RM The Conservatives have confirmed one of their most controversial election pledges, to extend Margaret Thatcher's right-to-buy scheme to 1.3 million housing association tenants in England.
ALMOST all the signs I pass on the road, faded in the August sun and half buried in honeysuckle, concern East Tennessee's most controversial election — the race for Hamblen County sheriff, between the sitting sheriff and the deputy he fired because of a law saying a state employee can't run for office.
In the 2000 presidential election, one of the most controversial elections in American history, Gore won the nationwide popular vote over George W. Bush by more than 500,000 votes but narrowly lost in the electoral college, 271 266 the first inversion of the electoral and popular vote since 1888.
One brochure sought to link the proposal, which is backed by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, to two of the most controversial elections in recent memory; it featured side-by-side photos of California's governor-elect, Arnold Schwarzenegger, President Bush and Mr. Bloomberg, with "recall," "recount" and "referendum" superimposed over their respective images.
The referendum has become one of the most controversial elections in Turkey's history.
During a quick press conference last week at the governor's mansion, Scott declared that he would not sit idly by while "unethical liberals try to steal this election" and demanded the Florida Department of Law Enforcement FDLEE) investigate the Broward County Supervisor of Elections and Snipes, arguably the most controversial elections supervisor in the Sunshine State.
Both assumed office without a clear mandate from the electorate -- Truman, the largely unknown and accidental president after Roosevelt's death in 1945; Bush, the loser of the popular vote in the closest and arguably most controversial presidential election in history.
Palast first waded into the electoral morass in Florida 2000, the most controversial American election since Tilden-Hayes in 1876.
Think about it this way: In 2000, in that unforgettable and most controversial presidential election in modern U.S. history, George w.
Our lawsuit "seeks public disclosure of specified government records to make sense of the pivotal role of the FBI, as well as of other agencies, in perhaps the most controversial presidential election in modern U.S. history," says our complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by FOIA attorney Jeffrey Light.
The year was 1876, when the nation was shaken by the most bitterly contested and one of the most controversial presidential elections in its history, a distinction that the messy election of 2000 now threatens to claim for itself.
