"There is a gathering electoral storm.
Without Florida, Mr. Bush has a hard time gathering enough electoral votes to put him over the top.
The electoral crisis had been gathering momentum since Alejandro Toledo, the opposition candidate, dropped out of the race last Thursday, saying he would not compete in a fraudulent election.
If that is not to happen next year in Zimbabwe, independent electoral monitoring organisations need to start gathering information now on all aspects of the election: the voters' roll, intimidation, the use of government funds and facilities, and so on.
He shot me a knowing look and responded, "You know - it's only 12 days before the election," thereby unsubtly and ironically reminding the Muslims present at the gathering about the detrimental electoral "taint" of being associated with our kind.
In the Roman system of direct democracy, two primary types of gatherings were used to vote on legislative, electoral, and judicial matters.
LONDON — Ever since the Labour Party's defeat in May's general election, a group of five candidates to succeed the former party leader, Gordon Brown, have been crisscrossing Britain, debating at more than 60 party gatherings and seeking to persuade the party's huge electoral college that they can inspire a regeneration of the party after 13 exhausting years in power.
This week, the leadership of the ruling Socialist Party filed a formal accusation before the electoral authorities alleging that the opposition coalition used fraud while gathering signatures in favor of the referendum.
For all the party's electoral success since then in regularly castigating government, the Big Tent gathering nobly demurred.
The nefarious plotters engaged in "exposing cases of violations of human rights," training reporters in "gathering information," and "presenting full information on the 2009 electoral candidates".
