Macedonia vote gets green light from OSCE despite fraud claims
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SKOPJE : Macedonia&#39;s failed referendum to overturn EU-backed legislation giving more autonomy to the ethnic Albanian minority met European standards despite opposition claims of fraud, European observers said.
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CARACAS : An audit of last Sunday&#39;s recall vote in Venezuela, which favored keeping President Hugo Chavez in office, found no evidence of fraud, as the opposition had charged, electoral officials said.
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The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said Monday it agreed with a joint UN-Afghan election board that nullifying Saturday&#39;s national election in Afghanistan was unjustified despite some irregularities in the
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Russia's Foreign Ministry accused Europe's main election watchdog on Friday of seeking to sabotage plans for monitoring the March 2 presidential election, which President Vladimir Putin's chosen candidate is expected to win.
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Macedonia's peace process was at a crossroads Sunday as voters cast ballots in a referendum on whether to grant local autonomy to the country's ethnic Albanians or risk undermining a peace pact with the restive ...
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KABUL, Afghanistan - An independent commission will probe claims by all 15 challengers to interim leader Hamid Karzai that Afghanistan's first direct presidential election was marred by incompetence and fraud, a top official said Sunday.    The move to head off the attack on the vote's legitimacy came as workers began the long process of collecting ballots from Saturday's historic election, in which Karzai was a heavy favorite...
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10 October 2004 -- (NCA) -- The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said today that Afghan candidates&#39; demands to nullify yesterday&#39;s presidential election and hold a re-vote are not justified.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's opposition  leaders said on Wednesday they had given observers evidence of  electronic vote tampering that helped President Hugo Chavez win  Sunday's referendum, but they boycotted an audit planned to  clear up their fraud charges.
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Macedonians have begun voting in a referendum on a new law of territorial organization of the country.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - A panel investigating allegations of fraud in Afghanistanâs landmark presidential election met Monday with representatives of runaway winner Hamid Karzaiâs opponents, who accuse him of cheating his way to victory.
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The visit of EU High Representative Javier Solana is taking place in a very significant moment for Macedonia, right after the referendum, i.e. passing of a serious exam of democracy and stability, President ...
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The official Minsk considers that conclusions of the mission of observers from the Parliamentary Assembly and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on a parliamentary election and ...
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Politics: 3 October 2004, Sunday. The President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and US Congressman Alcee Hastings assessed highly Bulgaria's presidency of the organization.
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WASHINGTON For once, the West has found something to unite on and rally around. Ukraine's election was a transparent fraud engineered by Moscow, a masquerade of holdover bureaucrats from the old communist ...
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Independent observers confirmed that the random auditing of results from the recall referendum (Sunday August 15) against Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez show there are no indications of fraud as claimed by the opposition.
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Afghanistan's protracted election vote count finally drew to a close with President Hamid Karzai the landslide victor, but an official declaration of his win still awaited the verdict of a fraud probe.
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International observers in Venezuela say an audit of the referendum results which confirmed President Hugo Chavez&#39;s mandate in office has revealed no evidence of fraud.