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Election Rigged

Election Rigged

A rigged election is where the outcome of the election is either determined in advance or illegal means are used to give one of the candidates an unfair advantage.

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Grigory Yavlinsky, the founder of the liberal Yabloko party delivers a speech during their rally in central Moscow on December 17, 2011. About a thousand protestors gathered in Moscow's Bolotnaya square Saturday for a rally against election violations as Russia's Communist party prepared to nominate its leader to challenge Vladimir Putin in the presidential polls. The rally, organised by the liberal Yabloko party, which failed to gain seats in the next parliament, was the fourth in a series of protests against what is perceived as a rigged election on December 4.

Activists of pro-Kremlin youth movements wave Russian flag as they rally in Moscow late on December 6, 2011, to support the authorities and in response to recent opposition rallies. Russian police arrested dozens of activists, including opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, to stop a new protest alleging that elections were rigged in favour of Vladimir Putin's ruling party. The protests come after the parliamentary election of December 4 was won by Putin's United Russia with a sharply reduced majority but which the opposition said was marred by mass violations as the party sought to keep its dominance.

Members of the Ennahdha Islamist movement distribute electoral leaflets in front of the headquarters of the party on October 19, 2011 in Ariana near Tunis. Tunisia's first post-revolution polls risk being rigged, the Islamist party leading opinion polls warned Wednesday, vowing a fresh uprising if vote was marred by fraud.'There is a risk of the election results being manipulated,' Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi told a press conference in Tunis, warning: 'If there is manipulation, we will rejoin the forces and the guardians of the revolution which ousted Ben Ali and the first (interim) government. We are ready to oust up to ten governments if needed.'

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