Ballot rigging only strengthened the opposition in the long run.

There were also insufficient protections against ballot rigging, the lawyers group said.

He faced accusations of accepting gifts in exchange for contracts and ballot rigging.

"But what I do not intend to do is take any lectures from those who have set new standards in ballot rigging."

Here are my personal observations... Was there ballot rigging?

He was reelected twice, amid allegations of ballot rigging, on 24 December 1995 and 29 October 2000.

Many toxic elements: claim and counter claim, personal enmities, accusations of ballot rigging.

Despite a presidential election last year mired in controversy over ballot rigging, 74% said they were either very satisfied or somewhat satisfied with the outcome.

In 1961 he uncovered an ETU ballot rigging scandal, and successfully sued the union.

Due to dissatisfaction with alleged ballot rigging in that election, Boahen boycotted the next Ghanaian parliamentary election in 1992.

Reports of Intimidation There were indications of widespread intimidation of voters in the countryside by the Communists and some charges of ballot rigging.

An electoral voting system is more complex than other electronic transaction systems and the authentication mechanisms employed must be able to prevent ballot rigging or the threat of rigging.

Voting at 170 polling places had been suspended, Mr. Matin said, because of ballot rigging, violence between supporters of municipal candidates or a lack of election officials.

SCOTLAND Yard is probing ballot rigging allegations in the seamen's union - revealed in the Daily Mirror last year.

As a reward for having stopped the ballot rigging, Morrissey and his gang, the Dead Rabbits, were permitted by Tammany Hall to open a gambling house without police interference.

Throughout the book he uses diverse examples such as detectability of spontaneous generation and occurrence of natural phenomena and cases of deceit like ballot rigging, plagiarism, falsification of data, etc.

Nor was the the Aghan leader, Karzai, ever asked by Auntie or the Guardian to expand on his allegations that the BBC itself orgnanised ballot rigging in his country.

His own view was that his campaign was sabotaged by extreme left wing infiltrators, in revenge for the assistance he had given to the exposure of ballot rigging in the Electrical Trades Union.

Union Officials Report Extensive Vote Fraud Investigators have found evidence that ballot rigging in a 1996 contract vote by New York City's largest municipal union was more extensive than previously thought, union officials said.

The PRD and PAN claimed that the elections had been a "scandalous fraud", that the PRI had organized widespread ballot rigging, and that it had used violence to guarantee victory.

Nor is there any serious doubt that the law on trade union elections needs to be strengthened, in the light of the ballot rigging in the 1990 elections for the national executive of the Transport and General Workers Union.

A TULF spokesperson said the immediate reason was that Nimalarajan had written about ballot rigging in the Kayts islands, one of the EPDP's strongholds, and in Jaffna town.

Startling it was to hear the story that unfolded in Sheffield county court as PC Tom Goodhill attempted to prove that he was the victim of ballot rigging in a Police Federation election in 2005.

The claims about ballot rigging, including those made by observers at the elections, call for a somewhat different reaction from the ruling party - it should be seen to be investigating what happened and be prepared to give the culprits the equivalent of a public flogging.

During his period out of parliament, Wyatt was a reporter for the BBC's Panorama current affairs programme, in which a November 1957 report of Wyatt's revealed ballot rigging in the then communist-influenced Electrical Trades Union (ETU).

The Communists did well, and there was little evidence of ballot-rigging.

Whether or not there was ballot-rigging is not in question.

Mr Mushangwe is believed to have leaked information to the opposition and the media about ballot-rigging.

DP supporters nevertheless made accusations of ballot-rigging in the March 31 polling.

These groups rose up out of the black majority of the population in response to ballot-rigging orchestrated by wealthy white plantation owners.

He became the sole candidate in the poll, which was marked by a low turnout, after six opposition candidates withdrew, charging ballot-rigging.

Amid allegations of ballot-rigging, tribal violence exploded.

Opposition parties charged across-the-board cheating and ballot-rigging.

Mr. Fujimori used smears, dirty tricks and ballot-rigging.

It is now largely up to the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, to make sure presidential ballot-rigging is made a thing of the past.

Prime minister Vladimir Putin's ruling United Russia party was accused of ballot-rigging by opponents.

Questionable voting procedures and accusations of ballot-rigging plunged the Golden Globes into disrepute for a few years, and they were dropped from network television.

Mr. Yeltsin's performance was so unexpected that it was likely to fuel Communist suspicions - voiced before the voting - of ballot-rigging.

Right from the first, the CIA and American diplomats knew all about the corruption, the misgovernment, the croneyism, the human rights violations, the ballot-rigging.

During the day, as large lines formed outside voting booths, the 65-year-old President made unannounced visits to voting centers to assure people there would be no ballot-rigging.

But political commentators said Mr. Houphouet-Boigny's triumph was seriously tarnished by opposition charges of across-the-board cheating and ballot-rigging.

Even according to the official results, a narrow majority voted against his United Russia party in Sunday's parliamentary election - and ballot-rigging probably flattered the performance of his allies.

As he voted today, Mr. Mubarak pledged "measures unprecedented in the history of Egypt" to insure a fair vote in a nation more used to ballot-rigging and autocracy.

It says in my report - and I said so in my speech - that the elections were marked by widespread and general ballot-rigging, and voting and counting irregularities.

But even if he is able to prove systematic ballot-rigging by Mr. Roh's side, he may have a hard time explaining why he also lagged behind Kim Young Sam.

Over the decades, the PRI has used many techniques to win federal, state and local elections, everything from outright ballot-rigging to monopolizing news coverage to diverting Government funds to ruling party campaigns.

"The problem is that we are a very bad country in elections," he said, referring to assertions of ballot-rigging in favor of Mr. Mubarak's National Democratic Party, which the authorities deny.

Routine ballot-rigging and intimidation practiced by both pro- and anti-slavery settlers failed to deter the immigration of anti-slavery settlers, who won a demographic victory in the race to populate the state.

In the latest blow to Italy's politicians, members of Parliament voted today to strip a former Health Minister, Francesco de Lorenzo, of his parliamentary immunity so that he could stand trial for ballot-rigging.

It is they who must now ensure that the elections are free and fair and take place without ballot-rigging, so that a government can be founded on trust and become a significant interlocutor for the EU.