Word: ballot
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...President Vladimir Putin's United Russia Party set off a small chorus of Western criticism. Germany's spokesman said the process was "neither free, fair nor democratic." The U.S. called for any irregularities to be investigated. But by waiting until election day to draw attention to scattered reports of ballot-stuffing or voter intimidation, the West came across a bit like Captain Renault in Casablanca: suddenly it was shocked--shocked!--to find electoral shenanigans in Russia...
...campaign of Roy T. Willey IV ’09 and running mate Nicholas B. Snow ’09 is nearing its campaign spending limit as a result of repeated violations, according to a UC Election Commission official, and currently runs the risk of being removed from the ballot for the remainder of the voting period...
...limit is breached, a far more likely course of action, Anderson said, would be the removal of the Willey-Snow ticket from the online ballot, so that no more votes could be cast in their favor before the close of voting at midday tomorrow. The votes already tallied in favor of the ticket would still count, he added...
...Right, a guy wanted to, but he couldn’t get enough signatures to get on the ballot. But the problem is for the Republicans—the national Republican Party to move so far to the right—it makes it very hard for anybody to compete for Congress here...
...Early this morning, the capital was a surreal site for Venezuelans who had begun to believe Chavez was invincible at the ballot box. Most chavistas who celebrated early in front of the Miraflores presidential palace abandoned the party when the voting results were announced at 1 a.m., leaving a sparse crowd with long faces milling about in a sea of empty rum and beer bottles. A large inflatable bust of Chavez with his arms outstretched lay face-down and half-deflated on an empty stage. A man who looked drunk held up several soggy and torn "Yes" posters in front...