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Elections in Afghanistan

LAST UPDATED - The next election in Afghanistan is scheduled for April 5, 2014. Greatest risk areas: violence, and a national climate of corruption, from the President to the cop on the local street corner. RATINGS - Freedom: "Not free" rating 6 on a scale of 1-6, with 6 being least free. - Election Risk: Highest, rated 10 on a…
Bev Harris
November 28, 2013
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Ballot Privacy

"Victims were told by perpetrators . . . that they were cutting off their hands as punishment for using their hands in the 1996 vote." (Sierra Leone war amputees learn to vote with their feet)
Bev Harris
November 27, 2013
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Political Money

"Money, politics, and crime are the main elements of power struggles in any society." (In fact, pretty much everything in politics is really about money.)
Bev Harris
November 26, 2013
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Political Corruption

"As the lines of authority with the government erode, so too do traditional authority structures . . . eventually all that is left to hold society together is that someday it may be your day to get yours." -- Nuhu Ribadu, Nigeria Corruption is the abuse of public office for private or political gain. Electoral corruption is interference with the…
Bev Harris
June 13, 2013
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2008-09-25 (AL) – State tries to charge $28,000 for voter list

Alabama refused to provide a current voter list to the state Democratic Party unless they paid $28,000 for a DVD, an item worth which costs at most $5. At the time, Pennsylvania - a state with a larger population - charged $20 for the same thing. New Hampshire charged just $25. The voter list provides public accountability as to who…
Bev Harris
September 25, 2008
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(US-WY) – Vote Counting: Voting machine problems delay results

A careful reading of the Casper Star-Tribune's detailed reporting, below, provides a pretty good guess as to what was really going on. Carbon County and Laramie County reported very similar problems: When trying to upload precinct results the transmission balked. A closer look, using the Verifier tool at VerifiedVoting.org, shows that both Carbon and Laramie counties were using Diebold systems,…
Bev Harris
November 9, 2006
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2006-11-08 (WY) – Ballot problems: Folded ballots and voting machines

The problem identified below shows up in other Wyoming locations, and also can affect absentee votes in any other location if jurisdictions send folded ballots. The Natrona County clerk's office says the folded absentee ballots may delay the count, but won't affect the count. That is not necessarily true. Folded absentee ballots have been found in other states to produce…
Bev Harris
November 8, 2006