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Where'd you hear that?
Anyway, looks like I may have spoke too soon, the headline for this story has just changed to:
Italian election too close to call
Guardian
The result of Italy's general election remained too close to call tonight after projections showed that the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, could yet retain control of both houses of parliament.Projections based on 95% of pollster Nexus' voting sampling gave Mr Berlusconi's alliance 158 seats in the senate compared to 151 for the leftwing coalition led by former European commission president Romano Prodi.
However, the majority was not assured because of a margin of error of one to three percentage points, and six seats chosen by Italians voting abroad unaccounted for in the projections.
Meanwhile, projections based on 44% of the votes gave Mr Berlusconi's forces 49.9% of the chamber compared to 49.6% for Mr Prodi's alliance.Initial exit polls released immediately after voting ended today suggested that Mr Prodi had narrowly won the vote. Two surveys said Mr Prodi's coalition had gathered between 50% and 54% of the vote in both the upper and lower chambers of parliament, against 45% to 49% for Mr Berlusconi's centre-right grouping. The polls had an estimated 2% margin of error either way.
A separate telephone survey of 10,000 voters broadcast on Sky TG24 television gave a similar picture, estimating Mr Prodi's coalition had won 52% of the vote against Mr Berlusconi's 47%. This would give the challenger at least 340 seats in the 630-member lower house, the chamber of deputies, against 277 or more for the incumbent.
[I wonder if Diebold are active in Italy?]
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