Sentence examples for blatant rigging from inspiring English sources

Fiddling the voters' register, boycotts and blatant rigging all boosted Mr Bashir.

He was too slow, even slower than Washington, to condemn Mr. Karzai's blatant rigging of the August presidential election.

Even if monitors from neighbouring countries others would not be welcome were able to prevent blatant rigging, they could not stop the bullying of voters and opponents of President Robert Mugabe by thugs loyal to his party, Zanu-PF.

Ahsan was not then an officeholder, but he worked alongside the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, Munir Malik, and Tariq Mahmood, a former judge who had quit rather than accept Musharraf's blatant rigging of the 2002 referendum.

For the "election" due on August 29th after the blatant rigging of Mr Kadyrov's poll victory last year, the quote marks are necessary the official choice, as indicated by the usual barrage of favourable press coverage, is Alu Alkhanov, the Chechen interior minister.

She said: "I am thrilled to see our democracy leader free at last, but the release is not part of any political process, instead it is designed to get positive publicity for the dictatorship after the blatant rigging of elections on November 7. "We must not forget the thousands of other political prisoners still suffering in Burma's jails".

On February 21, a civilian monitor posted a video documenting blatant election rigging to YouTube.

The core of Turkey's "electoral authoritarianism" is to ensure that victory without blatant ballot rigging.

Egypt's leading democracy advocate, Mohamed ElBaradei, said Saturday that the divided opposition groups did not now pose a serious enough challenge to Mr. Mubarak's party, but that the blatant vote rigging had deprived the government of legitimacy.

After years of blatant election-rigging this is hardly surprising.

The first mass protest, triggered by blatant vote-rigging in Moscow in the December 4th parliamentary elections, gathered some 7,000 people and was followed by police clashes with the activists.