Elections stories:
Ukraine election results put on hold
Feb 17th, 2010 - CNN
(cnn) -- a ukranian court on wednesday put on hold the results of presidential elections that declared viktor yanukovych winner pending an appeal from his rival, prime minister yulia tymoshenko. tymoshenko lodged an appeal with ukraine's higher
Court suspends Ukraine election results
Feb 17th, 2010 - MSNBC
kiev, ukraine - a ukrainian court said wednesday that it has suspended the results of this month's presidential election, pending review of an appeal filed by the declared loser. ukraine's administrative court said in a statement
PM disputes Ukraine election result
Feb 14th, 2010 - ABC News
viktor yanukovich has officially been declared the winner of the presidential election in ukraine, but he is facing a fresh challenge from prime minister yulia tymoshenko.
the central election commission declared mr yanukovych the winner by a marginFinal tally shows Yanukovich wins Ukraine election
Feb 10th, 2010 - CNN
kiev, ukraine (cnn) -- the final results from ukraine's presidential election on wednesday showed former prime minister victor yanukovich winning a close race, but an official declaration of a victor was still to come. prime minister yulia
Tymoshenko refuses to concede defeat in Ukraine election
Feb 9th, 2010 - CNN
kiev, ukraine (cnn) -- prime minister yulia tymoshenko refuses to concede defeat in ukraine's presidential election and plans to demand a recount in some districts, officials from her party, bloc tymoshenko, said tuesday. meanwhile, her rival
Elections videos from YouTube:
1:18Thai blood protests continue call for new elections
Red-shirted protesters hurled plastic bags filled with gallons of their own blood into the residence of the Thai prime minister on Wednesday, hoping t. . Follow us on twitter at twitter.com .
22:04Inside Story - Iraq's election results
The results of the Iraqi elections are surprisingly close - with Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's current prime minister, neck-and-neck with Iyad Allawi, the country's former prime minister.
2:08Election (trailer)
This film takes the scandals and mudslingings associated with presidential elections and transposes them to a high school election for student council president in Nebraska- with impossibly sharp, satirical results. Jim mcallister is a teacher who will stop at nothing to prevent perfect Tracy Flick ...
Elections from WikiPedia:
An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy operates since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government. This process is also used in many other private and business organizations, from clubs to voluntary associations and corporations.
The universal use of elections as a tool for selecting representatives in modern democracies is in contrast with the practice in the democratic archetype, ancient Athens. Elections were considered an oligarchic institution and most political offices were filled using sortition, also known as allotment, by which officeholders were chosen by lot.
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