Word: balloters
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...inspire students to run. Perhaps the task of finding and calling for candidates to run in the new elections should be delegated to someone more impartial. Sometimes perfectly competent, dedicated people need an extra push or encouragement before they find the courage to put their own name on a ballot. Incumbents are probably not the right people to administer that extra push...
...over by a visiting election officer who is telling the students about the Sept. 18 vote for the country's parliament and provincial councils. But the students at the back of the room are more interested in the sudden appearance of a reporter than in how to mark a ballot. That's until their teacher slams her hand on the desk. "Why are you not listening?" she chides. "You must pay attention to how the elections will work, so you can teach others, so you can make a good decision. Don't you understand? You are the future of Afghanistan...
...learned only in February that he was allowing a contest. But voter apathy as well as cries of foul play undercut Mubarak's effort to portray the election as a showcase for democratic change. Egypt's Independent Committee for Election Monitoring (icem) issued a critical report citing violations from ballot stuffing to vote buying to voter intimidation. The committee slammed election officials for banning most of its 2,200 observers from the polls, declaring "No election can be called free, fair and transparent if voters have been denied the right to monitor and scrutinize the process." Even so, the official...
...ICEM reported numerous other irregularities, such as repeat voting, voting without valid ID, turning away voters saying ballot boxes were full, and ignoring the right of voters to cast their ballots in secrecy...
...school for girls, Marwa Helmy, 19, a Cairo University student, explained how she finally got her registration card after two hours of waiting, but that three of her friends failed to get theirs. ?It was like they didn?t want people to vote,? she told TIME after casting her ballot for Ayman Nour. Having sampled a taste of democracy, many Egyptians like Helmy are hungering for a lot more...