Electronic voting, used at 10 of polling stations, also caused problems.

As the Trinidad and Tobago electorate go to the polls, Jeremy Taylor wonders about the legitimacy of conventional voting .

There was a time when, in certain parts of India, workers could stuff ballot boxes for a candidate and political parties could capture polling booths.

Votes may be cast only for the candidate whose name appears on the ballot papers.

The central proposal was ingenious the Kremlin proposed to guarantee the election s fairness by installing webcams at all polling stations every citizen could personally monitor the voting process.

In turning out to the polls, Iraqis demonstrated their respect for the rule of law and non violence.

The women's rights movement succeeded in gaining for many women the right to vote.

The Working Group recommends that States promote educational programmes within primary and secondary schools on the mechanics of voting within their territories (such as providing instruction on the use of a polling machine or voting via absentee ballot) to encourage voting by a greater number of people of African descent.

I feel I have been treated unjustly, I feel robbed, and I call on the judicial authorities in Tunisia to initiate an investigation and find answers to the following question why were the location change requests denied?

That moment a woman casts her vote in a ballot box is an historic moment and don't ever give up on your right to vote and participate.

But everyone can vote during the last week at an early polling station, anywhere in the country.

The electors will indicate the candidates for whom they wish to vote by placing crosses against their names on the ballot papers.

And because of the rain until four o'clock in the afternoon, nobody went to the polling stations.

Communal elections were successfully concluded in June, despite some violence at polling stations in two western provinces.

The UNMIL Electoral Division assisted the National Elections Commission in designing and procuring ballots, while the Mission's vehicles and air assets were used to move voting materials and personnel to polling centres around the country.

Only the Nicaraguan people can confer national sovereignty and presidential power, as they did at the polls in November 2001.

According to some comments, some voting centers opened their doors to the first assistants on Saturday at midnight, and they continue welcoming citizens from inside the country and abroad.

The Security Council commends the tens of thousands of Iraqis who ran as candidates, administered the elections, staffed the polls, observed the elections, and provided security.

The operational modalities for the 2005 elections, including the number and location of polling sites, will closely follow the 2004 presidential election.

In response, 8.5 million Iraqis defiantly and courageously headed to the polls to cast their vote against the past and to vote instead for the freedom and peace to which they aspire.

UNMIL police, including some 400 formed police unit personnel, supported the national police at the polling centres.

As the tallies from polling stations from around the country came into Nairobi, Odinga built up a lead of several hundred thousand votes.

Interpretation of the election has been influenced by exit polls in which voters were asked (after they voted) about which issues mattered most to them.

Their function is only to inform of elections, time of voting and location of the polling station, and more often than not contain only text without any images.

Conducted a series of workshops seminars for church leaders, NGOs and the public on the The Secrecy of the Ballot and Universal Suffrage .

In fact, most observers on the scene believed that there was a long paper trail, from the polling sites all the way to Nairobi, which could be re assessed in detail.

The forces of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich foolishly stuffed ballots and intimidated the country s electoral commission to an absurd degree.

Interacting with the Haitian authorities, political parties and civil society organizations, as well as local, regional and international media, and in close cooperation with the Spokesperson, he she is the focal point for the information activities of the United Nations system in Haiti, and advises the senior management of the Mission on sensitive communications challenges and risks to the Mission's image and reputation.

Representatives are requested to use only the ballot papers that are now being distributed and to place a cross to the left of the name of the candidate for whom they wish to vote.

She also failed to acknowledge an exit poll carried out by a US foundation, which showed a clear Odinga victory.

Independent observers from the European Union and elsewhere began to report serious irregularities in the Kibaki strongholds, where opposition party representatives were denied access to polling sites.

While large queues have formed at some polling stations, the turnout seems to be lower than for the parliamentary elections in November 2011.

The Transitional Government deployed 4,000 Liberian National Police personnel, including 1,800 officers trained by UNMIL, who provided point security at the polling centres.

And the trickery began long before voting day, with nine opposition parties prevented from even appearing on the ballot.

Those forces secured all 5,200 polling places with multiple rings of security, protected voters and polling centres from over 100 attacks and reportedly detained more than 200 suspected insurgents.

That is not impossible, but it is unlikely, especially if Chávez can count on several percentage points of tampered votes before and after the polling booths close.

A few people were turned away because their names were not found on the lists, but it is likely that they were able to vote at other polling stations.

Universal suffrage for both sexes has been applied throughout Turkey since 1933, and every Turkish citizen who has turned 18 years of age has the right to vote.

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.

Out of a total 26,243 polling stations throughout Afghanistan, 11,387 were established for women.9 In some parts of the country, the Afghan national police and army received special training for the elections.

Faced with a new EU initiative, our traditional response has often been to oppose it, vote against it, lose the vote, then sulkily to adopt it while blaming everyone else.

Some democracies, e.g., the US, Japan, Netherlands, Slovenia, Albania or India allow disabled voters to use electronic voting machines or electronic aides which help disabled voters to fill the paper ballot.

If the second ballot is inconclusive and a majority vote of members is required, a third ballot shall be taken in which votes may be cast for any eligible candidate.

Nonetheless, for the 37 who oppose gay marriage, particularly in the red center of the country, the issue helped mobilize Bush supporters to come to vote.

Some concern was expressed regarding the time frame for the referendum, which would be held on only one day, as gaining access to a majority of the polling stations in the province would in some places require populations to travel for a significant number of days.