Word: tampering
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...expect Delaware to do anything to tamper with this profitable business line. The state's division of corporate services recently boasted it spent just $12 million to earn $700 million - a quarter of the state's annual revenue. That enviable cost-revenue ratio has triggered copycat competitors. It couldn't be easier. Apply online - providing less ID than it would take to get a library card - and have it all processed within 24 hours, for little more than $100; Nevada and Delaware will do it all in an hour for $1,000. Then, for modest fees, enjoy the illusion...
...process in the hours after the tabulation, according to EC member and UC representative Phillip Morris ’12, who added that there were “loopholes” in the electronic voting system that could have allowed an outside party to access—and possibly tamper with—the results of the election...
...idea that I would, after spending three years on the UC, spending as much time as I have working to improve the institution that is the UC, tamper with the results is so ridiculous,” Hysen said...
Nevertheless, election workers, with the help of the U.N. and, in some cases, donkeys and camels, began spreading throughout the country with a fresh batch of ballot papers, tamper-proof boxes and indelible ink to be delivered to far-flung polling stations. This time, however, the task won't be quite so arduous. Afghanistan's election commission has decided to cut the number of polling stations by about 2,000 out of 25,000 in an attempt to mitigate some of the fraudulent methods practiced in the first round, when stations that never opened due to security fears nevertheless reported...
...moment imagined the regime would fix the vote. Others were less sanguine. The thousands of Iranians who were following the run-up to the vote on Facebook fretted about whether the vote would be clean. Each day brought with it a panicked spread of messages about anticipated vote-tampering: take your own pen to the ballot box, Ahmadinejad's supporters are spreading pens whose ink will evaporate after a few hours; don't listen to anyone who tells you that supporters of Mir-Hossein Mousavi are supposed to vote at schools - it's a plot to tamper with his votes...