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This is India, and of course it's all the more striking because it was four years later that we all applauded the U.S., the oldest democracy in the modern world, more than 220 years of free and fair elections, which took till last year to elect a president or a vice president who wasn't white, male or Christian.
IPL became the biggest brand in India and, because our elections, had to be moved to South Africa, and we had to start the tournament in three weeks.
On a larger scale, this is a mash-up of the data which was released about the Afghan elections.
Viewing democracy as only elections is no longer adequate and threatens democracy itself.
These protests led to the overthrow of autocratic regimes and led to the introduction of multiparty elections across the continent.
If the first wave brought liberation but not democracy, and the second, elections but only for the elites, then it is the third wave that is most concerned with transforming democracy into the rule of the people.
Viewing democracy as only elections has led to widespread disillusionment.
In contrast to elections, protests are not confined by rigid electoral cycles.
Like Linda and other young African activists, we all must work to redefine democracy as something more than just elections and political parties.
We stand in elections; we vote in elections; we observe elections.
Our democracies rely on elections.
We all understand why we have elections, and we all leave the house on the same day to go and vote.
Well unfortunately, power corrupts, and so people will do lots of things to get power and to stay in power, including doing bad things to elections.
So imagine hundreds of millions of voters casting hundreds of millions of votes, all to be counted correctly and all the things that can possibly go wrong causing all these bad headlines, and you cannot help but feel exhausted at the idea of trying to make elections better.
Well in the face of all these bad headlines, researchers have taken a step back and thought about how we can do elections differently.
And the big picture is this: elections should be verifiable.
And these are elections by the people, for the people.
So the next step for our democracies are transparent and verifiable elections.
It was funded by the US Army and promoted just in time for the elections.
And who the bad guys are, a rich man who steals elections and his spoiled son.
With material like this, timing is everything (Michael Moore knew to release "Fahrenheit 9/11" before the 2004 elections), and the real tragedy of Dante's film is that it didn't come out 2 years ago, when its message would have carried an energy that would have energized the dissidents further.
Can't liberals like Alec Baldwin get it through their heads that they lost the elections of 2000 and 2004?
By convincing the Prime Minister to back the totally unsuitable Ali G as a candidate for Staines in the local elections, nasty chancellor David Carlton (Charles Dance) hopes to discredit his party's current leader, thus enabling him to seize power.
A film about Italian politics and elections could be fascinating, but this is not that film.
It's about presidential elections coming up, and we are introduced to the current president, who wants to win again, but he is quite unpopular.
Putting aside whether or not it was funny, or had a political message behind it, or whether it is more pertinent than ever in todays political climate and the upcoming 2008 elections...
This thing is almost as bland as last month's elections.
It was in fact communist guerrillas who said they would murder anyone found with voting stamp dye on their hands during the El Salvador elections portrayed in the movie.
This film shows "Poland B" or the Poland that escapes media's attention, usually focused on the successes of the country's transtional period (or its failures, as in the results of the recent elections).
The worst part, not only they have made ''infomercials'' in the show (adverting products in the show) but yesterday a character openly invited the public to vote for a certain candidate in the next Mexican presidential elections.
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