Mr. Samaali was charged in two separate cases one concerned the counterfeiting of six cheques amounting to a total of 180 dinars, and the other the forging of a US 100 banknote.

SCAF has stated that accusations of rigging the elections were a slander.

In addition, 200 stores were ransacked and the national parliament building was set on fire

So Ortega ran the risk of committing electoral fraud, and now the country is paying the price.

Because Kenya is getting off the hook.Kibaki is refusing an international meditation simply because he is guilty of election's rigging.

Mr. Pérez Munuera was convicted, as the author of the forgery of a private document, to 16 months' imprisonment.

They're going to say, Hey, maybe it was those guys in payroll that forged those checks.

But in 2006 Yanukovich was charged with falsifying the very documents used to expunge his earlier convictions.

He and his wife lied about their involvement. Their close aides have confessed that they forged documents and perjured themselves to protect their political boss.

Driss Basri, who just passed away, reportedly falsified votes (among other offenses), leading to the discrediting of Morocco's democratic process.

The Moroccan authorities seemed convinced that the international community would accept a fait accompli and had falsified maps of the region, erasing the border between Morocco and the occupied territory.

And if you ask someone honest what should happen to whomever did forge those checks, an honest person is much more likely to recommend strict rather than lenient punishment.

In 1983, the policy institute at Kuru concluded that only the 1959 and 1979 elections to that time were conducted with minimal vote rigging.

In this era, the government can t get away with stealing elections, throwing political opponents in jail, expropriating foreign or domestic private assets, large scale corruption, or profligate spending.

Shareholder activists can also claim other (at least partial) victories at Yahoo!, where a shareholder activist forced the newly appointed CEO to resign for falsifying his educational credentials.

Strengthening democracy means working with the Kenyan developers of a crisis mapping platform that allows anyone with a cell phone to text information about election fraud or violence to a central monitoring station.

The European Union has suspended 70 million in aid. The outgoing American administration froze 64 million of assistance, leaving a final decision on what to do to the new Obama administration.

President Gloria Arroyo s government is on the ropes, with a state of emergency declared in February, following an abortive coup attempt and months of instability arising from allegations of fraud in the 2004 elections.

Writing about Station 469 (where commission officials falsified the vote tally by reversing the totals for Stoliarov and Shein), two other Astrakhan LiveJournal users, Aleksandr Darianov and Evgeniia Zarinsh, inspired the following angry declaration from Naganov

But in 2006 Yanukovych was charged with falsifying the very documents used to expunge his earlier convictions. Two key documents used to overturn his conviction for rape and robbery had been forged.

But Yar Adua shrugged off charges of electoral fraud, and in the first days of his presidency, he drew praise, both at home and abroad, for promises to tackle corruption and pursue an agreement with militia groups in the oil rich, violence plagued Niger Delta region.