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This election was as free and fair as it would have been under Saddam or Hitler.

this elections will be fair and free, supervised by the just Egyptian judiciary and monitored by the people, the civil society and its civic organizations.

This election serves as a national referendum on whether you are for or against the postal privatization. Unless we privatize the postal system, we cannot reform our social welfare.

This election has to be like a lighthouse for the future of the country. Most of the past elections have been fraudulent. That is why the economy and society is in shambles today. This needs to be a new starting point.

This doesn't have a little to do with the upcoming election. It has everything to do with the upcoming election.

This constitution opens the path to all parties to participate in the next legislative elections in order to elect representatives of all the Iraqi communities,

This is a big day for Kosovo. These are the first free elections in free Kosovo and they are an important step toward freedom, independence and democracy for Kosovo.

They're very important elections for the Haitian people and frankly the organization of the elections to date has not been sufficient,

They say the elections would not happen, and they did. They say the constitution will not be written, but it will.

A lot of people are against elections. Even some of the people we removed from the race are calling on people to disrupt the vote.

A lot of our so-called Latino leaders are gutless. I talk to these cry-baby Latino leaders, and they say they can't win elections until Latinos are a majority.

Although politics and presidential elections are important to the workforce, employees are still wary of discussing these issues at the office. Many worry that political conversations can affect their careers, be offensive and lead to uncomfortable tensions.

A major figure of Croatia and the Balkans has disappeared. We have to hope that the elections that will now take place in Croatia ... will help Croatia in the direction of a democratic country.

A lot of that is because of lack of money and structure. In today's elections, it takes money to run.

Americans, as they always do when they have troops in harm's way, are going to be watching the performance on the ground. While they may be encouraged by the elections . . . at the same time they are going to want to continue to measure how it's going.

A lot of us want to see 'Dean for America' evolve into something more, something that helps more Democrats win elections based on the message we created, ... The campaign has changed the party so much, and has really shown people what can be done if you inspire a movement of people. So a lot of us would like to see that organization continue. If it can't continue as a presidential campaign, we could still do some good for the party and for the country.

They know that if they lose the presidential elections, they will lose the next legislative elections.

They have been successfully used for many, many years in hundreds of elections all over the country. I don't think they understand or quite appreciate the atmosphere they operate in.

They'd just as soon sit on the sidelines in an election year, but they will do what they have to do, and they have moved in other election seasons.

You don't support politicians in their elections if whoever's seeking money only has a goal to stay in office or get in office. You have to pick the people who are going to do the best job.

This poll demonstrates that anti-war voters are significant enough in size to effect the outcome of elections -- if they become organized. Just like pro-gun groups have organized, pro-choice and pro-life groups have organized -- now the anti-war constituency has been identified and the peace movement is ready to organize them. This will ensure that the anti-war movement will no longer be one that can be ignored.

There will be no elections in May. We will not change our decision regardless of what Law and Justice comes up with.

There were numerous, reliable accounts of irregularities in today's voting. The world is watching these elections and the response of the authorities in Belgrade very closely.

The reports we're getting really from throughout the state as well as King County, ... is that the county elections people are being very, very diligent.

The report provides extensive data on domestic institutional capacities to prosecute the alleged perpetrators of criminal acts against the voting and elections process - committed during the 2005 Local Elections - and a detailed analysis of the prosecutions undertaken and sanctions imposed.

There not real elections, there are elections like the kind they have in Cuba where you know who the winner is going to be before the first vote is taken.

There's a lot more incentive to hack an election if there are millions of voters and you can swing important races. Whereas, if only hundreds of voters are voting over the internet, there's going to be a lot less incentive to exploit the vulnerabilities.

there's a lot happening. Democracy is today's world order. Everybody's talking democracy in the region and the world. And they will have to give us free, fair elections and democracy.

There's a lot at stake during these elections. The positions voted for have a lot of influence around the University community.

This is the office that's supposed to put on elections all the time, so I don't see how they overlooked that.

This is the most screwed up election I've ever seen.

This is a very special election. At stake is whether Ukraine has passed the point of no return to its so recent authoritarian past.

There is typically a lot of turnover in school board elections. But especially when voters are angry and frustrated they'll throw the incumbents out of a school board.

There's always some national context to state elections here. It probably all does matter, and up here that's probably not a plus.

As we watch the aftermath of the elections in Iraq, let's remember that while our own American culture remains young, our course of freedom is not.

As we move forward, we hope we will be able to work with the Iraqis and the coalition to find a mechanism for establishing a caretaker or an interim government until such time elections are organized,

As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.

All our police and soldiers are now in place and are ready for anything. I am absolutely sure the elections will proceed very smoothly, ... People are very excited and they want these polls to bring peace and stability.

About one out of five voters cast their ballots for Milosevic in Serbia's parliamentary elections in December, making his Socialist Party the main opposition group,

A block of more than 100,000 voters is not uninteresting for politicians, especially with next year's federal elections coming up.

A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.

A call for free elections ... has a maximum online life of about half an hour.

It's a small truncated segment of the electorate, voters who are reasonably informed of the issues. I don't think the candidates have to do very much to win votes from those who share their views.

It's a country that's accustomed to elections every four years. Clean, crystalline, transparent elections.

It's an unprecedented year for election system vendors and jurisdictions.

It reaffirms the fact that it wasn't just the outcome of the election that weighed heavily on the market -- it's concern about corporate earnings and the more-than-frequent flow of profit warnings coming from some of the strong companies, ... Earnings disappointments are overpowering the election results for now, particularly in the financial sector.

It is totally unacceptable and intolerable that when they have elections in the Palestinian Authority, we will have to pay the price in casualties because of the competition between various groups.

It's not impossible to hold free and fair elections, but it's going to be very dicey.

It's not stuff you do when you're worrying about an election, ... As he looks at these projects, he doesn't ever say, 'Let's do less and rest on the record.' The guy continues to lead with his chin.

For many, last November's peaceful elections were a sign that after 14 years of unrest and violence, Liberia is back on the road to peace and stability.

For a two-term president after the November elections in the middle of your second term, things start going downhill and you really do start quacking like a duck.

It's now in the urban areas where elections are won or lost. Since Koizumi, it's been a focus on the urban areas.

It's obvious that elections will be brought forward,

It's taken a while and we can't undo the 2002 elections, but we can hold those who cheated in those elections accountable. There's some satisfaction that the criminal process is working its way out.

It's March, and there are congressional elections in November, and at some point it's every person for himself.

It's more than likely there will be leadership elections in January. We don't want to go into an election year without a permanent majority leader.

It is vital that my country and others support fair and free elections in Nicaragua,

It's going to be a 2006 elections issue.

It's quite obvious that the lack of action by the Palestinian Authority to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure is one of the main reasons these actions are still taking place. The other thing wrong is the assumption that if the groups are allowed into the elections they can be co-opted. The ones paying the price are us.

It's pretty much a fact Uribe will be reelected, and therefore from an outside point of view these elections are more important. Lack of support in the current legislature led the government to withdraw a tax bill and have a watered-down pension law.

The November election changed the character of the United States Senate. Elections have consequences,

The observer mission has termed the elections free and fair. Party representatives were present in, I believe, just about every polling station and they signed off on the records.

That is a major problem for President Bush and the Republicans. The Democrats are bound to benefit from it in the mid-term elections of 2006. The question is, to what degree?

It's sort of 'Election' meets 'Fargo,' ... Mr. Gibb.

It's not a question of looking forward to an election, we have to be prepared for an election and I think we are very prepared,

Everyone in the elections business is concerned how Carteret County fares in this elections process.

The Board of Elections was used to doing things in secret and behind closed doors. Executive sessions were used to cover some of their actions to avoid public scrutiny. Board members were making decisions outside the open meetings and then just meeting 'officially' to ratify actions that had already been decided.

The board of elections made a mistake in fact and law, and we've asked the Superior Court to take a look at it.

The Bible tells us: Blessed are the peacemakers. I invite you all to be peacemakers for Fiji, throughout the elections and beyond.

The best thing for the country is to have elections as quickly as possible.

Still later that night, ... another series of confusions took place -- including what at this juncture appears to be a very significant computer error made by the Volusia County Elections Department -- which led to another series of bad calls by television networks and newspapers across the nation.

The bank aims to prevent exchange-rate volatility in the run-up to the April presidential elections.

The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.

The aftermath of the elections is fraught with uncertainty. We should prepare the American people for as many eventualities as could possibly happen.

Take other elections throughout the world, ... Take the election in the U.S. itself. The turnout rate is not higher than what we got. ... I was elected democratically in my country, and I believe I have a right to conduct my mandate.

It's impossible to go to this election with two lists.

It's clear that the elections in California , Virginia, New Jersey and across the country were a rejection of the misplaced priorities of the Republicans in Washington, D.C. ,

It's been extremely volatile in this pair, especially with the upcoming elections in Canada.

It's disappointing where the race went in the last week, ... Elections are about the future and that's what I'm going to stay talking about for the next three days.

I've found the state Board of Elections to be the legislative equivalent of the Adams Family. They are absolutely dysfunctional.

No matter what the outcome of the election, we have to sit down and talk, ... This place is ready to boom. It could be another Gold Rush here. So let's start putting a program together for infrastructure that's really big thinking ? like landing a man on the moon kind of vision. Big.

Nothing has been announced. We still have to get over the elections and see what happens then and what the (new) government of Iraq wants,

It was a conscious decision by (Sir Robert) Walpole and others to replace religion with making money. Elections replaced battles, and the fights were over party politics.

It's very, very important to continue moving toward open elections, clean elections, next year. The secretary made that quite clear.

I want to reaffirm that after the election, we will stage protracted protests until the prime minister resigns.

I view it in terms ... as I would the Bible for African-American politicians, when you look at the 1992 elections and the redistricting,

I want elections as soon as possible. ...The most natural formula is that the cabinet resigns and we have elections this year.

I want one of our fine candidates to become governor, ... The Victory campaign is one of the ways that we can help in the general election. It will help the turnout operation which has been our success in elections past.

Is this a means of getting rid of the poor? The black? ... Is this a means of ensuring that in the elections there will never again be a black or Creole mayor of that city?

It will be very difficult to have such serious discussions or fruitful discussions with the atmosphere of elections because, of course, those decisions will become part of the political issues for the electoral debate,

The vote today is an important milestone. They will have elections in December for a permanent government. Every time the Iraqi people have been given an opportunity to express themselves politically they have taken it,

The U.S. and the international community has a failed policy in that it has not promoted security and democracy in Haiti. The election, if and when it takes place, will be as controversial as elections in Iraq.

They are trying to manipulate the elections and they are waiting for orders from Milosevic and they are trying to force the second round, ... But our candidate has won, clearly won in the first round, so it will be very difficult to achieve the second round.

They were quoting the state election laws, but we're not subject to the state election laws.

They want to cut taxes but they don't want to finance public education in any way. So what are they for? ... And that will come out in the elections this time.

They help moderate debate. Their role is to give voters a voice in elections that they may not get through the traditional parties.

They will muddle through for a few months, but then you run into the parliamentary elections in early December.

There used to be an iron law that governments won or lost elections on the strength of the economy,

These odd year elections just don't draw that much attention from people, and we only had four places with primaries, ... A lot of people only vote in the general election.

The new government after the elections would do well to recognize that the high public deficit is unsustainable and could lead to serious economic consequences.