Election Irregularities Do Not Change the Result
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The irregularities that marred Mozambique&#39;s 1-2 December general elections &quot;do not deprive the elections of their merit, nor do they change the final results&quot;, declared Brazao Mazula, spokesperson of the most representative group of Mozambican observers
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Ballots are being counted in Afghanistan, after delays created by irregularities in Saturday's elections.
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Afghanistan's election authority said on Saturday the election process would continue in the country's historic presidential election despite a decision by most of the candidates to boycott the poll over irregularities.
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No progressive should be happy with the results of the presidential election. However, it is hard to predict what the longer-term impact on American politics of a particular presidential election result might be.
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Major election races nationwide that remained unresolved Thursday:
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President Megawati Sukarnoputri conceded defeat in Indonesia&#39;s first direct leadership ballot on Thursday by not filing any complaints, despite claims from her party of vote fraud.
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An audit of Venezuela&#39;s referendum results has confirmed President Hugo Chavez won the poll fairly and found no evidence to support the opposition&#39;s claims
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The opposition is expected to win by a landslide in a surprisingly smooth election.
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Election observers have reported few instances of fraud, a key concern as officials begin tallying results.
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The favourite in South Korea's presidential election denies any wrongdoing, despite a new inquiry into fraud claims.
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The European Commission says the elections in Romania were conducted in an orderly manner and will not affect membership talks.
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Are poll results really that reliable?  There are plenty of flaws in the system
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.
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TALLAHASSEE, Feb. 23 -- An audit of touch-screen voting machines at the center of a dispute in a congressional election found no evidence of malfunction,  Florida's secretary of state said Friday.
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A strange thing happened in Florida this week. A primary election took place, and observers found few reasons to complain or question the results. But some say November's national election may be a different story. By Jacob Ogles.
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Like many of you, I spent a long time watching the election returns come in, and I saw the election eventually handed to George Bush.  I saw exit polls that did not correspond to the results in certain states.  I heard about the diebold president talking about using his machines to turn the election.  I have spent a long time over the past day checking information about the election, information from 2000, comparing data.  And after all of this, I feel I am able to post a list of some questionable data that I have seen:
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Florida election officials will not be required to process incomplete voter registration forms for the presidential election, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.