Their economies are growing, the media is relatively open and upcoming presidential elections are freely discussed.
We oppose Arizona's Citizens Clean Elections Act, which provides public financing for candidates, because it seeks to drive privately financed candidates out of elections for speaking freely.
Polls show that most Russians want to choose their national and local leaders in competitive elections; to assemble freely; and to have a free press.
I think we all felt, in some small way, that by ensuring that our local election system functioned freely and fairly, we were at least shoring up the mortar between the blocks that mightier men had laid.
In 1966, he was elected in one of the Dominican Republic's first freely contested elections.
It is the first time I am able to vote freely in elections that are mine".
Corporations and unions can now spend freely in elections, under a recent Supreme Court ruling, but they still must disclose their activities.
It was hard to see how elections could be held freely and fairly in the atmosphere of state terror that gripped Honduras, but the Micheletti regime is determined.
Also, foreign correspondents, who had once been allowed to roam freely during elections, were bused to specific polling places this time, and the government limited the number of visas issued to journalists seeking to cover the election.
