In that election, more than half the votes cast were absentee ballots, the most vulnerable method to manipulate fraudulent votes.

Elections officials in Oregon say they take elaborate measures to guard against what some people fear is a risk of mail-in elections: fraudulent votes.

The main source for possibly fraudulent votes will be Kosovo and those who live or used to live there.

In this case even if there had been massive fraud (even 10 million fraudulent votes) it would not have changed the outcome.

A Montreal Gazette columnist later noted that no-one was certain if enough fraudulent votes had been cast to affect the outcome of the vote.

But Milton Obote, a former President from the 1960's, was elected again in what was widely seen as a fraudulent vote.

He alleged that Lambert had benefited from fraudulent votes in certain parishes as well as improper counting procedures.

The contract ratified by the fraudulent vote set the pattern for agreements with other municipal unions and helped Mr. Giuliani balance the city's budget.

It is also alleged that Mr Fujimori was elected President for the second time, in 2000, following a fraudulent vote.

If these fraudulent votes had not thus been cast and counted the Convention would have been purged of their presence.