1.   But despite his legions of election workers decked out in blue T-shirts bearing his name and his control of the electoral machinery, it was a close call.

2.   Convention supporters, in contrast, had no electoral machinery to call on.

3.   His friends had to rig the electoral machinery.

4.   But opponents say Hun Sen has ensured he will win through systematic violence, including murder, intimidation, and packing the electoral machinery with his supporters.

5.   But the opposition has accused him of rigging the process by stacking the electoral machinery with his own supporters to ensure victory.

6.   Hun Sen is favored to win, since his supporters control the electoral machinery and the military.

7.   In elections under Suharto, Golkar won landslide victories by dominating the electoral machinery and coercing voters into shunning the other two officially approved parties.

8.   In elections under Suharto, Golkar won landslide victories by dominating the electoral machinery and coercing voters into shunning two other officially approved parties.

9.   In past elections, Suharto loyalists in the Golkar party influenced the electoral machinery.

10.   Still, suspicions abound that the ruling Golkar party will try to dominate the electoral machinery as it has in previous years.