Washington filters our taxes through a bureaucratic black-hole before spewing out waste and vote-buying patronage.
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The regulations' purpose is to reduce the vote-buying and corruption that plagued prior elections.
Camacho warns that during this next week Mexico will see a last-minute vote-buying spree.
Sadly, an entrenched tradition of vote-buying has enabled anyone with enough baht to hold office.
In the past, elections were marred by vote-buying as well as interference from the Royal Palace.
The courts may soon dissolve the PPP for alleged vote-buying in last December's election.
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In the past, vote-buying has been hard to prove because of the difficulty of obtaining evidence.
If gangsters end up getting elected because of their vote-buying power, say some scholars, so be it.
At least two candidates, including Ahmed Safadi, a major contender, were arrested for vote-buying the day before polling.
Countless other party meetings and nominations of candidates have been marred by intimidation and allegations of patronage and vote-buying.
Then there are allegations of rampant vote-buying by parties, especially in southern India.
Moroz also accused Kuchma's campaign team of trying out various election malpractices, including the forging of ballot papers and vote-buying.
But first he wants to change Colombia's political institutions, and especially the corruption, vote-buying and cosseted excess of its politicians.
And for all Mexico's undeniable moves towards full democracy, claims of overspending, ballot-rigging and vote-buying still dog almost every local election.
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In North Sulawesi, accusations by opposition parties that Golkar engaged in vote-buying have led to a decision to hold a fresh ballot.
The demonstrators are angry at what they say was vote-buying by the president's campaign, says the BBC's Will Grant in Mexico City.
Many of the other elections are marred by vote-buying, intimidation and violence.
Even if misuse of state facilities and vote-buying are conclusively proven, there may be no legal basis to punish Golkar and PDR.
In his first term Lula's reluctance to share power with other parties led to a congressional vote-buying scandal that nearly destroyed his presidency.
But they do argue it can only reduce the present extent of vote-buying, which, by most accounts, reached a zenith in the election last year.
In particular, they object to a requirement, intended to cut the link between vote-buying and ministerial budgets, that all cabinet ministers must resign their parliamentary seats.
The institute said it had also heard numerous allegations of vote-buying on election day, despite improved enforcement of rules banning this in the run-up to the vote.
Meanwhile, the president of a criminal court just outside Amman ordered Tuesday the release of a local candidate in Salt after he was accused of vote-buying, Petra reported.
Nobody accused Anwar, but there was talk of rampant vote-buying.
Along with state media control goes massive government vote-buying.
Though social programs in Latin America are often associated with the vote-buying populist subsidies so familiar to economically-troubled countries like Venezuela and Argentina, the social fund now in the works in Brasilia is different.
Yet to a public long used to a ruling party that spent to keep itself in power, the PDR's sudden wealth and Golkar's flush treasury raised concerns about the impact vote-buying had on the election.
These shameless vote-buying schemes ruin vulnerable lives.
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Even the recent historic Mar. 4 poll for Thailand's upper house -- which people somehow thought would be clean -- saw dozens of putative Senators put on hold by the Election Commission subject to investigation into vote-buying allegations.
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