Egypt's first pretty open election in decades has not been free of mischief, but nobody disputes its broad outcome.
But with Congress still favourite to win this vote, the BJP's burst of optimism was a useful reminder of how open the election really is.
Mexico's ruling party, the PRI , announced that it would hold an open primary election in November to choose its presidential candidate, breaking a long tradition in which incumbent Mexican presidents have chosen their successors.
The 210 polling stations account for less than 4 percent of the more than 6, 000 polling stations open during the election.
Second, a stumbling block could emerge from ICANN's efforts to hold an open and fair election among all Internet users to choose nine new members for its 19-member board.
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Ms Rousseff may still be the favourite to win, but Mr Serra has a spring in his step and the election is wide open.
Counties will now have 11 days to certify results, but the new law makes it clear the deadline is mandatory -- something which had been open to dispute under existing election rules.
"We've made it really clear that the door is open for a secret-ballot election, " she said.
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The Obama campaign recently won a court ruling to keep Ohio's early voting open through the weekend before the election.
She said the next election should not be open to younger voters.
The election is still wide open, with the Christian Democrats and Mr Schill's party neck-and-neck with the ruling coalition of Social Democrats and Greens.
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The survey results reflect some response to the election and the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) statement, but not enough to draw conclusions from it.
Outside London, polling stations will be open for the Romsey by-election caused by the death of Tory MP Michael Colvin in a fire at his home.
Although polls across the country are open on one day, the election is not a national poll but a series of 51 state-level elections that decide the members of the Electoral College.
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David Cameron's party is also trying to get members involved in policy formation - a process that had effectively died out - and it has pioneered the use of "open primaries" to select Tory election candidates.
Republicans took control of the Virginia Assembly (giving them control over both houses of the Legislature), won a special election in a GOP open seat in the Washington State House (to return the body to deadlock), and won the Erie County (New York) executive's race.
But although open campaigning is forbidden, a papal election is still a highly political process.
Thompson, by contrast, won an open Senate seat in the best Republican election year in half a century and was re-elected against a sacrificial lamb.
But the various branches of Hamas, already divided over attempts to reach an accord with its secular rival, Fatah, which it ousted in January's election, are practically in open war over the abduction.
He said if his party won next month's election, he would re-open the case to have the two explain their role.
But depending on the momentum from the state Supreme Court election, recall elections, Assembly open seats, and legal fights, there could easily be enough support to recall Walker by then.
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Sharif filed paperwork for his candidacy last week, although he had left open the possibility that he would boycott the election in protest of a state of emergency imposed by President Pervez Musharraf.
NHS. He is also likely to signal that he intends to honour the prime minister's rash pledge before the last election to keep the money tap open until Britain's previously parsimonious spending on health more nearly matches the European average of between 8% and 8.9% of national income, depending on which measure is used.
For some, that seemed to leave the door open for the mission to push for a fresh election under a new electoral authority, perhaps after a year or two.
The big question, assuming the coalition runs its course to 2015, is whether the voters will give their verdict on the Liberal Democrats in that General Election and then be prepared to cast their votes the Assembly election in 2016 with more of an open mind than they did five years earlier.
The most recent was after last November's election, and he underwent angioplasty treatment to open a clogged artery in March.
It has split the Conservative Party wide open and threatens to make its defeat in the next election, already quite likely, absolutely certain.
Abdul Jalil said he was open to compromise, but that it was too close to Election Day to increase the east's representation in the congress.
The turnout was so heavy in some areas that election officials gave provincial governments discretion to keep polls open an hour past the 5 p.m. closing time.
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