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In 1977 APNI reached its highest electoral standing when it won 14.3 percent of the vote.
Yet the election authorities indicated that Mr Basha was the winner.The Socialists appealed to the Electoral College, the highest electoral court in Albania.
In inner-city areas where non-registration is highest, electoral officers, employed by local councils, often lack the resources to chase up those who do not return their forms.
Last month, the nation's highest electoral board disqualified Mr. Erdogan from running because of a conviction in 1998 for reading a poem that a court said incited religious hatred.
Last month, under pressure from the military, Turkey's highest electoral authority banned Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the leader of the country's most popular political party, from running in this fall's parliamentary election.
That wake-up call, however late, may finally have arrived this month when the senators petitioned the government to file a legal complaint with the Supreme Administrative Court, the country's highest electoral authority, seeking suspension of the Communist Party's activities.
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There is evidence that elections based on proportional representation have higher electoral turnouts than majority or plurality elections.
The many checks put in place by Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission are laudable, said the official, who added, "but if taken too far it will backfire and erode public confidence by further delays".
The appointees did not have a very high electoral success rate: Senators appointed to fill midterm vacancies have fared rather poorly when it came time for the voters to give them a verdict.
This includes the official recognition of the Kurdish identity, native language education and the right to campaign in the Kurdish language, a measure of devolution, plus the punitively high electoral threshold for getting into parliament being reduced.
French democracy hasn't yet evolved to the point of raising celebrities to high electoral office, but it's good to know that the European halls of power aren't entirely closed to stars: The eighty-four-year-old Charles Aznavour, born Shahnour Varenagh Aznavourian, in Paris, to Armenian parents, has just been named Armenia's ambassador to Switzerland.
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