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PDFFurther to yesterday’s posting on the Kyrgyzstan election, “massive ballot box stuffing, often by members of election commissions”, government officials pressuring voters, and a surprising number of absentee ballots were just a few of the poll’s irregularities and abuses identified by the Alliance of Civic Organizations, a partner of the National Democratic Institute.
The poll was conducted peacefully, but marred by serious violations during voting and vote counting on election day, according to the preliminary report of the European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO), a group of 19 civic organizations from 17 countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Several democracy activists were harassed and detained during the election, including Tolekan Izmailova, a grantee of the National Endowment for Democracy and former Reagan Fascell fellow.
