Someone who wouldn't rush to applaud Mwai Kabaki for winning a rigged election in Kenya.

What is happening, however, is precisely the opposite, and for this there is only one explanation the election was rigged.

By the time the dust settled, more than 1,500 people had been killed and over 400,000 displaced, following an election that observers dismissed as rigged.

The Orange Revolution of 2004, which overturned a rigged presidential election, proved that Ukraine was no longer a Malorossiya (a small Russia), an inferior and subordinate Slavic brother.

Back then, a peaceful and honest result was reached in the end because Ukraine s President Leonid Kuchma refused to heed Yanukovich s call to use violence to defend his rigged election.

Rowhani s victory created the impression of a democratic process and relieved the popular anger that has accumulated during the last eight years, especially since the rigged presidential election in 2009.

The 2009 Ashura protests were a series of protests which occurred on 27 December 2009 in Iran against the outcome of the June 2009 Iranian presidential election, which demonstrators claim was rigged.

So all our elections, except for one in 1970, have been rigged.

Mousavi s campaign, and its aftermath, showed clearly that those who professed to see no difference between the candidates, except in style and presentation, were wrong even if the election was rigged, the voices of opposition to clerical authoritarianism were heard.

Kenya is aflame after a presidential election on December 27 widely believed to have been rigged to secure the re election of Mwai Kibaki. Kibaki s opponents took to the streets, the government issued shoot to kill orders, and hundreds have died at the hands of the police as well as from gang rampages and inter ethnic violence.

Any chance for people to voice their views, even in rigged elections, is a good thing.

Some big businesses in privileged positions would make a fortune from exploiting this rather rigged market.

And even this picture has the suspicious taint of being rigged about it something from a Barnum Bailey circus.

As recently as 2010, the regime held elections so blatantly rigged that the main opposition party refused to participate.

Over the years, he rigged referendums, browbeat the judiciary, and asked Islamic parties for support to shore up his government.

Jonathan is President of Nigeria today because Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, his deceased predecessor, came to power through what many consider rigged elections.

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The Communists are alleged to have rigged the balloting by adding names to the voter rolls and reviving the dead for the day.

And it was rigged, and it became unraveled when this man, Charles van Doren, was outed after an unnatural winning streak, ending Berry's career.

Israel s political system, through its complex mechanisms of rigged party selection and absolute proportionality, condemns the country to weak coalition governments and escalating corruption.

By using the emergency law, which has restricted freedom since 1981, together with censorship and rigged elections, Egypt s government treats its citizens like serfs.

And so this is a test that's very much rigged in favor of the car seat, OK? So, that kid in this crash fared very well.

Election

Yet Mousavi s defeat by the hardliner, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in what looked like a rigged electoral process, was greeted by some neo conservatives in the US with relief.

And, although Turkmenbashi died in December, his successor, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, has continued to imprison dissidents, stifle freedom of expression, and scoff at democracy, as February s rigged elections demonstrate.

The vote ended in a standoff between the incumbent, Mwai Kibaki, who declared himself the winner, and the opposition candidate, Raila Odinga, who dismissed the vote as rigged.

See also Electoral calendar Electoral system References External links Official election website Adam Carr's Election Archive NSD European Election Database Czech Republic publishes regional level election data allows for comparisons of election results, 1990 2010 Czech Republic Election Data, European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook Interactive

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In Moscow, the presidential election coincided with the election of municipal leaders.

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Orange Revolution In 2004, Viktor Yanukovych, then Prime Minister, was declared the winner of the presidential elections, which had been largely rigged, as the Supreme Court of Ukraine later ruled.

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