first round of the country&#39;s presidential election. The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe
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Afghan officials have delayed counting ballots in a historic presidential election to deal with complaints of fraud, but several of the candidates appear to be pulling
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Congress' investigative agency, responding to complaints from around the country, has begun to look into the Nov. 2 vote count, including the handling of provisional ballots and malfunctions of voting machines.
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MOSCOW, Oct. 23 -- With parliamentary elections just weeks away, Russia has still not extended an invitation to Europe's principal election watchdog to monitor the vote. Opposition activists and Western diplomats charge that the authorities here are deliberately stalling to limit the work of an...
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The election reveals a worrisome divide among the country's voters  -  and a predeliction for show over substance in the winning party
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An international human rights group said its observers for the 2004 US election found access to polling stations difficult in Florida and Ohio.
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Voters living abroad face an unwieldy system of absentee balloting that could prevent their votes from being counted.
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Lawsuits, missing absentee ballots and accusations of bias -- from afar Tuesday's presidential election in Florida already looks like the Third World-style fiasco of 2000 that everyone wanted to avoid.
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Afghans halted counting in their presidential election pending a United Nations probe into accusations of fraud, as international observers said the vote is just a first step in creating a stabile and secure country.
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Election workers began counting ballots on Thursday, five days after the country&#39;s first presidential election was marred by accusations of fraud and calls for
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A flood of foreign observers is expected for the Dec. 26 rerun of the presidential vote.
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The violence started in response to a flawed election, but it reveals a rift that may be beyond politicians' control