Cambodia needs 30,000 ballot boxes, said Sik Bun Hok, adding that Chinese equipment for the general election, including ballot boxes and booths, was due to arrive in March.
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"These ballot boxes are a symbol of Japan's aid for democracy in Cambodia and I hope these ballot boxes will provide lasting benefits for holding future election smoothly," Horinouchi said.
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" The article explained that "the Clinton campaign's likely goal was to slip the fake ballot boxes in with the real ballot boxes when they went to official election judges on November 24th.
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An automated democracy could replace both politicians and ballot boxes.
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With luck, this time nobody will stuff the ballot boxes.■
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The military belongs in its barracks, not our ballot boxes.
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For what appears to be the first time, the statement said ballot boxes and actual ballots were among the records destroyed in the fire, contradicting earlier official accounts that ballot boxes had been saved.
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But does donation size correlate with success at the ballot boxes?
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Some 2,500 completed ballots were inside, in six sealed ballot boxes.
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They have hidden the ballot boxes and have started playing dominoes. Brutal.
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Polling officials empty ballot boxes at a Phnom Penh polling station Sunday.
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It turns out that national defense today includes defending our ballot boxes.
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They stationed themselves in front of ballot boxes, occasionally leaning on them.
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But let's put them out of business with boycotts and ballot boxes.
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Surveillance cameras caught poll workers cramming ballot boxes in a few places.
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The warehouse holding the ballot boxes was not damaged, the sources said.
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Here's an interesting twist: The polling stations and ballot boxes are metal.
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Confusing and not quite aboveboard, but these ballot boxes weren't the issue.
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Maybe fans somewhere were stuffing ballot boxes and the races were ridiculous.
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Our differences will be waged on the battlefields of debate and ballot boxes.
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After the polling was over, the soldiers took away all the ballot boxes.
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Some of the Luos here fought police to stop ballot boxes being delivered.
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One possible explanation is that the National Party stuffed ballot boxes in those areas.
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Megyn Kelly and Anderson Cooper aren't secretly stuffing ballot boxes for the Clinton campaign.
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Videos appeared to reveal officials shoving paper in ballot boxes in several voting stations.
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Sharma said ballot boxes were being brought in by helicopter from remote polling centers.
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Hossein hauled eight glass ballot boxes to schools that were serving as polling stations.
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Some Catalans responded by barricading polling stations to prevent the police seizing ballot boxes.
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La Vanguardia newspaper reported that the first ballot boxes had arrived in several centers.
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Ballot boxes in the southwest were half empty as voters stayed away in droves.
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Hakan Han Ozcan said that his party had detected irregularities in 3,217 ballot boxes.
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Ballot boxes in the southwest were half-empty as voters stayed away in droves.
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Last month a fire ripped through a storage site for ballot boxes from eastern Baghdad.
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It featured stuffed ballot boxes, voting by the dead and vote-buying, notes Mr Malamud.
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There was talk of hiding the ballot boxes if the police came to take them.
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"In democratic countries, such differences are resolved at the ballot boxes," Mr. Garcia Ruiz said.
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"This is basically like putting American ballot boxes on the streets of Moscow," Wyden said.
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At least four states — California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington — already have drop-off ballot boxes.
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Eventually, the GIs just dynamited the thing open and went and got the ballot boxes.
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A storage site holding half of the ballot boxes from the capital caught fire on Sunday.
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He said some presiding officers had told him they had been forced to stuff ballot boxes.
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They cast votes in 10 ballot boxes, one for each politician named as targets for investigation.
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Those ballot boxes which had already been transferred to Baghdad will be recounted in the capital.
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If we do not do this ourselves, our people will do it at the ballot boxes.
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Our volunteers should focus on safeguarding the ballot boxes because they are key to our victory.
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HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - A small ray of hope has emanated from Hong Kong's ballot boxes.
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After the vote, the sheriff's deputies stole the ballot boxes and took them to the jail.
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During independent India's first general elections in 1952, separate ballot boxes were used for every candidate.
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Iraqi authorities said the ballot boxes were saved but the fire has added to fears of violence.
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Cambodia has said China will provide various equipment for the July election, including ballot boxes and booths.
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"We are not demanding anything that isn't democratic, that wouldn't be done via ballot boxes," he said.
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If that's our best election defense, we might as well just mail our ballot boxes to Moscow.
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Catalonia's TV3 showed ballot boxes and voting papers ready at one polling station in a Barcelona suburb.
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Several videos circulating on social media showing some voters openly stuffing ballot boxes with multiple voting slips.
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Several videos circulating on social media showed some voters openly stuffing ballot boxes with multiple voting slips.
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Iraqi authorities said the ballot boxes had been rescued but the fire has fuelled fears of violence.
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"I was elected to manage a city, not to provide ballot boxes," she said in an interview.
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"Try to replace the prime minister at the ballot boxes, as is accepted in democracies," it added.
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We have to fight through every channel, through the legislatures, through the courts, through the ballot boxes.
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In Washington State there aren't polling places, just literal ballot boxes where everyone votes by mail...oddly simple!
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"If that's our best election defense, we might as well just mail our ballot boxes to Moscow," Rep.
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Tokyo, also one of Cambodia's top donors, has provided over 10,000 ballot boxes worth $7.5 million, Reuters reported.
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The only thing that'd actually be worse is leaving the ballot boxes on the street corner in Moscow.
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LOS ANGELES — If movie theater turnstiles were ballot boxes, you could call this election for Hillary Clinton right now.
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And ballot boxes are closely watched by people on both sides to prevent anyone from tampering with the vote.
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This does not just mean providing security to campaign rallies, or protecting ballot boxes in endless rounds of polls.
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They also found ingenious ways to hide their ballot boxes with games of dominoes, fake weddings, and church services.
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In Paktia, a south-eastern province bordering Pakistan, local strongmen beat up election officials and carried off ballot boxes.
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In May police had confiscated ballot boxes at a party primary in an unsubtle attempt to thwart Mr Nasheed.
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And this fall, we need to show up at the ballot boxes and put all the naysayers to rest.
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"If that's our best election defense, we might as well just mail our ballot boxes to Moscow," Schiff added.
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During the referendum, "the Spanish state didn't just want to confiscate ballot boxes and ballot papers," Mr. Puigdemont said.
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Final results can take a few days, as ballot boxes are checked, and votes come in from Israelis overseas.
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Last week, police raided a print work and newspaper offices searching for ballot boxes and voting papers, Reuters reported.
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Some polling stations had opened earlier than the official time while some ballot boxes were already filled, they said.
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Final results can take a few days, as ballot boxes are checked and votes come in from Israelis overseas.
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Some ballot boxes in the mainly Kurdish southeast have been relocated which officials say is aimed at stopping voter intimidation.
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Materials including ballot boxes arrived late in some locations and some people struggled to find their names on voter rolls.
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Berlusconi told La Repubblica newspaper on Sunday "taking the country to the ballot boxes in these conditions would be irresponsible".
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Yet few expected widespread ballot-fixing, as in the days when generals used to stuff ballot-boxes full as sandbags.
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The last word on Donald Trump and Trumpism will come through the American people—at ballot boxes across the country.
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Protests have turned violent over the result, with demonstrators burning ballot boxes and clashing with riot police in several cities.
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In league-dominated districts queues were short and voting was easy, with only a few ballot boxes per voting station.
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The law grants the High Electoral Board the authority to merge electoral districts and move ballot boxes to other districts.
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The police have seized campaign materials, and have orders to do the same with ballot boxes as they are deployed.
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That said, by playing cat-and-mouse with ballot boxes Mr Rajoy has needlessly given Mr Puigdemont a propaganda victory.
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Pakistani election workers collect ballot boxes and polling material from a distribution center in Quetta, Pakistan, Tuesday, July 24, 2018.
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Any heavy-handedness on behalf of his government to stop leaflet printing or confiscate ballot boxes could trigger social unrest.
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There were ceaseless pro-Putin propaganda campaigns on state-run television, voting irregularities, stuffing of ballot boxes, reports of intimidation.
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The Catalan health department said 1,066 people required medical attention after police attempted to seize ballot boxes and disperse voters.
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"If you look at these ballot boxes, some of them look like art in their simplicity and elegance," he says.
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"These are decisions contrary to the will expressed by the citizens of our country at the ballot boxes," he said.
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Indonesia, the world's third-largest democracy, will head to the ballot boxes on Wednesday for a largely unremarkable general election.
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National police officers used rubber bullets and truncheons as they tried to shut down polling stations and seize ballot boxes.
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Marlon Ochoa, Nasralla's campaign manager, reiterated that the coalition wants a full recount of the complete 18,000-odd ballot boxes.
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Perhaps Donald Trump will give him the keys to the city or perhaps more importantly the keys to some ballot boxes.
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But in June Brazil's supreme court struck down a law that would have introduced paper receipts for 5% of ballot boxes.
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However, there were widespread allegations of stuffed ballot-boxes, and the main opposition candidate, Alexei Navalny, was not allowed to stand.
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Like India's other ministries, defence is run by rotating civil servants and political appointees more focused on ballot boxes than ballistics.
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At a news conference, regional officials displayed one of the white plastic ballot boxes bearing the crest of the regional government.
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The opposition Jatiya Oikya Front has rejected the vote and demanded a fresh election, accusing the AL of stuffing ballot boxes.
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Several videos shot in polling stations showed some voters openly stuffing ballot boxes with multiple voting slips circulated on social media.
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" She then argued in an address that the judge had sent to prison "a government legitimately elected at the ballot boxes.
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With the referendum's passing vote, the Catalan Republic was born, and it is supported by the legitimacy of the ballot boxes.
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In some districts, despite security forces bringing election materials and ballot boxes, voters couldn't leave their homes to cast their vote.
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Some 6,000 ballot boxes have been stored in a secret location for fear that they could be confiscated by the police.
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Ballot boxes have been hacked in the past, and efforts by Congress to pass any election security legislation have largely failed.
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The area has no roads but politics reaches it anyway, thanks to Maria Uglovaya, her helicopter and a handful of ballot boxes.
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The bill also grants the YSK High Electoral Board the authority to merge electoral districts and move ballot boxes to other districts.
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As some 40,000 polling booths across the country opened, reports soon emerged that some of the plastic ballot boxes looked suspiciously full.
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Turkey's main opposition party, the Republican People's Party (CHP), said it would demand a recount of about 37 percent of ballot boxes.
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Opposition leader Cisse, who voted in his village, Niafounke in the Timbuktu region, said that in Dianke, ballot boxes were taken away.
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Development money made sure that communists didn't sneak into power through the back door of ballot boxes in France, Italy and beyond.
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With so much at stake, many previous governorship elections have been marred by violence including shootings and armed gangs snatching ballot boxes.
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Opposition parties and NGOs had deployed up to half a million monitors at ballot boxes to try to prevent possible electoral fraud.
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One of our correspondents spent the day with high school students in Barcelona who used diversions to sneak ballot boxes to safety.
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State TV showed dozens of ballot boxes lined up on the ground at a covered sports hall as election workers counted paper ballots.
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A CNN crew saw several people vote twice at one polling station, where the ballot boxes were decorated with new Donetsk independence flags.
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The Spanish government sent masked riot police to raid polling sites and confiscate ballot boxes and later called for a new "legitimate" election.
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The passage of the law grants Turkey's High Electoral Board the authority to merge electoral districts and move ballot boxes to other districts.
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At a press conference outside his house in Jakarta he told supporters to guard ballot boxes, implying that the other side had cheated.
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The men, whose loyalties were unclear, stormed a voting room, broke open ballot boxes and walked off with the ballots, said the observers.
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On its website, the YSK gave four examples of cases in previous decades where unstamped ballots had been accepted at individual ballot boxes.
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The ballot boxes are part of a manual recount of votes from the May parliamentary election, mandated in a law passed on Wednesday.
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They show that 4,378 Russian citizens cast their votes using mobile ballot boxes outside Damascus, the Syrian capital, where just 43 Russians voted.
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Appeals concerning individual ballot boxes are first assessed at a local level, then at a regional level and finally by a national board.
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With so much at stake, previous governorship elections have been marred by violence including shootings and the snatching of ballot boxes by armed gangs.
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" In his statement for this story, Spicer also referenced the election outcome, saying, "The ballot boxes were not hacked and the tallies were unaffected.
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Politics aside, and after the ballot boxes are put away, responsible governing requires a grounded understanding of the challenges we face as a nation.
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The Nigeria Police Force said 128 people had been arrested nationwide for election-related offences including homicide, theft of ballot boxes and vote fraud.
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On Sunday, Peruvians fanned out to voting stations like the one at Sagrado Corazón Chalet School, where soldiers guarded ballot boxes placed in classrooms.
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Thousands of individual appeals of individual ballot boxes nevertheless remain in play, keeping open the possibility that the final vote tallies might yet change.
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"Uber will take everyone to the ballot boxes for free in the referendum being held on April 16," the company said in a statement.
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The Nigerian police said Monday they arrested 128 people for election-related offenses ranging from homicide to vote buying and snatching of ballot boxes.
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The tribunal declared Nasralla the leader in an announcement on the morning after the vote, with just over half of the ballot boxes counted.
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Then there are the Crime Preventers, more than 100,000 citizens who have been deputized to control crowds, arrest suspects, guard ballot boxes and gather intelligence.
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One person was killed and 20 wounded in Kirkuk on Sunday when a suicide car bomb went off near a storage site housing ballot boxes.
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Another photo falsely claimed that a former finance minister said ballot boxes were ordered to defraud the election, which Aos Fatos also debunked Oct. 7.
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Days before the election, the Economist published recordings of an apparent training for poll workers from the incumbent party on how to stuff ballot boxes.
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The use of biometric data verification of voters and automatic ballot boxes during the latest parliamentary elections in October 2015 were unprecedented for the region.
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If that's our best election defense, we might as well just mail our ballot boxes to Moscow," Schiff said on CNN's "State of the Union.
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The Etowah County probate office reported that Horton had received 28503,22019 votes, compared to Entrekin's 6,742 with 34 of the county's 35 ballot boxes recording.
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But for Jenna Stroh, an Illinois construction worker who planned to dash from work to the ballot boxes, casting her vote for Biden is crucial.
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On the day itself, there were reports of voter intimidation, ballot boxes snatched at polling stations and voting papers burned in at least one place.
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But if Republicans choose to ignore the voices of women now, I can assure them they will hear us in the ballot boxes in November.
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Still, the Catalan government says it can hold the vote, and recently announced that it had stored about 6,000 ballot boxes in a secret location.
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With results in from more than 80 percent of ballot boxes, Alvarado Munoz had 24.8 percent of the vote, while Alvarado Quesada had 21.6 percent.
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Uganda's police recruited more than 100,000 volunteer Crime Preventers, who were given paramilitary training to help control crowds, arrest suspects, guard ballot boxes and gather intelligence.
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Still, tens of thousands of Catalans marked the anniversary this week with a demonstration at which they carried scores of the ballot boxes used last year.
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"The ballot boxes were stolen," says Hind al-Fayez, a candidate who accused the interior minister of corruption and then lost her bid for re-election.
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"I hope they don't steal the election from me," he says with a laugh, "but if they do, I'll pay to have the ballot boxes burned."
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"They came, they fired their weapons and then they took the ballot boxes away," witness and Timbuktu resident Insubdar Inaboud, 42, a bus conductor, told Reuters.
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Nuristani said the elections would only be held on time if the government provided the necessary budget and security for candidates, election personnel and ballot boxes.
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Some deaths resulted from clashes between groups allied to the leading parties and the police over the theft of ballot boxes and allegations of vote fraud.
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When the tally resumed the following morning, the results showed Mr Imamoglu ahead by less than 30,000 votes, with only a few dozen ballot boxes unopened.
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Opposition parties, however, see the measures as making the vote counting process less transparent and as allowing the government to move ballot boxes from opposition strongholds.
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"The keyboard heroes who don't know what the ballot boxes mean, we will see each other on the night of June 24," Unal wrote on Twitter.
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Previous governorship elections in Rivers and other parts of Nigeria have been marred by violence, including shootings and the snatching of ballot boxes by armed gangs.
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The tribunal had initially declared Nasralla the leader in an announcement on the morning after the vote, with just over half of the ballot boxes counted.
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Passed in March, the law changes election regulations and allows security forces to be present at polling stations and allows for ballot boxes to be moved.
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One officer will monitor onsite cameras, a second will monitor storage of USB drives and ballot boxes, and a third will manage the other two officers.
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Votes in favor of the constitutional changes narrowed to 51.7 percent with around 95 percent of ballot boxes opened, the state-run Anadolu news agency said.
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So once the Trump administration is done investigating the investigators, it should turn its attention to ensuring the sanctity and security of the nation's ballot boxes.
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"They don't need to rig ballot boxes," Timothy E. Kaldas, an analyst at the Washington-based Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, tweeted before the vote.
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The ballot boxes, also escorted by a heavily armed police contingent, arrived an hour after that - not that there was any chance of them being used.
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In Dixville Notch and Millsfield, where participation included no more than 30 voters, there were wooden ballot boxes where people were able to drop their submissions.
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President Muhammadu Buhari this week ordered the military to be ruthless with anyone attempting to rig or snatch ballot boxes, as can sometimes happen in Nigeria.
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But voting was beset by violence in pockets of the country, and there were some reports of ballot boxes being snatched and voting papers set alight.
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Thailand has remained divided since Thaksin's ouster in 2006, with Thaksin's supporters and opponents vying for power at the ballot boxes and in the streets, sometimes violently.
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He says results from 186 ballot boxes remain uncounted from Kirkuk, which has seen elevated tensions since federal forces seized the city from Kurdish control last year.
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Server-side privacy violations will net a 10,000 CHF bounty ($10,000), while vote corruption—like destroyed electronic ballot boxes—will result in a 000,000 CHF ($5,000) bounty.
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The YSK agreed only to a recount of 51 ballot boxes, spread across 21 of the city's total 39 districts, but the AKP called this decision "unfathomable".
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If that's our best election defense, we might as well just mail our ballot boxes to Moscow," Schiff told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union.
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During the Cold War, the ultra-nationalists were a minor force at the ballot boxes, but the MHP became influential on the streets through the Grey Wolves.
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The YSK will also be given the authority to merge electoral districts and move ballot boxes to other districts, officials of both parties told a news conference.
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Images of the national police force in riot gear using rubber bullets and truncheons to shut polling stations and seize ballot boxes spread quickly around the world.
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Here is how Canada's system of parliamentary democracy works.. Here are some key ridings that may be indicators for national trends at ballot boxes across the country.
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"I beg you not to be passive ... I am asking you ... not to turn your back on ballot boxes," Rouhani said in a speech on Feb. 11.
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Spanish riot police burst into polling stations across Catalonia on Sunday, seizing ballot boxes and voting papers to prevent a banned referendum on a split from Spain.
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So strangers, especially ones with ballot boxes, are a rare event and the atmosphere is festive, even though the outcome of the election is not seriously in doubt.
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But Shakir wants the group to be known for what it does outside of the courtroom, too — in grassroots organizing, in ballot boxes, and on the Senate floor.
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The national government has done all it can to prevent the poll, seizing ballot boxes and voting slips, and threatening officials with large fines if they co-operate.
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On November 25th, ten hours after polls closed, the TSE released preliminary results from 2000% of ballot boxes showing Mr Nasralla with a lead of five percentage points.
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With 75.1 percent of ballot boxes counted, Costa Rica's electoral tribunal said Alvarado Munoz was ahead with 24.9 percent of the vote while Alvarado Quesada had 21.4 percent.
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About 413 people were injured as altercations broke out when police pushed back voters and seized ballot boxes from the schools and public institutions serving as polling stations.
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About 900 people were injured as altercations broke out when police pushed back voters and seized ballot boxes from the schools and public institutions serving as polling stations.
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In "The Decision," Olivia chooses not to rig the ballot boxes of Defiance, Ohio, meaning Fitz loses the swing state — and the election — by just over 4,000 votes.
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Rajoy has been criticized by the way his government has dealt with the referendum, by ordering the removal of campaign materials, ballot boxes and the use of police.
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Europe's response is crucial, for it must step up to the bullying tyrants on their borders and defeat the illiberal forces surging at the ballot boxes at home.
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He had walked just fifteen minutes that morning from home to his assigned voting location, where the school foyer was filled with tables, ballot boxes and fellow volunteers.
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Featuring ballot boxes, rally signs, and other political campaign ephemera, the Smithsonian's show is a celebration of American democracy as told through the instruments that make elections possible.
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As results started flowing on Tuesday evening, Nasralla's original five-point lead had narrowed to just over 1.5 percentage points, with about 72 percent of ballot boxes counted.
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Ballot boxes from several areas that had exceptionally high turnout in the Saturday election, surprising observers, have arrived at the Independent Election Commission's tabulation centers brimming with votes.
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As night descended, protesters in the cities of Tarija and Sucre burned mounds of ballot boxes and set fire to vote counting stations, images on local television showed.
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"The Republicans' decision to shut down the House Intelligence Committee Russia investigation sends a bright green light to Russia to continue its interference at America's ballot boxes," Rep.
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A few days later a storage site housing half of Baghdad's ballot boxes caught fire, raising tensions and prompting some to call for the election to be repeated.
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With 85 percent of ballot boxes counted, candidates from Solih's Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) lead in more than 60 out of 87 constituencies, according to local media projections.
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After voting in the town of Gabu on Sunday, he accused the interior ministry of stuffing ballot boxes, but did not provide any evidence to support his claim.
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In Istanbul, AK Party candidate and former prime minister Binali Yildirim maintained his lead over the opposition candidate with more than half the ballot boxes opened, NTV said.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's main opposition presidential candidate Muharrem Ince said on Sunday Turkish citizens should protect ballot boxes against possible fraud by President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party.
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The day ended with voters burning the ballot papers and ballot boxes, claiming that this was the only way to ensure they were not stuffed with 'yes' votes later.
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The vote was marred by irregularities, including the stuffing of ballot boxes and suspect proxy voting, according to election monitors from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
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Opposition parties and non-governmental organizations say they plan to deploy more than half a million monitors and volunteers at ballot boxes across Turkey on Sunday to prevent fraud.
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After releasing preliminary results from 57% of ballot boxes, which showed Mr Nasralla with a lead of five percentage points, the TSE stopped reporting on November 27th without explanation.
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"Everything is prepared at the more than 2,000 voting points so they have ballot boxes and voting slips, and have everything people need to express their opinion," Puigdemont said.
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SPAIN'S intelligence service was humiliated last year when it failed to stop supporters of Carles Puigdemont's separatist Catalan government from smuggling in ballot boxes for an unconstitutional independence referendum.
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Acting under court orders, police have raided printers, newspaper offices and private delivery companies in a search for campaign literature, instruction manuals for manning voting stations and ballot boxes.
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But a dispute arose over a technicality: whether the people who had delivered the ballot boxes from three upstate counties to the secretary of state had been properly deputized.
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Spanish riot police reportedly used rubber bullets and batons against members of the public trying to vote on Sunday, as well as storming polling stations to seize ballot boxes.
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And with a general election looming in 2020, the government is unlikely to insist that they do, for fear that it would pay for that at the ballot boxes.
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Nigeria's Independent Electoral Electoral Commission said more than 10,000 permanent voters' cards and 755 ballot boxes were destroyed in two fire incidents in Abia and Plateau states last week.
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"The Republicans' decision to shut down the House Intelligence Committee's Russia investigation sends a bright green light to Russia to continue its interference at America's ballot boxes," he said.
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With a quick Google image search for "ballot boxes," he landed on a shot of a balding fellow standing behind black plastic boxes that helpfully had "Ballot Box" labels.
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With 99.8 percent of ballot boxes opened in Ankara, CHP mayoral candidate Mansur Yavas had secured 50.9 percent, giving him a 3.8-percentage-point lead over his AKP rival.
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Under a bright sun and the watchful gaze of uniformed grammar school children guarding ballot boxes, 81 percent of the 8.7 million electorate had cast votes by 5 p.m.
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The count stalled on Friday evening when the electoral tribunal said it would hand-count the remaining ballot boxes that had irregularities, comprising nearly 6 percent of the total vote.
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In others, voters complained of having to wait for hours, of voting stations closing for lunch, and of reaching ballot boxes only to be told the ballots had run out.
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U.K. citizens could be heading to the ballot boxes again this Summer after British Prime Minister Theresa May called for an early general election as difficult Brexit negotiations get underway.
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Because legalization has happened almost entirely at state ballot boxes, the United States has so far avoided having a national conversation about the broader implications of increased use and availability.
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Security forces will also be allowed to attend to ballot boxes when requested by any voter and not leave until the reason for the request has been resolved, they said.
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"For Rick Scott to call for law enforcement to secure the ballot boxes after at night when they close down, I don't see why that's a big deal," Maguire said.
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The mayoral candidate of the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Ekrem Imamoglu, had a lead of 17,919 votes after recounts of around 49 percent of ballot boxes, the party said.
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So is anyone surprised by the new Harvard poll showing that young people plan on flooding into the ballot boxes in November -- and that the surge is almost entirely Democratic?
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Sarah Jessica Parker, Lena Dunham, Henry Winkler and other HBO stars are sharing a last-minute Election Day message, urging fans of their shows to head to the ballot boxes.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - It had all the trappings of a proper polling station - ballot-boxes, pots of indelible ink, registration lists and a dozen election officials dutifully seated behind school desks.
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In the referendum last year, over 5,000 ballot boxes had no observers and 20,000 boxes were included in the count without a result sheet, Ms. Akcaru said in an interview.
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The main opposition party formally asked Turkey's electoral commission Tuesday afternoon to reassess the contents of multiple ballot boxes and — in a separate appeal — to annul the entire poll result.
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African observers said voting went smoothly in the election to succeed incumbent President Jose Mario Vaz, though one of the candidates accused authorities of stuffing ballot boxes, without providing evidence.
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The result will take days to confirm, and the main opposition party said it would demand a recount of about 37 percent of ballot boxes, containing around 2.5 million votes.
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In its ruling, the nine-member panel said that many of Mr. Prabowo's accusations of cheating, including vote-buying, mishandling of ballot boxes and bias by government agencies, were unfounded.
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The OAS, which on Wednesday said it may call for new elections if "irregularities" undermine the credibility of results, had previously called for a recount of those 4,753 ballot boxes.
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The HDP also fears the measures could lead to ballot boxes being moved out of districts where it has been popular, Mehmet Tiryaki, the party's representative to the electoral board, said.
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Used in Brazil since the 1990s, electronic ballot boxes have fueled conspiracy theories and have become an obsession for the candidate and his followers, although there's been no evidence of fraud.
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"... They stopped the vote count for four hours and started stuffing the ballot boxes using special bandit methods," Zyuganov told a news briefing in Moscow, calling the imbroglio "a political Chernobyl".
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At a ceremony on Wednesday, Japan's ambassador to Cambodia, Hidehisa Horinouchi, said the NEC was in need of new ballot boxes to replace the ones given by Tokyo 20 years ago.
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New Jersey multimedia artist Mike Richison created a mashup of the legendary drum machine, the Roland TR 808, with the same ballot boxes that were used during the 2000 Bush v.
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With more than 92 percent of ballot boxes opened in Ankara, CHP mayoral candidate Mansur Yavas, had secured 50.6 percent, giving him a 3.4-percentage-point lead over his AKP rival.
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Rajoy's government mobilised thousands of national police to stop Sunday's vote, leading to clashes with would-be voters as they tried to close polling stations in schools and remove ballot boxes.
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But many more remained open — Catalan officials said 2315 stations were ready for the vote — and within them, volunteers and organizers tried to protect the ballot boxes, sometimes using diversionary tactics.
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Still, she added, "Sooner or later the ballot boxes will reach Catalonia, and we will win, because there is a majority of Catalans who is fed up" with the independence drive.
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Controversy increased again this week, when the electoral body announced that it had voided votes from 1,021 ballot boxes around the country, as well as ballots cast by Iraqi citizens overseas.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - A fire overnight at a warehouse in Congo's capital destroyed thousands of voting machines and ballot boxes that were due to be used in the country's long-delayed Dec.
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One added that, on the day Mr. Maduro was elected to his first term, she witnessed officials opening ballot boxes and tampering with votes, including destroying ballots that chose the opposition.
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Individual action—across supermarkets, skies, roads, homes, workplaces, and ballot boxes—sounds an alarm that might just wake us from our collective slumber and build a foundation for the necessary political change.
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On Tuesday, police continued their search for ballot boxes, voting papers and campaign leaflets, raiding the offices of Spain's biggest private delivery company Unipost in several Catalan cities and clashing with protesters.
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After three-quarters of ballot boxes were opened, secularist opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) mayoral candidate Mansur Yavas had 49.8 percent of the vote, 2.0 percentage points ahead of his AKP rival.
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Mr Netanyahu, who on election day in March 2015 said that "the Arab voters are moving in massive numbers to the ballot boxes", has since made half-hearted attempts to mend fences.
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To justify its calls for recounts and for a full re-run of the elections, the AKP said there were illegal appointments of representatives at ballot boxes and irregularities across the city.
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Senior Spanish government officials said on Tuesday authorities had done enough to prevent a meaningful referendum as Catalonia lacked an election commission, ballot boxes, ballot papers, a transparent census and election material.
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At the border post where people cross from Lebanon into Syria, ballot boxes were provided, and the authorities appeared to be requiring Syrians to cast ballots before entering or leaving the country.
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Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain now has a legacy that includes gruesome photographs and videos of policemen confiscating ballot boxes, using tear gas on voters and swatting elderly women with batons.
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While many small towns across the Granite State still use conventional ballot boxes and hand count the results, the more populated towns and most cities use machines to count the paper ballots.
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On Thursday, tribunal chief David Matamoros said there would be a re-count of 4,753 ballot boxes that arrived after the 36-hour pause, and which the opposition has claimed are tainted.
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When the voters found out the ballots were only those for choosing members of Parliament, not the president, they overpowered the police, grabbed the ballot boxes and threw them all over a field.
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A storage site holding half of Baghdad's ballot boxes went up in flames on Sunday in what Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi denounced as a "plot to harm the nation and its democracy".
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Republicans dominated suburban and rural areas, stuffing ballot boxes "downstate;" Democratic Mayor Richard J. Daley, who ran Chicago, had precinct captains resurrect the dead to vote for Senator John F. Kennedy in 1960.
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However, by Sunday afternoon, the ballot boxes had yet to be distributed throughout the rundown town, which local Kurdish officials attributed to a lack of security forces able to help deploy them safely.
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As a member of a Yandaba gang—politically linked hoodlums who terrorise the city—she would get high before brawling with rival parties' gangs or, during elections, grabbing ballot boxes from polling stations.
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Erdogan said on Monday the local elections were marred by "organized crime" at ballot boxes in Istanbul, raising the possibility of re-running the vote in the city of some 15 million residents.
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Despite their divergences, Spain's four national party leaders are promising weary citizens that they will not have to return to the ballot boxes for a third time, even if Sunday's vote proves inconclusive.
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As Catalans Voted, 'Dying With Fear' at High School Turned Polling Place Students at the Moisès Broggi school created barricades to foil the police and used diversions to sneak ballot boxes to safety.
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The results of the Florida recounts are not due until Thursday, but politicians have taken to social media to repeat unsubstantiated rumors of things like ballot boxes supposedly left behind at polling stations.
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The most recent red wash of the executive and judiciary arms of government should therefore inspire serious urgency in young Americans to hit the ballot boxes and affect the legislature where they can.
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Another candidate, Alexander Cummings of the Alternative National Congress, has also said there were problems during the polls, including the theft of ballot boxes, but his party has yet to file a complaint.
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Maduro seized on the images of Spanish riot police bursting into polling stations across Catalonia on Sunday, confiscating ballot boxes and voting papers, as evidence that it is Rajoy who lacks democratic credentials.
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In a tweet earlier in the evening, he said only 37 percent of ballot boxes had actually been counted, as opposed to the more than nearly 90 percent Anadolu was reporting at the time.
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"If those voters went to the ballot boxes according to their free will, this political party that is the extension of the PKK would not be able to get this many votes," Bozdag said.
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BARCELONA, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Spanish riot police carried away ballot boxes confiscated from a Barcelona polling station being used for a Catalan independence referendum declared illegal by the Spanish government, a Reuters witness said.
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There's no evidence in the US of widespread voter fraud, despite what Trump said of the last two elections; whereas in Russia this year there were actual videos of poll workers stuffing ballot boxes.
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A fire engulfed a site in Baghdad on Sunday where Iraqi officials had stored half of the city's ballot boxes from last month's contentious parliamentary election ahead of a mandated national recount, Reuters reports.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spanish national police began to seize ballot boxes and voting papers from Catalan polling stations, the Interior Ministry said, as some voters began casting ballots in Catalonia's disputed independence referendum on Sunday.
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Concerns over election-related violence In Rivers state, "hoodlums" fatally shot a soldier and injured another who foiled an attempt to steal ballot boxes at a polling station, police spokesman Nnamdi Omoni told CNN.
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Under these regimes, citizens regularly go to the ballot boxes, and the elections are free if not always fair, but it is the government that decides who has a right to voice his concerns.
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"We're saying they did a series of things to sow doubt and some people think they wanted Trump to win, but no one has ever said they got into the mechanics of the ballot boxes."
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The Election Commission is nowadays most concerned with ensuring a fair and well publicised vote, but in wilder times it was also responsible for protecting ballot boxes from being stuffed or stolen, or candidates kidnapped.
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However, more than 750,000 votes could not be counted because polling stations were closed and ballot boxes were confiscated as a result of the clashes between voters and police officers, according to a Catalan spokesman.
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Despite the progress made on cannabis policies within legislative chambers and ballot boxes across America, the rollout of successful regulated cannabis markets has been stymied in several jurisdictions, and the illegal market has remained strong.
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With 81.77 percent of the ballot boxes counted, the election tribunal said both Hernandez and opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla had won 42.17 percent of the vote, though the incumbent had an advantage of 40 votes.
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In early June, a storage site holding half of Baghdad's ballot boxes went up in flames in an incident Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi described as a "plot to harm the nation and its democracy".
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"About 20 army tanks, in a large convoy, brought the ballot boxes for voting," said Sayed Mahmod, the district governor of Almar in northern Faryab province, where much of the area is under Taliban control.
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Enter the FBI, which along with the Homeland Security Department and other national security agencies will be primed to play a key role safeguarding the ballot boxes and the overall integrity of the campaign process.
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He said the decision to extend the vote, which was taken unexpectedly as complaints mounted on Saturday, opened the way for abuse, with half-filled ballot boxes left open all night in some polling centers.
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Newly-approved electoral laws will among other things, allow the government to relocate ballot boxes on security grounds and allow the counting of unstamped ballot papers as valid, which the opposition fears can lead to fraud.
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In Istanbul, AKP candidate and former prime minister Binali Yildirim had 49.7 percent of votes, 1.9 percentage points ahead of his CHP rival, after just under 90 percent of ballot boxes were opened, broadcaster NTV said.
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Soon after voting finished at 4 pm (1000 GMT), Reuters saw polling officials unsealing see-through ballot boxes and pouring the contents onto a blue plastic sheet on the floor of an election booth in Dhaka.
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In a statement, Nasralla's party had asked the electoral commission for access to ballot boxes, voter databases and voter breakdowns, and it demanded a recount in three areas of the country where turnout was uncharacteristically high.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's main opposition party said on Saturday its candidate for mayor of Istanbul retained his narrow lead over President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party candidate after recounts in nearly half of the city's ballot boxes.
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The clashes quickly spoiled what had been a festive, if expectant, atmosphere among voters, many of whom had camped inside polling stations and stayed on into late Sunday night, fearful that officers might seize ballot boxes.
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Moving forward in the digitized world, if we don't call out Astroturf groups and set regulations on their transparency and output, we will allow them to continue stuffing our genuine votes into their faux ballot boxes.
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Unless one wants to say that a democracy remains a democracy as long as the government does not stuff the ballot boxes on Election Day, it is crucial to insist that democracy itself is being damaged.
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Live TV pictures showed police with black berets and riot shields fanning out through the voting station, apparently searching for ballot boxes, while would-be voters, fists raised in the air, defiantly sang the Catalan anthem.
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Other concerns raised by the opposition and by election observers include: ■ Suspicions of ballot-box stuffing in "almost all" of Turkey's 165,000 ballot boxes, according to the Republican People's Party, or C.H.P., the main opposition party.
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Western security officials and diplomats in Kabul said U.S. forces would also provide air support for the Afghan forces - to thwart insurgent attacks and ensure safe retrieval of ballot boxes from the stations after the election.
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The referendum has been declared illegal by Rajoy's central government in Madrid, which says the constitution states the country is indivisible, and it has dispatched police across Catalonia to seize ballot boxes and prevent people voting.
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As the primaries and general election come into view, it's important that Americans go to the ballot boxes knowing they are both entitled to their privacy and entitled to hold their politicians accountable for infringing on it.
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You&aposve got the leftists in the elite media screaming about foreign interference and meddling in our political system, and having noncitizens and illegal aliens voting at our ballot boxes is the textbook definition of foreign meddling.
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There was a three-day period for election results to be challenged, Guven said, adding that results of 84 out of 31,186 ballot boxes in Istanbul had not yet been scanned into the system due to challenges.
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In Istanbul, Turkish TV channels showed that AKP candidate and former Prime Minister Binali Yildirim had the narrowest of leads with 98.8 percent of ballot boxes opened, securing 4,5.653,219 votes against 4,106,776 for his rival, Ekrem Imamoglu.
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In Istanbul, Turkish TV channels showed that AKP candidate and former Prime Minister Binali Yildirim had the narrowest of leads with 98.8 percent of ballot boxes opened, securing 4,111,5.553 votes against 4,106,776 for his rival, Ekrem Imamoglu.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's outgoing parliament speaker Salim al-Jabouri said on Sunday that a May 12 parliamentary election should be repeated after a storage site housing ballot boxes in Baghdad caught on fire earlier in the day.
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Candidates and their parties have offered small gifts of food, drink or cash to lure voters, or encouraged "electoral tourism" — paying voters to visit multiple polling stations on Election Day, stuffing ballot boxes for their preferred candidates.
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Manuel Condeminas, a 48-year-old IT manager who tried to block police from driving away with ballot boxes on Sunday, said police had kicked him and others before using their batons and firing the rubber bullets.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Ballot boxes and voting papers were being set out at some voting stations in Catalonia in preparation for Sunday's planned referendum on splitting from Spain, local media said, despite Spanish authorities declaring the vote illegal.
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Among their concerns was the crash of a computer server three days into the counting that left the results vulnerable to tampering, opened ballot boxes, and an inexplicable change in voting patterns as the count went on.
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Conversations with voters in several of the province's districts suggested that while in some areas people voted in higher numbers than expected, in others concerns were high that ballot boxes had been stuffed late in the day.
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For the many South Koreans who recall the brawls in parliament when MPs impeached him in 2004—ballot boxes were hurled and weeping MPs were hauled out of the National Assembly—today's proceedings were remarkably civil and swift.
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Today, as I reflect upon my own experiences and prepare to vote for the very first time, I understand more than ever the tremendous power and potential we, the millennial generation, have at the ballot boxes this year.
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For voting, the status quo is recording the total number of ballots cast, with the voter dropping a visible paper ballot in a box, and journalists and observers from both sides watching the ballot boxes the whole time.
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They've vouchsafed conspiracy theories about the president's birthplace, and insinuations that groups like the New Black Panthers (which barely exists) and ACORN (which no longer does) are intimidating Republicans out of voting or stuffing ballot boxes for Democrats.
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Patrice Emery Trovoada, the head of the African Union observer mission, said their preliminary report showed that on voting day, there were incidents of vote counting being interrupted and police being involved in improper transport of ballot boxes.
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But there may be no formal announcement for two weeks as ballot boxes wend their way along pot-holed roads and dirt tracks in a country of 28 million spread across an area twice the size of France.
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The state-run Anadolu news agency said the main opposition's candidate in Istanbul had a lead of 0.28 percentage points over his AKP rival with 99.8 percent of ballot boxes opened, after both parties claimed victory Turkey's biggest city.
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Pundits and tweeters have given preposterous examples from kidnapping an opposing candidate to bribing voters and rounding up Democrats to tampering with ballot boxes, all of which are criminal, as were many of the impeachable offenses of President Nixon.
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The conservative men who passed the law of 1918 feared electoral defeat if they opened the ballot boxes to "flappers", the young women who wore short dresses, heavy make-up and bob haircuts and had scandalously liberal social attitudes.
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The tribunal has said it will hand-count some 20093,031 outstanding ballot boxes with irregularities - or nearly 6 percent of the total - after the count halted with Hernandez ahead by less than 50,000 votes, or about 1.5 percentage points.
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Police fired rubber bullets, wrestled protesters, smashed doorways and carted off ballot boxes in several parts of Barcelona on Sunday, as long lines of people voted in an independence referendum that could radically reshape politics across a divided region.
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The secretary of the C.H.P. in Istanbul, Dr. Hakki Saglam, suggested that as many as 200,000 ballot papers in Istanbul alone may have been added to ballot boxes illegally, since they had not been validated with an official stamp.
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In Istanbul, Turkish TV channels showed that AKP candidate and former Prime Minister Binali Yildirim had the narrowest of leads over his rival Ekrem Imamoglu - 5.553,000 votes out of 8 million counted - with 98.8 percent of ballot boxes opened.
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The comment was made in a statement issued by the main opposition People's Democratic Party after Buhari said anyone trying to steal or destroy ballot boxes and voting material would do so "at the expense of his own life".
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Thus, even though California is overall a progressive state that stands for change and seems to move leftward well before most of the country, many of the communities that are driving that desire for change aren't making it to ballot boxes.
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In the post-Watergate era of politics, there is not an elected leader worth their weight in ballot boxes who does not understand the utility—some would say necessity—of operating from behind an elaborate web of intermediaries and surrogates.
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"Its tactics include the burning of ballot boxes and the public 'executions' of moderate local leaders and others, including nuns and priests, who are seen as rivals for the allegiance of the poor," according to a 1992 New York Times report.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday Turkey's local elections were marred by "organized crime" at ballot boxes in Istanbul, raising the possibility of re-running a March 2100 vote that handed a slim majority to the main opposition party.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Japan donated over 10,000 ballot boxes for Cambodia's 2018 election on Wednesday, the first international aid for the vote after European Union and the United States withdrew their support following the dissolution of the main opposition party.
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Imam also listed steps Hasina had taken since coming to power to ensure free and fair elections, including strengthening the Election Commission, introducing see-through ballot boxes and empowering the police to act against political parties' use of money and muscle.
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Voting was set to finish across the country on Saturday, but with a large number of people unable to cast ballots due to out-of-date electoral rolls and logistical problems, ballot boxes were still open in some provinces on Sunday.
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As America expanded the right to vote during the 1800s, most states adopted mass-distributed paper ballots, but left it to the parties to print those ballots and get them into the wooden ballot boxes sitting in town squares or saloons.
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The recount will exclude Baghdad where a storage site holding half of Baghdad's ballot boxes went up in flames earlier this month in an incident Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi described as a "plot to harm the nation and its democracy".
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"Whoever comes out of the ballot boxes, either in the parliament or the Assembly of Experts, with the votes of the people will be respected by us and everyone will respect the votes of the majority of the people," he said.
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Elisa Arouca, who was waiting to vote outside the Estel school in central Barcelona, reacted with anger when national police agents yanked her and other prospective voters out of the way, then smashed the door open and confiscated the ballot boxes.
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The opposition has questioned the results of thousands of ballot boxes, after videos showed evidence of ballot-box stuffing and voter intimidation on the day of the vote, and opposition campaigners faced prolonged intimidation during the campaign that preceded it.
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Related: What you need to know about the Iraqi Kurdish referendum Ballot boxes were spread throughout Iraq's Kurdish regional areas, in addition to the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, a flashpoint claimed by both the KRG and the Iraqi government.
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"If the police really want to get the ballot boxes, they will get them," said one Sant Pere voter, 66-year-old Carles, who declined to give his surname as he was worried the Spanish government would come after him.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party candidate for local elections in Ankara said on Monday that there were "very clear" mistakes at thousands of ballot boxes in the capital, after his opposition rival secured a win in the capital on Sunday.
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That approach undergirds the conceptual and critical projects that won him both fame and grief starting in 1970 — when, as his contribution to the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition "Information," he placed in a gallery two ballot boxes made of clear acrylic.
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BUENOS AIRES, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Argentines have their first chance on Sunday to head to the ballot boxes in a high-stakes presidential race in which they must choose between staying the course of painful austerity measures or a return to interventionist economics.
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Reporters were briefly ushered from the main hall in the Great Hall of the People as delegates filled in their ballot papers, but allowed in to see them placing the papers, one by one, into large red ballot boxes around the room.
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The High Electoral Board is yet to announce the formal results but Imamoglu is set for a comfortable victory over his rival Binali Yildirim, from the ruling AKP, with 54 percent of votes after more than 99 percent of the ballot boxes opened.
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CENCO's report said that 38 percent of polling stations it observed were missing materials at the start of election day, and also noted ballot boxes that did not remain sealed before counting and polling stations that did not properly verify voters' identities.
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"The Heads of State and Government attending the meeting concluded that there were serious doubts on the conformity of the provisional results as proclaimed by the National Independent Electoral Commission, with the verdict of the ballot boxes," it said in a statement.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The head of Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) said on Monday that the High Electoral Board, which has agreed to a partial recount of local votes in Istanbul, has entered a process that damages the security of ballot boxes.
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On Monday electoral officials in the Maltepe district of Istanbul, where a recount of votes in 1,089 ballot boxes had already been underway for nearly a week, ruled that nearly half of them would need to be counted for a third time.
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The A.K.P. called on the national electoral body to hold a new election, claiming electoral fraud, citing minor irregularities in voter records and raising questions about credentials of officials overseeing ballot boxes without offering credible evidence or convincing explanations for their claims.
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BRASILIA/SANTIAGO/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - From the streets of Santiago and Quito to the ballot boxes of Buenos Aires, many South Americans have strongly rejected in recent weeks their leaders' free market agendas, amid outcry that they are fueling inequality across the region.
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In Lagos, one of Africa's most populous cities, violence broke out at polling places, with shots fired in the air and ballot boxes set on fire, the groups said, adding that some voters rioted when election materials did not arrive on time.
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The important thing is to understand that the Spanish government's brutal crackdown on Sunday's vote — which included seizing ballot boxes, the beating of unarmed voters and protesters, and the firing of rubber bullets — has made the Spanish state that much more fragile.
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Even if Marine Le Pen should manage the unthinkable and pull out an election victory in the final round of the presidential election on May 7, the French will still go back to the ballot boxes a month later to vote for the parliament.
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The vote itself—in which 90 percent voted in favor or independence, but only 43 percent of the eligible population cast a ballot—images of Spanish police confiscating ballot boxes and smashing heads outraged people around the world, and drove more Catalans to support secession.
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Ballot boxes from areas where there were fraud allegations will be moved to the capital Baghdad, where the recount will be held with the attendance of United Nations representatives at a time and place to be determined later, the panel said in a statement.
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Image 2 of 2 BAMAKO, Mali – Thousands of Malians voted in presidential elections Sunday in the capital, but others struggled in parts of the country&aposs north where some ballot boxes were burned and in the central region where voters feared threats by extremist groups.
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It sells voting machines, election-management software, security seals, and forms election officials use for tracking paper ballots, certifying that seals on voting machines and ballot boxes are properly affixed, and for canceling the registration of individual voters or transferring their registration to another jurisdiction.
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National police officers in riot gear, sent by the central government in Madrid from other parts of Spain, used rubber bullets and truncheons in some places as they fanned out across Catalonia, the restive northeastern region, to shut down polling stations and seize ballot boxes.
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Chief Justice Luke Malaba, calling the allegations "bold and unsubstantiated," said the opposition had failed to prove that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission had engaged in fraud, and in particular noted that the opposition had elected not to check the votes in the ballot boxes.
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KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - One person was killed in Iraq's Kirkuk on Sunday when a suicide car bomb went off near a storage site housing ballot boxes from a May national election, police sources said, two days before a manual recount was due to begin.
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In election assessments, observers do not merely look for stuffed ballot boxes or irregularities in vote counting — we try to understand whether a country is doing its best to make sure that all of its citizens who want to are able to cast a vote.
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Ideally, regulations would curtail this industry (as Canada is trying to do), but that isn't how legalization typically plays out in the US. Regardless, the reality is this model will likely give legalization advocates a big ally in coming battles in legislatures and ballot boxes.
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Law enforcement officials have "learned from a number of experiences" in designing the new policy, a senior Justice Department official said, adding that the aftermath of the 2016 election convinced them that election certifiers needed to be as informed as those who operate ballot boxes.
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Ballot boxes from areas where there were fraud allegations will be moved to the capital Baghdad, where the recount will be held in the presence of United Nations representatives at a time and place to be determined later, the panel said in a statement.
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It's about the testimony in the case of John Franklin Shafroth, of Colorado, who had resigned his House seat because he believed that he hadn't been fairly elected — thanks to women who (supposedly) stuffed the ballot boxes by voting more than once using false names.
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The biggest of the new alliances is Electionland, a project involving more than 400 newsrooms across the country casting aside competitiveness to share real-time data and tips on everything from reports about long lines and voter intimidation to hoax tweets suggesting stuffed ballot boxes.
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In the mud-walled medieval city of Timbuktu, once a flourishing tourist spot before Islamist militants made it too dangerous, witnesses said gunmen had intimidated voters, seized ballot boxes and in some cases set fire to them in the few polling stations that were attacked outside town.
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As ballot boxes were brought into the Barclaycard Arena in Birmingham, the only noise was the flutter of votes being tallied, recalls Andrew Mitchell, a local Conservative MP. In the end Andy Street, the Conservative candidate, was elected mayor of the West Midlands, a Labour heartland.
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"The heads of state and government attending the meeting concluded that there were serious doubts on the conformity of the provisional results as proclaimed by the National Independent Electoral Commission, with the verdict of the ballot boxes," it said Thursday in a communiqué issued after the meeting.
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As frustrated Democrats ask over and over when Republicans are going to break with their President, it appears that Trump and McConnell have operationalized that "go team" philosophy to keep their base together, both in votes on Capitol Hill and at ballot boxes across the country.
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When heading to the ballot boxes for these races, it is essential that Democratic voters think not just of their progressive dreams, but think most intently about November, making it a priority to select candidates with the broadest possible constituencies and compete most effectively against their Republican opponents.
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For example, the experts were asked whether elections were well managed, whether votes were counted fairly, whether boundaries for candidates' districts were set fairly, whether newspapers provided balanced election news, if ballot boxes were secure, and whether women had equal opportunities to run for office, among many other issues.
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The president of the SAARC Human Rights Foundation told Reuters he now believed there should be a fresh vote after hearing first hand accounts from voters and some officials presiding over polling booths that activists from Hasina's Awami League stuffed ballot boxes the night before the poll and intimidated voters.
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It is to ensure there is no voter intimidation, that no political actors try to sabotage the polling through interference, intimidation or violence or booth capturing — armed thugs hired by a political party would seize control of a polling place and stuff ballot boxes — which was widespread two decades ago.
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But in the more hotly contested Dhaka-15 district, thousands of angry men waited for hours in front of Monipur High School, or gave up in disgust as police and aggressive Awami League supporters allowed the barest trickle of voters through the single steel door giving access to the 36 ballot boxes inside.
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Ensuring this mega-poll in the world's third largest democracy would go off without a hitch was a logistical feat, with election workers traveling by boat to remote islands, scaling mountains to reach hill-top villages and trekking through jungles -- sometimes on horses -- to bring ballot boxes within range of every voter.
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The bar association, whose head Metin Feyzioglu is seen as a potential future leader of the opposition CHP, said it had also received phone calls from many provinces about unstamped ballots on Sunday and that its lawyers had advised that records of this should be closely kept once ballot boxes were opened.
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"What I'm sure of is that this conflict is to be resolved via ballot boxes ... we are convinced that sooner or later a referendum is inevitable because otherwise, how can we give a voice to the citizens?" he wrote from prison, adding that he did not regret having organized a referendum in 2017.
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Fear of Vox, as well as concerns about a traditional, conservative Popular Party willing to embrace the far-right party as its coalition partner, "filled the ballot boxes against racism, sexism, fascism and this vision of a Spain in which only a few can fit in," wrote Ignacio Escolar, the editor in chief of eldiario.
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"This is an area where they tried to come in with ballot boxes, there was serious resistance, so that was the genesis of all this enmity between the Kalenjins and the Luos," said Julius Genga, a county legislator, as a colleague stood atop a sports utility vehicle to calm a crowd of men with spears.
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From ballot boxes to the governors' desks in Oregon and Washington, a corner of the nation that seemed poised only a few years ago to become a new energy hub is now gripped by a debate over whether transporting volatile, hazardous crude oil by rail through cities and environmentally delicate areas can ever be made safe enough.
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The problem with contesting elections, though, is that it was much easier for the congressional panel to know when people had been turned away from the polls, or when holes had been drilled in ballot boxes, than it was for them to know when people had simply been scared out of trying to vote at all.
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Policies like voluntary self-prohibition and the Extreme Risk Protection Order — which allows family members and/or law enforcement to petition a judge to remove firearms from a loved one in crisis — can reduce gun suicides Our movement has made significant progress in state houses and at ballot boxes in the last five years, but we know there are more lives to save and more commonsense policies to enact.
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Once these have been filled in—and 99 tonnes of ink has been used to mark voters' fingers—ballot boxes from 810,283 polling stations will be taken off for counting by motorbikes weaving through the traffic jams of Jakarta; by speedboats on the winding rivers of Kalimantan; by wooden water-taxis in the Riau Islands; by planes in the highlands of Papua; and by horses in the poorer parts of East Nusa Tenggara.
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