1. Xbox 360 to be usead as electronic voting system
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Americans will soon be able to use Xbox Live to register to vote in the November presidential elections. Microsoft has signed a partnership with activist group Rock The Vote to boost inter

2. Georgia?s democratic stalemate
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... The so-called "rose revolution" in Georgia, when peaceful street protests against falsified parliamentary elections sparked in November 2003 eventually forced out the incumbent president, Eduard ...

3. Battling KGB Inc, by Garry Kasparov
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...ronage proved immune to democratic reform. For a limited time this old system lived alongside the new one of elections and basic democratic rights. But this unnatural situation could not last for long...

4. Political Power in Africa
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...hiefly through voluntary resignation at the end of a constitutionally defined term or by losing an election. Elections are also becoming more important as a mechanism for selecting leaders in Africa, ...

5. When will the Chinese People be Free?
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...n. In a departure from Chinese tradition, there is a developing attitude that individuals have rights. Local elections, along with the aforementioned rise of certain relatively autonomous legal and me...

6. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
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... his own country, economically, politically." The litany of power-concentration since the December 2006 elections has indeed proved indigestible: the congressional vote to hand eighteen-month &qu...