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...Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni won re-election with 69% of the vote against 28% for his main rival Kizza Besigye. Besigye, who once served as Museveni's doctor and was part of the "movement" that brought Museveni to power 15 years ago, accused his former ally's camp of ballot-rigging and intimidation. Besigye said he would petition the Supreme Court to overturn the result. Museveni said Besigye had also rigged some balloting. Opinion polls had predicted a much closer result in a campaign marked by increasing outbreaks of violence, including a bomb in the capital that killed a woman...
...There was a whiff of politics amid the reek of burning carcasses. Prime Minister Tony Blair had hoped to hold local and national elections May 3, but he risks incurring the wrath of rural voters if he lets the ballot go ahead while a highly infectious disease restricts the movement of people as well as livestock. Draconian slaughter, perhaps, could contain and defeat the infection before May. But Labour's strength among rural voters, never great, had diminished over the party's drive to ban fox hunting and will plummet further with the cull. "There will be many tears...
...Opinion polls are divided on the outcome of the state ballot. According to a survey by pollster Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, the cdu has a narrow lead with 41% of the vote, down slightly from the last election in 1996, while the sdp has soared from 25.1% to a projected 36%. What's clear is that only a coalition of parties will have enough votes to govern. The cdu currently rules in union with the Free Democrats, while the sdp partners with the Greens. But Schröder's followers in Baden-Württemberg have hinted they will try to form...
...list included butterfly ballots that confused elder voters, last-minute relocations of ballot sites, sites without proper language assistance, voter restrictions which accidentally turned away non-felons as well as felons and ballot spoilage rates that were as high as 13 percent for some counties...
Clinton eventually commuted the sentences, but Hillary insists she never discussed the matter with her husband. A chat between President and Senator about pardoning a home-state constituent is no big deal. But federal investigators want to find out if the reduced sentences were traded for support at the ballot...