2021 Syrian presidential election (incumbent president since 2000, Bashar al-Assad, won by over 95% votes, election widely condemned by international community as fraudulent even before the voting took place)
1957 Canadian federal election - The election of the Liberal candidate in Yukon was contested by the losing Tory candidate. After a trial before the Yukon Territorial Court, that court voided the election, holding that enough ineligible people had been permitted to vote to affect the outcome, though the court noted that it was not the fault of the Liberal candidate that these irregularities had occurred. The Tory, Erik Nielsen, won the by-election on December 16, 1957.,[24][25]
2006 Mexican general election - The election was plagued by irregularities, and President Vicente Fox was accused of using government resources to favor the PAN candidate Felipe Calderón over the initially heavily favored PRD candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The official election results gave Calderón a very narrow victory with 35.89% of the votes, with López Obrador in second place with 35,31% of the votes. López Obrador refused to recognize the results and claimed victory for himself; a political crisis ensued, and there were nationwide protests calling for a complete recount of the votes, which was rejected by the Federal Electoral Tribunal. In spite of the protests, Calderón took office as president on 1 December; only ten days later he declared war on the drug cartels, thus beginning the Mexican Drug War, a move widely perceived to have been an extraordinary step to gain popular legitimacy after the chaotic electoral process.
2000 United States presidential election - After a close election in which the winner was unclear, the Republican candidate George W. Bush won Florida by such a slim margin that a recount of the votes was triggered under Florida state law, beginning a series of legal battles between Bush and the Democratic candidate Al Gore and considerable public controversy. After the completion of a machine recount, the Florida Supreme Court ordered a manual recount due to continued concerns over the validity of the election. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court, which halted the recount in the Bush v. Gore and Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board decisions, which Bush to win Florida by a 0.009 percent margin and the electoral vote.
2004 Washington gubernatorial election - After a close election in which the Republican candidate Dino Rossi was declared the winner in the initial election and the machine count, the Democratic candidate Christine Gregoire was declared the winner after a manual recount. Rossi made an unsuccessful legal challenge to the results, and did not officially concede the election for seven months.
2016 United States presidential election - The election was widely characterized as divisive and negative and was plagued by scandals such as the Republican candidate Donald Trump's alleged sexual misconduct and the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's alleged improper use of an email server. No Russian citizen accused of interfering in the election in the form of online influencing from a St. Petersburg-based troll farm has been formally charged, and as result no Court will have the opportunity to review evidence to support or dispute accusations of Russian interference that adhere to the standards of the United States Judicial System for proving guilt. Trump ultimately won an upset victory in the Electoral College despite Clinton's victory in the popular vote, and characterized the Russian interference as a "hoax" and "fake news" despite the conclusions of the U.S. intelligence community to the contrary. In 2016, the FBI initiated the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the Russian meddling in the election and many suspicious[36][37]links between Trump associates and Russian officials and spies, and President Trump dismissed FBI Director James Comey due to his continuation of the investigation. Due to allegations of collusion with the Russian government, Deputy Attorney GeneralRod Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller as Special Counsel to lead an investigation. Although the investigation resulted in 34 indictments and eight criminal convictions, it refrained from making a judgment about whether Trump could be criminally charged for obstruction of justice due to his conduct during the investigation. In 2020 US Attorney General William Barr initiated a criminal investigation of the Rosenstein/Mueller collusion investigation in response to its questionable basis and procedures. In 2024, Donald Trump was convicted of felony charges of business record falsification in a criminal conspiracy to influence the 2016 election, via a cover-up of the Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal.[38]
2020 Wisconsin Democratic primary - During the COVID-19 pandemic, Tony Evers, Wisconsin Governor moved to delay the primary election because voters were expected to shelter in place to minimize the spread of the virus. The Wisconsin Supreme Court stepped in and ruled that this was not allowed, while the U.S. Supreme Court also ruled 5-4 that the election would take place as scheduled, disregarding the fact that only five of the 180 polling places would be open due to a lack of poll workers due to the coronavirus pandemic. President Donald Trump stated, "The things they had in there [the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act] were crazy. They had things — levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again."
2020 United States presidential election — The election was heavily reliant on mail-in ballots due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Republican Donald Trump repeatedly alleged that mail-in ballots would allow the Democratic Party to commit electoral fraud. Snopes immediately debunked the claim.[39][40] Trump's critics accused him of blocking funding to the U.S. Postal Service to sabotage the election, although Postmaster GeneralLouis DeJoy later agreed to delay certain changes until after the election.[41] Trump also suggested that he would not accept the results if he lost and even refused to commit to a peaceful transition.[42][43] A unanimous vote of the U.S. Senate, and the U.S. Armed Forces announced their commitment to a peaceful transition, while Trump's comments were heavily criticized.[44][42] International observers from OSCE described the elections as well-managed, but said that baseless allegations of systematic deficiencies, made by the incumbent President, harm public trust in democratic institutions.[45] Various allegations of fraud relating to election processes in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Arizona were also debunked by independent fact-checking organizations like FactCheck.org and Snopes.[46][47][48][49][50] Trump ultimately lost the election to Joe Biden, but refused to concede, continued to repeat allegations of voter fraud, and obstructed the presidential transition.[51] Despite there being no evidence for voter fraud, there were hundreds of affidavits across the country alleging that there was voter fraud and voter irregularities.[52][53][54][55] On January 6, 2021, a mob breached the police lines and invaded the U.S. Capitol, delaying the counting of the electoral votes by several hours, and resulting in the shooting death of a protester. Trump was subsequently impeached by the House due to his being accused of inciting the insurrection; he was later acquitted of these charges by the United States Senate.
2022 Arizona gubernatorial election — Democratic candidate Katie Hobbs beat Republican opponent Kari Lake by a margin of just over 0.6% of total votes cast. During the campaign, Hobbs declined to debate Lake in a move that was criticized by Republicans and members of the press. Hobbs served as Secretary of State during the election (meaning she was in charge of administering the election), leading to conflict of interest allegations. On election day, most polls predicated Lake would win the election. When asked if she would accept the election results in the event she lost, Lake refused to answer on multiple occasions. In Maricopa County (where over 60% of Arizona's population resides), an issue occurred across multiple precincts in which ballots were printed too lightly to be read by electronic tabulators. This issue, combined with a high percentage of mail-in ballots and slower than normal processing time, meant that results for the election would not be confirmed until a week after election day. When Hobbs was declared the winner, Lake refused to concede the election. Lake ultimately filed several lawsuits alleging voter suppression and voter fraud. All lawsuits were dismissed or ruled against Lake.
Ferdinand Marcos, who had been fairly elected as President of the Philippines in 1965, remained in power and became increasingly dictatorial and kleptocratic, as he succeeded in marginalizing dissent and opposition through allegedly-rigged elections.
Many dictatorships and former Warsaw Pact nations hold show elections in which results predictably show that nearly 100% of all eligible voters vote and that nearly 100% of those eligible voters vote for the prescribed or often only list of candidates for office or for referendums that favour the party in power, irrespective of economic conditions and the cruelties of the government.
It was widely held in the Ukrainian media that the Ukrainian election of 2004 was also marked by ballot rigging and voter intimidation on all sides.[61]
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