Ballot stuffing and repeat voting for United Russia, documented across the country, were extensive in the region, the appeal said.
It featured stuffed ballot boxes and repeat voting, ballot slips scattered in gutters, trashed polling stations and intimidation.
Mr. Bykofsky said that respondents were checked against email and telephone lists to guard against repeat voting or votes by outsiders.
Despite fears that electoral problems seen in 2000 and in the Democratic primary this year would be repeated, voting went smoothly.
By some estimates a repeat vote in Florida could cost $20m.
At the last minute, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, switched his vote to side with the Republicans -- a strategic maneuver that would allow him to call a repeat vote, which is expected on Tuesday.
The precinct-level corruption that Joe Harris had witnessed in Chicago in the twenties was visible again in the 1982 election there, but now instead of repeat voters the precinct captains had repeat votes, as counted on the C.E.S. system.
At a hearing today in Brooklyn, a state appellate court heard arguments from lawyers for the Democratic candidate for county clerk, Richard Anderson, to reverse a lower court's decision and let the November results stand, canceling the repeat vote in the Town of Northeast scheduled for Tuesday.
Greece's May 6 election produced a hung parliament evenly split between pro- and anti-bailout parties, leading to a repeat vote set for June 17.
Members of the Bank's nine-strong Monetary Policy Committee MPCC) voted eight to one to leave rates at 0.5%, where they have been since March 2009, in a repeat of voting numbers seen for the past two months.
Mock, if you must, the rigmarole that goes into choosing a new pope – the conclaves, the repeated voting, the concluding puffs of white smoke – but it is more prepossessing and far less predictable than observing handovers at the fund, which are no more transparent or open.
