Word: voter
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Despite lively debate among candidates, trends in voter turnout indicate that there may not be a comparable level of enthusiasm from city residents. In the 2007 municipal election, only 13,721 voters cast ballots, although the city boasted nearly 57,000 registered voters at the time...
...every major vote since the fall of communism, reports of vote-rigging, ballot box-stuffing and voter intimidation were rife. In the most blatant violation, one polling station in Moscow recorded zero votes for the opposition Yabloko Party, even though its leader, Sergei Mitrokhin, and his family had all gone there to vote. (Their votes were later found during a recount.) It was a typical landslide day for United Russia. The party claimed victory in virtually all 7,000 races, in some cases by improbably wide margins. (See pictures of the recent war in Georgia...
...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...
...poorer parts of west and north Delhi, the events of the days that followed became much more organized, spreading strategically across the city, including upper-class and diplomatic neighborhoods. Eyewitnesses have repeatedly told stories of the police looking on as rioters murdered and raped, having gotten access to voter records that allowed them to mark Sikh homes with large Xs, and large mobs being bused in to large Sikh settlements. "On Oct. 31, there was primarily looting and arson attacks," says Jaskaran Kaur, co-director of Ensaaf, a U.S.-based nonprofit that works in the predominantly Sikh state of Punjab...
...Accused of orchestrating voter fraud in his brother's favor near Kandahar during the presidential election. Opponents suggested Karzai shut down polling places and stuffed ballot boxes in areas where opposition to Hamid Karzai was heavy...