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Turkey's militant secularists may have lost their battle against the Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) at the ballot box, but they're hoping that what the electorate denied them might be granted by the judiciary. To popular disbelief, the country's secularist chief prosecutor has applied to ban the ruling party, reelected last July with 47% of the vote, on the grounds that it is supposedly seeking to destroy secularism. The move comes on the heels of a controversial government move to overturn a ban on wearing headscarves at universities...
...conservatives' may not have the same level of mass support as the reformists once did, but they are better organized. Many voters arrived at ballot boxes (erroneously) convinced that the only list backed by the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was that of the pro-Ahmadinejad UPC. They had been told that in their mosques, or through text messages sent to their mobile phones, or through neighborhood word-of-mouth. At the Lorzadeh Mosque in southern Tehran where President Ahmadinejad cast his ballot, Golbarg Tavakoli, an old lady who could barely walk had come, she said, "to support...
HOWARD DEAN Mail-In Ballot DNC chair Dean has expressed interest in a proposal to have voters mail in ballots, but he says that the campaigns must agree on the plan and that...
...includes areas more favorable to Obama while Clinton's strongholds are yet to be counted. Then there are suggestions that Republicans, hoping to prolong the Clinton-Obama slugfest, voted in the Democratic contest. (Since some 700,000 Democratic primary voters did not bother to vote in other races down ballot, particularly in strong Republican counties, it is likely those voters did not turn up for the more prolonged caucus proceeding either...
...post office, say, or in public administration or a school or hospital. By the time I grew up, votes were typically sold for far less: telephone and electricity bills paid for the two months before and one month after an election. In the last few ballots, the new bait has been the cell phone. Someone shows up and gives you one before the election, and you can keep it if you come back with a photo on this new, shiny handset showing your ballot marked for the right candidate. The phones, which are worth about $75 apiece, are even conveniently...