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The Utah attorney general’s office announced on election day that it would investigate voting complaints in Daggett County, where the estimated 2005 population was 943 but 947 voters were registered this year. Meanwhile, balloting for the mayoral race in Waldenburg, Arkansas (population 80), finished in a two-way tie at 18 votes each; Randy Wooten, who came in third with zero votes, said he knew he had voted for himself and would decide whether to file a protest. At a polling station in Lysowice, Poland, where elections were also held in November, an official became upset over alleged irregularities, gathered a pile of unused ballots, and locked herself in a toilet stall until police talked her out. And two weeks after finishing more than a million votes behind incumbent senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, Libertarian candidate Steve Osborn requested a recount of ten precincts.
Government in Action
News of the Weird reported in 1995 on Jukka Ammondt, a Finnish professor who performed the songs of Elvis Presley in Latin. He’s still at it, and according to an October BBC News report a surprising number of Finns share his fondness for the ancient language: the Finnish EU council Web site provides a Latin version of its newsletter, and a news broadcast in Latin on national radio–the only one in the world–draws about 75,000 listeners each week.
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