An investigation found that people from the neighboring state of Missouri had voted in the elections illegally.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

United Nations officials were heavily involved in planning the elections, which took place without any major violence.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

The public saw the elections as a sign of hope that reasonable people might find a way to settle the bitter dispute over slavery.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

The elections in November come midway in President Obama's term.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

The United States had previously expressed dismay over the government's decision to hold the elections without an actual voter list.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

"It's telling us the regime might be trying to use any good will over the elections as a smokescreen."

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy or NLD is now disbanded after it refused to participate in the elections.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

"After the elections of 1994, we then had to deal with building a new democratic, non-sexist South Africa."

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

But few analysts expect Burma's military government would allow Aung San Suu Kyi to participate in the elections.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

The red shirts, known to be supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, want the government to call the elections within 15 days.

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

So especially with the elections results, how that turned out, I was pretty impressed by it."

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

"Presidential elections are not as important as the elections for prime minister, which were last year,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

NDI president Kenneth Wollack was asked if his organization, which has monitored could consider the elections in Afghanistan to have been free and fair.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

"We will not be party to any whitewash when it comes to the elections."

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

While Iraq still has a long way to go before it reaches stability, there is a certain sense of satisfaction in how the elections were conducted.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

But in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly Friday, Ivorian president Laurent Gbabgo confirmed that the elections would take place as planned on November 29.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Northern opposition parties have also called for the elections to be delayed until November.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23