Zambia is a largely stable democracy, though some violence flares up during elections, correspondents say.
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We used to think of opinion as an analytical entity, something a pollster might collect from time to time, like during elections.
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Independent studies in India have always found that turnout during elections is usually higher in places where the media has lowest reach, and vice-versa.
But recently Mr Bush seems to have forgotten that you can't play hardball during elections and then revert to softball the rest of the time.
It's tough to organize elections during a war, he said, but the reality is that violence during elections is common place in many parts of the world.
This is the first poll since the withdrawal of US troops in December 2011, and is therefore a test of how capable the Iraqis are of running security during elections.
But it is best conducted not during elections with all their simplifications and exaggerations, but between them, when issues can be taken one by one and given proper scrutiny and attention.
In Thailand these services are banned during elections.
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Why should voters care about the broad sweep of policy promoted during elections by a party when other organisations will lobby all year round for their special interest, whether this is protection of the environment, opposition to abortion, or the defence of some subsidy?
This was a tactic that was foiled, for instance, during the elections last January.
He also oversaw balloting in Gaza during the elections in the Palestinian territory in January 2006.
Several business leaders who supported Obama during the elections financially and with their vote are now having second thoughts.
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Powell's own dedication to his country that he would take note of the treatment of Muslim-Americans during the elections.
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In the end, it agreed to a presidential decree stating that all civil servants must remain neutral during the elections.
The IFE also said, despite allegations from all parties, that the PRI had not exceeded spending limits during the elections.
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The petition described Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto as the "glue" that bound "the country during the elections and transition period".
But Democratic leaders decried the move and said they will push forward with an effort to put the increase before voters during statewide elections in November.
Fars reported that the Canadian-Iranian reporter, who had worked for the BBC and England's Channel 4 network, admitted having filed false reports for Newsweek during the elections.
"I think people who have stood by him during the elections and who have actually voted him in are going to stand with him through the duration, " Orr says.
And Yasser Arafat will once again face what has become something of a traditional dilemma of whether to restrain his people during Israeli elections so as to avoid stampeding voters to the right.
The local newspapers and television stations that have underpinned the proliferation of robopolls in recent years (they accounted for almost half of all polls during the elections of 2008) simply cannot afford the extra cost, Mr Leve says.
During national elections last year she hinted she was in favor of junking Germany's tax code and replacing it with a simple flat tax, a system that is working wonders in many parts of central and eastern Europe.
"The coming together of the main political leaders during the two key presidential debates and their pledge to peace during the National Prayer Meeting at Uhuru Park last Sunday is commendable and will hopefully jell Kenyans to maintain peace during the elections, " it said.
Tension was high during district elections in July - won by Mr Gbagbo's Ivorian Popular Front party - and the latest uprising is another indication that little has been done to heal the wounds inflicted on the country by years of regional and political conflict.
Human error was blamed for the mix-up during the council elections in May 2012.
During the 2007 elections Mr Kenyatta supported President Kibaki's bid for a second term against Mr Odinga.
But the more moderate Mr Arias stood against his former ally during the presidential elections in 2000.
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But its chief author says delays meant its recommendations were kept from America's public during the 2004 elections.
This is likely to be an issue during the parliamentary elections planned for the middle of next year.
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