With roughly a third of Americans casting ballots on new voting equipment, the two major parties fielded teams of lawyers and poll watchers ready to contest any irregularities.
In this spontaneous demonstration, over three million people took to the streets in June of that year to contest electoral irregularities linked to Ahmadinejad's reelection.
They didn't contest the voting irregularities in Ohio.
A recount is under way after Sunday's vote, with the PRI candidate, Manuel Andrade, and his rival, Raul Ojeda of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, both claiming victory in a contest marked by irregularities.
See articleUhuru Kenyatta, a son of Kenya's first president, won a presidential election, defeating Raila Odinga, the prime minister, who said he would go to court to contest the result, claiming irregularities.
There are insufficient grounds to launch a criminal investigation into alleged irregularities in the contest to select the Labour candidate for the UK parliamentary seat of Falkirk, police have said.
Even if the state's highest court disallows the counting of those 654 ballots, expect Coleman's legal team to formally contest the recount, citing alleged irregularities that include the double-counting of roughly 150 votes and the inclusion of 133 ballots (cast, in a Dickensian twist, at a Minneapolis church) that disappeared between election night and the manual recount.
Some of Mr. Ford's aides urged him to contest the results, citing reports of irregularities in Wisconsin and Ohio.
The standoff leaves Mr. Aliyev -- who came to power in 1993 after a military coup and won election in 1998 in a contest the State Department said was "marred by irregularities" -- with an up-close look at democracy in action.
He added that, since 1998, when he was first involved with the contest, "every year there are rumors about irregularities in the voting".
