Freeh continues to believe there should be an independent counsel to investigate campaign abuses in the last election, sources have told CNN.

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There is no way that could even be true, since the IRS abuses occurred before the election, and in any case it's a secret ballot.

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Huang is the 17th person prosecuted by the Campaign Financing Task Force, established by Attorney General Janet Reno to investigate allegations of campaign finance abuses during the 1996 election cycle.

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The current European Parliament President, Hans-Gert Poettering has reformed the pay and expenses regime to clamp down on abuses - after the next election, MEPs will have to provide receipts for their expenditure and there will be new rules on employing assistants to prevent abuses.

BBC: Brian Wheeler

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.

BBC: Nigeria's president faces free vote challenge