The electoral commission says the voting was peaceful and orderly, with only minor problems.

选举委员会说，选举过程是和平、有秩序的，只出现了一些小问题。

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Here we are, once again, careening madly down the path to electoral ruin-where voting for the "lesser of two evils" has become a national pastime.

我们又一次疯狂地驶上毁掉选举的小路——投票选举“两个恶魔中稍好一点的”变成了全国性的消遣。

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Voting appeared to go cleanly, helped by a new electoral register.

选举过程似乎还算干净，新出炉的选民登记制多少有些帮助。

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The former foreign minister acknowledged some of his backers are urging a boycott of the second round of voting, but said he did not want to address the matter personally and risk sapping the electoral campaign of energy.

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But General McChrystal has warned that more are needed. On the contested outcome of last month's presidential election in Afghanistan, Spanta said voting "irregularities" are not unusual in emerging democracies and that the Independent Electoral Commission and the U.N.-supported Election Complaint Commission are working to address the complaints and recount some of the ballots.

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But beyond that are practical values to electoral voting.

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Republicans, who have lost four of the last six presidential elections, are moving in key battleground states to change electoral voting from winner-takes-all to a distribution of votes depending on the popular vote.

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Proponents of the bill would really like to do away with electoral voting altogether but, realizing how difficult it is to gain the two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress to approve and three-fourths of state legislatures to ratify a Constitutional amendment, have instead devised this clever end-run.

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