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...Still, the irregularities steadily reported throughout the day - from ballot stuffing to vote buying to intimidation inside polling stations - cast a pall over Mubarak?s majority. Repeated cries of foul play raised questions about whether the crucial elections for Egypt?s 454-seat parliament, due to be held in the next two months, would be an honest contest. After most of its monitors were barred from observing Wednesday?s post-election vote count, Egypt?s Independent Committee for Election Monitoring (ICEM) declared: ?No election can be called free, fair and transparent if voters have been denied the right to monitor...
...into a polling station. The 42-year-old former teacher said she was certain that President Hosni Mubarak?s ruling party would rig the vote as it had done in past elections. Nonetheless, she took her 10-year-old daughter by the hand, entered the room and cast her ballot for opposition candidate Ayman Nour. ?I brought my daughter to show her the importance of participating,? Badawi said outside the school in Helwan, an industrial city on the Nile River 15 miles south of Cairo. ?And,? Badawi added, ?to show her the importance of objecting...
...time it got to Chicago, Wal-Mart had learned something from its bad experience in Inglewood, where the retailer attempted to circumvent the city council by pushing for the necessary rezoning through a ballot referendum. Wal-Mart had then donated $65,000 to the Los Angeles Urban League and mounted a $1 million p.r. blitz. The locals got turned off by the attempted end-around play, and Wal-Mart lost the vote, with 60% of residents rejecting the store. Humbled, Scott changed the company's urban policy from one of remote maneuvering to direct community engagement--and made himself...
...hard sell? Republicans in Florida and Washington think Harris would be an electoral disaster, not only losing her Senate race but driving up turnout among Democrats, which might bring down other Republicans on the ballot. G.O.P. bigwigs point to a Quinnipiac University poll released last week that showed Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson leading Harris 50% to 38%. Her supporters say Harris, who decided against a Senate run in 2004 after G.O.P. officials told her she could hurt President Bush's re-election prospects, was led to believe party officials would support her this time. Adam Goldman, a Harris adviser, said...
...taking race into account on a case-by-case basis. In a separate ruling concerning Michigan undergraduate admissions, the court said rigid race quotas or formulas were unconstitutional. Any number of groups could potentially spark a new challenge. Anti-affirmative-action activist Ward Connerly is spearheading a 2006 ballot initiative in Michigan that would amend the state constitution to ban the use of all racial preferences in university admissions or state hiring. The Center for Equal Opportunity, a public-policy research group, has threatened to file federal civil rights complaints against some 100 colleges if they don't open...