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| Thousands of Yemenis convicted for voting fraud |
| 2009-03-30 |
| Courts in Yemen's western province have given 3-month suspended sentences to more than 14,500 people for multiple vote registration. Some 1,350 other registrants were acquitted of the multiple registration charge, the state-run Saba news agency reported on Sunday. The multiple registration violations were committed in 15 constituencies of the Amran province, about 50 kilometers north-west of the capital Sana'a, during a nationwide campaign to update the voter registry last August, Saba reported. The registry update was meant to pave the way for legislative elections that was initially scheduled for next April. However, on February 26, Yemen's House of Deputies (Parliament) approved a two-year postponement of the polls until 2011 in order to provide enough time to reform the country's electoral system. The agency further said that the duplicate registrants will be denied the right to cast their ballots in the 2011 elections. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Very severe sentences when compared to what ACORN and the dems was given. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-03-30 07:59 |