The state is playing a "dangerous game," says Victor Vakhshtayn of the Center for Fundamental Sociology, in that it has "returned the institution of elections, but in order to keep them under control has to undermine their legitimacy .Despite the Kremlin's wishes to keep everything under a bland, predictable order, elections are always messier than non-elections.
They are interpreted as second order elections by many parties.
"In such a second-order election, it certainly won't do any harm," says Jamie Barclay, who runs the operation in Britain.
But in Palm Beach County, the recount continued, and a state circuit court judge ordered election officers to at least consider counting "dimpled" punch holes as votes.
Judge Guterl ordered election workers to begin the job on Monday, starting with two of the district's five counties, Hunterdon and Middlesex.
On Wednesday, a federal judge ordered election officials in Pennsylvania to make emergency paper ballots available to voters when 50percentt or more of voting machines at a polling location fail.
There was new turmoil as Miami-Dade County, the largest Florida Democratic enclave still recounting votes by hand, abruptly decided to stop, and a state court judge ordered election officials in Palm Beach County to expand their review of disputed ballots.
The president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, has ordered election banners with the slogan "Bring Back Jonathan 2015" to be taken down.
A Lake County, Ind., judge has ordered election officials to immediately open satellite early voting centers in Gary, Hammond and East Chicago.
It wasn't until early August that a judge ordered election officials to place him on the ballot.
He also got hold of a confidential letter from Gov. Bush's office ordering election officials to knowingly break state law by purging from the rolls felons who had been convicted in other states, not in Florida, before moving there.
