Recount Kenyans Votes

President Chen agreed to a recount.

Perhaps a recount would show that the election was too close to call.

At the invitation of the President, Mr. Christensen (Denmark) and Mr. Onisii (Romania) acted as tellers.

First, she declared that the vote could not be re assessed by an independent tally.

And when the votes had been counted, three fourths of the people have voted with a blank ballot.

The nation s highest courts were compelled to rule on demands for a ballot recount.

At the invitation of the Chairperson, Ms. Farfan (El Salvador) and Mr. Zoumanigui (Guinea) acted as tellers.

When he did lose, he demanded a recount, not as a candidate, but in his capacity as Commander in Chief.

But that can happen only if the voting is free and the counting is fair.

In the future a compulsory recount will be held should the winning margin be less than 1 .

The EU observers also announced that the election tally had not met basic international standards.

The opposition won most votes in Addis Ababa, but the EPRDF halted counting of votes for several days.

In dismissing such a recount, Frazer told Kenyans that they shouldn t expect their vote to be tallied accurately, and that power can be seized or perhaps even negotiated in a backroom.

If Kibaki rejects an independent recount, his refusal will reverberate around Kenya and the world.

I would like to take this opportunity to extend to him the Assembly's congratulations on his election, as well as to thank the tellers for their assistance.

By that, he meant no violence and no doctoring the ballot count. The communists would have to live with the result.

But, while Medvedev s victory in the first round of voting appears assured, the important questions will arise after the ballots are counted. How will power be distributed between Medvedev and Putin?

The Council will now proceed to draw lots to select two delegations, excluding Benin, which presides in February, to serve as tellers.

The judiciary rejected calls for a full recount, though they did examine roughly 9 of the ballots before ruling that the review indicated no challenge to the election s outcome.

Still, the international community can play a more constructive role than it has until now by pressing both sides to accept an independent recount.

On 10 November, the party submitted its complaints to the National Elections Commission and also filed a petition with the Supreme Court seeking the suspension of the ballot counting.

At the invitation of the President, Ms. Dissing (Denmark), Ms. Abraitienė (Lithuania), Mr. Solórzano (Nicaragua), Mr. Isong (Nigeria) and Mr. Kim Kiejoo (Republic of Korea) acted as tellers.

Either way, Kenyans and their votes would be taken seriously, and tempers could well subside.

Despite complaints from the Episcopal Conference of the Catholic Church, chambers of commerce and political parties, the CSE has refused to allow a recount of the ballots or scrutiny by impartial observers.

For example, the two parties are now engaged in tense negotiations to amend the Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and Recall Law to avert any repeat of the current confused circumstances surrounding the current recount.

Instead, López Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor, and his supporters demanded a vote by vote recount, which is not mandated though it is not proscribed by the country s electoral laws.

In an effort to help calm the situation, I made telephone calls to both Mr. Weah and Mrs. Johnson Sirleaf to urge them to ensure that their supporters exercised patience and allowed the counting of votes to be completed.

Politicians and citizens may disagree on the best strategy for re establishing the true will of voters in these circumstances (a complete or partial re vote, or just a re count of the votes in contested districts).

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Moreover, the ministry was accused of violating procedural justice as the textbook revision committee members were asked to cast their vote in a box and the votes were only counted by the committee secretary after the meeting was dismissed.

Still, the international community can play a more constructive role than it has until now by pressing both sides to accept an independent recount. By standing up for democratic principles, the world would truly stand on the side of the Kenyan people.

The counting of the ballots in the Security Council will now begin.

If Kibaki rejects an independent recount, his refusal will reverberate around Kenya and the world. Those who ignore voters should quickly learn that they have no place to hide.

President Chen agreed to a recount. But the questions on everyone's lips are whether the loser of the recount will accept the result, and whether Taiwan's young democracy can survive this tumult?

First, she declared that the vote could not be re assessed by an independent tally. 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 advent of a new electoral cycle, which begins with local elections in April, may provide another opportunity to put Iraq on the right path. But that can happen only if the voting is free and the counting is fair.

Despite the phased voting, the counting takes place nationwide immediately after the last phase, and the results of the elections everywhere will be announced on May 16.

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In other words, it is their job to sort through disputed accounts presented in evidence.

Tallying of the results of these elections continues at the time of the writing of this report.

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