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...voting is compulsory under Brazil's constitution. That's why campaigns aimed at convincing people to spoil their ballots are gathering pace. "There is widespread disappointment," admits Marco Aurelio Mello, the president of the country's federal electoral court. "People are apathetic. That is why there are campaigns to annul the vote...
...Those campaigns appear to be making headway. In an Ibope poll taken earlier this month, 9% of respondents planned to annul their vote for president, making it the third most popular option behind incumbent President Lula and his main rival, Geraldo Alckmin of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB). In races for state governor the annulment option was even more popular, with 13% in Sao Paulo and 17% in Rio de Janeiro saying they would vote for none of the declared candidates. And although there are few polls available for parliamentary elections, voters and analysts expect the percentage of annulments...
Four months after their barefoot beach wedding on the Caribbean island of St. John, actress RENEE ZELLWEGER, 36, and her country-singer husband KENNY CHESNEY, 37, have suddenly filed to annul their sudden marriage. In court papers, the Bridget Jones star cited "fraud" as the official reason for the annulment--a legal declaration that the union was invalid from the start--but clarified that the term is "simply legal language and not a reflection of Kenny's character" (though we're not sure she was around long enough to judge). In plain language, fraud means one partner deceived the other...
Because the SJC ruling does not apply retroactively, Quinlan was not forced to annul the verdict. But in April she voluntarily called a hearing to consider how the SJC ruling impacted her decisions during the Pring-Wilson trial...
...Kryvorizhstal included $1.5 billion for a 93% stake in the plant, plus promised investment of $1.2 billion to raise production and improve quality. The offer was blocked on technical grounds that Mittal and others attacked as spurious. Now the company is hopeful it will win out. "If they do annul [the sale] and ask for bids again, we'd definitely be very, very interested," says the company's owner Lakshmi Mittal. He adds jokingly: "In fact, instead of going through a new process, this government should declare us the winner." While nearly everyone agrees that some of the business deals...