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When you hear Abiola, you remember annulled elections and you think: dashed hopes.

Theoretically, the U.S. government is already designed to prevent abuses of power, limiting different branches through a system of checks and balances, term limits, and free elections.

And the laptop was running Windows 98. (Laughter) I mean, three entire presidential elections had come and gone since the government had updated the operating system on that computer.

Three elections!

Let's look at the political elections that are heating up.

In the country's first free elections, in 1999, Islamist parties scored 36 percent of the vote, and the islands burned as riots and terror attacks killed thousands.

In India, elections are colorful, communal affairs.

In Taiwan and Hong Kong, there is a spectacle, eye-popping, eye-grabbing spectacle to the street theater of elections.

All across this country right now, immigrants, young people, veterans, people of all different backgrounds are coming together to create this kind of passionate, joyful activity around elections, in red and blue states, in urban and rural communities, people of every political background.

In the 2014 midterm elections, turnout was 36 percent, which was a 70-year low.

We actually have the power to change the outcome of elections, to introduce new issues into the policy debate and to change the face of the pale, male, stale leadership that we have in our country today.

And these votes matter not just in presidential elections.

They matter in local and state elections.

So when we talk about elections, we in established democracies, we know what we're talking about.

I work in the field of electoral assistance, so that's to say we assist emerging democracies to organize what is often their first elections.

It's a country with high levels of illiteracy, and the thing about that was, it was in 2005, and we organized two elections on the same day.

It was, but on the other hand, explaining two elections instead of one was even more complicated.

So we used a lot of images, and when it came to the actual ballot, we had problems, because so many people wanted to take part, we had 300 candidates for 52 seats in the Wolesi Jirga, which is the parliamentary elections.

And this newly formed Arab Organization for Electoral Management Bodies, which is trying to professionalize how elections are run in the region, they're using it as well.

As a matter of fact, the leading candidate appeared in broadcast media 87 times in the months leading up to the elections, whereas I appeared 31 times.

I was sometimes left out of the questions asked of all other candidates and out of coverage about the elections.

But with the rise of negative advertising and social media and all sorts of other trends, increasingly, the way elections are done is that each side tries to make the other side so horrible, so awful, that you'll vote for my guy by default.

They got instant democracy in the 1990s: elections without checks and balances.

For the first time in history, it lets anybody, anywhere in the world, vote in the elections of other people's countries.

Well, obviously, the Donald and Hillary show is a bit of a difficult one to follow, but there are some other really important elections coming up.

And the next row of elections are all critically important.

Next year we've got Germany, we've got France, we've got presidential elections in Iran and a dozen others.

Based on national elections in the UK, Italy, Israel and of course, the most recent US presidential election, using polls to predict electoral outcomes is about as accurate as using the moon to predict hospital admissions.

In the recent US elections we kept hearing of the Lilly Ledbetter law, and if we go beyond the nicely alliterative name of that law, it was really about a man and a woman doing the same job, being equally qualified, and the man being paid more because he's a man.

In a democracy, for example, we the people, theoretically, give government its power through elections.

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