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...news for Chirac was the loss of Paris, which he ruled as mayor from 1977 until his presidential victory in 1995. Funding scandals going back to Chirac's tenure and multiple corruption charges surrounding his hand-picked successor, Jean Tiberi, caused widespread voter disgust over the Gaullist "system." After Chirac replaced Tiberi with Philippe Séguin as the rpr's official candidate, the disavowed mayor decided to run as an independent and split the conservative vote. In Lyons, similar divisions on the right handed a narrow victory to Socialist Gérard Collomb, giving the left control of France...
...panel of four legal experts spoke at the Harvard Law School yesterday about the aftermath of the Florida election debacle and their approaches to solving the problems of minority voter disenfranchisement...
...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...
...panelists suggested solutions for amending the voting process. Edley suggested same-day voter registration, performance standards in the voting process and resources allocated for education...
...remarkable for such an untried and multitribal democracy, the possibility of violence constantly simmers below the surface in Uganda. There have been kidnappings and beatings of supporters of both men. Museveni has yet to explain convincingly why he had a Besigye campaign official arrested two weeks ago. Tales of voter intimidation are legion. Both Museveni and Besigye continually ask their supporters to stay calm. But aggressive government security officers and the angry, jobless young men who jam Besigye's rallies keep nerves on edge. The election is March 12. But Dorothy Parker provided the lesson a long time ago, "Scratch...