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U.S. Presidential Election: United States
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While it cannot be denied that religion did play an important role in the 2004 U.S. presidential election, it certainly cannot be regarded as the decisive issue. It will be shown that religion in the U.S. is active and important in the political arena, but that its growing influence in elections is a result of interpretations of statistical findings and subsequent categorisation, and the jumping to political action of the conservative and religiously devout because of the implied power given to them. In addition, it will be demonstrated that the National Election Pool exit poll “moral values” question is unscientific and consequently has to be disregarded as an indicator of voting behaviour. Finally, the much more precise and revealing statistic presented by John C. Green of the Bliss Institute at the University of Akron will be used to make an attempt at indicating the actual role religion played in the election.
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As in the presidential election of 2000, voting controversies and concerns of irregularities emerged during and after the vote. The winner was not determined until the following day, when Kerry decided not to dispute Bush's narrow win in the state of Ohio. The state held enough electoral votes to determine the winner of the presidency.
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[One] panel explored the 2006 Mexican presidential elections with Manlio Fabio Beltrones, president of the Mexican Congress; Felipe Calderon, former Mexican Energy Secretary; and Amalia Garcia, gubernatorial candidate for the Mexican state of Zacatecas. The panelists agreed Mexico was still awakening from the 70-year spell of the PRI's rule, and current Mexican President Vicente Fox's election was only the beginning of changes that would continue in that country.
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HAVA was meant to strengthen the electoral process, and the irregularities and voter purges which occurred during the 2000 presidential election in Florida were of concern. HAVA's identification requirements... may heighten the opportunities for confusion and voter intimidation, and may reduce rather than expand the electorate, and lawmakers in some states, like Colorado, Kansas, Mississippi, California and Massachusetts, have used this as an opportunity to introduce legislation to enact even more rigid ID requirements in the guise of complying with HAVA.
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At the invitation of the United States government, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) sent a team of observers to monitor the presidential elections in 2004. It was the first time the OSCE had sent observers to a U.S. presidential election, although they had been invited in the past.[19] In September 2004 the OSCE issued a report (PDF 168K) on U.S. electoral processes and the election final report (PDF 256K).
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In the run-up to the 2004 presidential elections in the United States, newspapers in the Arab world have focused much attention on the campaign and the candidates. While this heightened attention to the American political process has included legitimate coverage of news events, expressions of ugly anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories about Jewish control of the Democratic and Republican parties - or of the U.S. government - have appeared in the Arab press with startling regularity.
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