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2021 Syrian presidential election (incumbent president since 2000, Bashar al-Assad, won by over 95% votes, election widely condemned by international community as fraudulent even before the voting took place)
Yukon Territorial Court, that court voided the election, holding that enough ineligible people had been permitted to vote to affect the outcome, though the court noted that it was not the fault of the Liberal candidate that these irregularities had occurred. The Tory, Erik Nielsen, won the by-election on December 16, 1957.[24][25]
2000 United States presidential election - After a close election in which the winner was unclear, the Republican candidate George W. Bush won Florida by such a slim margin that a recount of the votes was triggered under Florida state law, beginning a series of legal battles between Bush and the Democratic candidate Al Gore and considerable public controversy. After the completion of a machine recount, the Florida Supreme Court ordered a manual recount due to continued concerns over the validity of the election. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court, which halted the recount in the Bush v. Gore and Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board decisions, which Bush to win Florida by a 0.009 percent margin and the electoral vote.
2004 Washington gubernatorial election - After a close election in which the Republican candidate Dino Rossi was declared the winner in the initial election and the machine count, the Democratic candidate Christine Gregoire was declared the winner after a manual recount. Rossi made an unsuccessful legal challenge to the results, and did not officially concede the election for seven months.
Special Counsel to lead an investigation. Although the investigation resulted in 34 indictments and eight criminal convictions, it refrained from making a judgment about whether Trump could be criminally charged for obstruction of justice due to his conduct during the investigation. In 2020 US Attorney General William Barr
initiated a criminal investigation of the Rosenstein/Mueller collusion investigation in response to its questionable basis and procedures.
2022 Arizona gubernatorial election — Democratic candidate Katie Hobbs beat Republican opponent Kari Lake by a margin of just over 0.6% of total votes cast. During the campaign, Hobbs declined to debate Lake in a move that was criticized by Republicans and members of the press. Hobbs served as Secretary of State during the election (meaning she was in charge of administering the election), leading to conflict of interest allegations. On election day, most polls predicated Lake would win the election. When asked if she would accept the election results in the event she lost, Lake refused to answer on multiple occasions. Results for the election would not be confirmed until a week after election day. When Hobbs was declared the winner, Lake refused to concede the election. Lake ultimately filed several lawsuits alleging voter suppression. As of June 2022, all but one lawsuit has been dismissed or ruled against Lake. An ongoing lawsuit seeks to determine if the signature-matching verification process for absentee ballots was conducted improperly in Maricopa County, where over 60% of Arizona's population resides.
literacy tests) to disenfranchise African-Americans and to ensure the continuing hegemony of elite agrarian interests at the expense of all other interests in the South until the Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Politically enabled by the
dictatorial
powers.
Ferdinand Marcos, who had been fairly elected as President of the Philippines in 1965, remained in power and became increasingly dictatorial and kleptocratic, as he succeeded in marginalizing dissent and opposition through allegedly-rigged elections.
Many dictatorships and former Warsaw Pact nations hold
show elections
in which results predictably show that nearly 100% of all eligible voters vote and that nearly 100% of those eligible voters vote for the prescribed or often only list of candidates for office or for referendums that favour the party in power, irrespective of economic conditions and the cruelties of the government.
It was widely held in the Ukrainian media that the Ukrainian election of 2004 was also marked by ballot rigging and voter intimidation on all sides.[60]
Both tabloid press accusations and several anecdotal public claims of
2004 European and local government elections in Birmingham[68][69][70]
Both the
2007 election in Kenya were marred by opposition claims of the ruling parties cheating their way to stay in power by massive electoral fraud.[71]
^Meisel, John (1962). The Canadian General Election of 1957. Toronto, Canada, University of Toronto Press, 245.
^A full description of the election in Yukon, the trial, and the subsequent by-election may be found in Erik Nielsen's memoir, The House Is Not a Home.
^Freeman, Steven (2005). Was the 2004 Presidential Election stolen?. Seven Stories Press.
^Harding, Luke (November 15, 2017). "How Trump walked into Putin's web". The Guardian. Retrieved May 22, 2019. ...the Russians were talking to people associated with Trump. The precise nature of these exchanges has not been made public, but according to sources in the US and the UK, they formed a suspicious pattern.
^Sturgeon, Will (30 March 2005). "UK voters fear election fraud". Silicon.com Law & Policy. CBS Interactive Limited. Archived from the original on 17 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-22.
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