The referendum question has been criticized for cramming too many issues onto one voting slip, and fewer than 20 percent of those polled by IPR said they understood it well.
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The four opposition candidates withdrew their candidacy on election day. The first opposition candidate to withdraw was Convergence for Social Democracy (CPDS) candidate Celestino Bonifacio Bacalé. He denounced the election, saying that "voting is totally fraudulent at every level. In 90% of the polling stations, the vote is being carried out in public, and people are being obliged to take only one voting slip, the one for Obiang".
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"Students did not belong to the opposition circles" ("Studenten gehörten nicht zum oppositionellen Milieu."). Elections in the German Democratic Republic were organised according to a "Single list" system. Voters were given a piece of paper listing the officially approved candidates and could endorse it by placing their voting slip in the appropriate ballot box. For voters not wishing to endorse the candidates listed there was a separate ballot box at the far end of the polling station.
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The party released a homophobic video under the comment: "An entire country is going through conversion therapy. The time has come to stop it." In the video, a mother, father, and son go to vote on election day in September, and the family is "bombarded" with LGBT and Reform imagery. Once they reach the voting booth, the mother writes on her voting slip, "Let my son marry a woman", while the father writes, "Let my grandson be Jewish".
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Voting against The List involved placing your voting slip in a separate ballot box while election officials looked on. The voting system was effective in ensuring that the party's list of candidates was endorsed by more than 99% the electorate, but it was not without its critics. For the 1990 General Election a new system was adopted, apparently inspired by the West German approach, whereby voters could choose between a number of different party lists. The 1990 election is generally reported as East Germany's first free general election (Die erste freie Volkskammerwahl).
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Informal voting, which occurs when a voting slip is not valid, is at a rate of under 5%. Voting slips are informal when they are not filled out correctly, such examples are not numbering subsequent numbers, not filling out all the candidate boxes with numbers (except the last candidate), or in some other way that is verified by the State Electoral Office as illegible. South Australian elections have some features that are unique to the rest of Australia.Unique Features of South Australian Elections, ABC News Online, 14 February 2006.
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The fans of Cardiff City Football Club vote for the Player of the Year. Towards the end of the season, the fans are invited to vote either by post, by the hand where it is handed into the Supporter Club's shop or by e-mail. The fans get three choices and each of their choices get points based on their position on the voting slip, 1st = 3 points, 2nd = 2 points and 3rd = 1 point. The fans can also vote for the Young Player of the Year as well.
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The proponents of the initiative warned of, despite the planned restoration of the bus station area to the ring park, impending gridlock and the desolation of the inner city after the opening of the proposed shopping centre. With a turnout of over 40 percent, the Wurzburg citizens decided by about 51 to 49 percent, to support the joint project of mfi, Deutsche Bahn and the city—a majority of 985 in favour. Many people complained after the vote that the voting slip was confusing and difficult to understand and more than 12 percent of all votes cast were invalid.
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Voting slip for the Riksdag elections. The Donald Duck Party () is a Swedish joke political party named after the Disney character Donald Duck. The party has received joke or protest votes without actually existing for several years; however, before the 2002 Swedish general election, Malmö citizen Bosse Persson had ballots made for the party (as well as for several other frivolous parties). Contrary to popular belief, however, the party was never officially registered with the Election Authority. In the 2002 national election, the party received 10 votes from pre-printed ballots and an unknown number of hand-written ballots.
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First they have to choose a topic – their options are consumer studies, textiles, child development, nutrition, and domestic economy. Simon Martin is given the task of pulling a voting slip out of a tub; Martin Simon's slip comes out, and the topic he has chosen is "child development". The experiment which Dr. Feltham (an eccentric science teacher who organises the fair) has chosen for child development is 'Flour Babies'. Each boy is given a six-pound bag of flour, in rags to form the look of a baby, and he must care for it at all times, as if it were a real baby.
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Activists from BERSIH say each ballot was also attached to a letter identifying the voter along with the voting slip serial number, so it would be easy to trace who voted for the opposition. Electoral reform activists said that a number of seats that the opposition could win could be decided by postal votes and that those casting postal votes do not have the freedom to choose the candidate they want. Human Rights Watch, which had been monitoring the election process, stated that government restraints on expression, assembly and access to state media would deny Malaysians a fair vote. Calling the electoral process "grossly unfair", Human Rights Watch called on the government to address concerns with fraud in the electoral rolls, and to provide opposition parties access to state media.
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Presiding officer can take fingerprints of voter. Once satisfied, record the voters presence to vote, mark the hand of the voter, mark back to validate and issue ballot paper to the voter. Defines that the voter have an empty voting compartment, mark his choices on his voting slip, fold the completed slip, show the mark of validation to a voting officer and place the slip in the ballot box and then leave the voting station. ;Section 39 Defines the assistance that can be given to certain voters who unable to read as either assistance by an accredited observer and two agents of two different parties or a person assisting the voter subject to the voter having a physical disability, has asked this person to help and is over 18.
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Gardiner said all three clubs circulated their votes, and that Dundee supposedly sent their vote in before the 17:00 deadline on 10 April, and shared an image of a filled in voting slip signed by Dundee's Managing Director, John Nelms. When news spread that Dundee's vote had not yet been received by the SPFL, Dundee's club secretary Eric Drysdale informed the others that he had been instructed not to resubmit Dundee's vote, as it was now the casting vote and therefore held more power. The SPFL meanwhile claimed that it had not yet received a vote from Dundee. After a few days of uncertainty regarding the club's intentions, Dundee released a statement on 15 April which made clear their request for serious consideration for league reconstruction was required in order for the club to agree to the proposal.
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Informal voting, which occurs when a voting slip is not valid, is at a rate of under five percent. Voting slips are informal when they are not filled out correctly, such examples are not numbering subsequent numbers, not filling out all the candidate boxes with numbers (except the last candidate), or in some other way that is verified by the State Electoral Office as illegible. South Australian elections have some features that are unique to the rest of Australia.Unique Features of South Australian Elections, ABC News Online, 14 February 2006. Retrieved on 4 January 2007. As elections have fixed four-year terms, the election date of 18 March 2006 was known well ahead of time. The Electoral Act stipulates that the election is to be held on the third Saturday in March every four years. The election campaign must run for a minimum of 25 days or a maximum of 55 days, therefore the Governor would have needed to issue writs for the election by 21 February 2006 at the latest.
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