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Electoral fraud in the UK is not widespread but the current voting system may be vulnerable to abuse even when everything possible is done to prevent and detect it, an Electoral Commission consultation published today says. The Commission is asking ...

Indelible ink? Questions arising from the recent election need to be addressed." width="400" height="271" / Indelible ink? Questions arising from the recent election need to be addressed. If an institution as important as the Election Commission ...

were held in a competitive environment, fundamental freedoms were respected, and the administration of elections was well managed, although the campaign was overshadowed by a number of incidents that diminished trust in state institutions and the ...

Militoni Leweniqila worked for the Native Land Trust Board before winning a parliamentary seat in 1972 in the first election after independence. Was an assistant minister and then a Cabinet minister in the governments of Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.

Reliable, trustworthy and exemplary electoral processes. This is how secretary of Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) parliamentary faction Hovhannes Sahakyan characterized the 2012 parliamentary elections and the 2013 presidential and Yerevan ...

Mr Merlino visited Coatesville Primary School today in the Bentleigh electorate to meet with schools administration and council regarding the need for urgent capital upgrade funding to fix rapidly deteriorating facilities, including funding. A ...

Christy Clark joined Alberta Premier Alison Redford last night as the second premier in little over a year to defy the polls and pull off an upset victory against all expectations. If the polls had been reflective of the mood of the electorate, ...

The Indian government should resist the temptation to make a grand gesture of friendship towards Nawaz Sharif, says Shyam Saran The leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N, Nawaz Sharif, has received a decisive and powerful mandate from the Pakistani electorate in the recently concluded elections. He has publicly committed himself to improving relations with India, picking up the threads from 1999, when he played host to the then Indian prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, at a summit in ...

The choice before the electorate seems to boil down to staying with the old or chancing the new With the campaign period on, candidates of the four parties in Bumthang's two constituencies have started making promises and wooing voters since the ...