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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Elections Go Computer Way Ministry of Interior officials have announced that in the 6th presidential elections which took place in June, computer systems were used for the first time.
The Presidential elections of 12th June were supposed to end a costly transition to civil rule programme which had taken all of eight years and cost billions of dollars.
For the Presidential Elections the organisational structure mirrors the general administrative organisation of the country.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Presidential elections are looming in Mexico, Argentina and Chile, political infighting is rife in Brazil, and a power struggle is under way between the president and the Congress in Venezuela.
There were for example regular elections every five years for the presidential and parliamentary officials and it was a tolerant regime characterised by absence of a substantial number of political detainees or assassinations of political opponents.
Presidential and legislative elections held in October and December 2000 provoked violence due to the exclusion of opposition leader Alassane OUATTARA.
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Sveta Romanova,
Intelligence Officer
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Russian presidential elections take place with a virtual tie between the Communist candidate and Boris Yeltsin.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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In the presidential elections of 1995, Frepaso sailed past the UCR to become the second strongest political force in the country.
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Craig Leveaux,
Blogger
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The presidential elections are in January because the current president, President Moi, is getting a bit old and most people seem to think he's a bit of an idiot.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Presidential Elections - Dave Leip prepared this very informative site, which provides historic voting results from the Presidential general elections of 1860-2000 -- plus results from the 2000 Presidential primaries.
Presidential Elections - Dave Leip prepared this very informative site, which provides historic voting results from the Presidential general elections of 1860-2000 and the 2000 Presidential primaries.
Since presidential elections are won by electoral-not popular-votes, it is the electoral vote tally that election-night viewers watch for and that tells the tale.
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