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"US envoy Richard Holbrooke said Friday he expected fewer problems with the November 7 presidential run-off election in Afghanistan than with the fraud-tainted first round in August.
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Both the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute, U.S.-based democracy support NGOs who sent observers to the initial round of voting, cite a need for enhanced security, better monitoring at each station and greater regulation of the use of state resources for campaigning.
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The Afghan government, international forces -- and the Taliban -- began preparations for the Nov. 7 presidential runoff, even as Western officials also continued advocating a power-sharing compromise to avoid the problems of a second round of voting.
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Election authorities in Afghanistan began delivering ballots with U.N. assistance across Afghanistan on Thursday, as hurried preparations for the Nov. 7 runoff in the insurgency-plagued nation's presidential election got under way.
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Tough rules to create transparency on election expenditure are due to to be imposed on political parties in Kenya in the very near future. The rules include a declaration of expenditure for each and every candidate supported by any party during an election from the level of councilor up to the president.
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They campaigned in the farthest corners of Afghanistan. They spent thousands of their own dollars on posters. They braved death threats from the Taliban. At least two were murdered.
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Election officials from Ghana will head a one-day retreat in Kaduna for Nigerian legislators, as they review the 1999 Constitution and the Electoral Reform bill now before both chambers of the National Assembly.
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Parliament Deputy Speaker Hameed al-Ahmar received on Monday the resident director of NDI in Yemen to discuss areas of joint cooperation between the Institute and Parliament with regards to the technical aspects.
EurasiaNet| Link to story »
Amid the blight that is Afghanistan's ongoing election fraud scandal, there is a bright spot: the August presidential and provincial council elections showed that more Afghan women than ever participated in the political process.
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Many people have jobs centered around a computer, construction work, open properties or service counters in violence-free suburbs or towns.
Andy Campbell works for NDI. His job doesn't always comprise cushy work in a safe environment.
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