21.   International observers from the European Union and the Carter Center said they had no evidence of widespread electoral fraud.

22.   Its institutionalized corruption created a phantom economy and the governing party, known in Spanish as the PRI, sought to ensure its survival by perpetuating electoral fraud.

23.   Kostunica has ruled out a second round, saying that to participate would be to accept electoral fraud and betray the votes of the people.

24.   Later, there were widespread reports of electoral fraud, but Salinas kept the presidential sash.

25.   Mexico has a rich tradition of electoral fraud, but safeguards put in place by the autonomous federal agency organizing the election have greatly reduced the possibility for chicanery.

26.   President Rafsanjani, an ally of Khatami, has warned against electoral fraud, saying such a practice would undermine the clerical establishment.

27.   Public discontent over corruption, electoral fraud and a deep economic crisis is widespread.

28.   Remarkably, electoral fraud appears to have played only a peripheral role.

29.   Republican senators saw the bill as an opportunity to combat electoral fraud, and Democrats eventually agreed.

30.   Some noted that electoral fraud is a different threat to democratic rule than, say, a military coup, and some feared inciting violence in Peru.