Word: polle
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...College Events Board opened up a poll this past weekend to get your input on who to feature at this year's Yardfest, an annual spring festival headlined last year by electronica Ratatat and one-hit-wonder Sara Bareilles...
...poll will be open until Friday evening and is available here...
...main legitimacy problem with the August vote was not the 1 million-plus fake votes that were cast mostly for Karzai but the 12 million-plus votes claimed by the Taliban. No one actually voted for the Taliban, of course, and its call for a boycott of the poll was enforced by threat of death. But whether out of fear, political choice or sheer indifference, 12 million voters - representing 70% of the electorate, compared with just 30% in 2004 - stayed away from the ballot stations. A runoff election was expected to see an even smaller turnout. (See pictures of Afghanistan...
Mass. Congressman Michael E. Capuano, who had garnered 13 percent of the state’s support according to the poll, could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...results didn't cause much of a stir among voters, who are long used to allegations of fraud. Voter apathy is so widespread in fact that in a poll released Oct. 15 by the independent Levada Center, a shockingly low 4% of Russians said they felt certain that democracy existed in their country. The political opposition, however, challenged the election results like never before. Three days after the vote, and for the first time this decade, all of the opposition members of parliament stormed out of the chamber in protest over the vote, leaving the United Russia deputies on their...