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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AtulaSiriwardane" data-source="post: 6543149" data-attributes="member: 120286">[FONT=Arial,Helvetica] President reelected; rival alleges fraud[/FONT]   Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa swept to a second term in office Wednesday, but his chief rival vowed to challenge the results.   What had been expected to be a tight election between two architects of the government's victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels last year turned into a rout. Rajapaksa captured 57 percent of the vote; Sarath Fonseka won 40 percent.  But in a letter to the election commissioner, Fonseka accused Rajapaksa of using the state media to attack him, misappropriating public funds for his campaign and preventing displaced minority Tamils from voting.  The distraught election commissioner, Dayananda Dissanayake, appeared to agree with some of the allegations, and he pleaded to be allowed to resign.     -- Associated Press</blockquote>

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