The barrel alone weighs nearly 900 pounds, 1, 600 total including the authentic period wheels and rigging.
When they found out about allegations of widespread cheating and rigging of votes, they were outraged.
Armenia's Robert Kocharian has emulated his sponsors in the Kremlin, squeezing the media and rigging elections.
It allowed us to stitch sails and rigging, leading to the exploration and colonization of the globe.
Mubarak was persuaded to allow a contested presidential election for the first time but the vote was subject to fraud and rigging.
Prosecutors say Holmes planned the assault for months, casing the theater complex in Aurora, amassing a small arsenal and rigging potentially deadly booby-traps in his apartment.
Zimbabwe's vote this weekend (see article) may yet prove, despite all the violence and rigging, that the right to vote can still be made to count.
Once the masts, coach-housing, sails and rigging are back in place, the Cutty Sark will once again look like the majestic ship it was before rust, age and fire took their toll.
The EU and US imposed sanctions on Mr Mugabe and his inner circle after accusing them of unleashing violence and rigging previous election to prevent Mr Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) from taking power.
But this time, it is facing strong and widespread allegations of rigging and electoral fraud.
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The widespread fraud and ballot-rigging at local and parliamentary elections has given rise to cynicism and disenchantment with the current political system, as well.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says he is contemplating suits against brokers and insurers over bid-rigging and steering business to favored insurers against the interest of buyers.
In 2009, the World Bank complained about "systemic corruption and bid rigging" in Philippine public works projects.
In the past Indian polls have been dogged by a range of problems from vote buying and vote rigging to election violence.
To a fresh observer, it was the very opposite of what you might expect a Nigerian election to be - an escape from the grotesque abuses of ballot stuffing and vote rigging of the past.
"If abuse of power, lying in court, withholding evidence, bribing trial witnesses and generally rigging a trial are evidence of corruption, then the East India Company -- together with the Admiralty -- were as corrupt as they come, " concluded Konstam.
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As beautiful and majestic as the reindeer are, they can be skittish, and the idea of rigging eight together and making forward progress seemed ambitious, even in a children's poem.
And the voting began amid concerns about vote-rigging and intimidation.
And for all Mexico's undeniable moves towards full democracy, claims of overspending, ballot-rigging and vote-buying still dog almost every local election.
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The textures of shabby buildings and commercial signage along the riverbank contrast with a fragile tissue of lines representing countless masts, nautical rigging and curls of smoke that draw our eyes to the vanishing point along the blank unetched expanse of water.
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The Glide is capable of using smaller gauge line and has a simpler rigging assembly, which helps keep cost and weight down.
International observers at previous elections under Mr Milosevic reported major rigging and vote tampering.
There has been some SPLM intimidation but been few allegations of rigging and no boycotts.
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It is because the market was opened up to competition after years of inefficiency and price-rigging.
China's first division Super League was racked by scandal last year amid match-rigging and referee payoff scandals.
Inside are human skulls, life vests from Japanese whalers, the proud figurehead of a galleon, brass cannons, rigging and sea-worn chains.
Meanwhile, election monitors were investigating allegations of vote-rigging and intimidation by party activists, especially in the central areas of the island.
Sunday's partial re-run of the vote in Karachi was ordered after Mr Khan's party accused the MQM of widespread vote-rigging and intimidation.
The interim board was appointed after complaints of rigging and intimidation of voters by gunmen at the elections for officials last year.
The survivors were hoisted to safety one by one, as the helicopter worked in dangerous conditions, avoiding swinging masts, rigging and a nearby cliff.
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