Word: fraud
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...support of a coalition of 15 opposition parties, seemed to have ended Milosevic's 13-year autocratic rule. But when the votes were counted, the state-run Federal Election Commission reported 48.22% for Kostunica, 40.23% for Milosevic. At Milosevic's strong urging, a runoff was called. The opposition cried fraud, saying Kostunica had won nearly 55% of the vote. On Sept. 25 Kostunica (inset) declared victory. Protest rallies were staged. The commission was resolute until a week of massive protests and strikes culminated in the storming of the Parliament (right) in Belgrade on Oct. 5. "I've just received official...
...This was in violation of a 1998 anti-fraud law naming the voter ID numbers as one of nine pieces of information that had to be filled in by the voter or his family. Republicans called the supervisors' questionable behavior a "hypertechnicality." Democrats called it a political conspiracy...
Election after American election using the current procedures has been fraught with unnumbered acts of voter fraud and ballot stuffing, which such an electronic system would effectively counteract, if not prevent entirely...
...strange little sideshow, barely worth noticing. But now both candidates are realizing that the sideshow could potentially decide the election. A lawsuit--filed not by Al Gore but by an Altamonte Springs personal-injury lawyer--demands that the county throw out some 15,000 absentee ballots because of alleged fraud. That would give Gore a net gain of about 5,000 votes, more than enough to win the White House. The plaintiff, a Democrat named Harry Jacobs, charges that because G.O.P. workers were allowed to fill in blanks on thousands of absentee-ballot applications last October, none of the ballots...
Given Florida's tough laws governing absentee ballots (instituted in 1998, after fraud led to the removal of a Miami mayor), it seems dubious to let party operatives tinker with signed ballot applications. But the proposed remedy--throwing out all 15,000 ballots--seems extreme. The Democrats "have a strong case if we insist on following technicalities," says University of Miami law professor Mary Coombs. "But ultimately the application went out to the right person, who ended up being able to vote for whom he wanted. Tossing out the ballots seems to be a very peculiar remedy for the harm...