Furthermore, the report says that Beijing's election framework doesn't "offer 'genuine choice' in any meaningful sense of the phrase, nor do we consider [it] consistent with the principle that Hong Kong should enjoy a high degree of autonomy".
The burning question in Washington is whether the results of the election will create a framework for compromise between Mr Obama and the leadership of the Republicans, who easily retained control of the House of Representatives.
The real contest may be about the election after next, but the framework will be decided by the party that emerges as the challenger in 2005.
A peace deal signed in 2001 provided the framework for the election in 2005 of an autonomous government for Bougainville.
The 1976 act lays out the broad rules for European elections, but each EU country carries out the election within its own legal framework.
But in June, Hong Kong's Legislative Council rejected Beijing's framework for the election rules, a somewhat Pyrrhic victory for protesters because it left the status quo in place.
HONG KONG -- The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in its recent decision has sketched out a broad framework for the election of the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region by universal suffrage in 2017.
His proposed legislation, which would be introduced within the first year of Cameron's second term in Downing Street if the Conservatives win the election, would provide a new legal framework for Britain's GCHQ and other intelligence agencies to crack the communications of terror suspects if there was specific intelligence of an imminent attack.
The TrustTheVote Project Election Technology Framework will turn black box voting into glass box voting, and we think shift the klieg lights off the machinery and on to the human processes.
"The Election Commission will organise the election under the framework of the constitution and try to avoid any violence," he added.
