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Save for a few minor incidents, polling was peaceful and low turnout was universal across the 150 divisions on Monday...A police case was filed in Puranapul division (53) following a fracas between a candidate’s relative and a polling agent of another...
Tags: poll stations, GHMC, India, Hyderabad, Polling place, Election fraud, Indian voting machines, Elections, Polling agent, United Kingdom constitution
Observers’ Mission has expressed satisfaction over the relatively peaceful conclusion of the Gilgit-Baltistan elections and appreciated the enthusiastic turnout of voters. At the same time, the mission expressed its sorrow over a few incidents of violence...
Tags: Gilgit-Baltistan, poll stations, HRCP, CEC, hrcp observers, electoral rolls, baltistan elections, security arrangement, Skardu, PPP, Pakistan, Lahore
He has ordered officials to abandon the proposals reported in the Times and which his department had said were only ideas for further consideration. Ideas in a government working paper reportedly included cutting voting hours and polling staff. Concerns...
Tags: poll stations, Jack Straw, voting hours, working paper
President Barack Obama on Tuesday welcomed an Afghan decision to hold a runoff election on Nov. 7 following evidence of fraud in the Aug. 20 contest. The U.N.-backed Election Complaints Commission in Afghanistan on Monday announced its findings regarding...
Tags: Hamid Karzai, Mr. Karzai, Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan, U.S, poll stations
The announcement of final results in Afghanistan's presidential election has been delayed, officials said. The announcement was expected Saturday, two months after the vote, which United Nations officials say was tainted by "widespread fraud."
Tags: Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Independent Election Commission, public option, Mr Karzai, president hamid, Electoral Complaints Commission, poll stations, fraud investigating
Large numbers of Botswana's 750,000 electorate have reportedly turned out for the Friday ballot in order to determine the fate of the south African state's upcoming government. The 1.9 million nation's ruling party, Botswana's Democratic Party (BDP) under...
Tags: Botswana Democratic Party, Botswana National Front, Botswana Congress Party, Seretse Khama Ian Khama, Seretse Ian Khama, general elections, Southern Africa, poll stations, BDP, diamond producer
The overall percentage of voting was, however, down at about 60% due to low turnout at polling stations in Aheri assembly segment. Armouri assembly reported 74% turnout while Gadchiroli recorded 72% and Aheri 39%, District returning officer Atul Patne,...
Tags: Gadchiroli, poll stations, maoists opened, Aheri, opened fire
The Election Commission Wednesday ordered re-poll in two stations and adjourned voting in 22 others in Maharashtra after Tuesday's assembly elections. The re-poll has been ordered at one station each in Nagpur and Ichalkaranji constituencies. Voting...
Tags: poll stations, Nagpur, Naxal-hit Gadchiroli
If highways were target yesterday, Maoists blew up tracks in Dhanbad, Latehar and East Singhbhum to paralyse rail traffic on CIC section, Dhanbad division, of East Central Railway and Kharagpur division of South Eastern Railway on the second and final...
Tags: assembly elections, Gadchiroli, poll stations, Maharashtra, Navin Chawla
Evidence of massive fraud at the August 20 polls has complicated the already tough decision faced by Barack Obama, the US president, over whether to heed a call from his generals to send more troops to wrest the initiative from Taliban insurgents. An...
Tags: Afghanistan, presidential elections, Hamid Karzai, Barack Obama, Taliban, elections recount, poll stations