Others will contribute to thoughtful post-election examination.
If the allegations are correct here, there would likely have been no way to discover, via post-election examination of machines or election results, that votes had been manipulated on these machines.
He envisions a meritocratic upper house whose members are chosen not by election, but examination; an elected national democratic legislature that advises the upper house on "preferences;" direct elections up to the provincial level, and freedom of the press.
AT THE best of times, economic regulation does not lend itself to close examination in election campaigns.
And they said that Mr. Hastert was dragging his feet on appointing a special bipartisan committee because he did not really want an examination of election reform.
Gerrymandering can be spotted by comparing two ways of estimating the probable outcome of the House elections: through a close examination of district-by-district races, and by looking at the generic congressional ballot.
With the news coverage since the election being dominated by examinations of the travails of the Republican Party, Mr. Obama's best political move might well be to stay out of the limelight and let the opponents who have dogged him for four years twist in the wind.
But accusations of ballot-stuffing and other fraud have led election authorities to order an examination of ballot boxes in 10percentt of polling places.
Donations from just the top 20 of these creative givers total $2.4 million during the current election cycle, according to an examination of campaign finance records by The New York Times.
Although 17 seats is not an extraordinary number, both historical precedent in midterm election years and a deeper examination of this year's results would argue strongly against Democrats being able to gain that many seats.
But the most detailed examination of that election to date tells a very different story beyond the mayor's race: a record-shattering surge in small donations from individuals, propelling an unusually large number of challengers to victory over incumbents.
