Sentence examples for rig the polls from inspiring English sources

The air is thick with stories of plans to rig the polls.

But despite much talk of political disillusion, and the trading of wild allegations about attempts to rig the polls, Kiev's polling stations were busy yesterday afternoon, and election workers said they had seen a high turnout.

The opposition fears that the BNP, with the help of a partisan president, who also heads the interim administration, will rig the polls.It has shown that it is capable of shutting the country down.

The alternatives, truly free and fair elections, putting real pressure on leaders who rig the polls, are costly, both politically and economically.

Should it feel so inclined, the government certainly has the ability to rig the poll.

For once it will be almost impossible to rig the poll.

Mr Akufo-Addo did not merely allege irregularities but a "deliberate, well-calculated and executed ploy" to rig the poll.

The 2007 elections were marred by accusations of rigging, while yesterday a group calling itself the Nigerian Cyber Army hacked into and shut down the electoral commission's website for a time, warning officials not to rig the poll.

But it could also make the communists look more acceptable as "power-sharers", and so help them in an early election.Will the communists agree to fair voting rules, or try to rig the poll to their own advantage?

The mechanism intended to rescue democracy from viciously confrontational two-party politics—an unelected caretaker government to oversee elections collapsed because the BNP picked a partisan president to rig the poll.

But her performances, hectoring local workers not to allow the government to rig the poll, calling for an end to militancy, and invoking the legacy of her late father, were vintage Bhutto.