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Adrian Chavez making no progress with protesters Some Mexicans are upset that charges are being brought against a leftist mayor:Several small street protests broke out around Mexico City on Sunday in support of the capital’s leftist mayor, a front-runner for the 2006 presidential election who could be jailed within days on minor charges.

After a record voter turnout on November 2nd of last year, John F.

Protesting Against Corruption in Mongolia More Rumblings from Mongolia:Protestors marched outside of the parliament building in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, Thursday April 7, 2005.

Fears and concerns are mounting in Africa after the Zimbabwe election last week: EVEN if half the allegations made by the MDC of the 31 March elections not being free and fair are true, Zimbabweans must know they are entering a very dangerous period of political instability.The MDC Opposition Party is claiming it won 91 seats instead of the announced 41: The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, has demanded fresh elections under a new constitution saying voting can never be free and fair under the current legislative framework.The MDC said on Sunday it had won 94 seats, rather than the 41 announced by the electoral commission.”As long as we run elections under the same set of conditions, there is no way that elections will be free and fair,” MDC presidential spokesperson William Bango said.”For a new constitutional dispensation to emerge, we require discussions that would get us to arrive at the type of laws that can govern a free and fair playing field.

The key to the election today may be the number of ‘zombie’ voters that end up casting their vote:Zimbabweans waited in long lines on March 31 to vote in their country’s sixth parliamentary election, knowing that two factors beyond their control could decide the nation’s fate – the so-called “zombie vote” and President Robert Mugabe’s personal power to appoint one in every five members of parliament without an electoral test.Some 5.7 million adults in a total population of 11.5 million people – excluding 3.5 million political and economic refugees outside Zimbabwe’s borders – are registered to vote.

“Pro-Opposition” officials fired before elections:The Zimbabwean government has reportedly dismissed over one thousand polling officers and accredited election monitors, ahead of Thursday’s parliamentary elections, on allegations that they support the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).US blasts “Food for Vote”:The United State denounced what it called the “despicable” practice by Zimbabwe’s ruling party of using food supplies to win over voters in this week’s parliamentary elections.

Not a Good Sign for President AkayevOpposition Protests Reached the Capital of Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan today and the event got ugly:A peaceful anti-government demonstration in the capital, Bishkek, against flawed parliamentary elections was violently dispersed by Kyrgyz riot police on Wednesday.

President Akayev stated today that he did not intend to use force against the demonstrators.

“Bishkek or Bust”* Protesters Promise to Mount a Ride to the CapitalTwo hundred and fifty followers of Akylbek Zhaparov who seized the administration of the Kochkor district (Naryn region of Kyrgyzstan) are prepared to mount their horses and ride to Bishkek.

Protesters Take Hostages as Tensions Rise Kyrgyzstan protesters continue to alledge widespread abuses after the second round of voting in the mountainous country:Governors Held Hostage: Protesters held a regional and a district governor hostage for a second day in western Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday, and thousands rallied in the south to protest alleged election fraud and demand that President Askar Akayev step down.

News is starting to trickle in from the remote Kyrgyzstan about results from the second round of parliamentary voting that was held yesterday.

LGF has a post up with pictures of a riot that breaks out at Hebron University during a Student Council Election Rally.

Government Officials on Steps of Parliament in Bishkek.

Seized Jalabad Government Building Kyrgyzstan Government officials tend to downplay the intensity of the Opposition demonstrations.

Protesters are now setting up a “Yurt City” at one of the demonstration sites in Kyrgyzstan:More people are reportedly making their way to the protests that have been under way in Kyrgyzstan for several days now……In the protests, demonstrators have occupied government buildings in two places- one in the capital of the southern oblast of Jalal-Abad, the other in the southern oblast of Osh.

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Protesters in the impoverished and remote Kyrgyzstan look to the West to support them in their own “velvet revolution”.

With democracy breaking out in the region, the Saudis thought they might give it a go until a Shia candidate, Hussain AbdulRahman Al-Khamis, won his district.

Demonstrations are growing by the day in Kyrgyzstan.

Today is Wictory Wednesday and The Blogs for Bush Band of Brothers is promoting the election of Mark Kennedy for the Senate Seat in Minnesota.

The discussion as to whether Bush is heir to Churchill has been passed around the blogs and editorial pages this past week.

“A Fair Vote is a Bright Future” The “Lemon Revolution” now appears to be in progress.

Preliminary election results are coming out of Kyrgyzstan:28 candidates, including 20 independent candidates, have scored a landslide victory in 75 election districts already during the first round.

Gregoire pushed over the top by illegal felon voters:Republicans dissatisfied with the balloting that installed Democrat Gov.

The Iraqi Election Results are in and the best review comes again from the inside.

It took the good Georgian Jimmah Carter 10 days to regain composure after the historic Iraq Elections.

During the election season last fall one of the best blogs was Daily Recycler because they would post the video clips of the news that you wanted to see again and again or news you may have missed.

Remember ‘Hoseshoe Lake’ in southern Illinois across the river from St.

“45 Iraqis died on election day” is what is being repeated in the MSM.

The Associated Press came out with a “typical” piece of biased journalism today.

Waiting for the Polls to Open From the Madison County Record: They call it ‘bicycling.’ It’s East St.

The Post Dispatch has the latest on the voter fraud and attempted murder charges filed last week against East St.

So, maybe you were wondering about the Boarding House owned by Democratic Committeeman Oliver Hamilton that keeps being mentioned in the East St.

This seems to be a tactic that works quite well.