Unless results are certified within four to six weeks, it will be too late to carry out another election before harsh weather makes a runoff impossible, officials say.
In the last century both high and low culture, in novels like "The House of Mirth" and "Absalom, Absalom!" and movies like "Stella Dallas" and "Election," leveled harsh judgment on those who aspire to too much.
Yet some of the harshest language of this election cycle has come from the super-rich.
I found out that many elderly people were facing harsh conditions during the elections.
Harsh condemnation of the elections among Russian Orthodox priests, theologians and active lay people was evident on Facebook pages and blogs as reports of fraud poured in last week.
He believed, and preached, that harsh language could win elections; in 1990, the political action committee he ran, Gopac, instructed Republican candidates to learn to "speak like Newt," and offered a list of words to describe Democrats — like decay, traitors, radical, sick, destroy, pathetic, corrupt and shame.
Barbara Arnwine, executive director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, had a harsher assessment: "The American election system is broken," she said.
Metz called their eponymous debut a "mission statement" and it seemed to only have one election promise: unremittingly harsh punk.
Iran's economy is reeling from harsh sanctions, and Rouhani won election in June on promises to do what it takes to get the punishment eased.
Western monitors offered a harsh assessment of Sunday's elections, which Mr. Lukashenko officially won with just under 80 percent of the vote.
