Out of the 5.8 million votes deemed valid so far, the incumbent has three million while the top challenger has just more than half that amount.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

Election officials say they have now processed ballots from more than one-third of polling stations nationwide and just more than two million votes have been deemed valid.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

In doing so you leave your digital identity on your computer, and there is nothing criminals love more than a valid online identity.

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Sure, it's a semi-useful gauge of the broader economy, but it's inherently no more valid than any other flawed market yardstick.

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Fisher: I think that the prior one, that they can't borrow, is more valid than the one that they can borrow.

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