But since Sunday's voting, there have been assorted reports to election monitors that convicts voted, that ballots were tampered with to remove Mr. Toledo's name, that people were paid to vote for Mr. Fujimori and that police and army officials harassed election monitors of opposition parties.
Former President Jimmy Carter, an official monitor of an opposition drive to remove President Hugo Chávez through a referendum, said that by Saturday at the latest electoral authorities will have ruled on the validity of hundreds of thousands of signatures needed to force a recall, despite delays on Monday.
Today's violence outside the parliament building, however, overshadowed significant progress made inside earlier in the day when deputies voted in favor of a far-reaching package of laws aimed at tackling the country's endemic corruption and curtailing Soviet-era powers to monitor political activities of opposition groups.
In Serbia and Montenegro there were complaints of electoral abuses, including inflated voter tallies, missing curtains and the banning of opposition monitors from a few polling places.
In a scathing report on Peru's election, the group's own monitors denounced the harassment of opposition candidates, government control of the media, arrests of would-be voters and the mutilation of ballots in the first round.
The Local Coordinating Committees, a network of opposition activists who monitor the conflict in Syria, reported that stray shelling in the southern province of Dara'a had landed in Jordan.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Tens, and possibly hundreds, of thousands of people defied a continuing government crackdown to fill the streets of several Syrian cities on Friday, intent on showing visiting monitors from the Arab League the extent of opposition to President Bashar al-Assad.
In fact, the top three candidates have all called for increased monitoring of "Muslim communities" in sharp opposition to religious freedom and, obviously, the First Amendment.
The equipment, according to various news reports, was used to monitor the e-mail and Internet use of opposition forces.
As much as Viktor Orbán and his government need monitoring, the opposition deserves a bit of limelight – and support.
