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Voter List Fraud Exposed

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RANGOON — Reports are emerging from Arakan State and Shan State that voter lists for the Nov. 7 general election have been tampered with, setting the stage for massive ballot-stuffing on election day.

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Roundtable: Election Will Not Help Ethnic Groups

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In a roundtable discussion held at Chiang Mai University in Thailand, representatives of Burma's ethnic groups who are living in exile agreed

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Voters 'Urged to Cast Advance Ballots'

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Burmese voters are under increasing pressure from local authorities and members of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) to cast advance ballots before the upcoming election, according to a letter of complaint sent to the Election Commission by the chairman of the Democratic Party (Myanmar) (DPM).
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Poll a Showdown between Dead Strongman and Living One

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The ghost of military-ruled Burma’s first strongman, Ne Win, has returned to haunt the  current junta leader, Than Shwe, as the country heads for its first general election in two decades on Nov. 7.   
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Election Commission Video Misstates the Law

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Burma's Election Commission has begun an education campaign on voting less than two weeks before the election, featuring videos on state-run MRTV, but one of the messages does not conform to its own electoral law in defining “advance [early] voters.”

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Quotable

Nyan_win80"Once her [Aung San Suu Kyi's] sentence expires in November, and that notion is not disputed, it is our understanding that she will have served her sentence."
—Nyan Win, the foreign minister of Burma

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Will you vote or boycott the Nov. 7 election?
 

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