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29 Jan 2011 01:15

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U.S.: Anyone want some Rahm-less Chicago mayoral ballots?

  • There are reportedly 280,000 of these things that got printed off between Monday (when an appeals court said Rahm Emanuel wasn’t eligible to run for Chicago mayor) and Tuesday (when the Illinois Supreme court stepped in), lacking Rahm Emanuel’s presidentially-boosted name, and now they’re going to have to find something to do with them. Our suggestion? Turn them into mulch for Rahm to bury his opponents’ electoral chances in. Oh yeah, why did these idiots start printing out these ballots on the day of the decision to appeal? Everyone with a brain could tell this case was going to go to the Illinois Supreme Court. A huge waste of taxpayer money. source
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01 Sep 2009 21:15

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World: Some in Afghanistan say the ballot-stuffing was blatant

  • Not a single person in Shorabak District cast a ballot — not a single person. Mr. Karzai’s people stuffed all the ballot boxes.
  • Afghan regional governor Delaga Bariz • Regarding claims of widespread vote-tampering across the country. According to Bariz and others, Hamid Karzai had some of his right-hand men come into the Shorabak region (which Abdullah Abdullah was destined to win), close the 45 local polling places, bring the ballot boxes to the election headquarters and stuff them with thousands of ballots favoring Karzai. Pretty serious allegations. • source
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29 Jun 2009 09:54

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World: So, the Iran election’s partial recount begins. Mousavi no likey.

  • 10% of the disputed ballots will be recounted by Iran’s authorities
  • all number of ballots Mir Hossein Mousavi wants recast source
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