Sentence examples for widespread ballot from inspiring English sources

One monitor reported "widespread ballot stuffing" in another part of Rivers.

Raila Odinga, his opponent in the presidential election, has challenged the results in Kenya's top court, saying that there had been widespread ballot rigging.

Allegations of widespread ballot fraud have raised serious doubts about the legitimacy of President Hamid Karzai as a partner in the counterinsurgency campaign.

Last year's elections, in which Mr Karzai was declared victor amid claims of widespread ballot stuffing, have led to questions in Europe and the US about soldiers' lives being lost to prop up a government branded as corrupt.

See articleAfghanistan's electoral commission released the results of the parliamentary election held in September, shortly before the Afghan attorney-general announced a new investigation into claims of widespread ballot fraud.

On Monday, the Iraqi court ordered votes in Baghdad Province, the country's most populous, to be counted again after Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki appealed the results in the capital, saying there had been widespread ballot manipulation.

But the claims of widespread ballot-rigging are tainting him further.

But observers said they witnessed widespread ballot-stuffing and warned that this Central Asian state — home to a United States air base that provides critical support to the war effort in Afghanistan — was sliding into authoritarianism.

International observers from the African Union and others have said the contest was credible despite some failings, but Houngbedji rejected the outcome, saying it had been rigged by widespread ballot-stuffing.

In a controversial run-off, Mr Yanukovich officially beat the opposition candidate, Victor Yushchenko, but only thanks to widespread ballot-stuffing and other nonsense.The crucible for the latest war of words was the meeting of foreign ministers under the auspices of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), held on Monday and Tuesday in Sofia.

Widespread ballot-rigging at the recent Afghan election complicated matters: few Americans are ecstatic at the idea of working with Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's ineffectual president.It does not help, either, that Afghanistan was ranked the second-most-corrupt country in the world by Transparency International, a watchdog, this week only Somalia was deemed more lawless.