New York's former attorney-general won a record 69.6% of the valid vote in November.

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Some 5, 173 people supported the incinerator (7.32% of the valid vote) and there were 74 spoilt papers.

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ITAM, a university in Mexico City, a failure by the court to declare the vote valid by the September 6th deadline would be tantamount to annulling the election.

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But the 1996 reform that empowered the Trife as the final arbiter of any election is far superior to what came before, where a simple majority of the lower house of Congress sufficed to declare a vote valid.

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The official requirement for the vote to be valid is at least a 50-percent turnout.

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The new rules would require every voter to show a valid, state-sanctioned photo ID before they could vote.

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Independent election monitors say under 46% of the electorate took part in Sunday's vote - the law requires at least 50% to make a ballot valid.

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