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BRAZIL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AIRS HOMOPHOBIC RANT DURING TV DEBATE
The penultimate televised debate before next weekend's presidential election was overshadowed by the homophobic rant of one of the fringe candidates... READ MORE›
WHAT TIME ARE THE US ELECTION RESULTS IN THE UK AND WHAT IS THE TIMETABLE FOR THE NIGHT?
Fourteen states have new voting and registration rules in place for this election, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law... READ MORE›
SAUDI ELECTIONS ARE FIRST TO INCLUDE WOMEN
Just under 1.5 million of Saudi Arabia's roughly 28 million citizens have registered to vote, according to the election commission, and only 11 percent of them are women... READ MORE›
NINE STATES SHORTEN DEADLINE FOR VOTER REGISTRATION
Thomas Hicks, the chairman of the EAC, said in an interview that the commission cannot require the states to change their voter registration dates... READ MORE›
HONG KONG LAWMAKERS REJECT BEIJING POLL PLAN
Legislators in Hong Kong reject a controversial Beijing-backed election reform proposal, after a day of impassioned debate... READ MORE›
HILLARY CLINTON WINS FINAL HEAD-TO-HEAD AGAINST DONALD TRUMP, POLLS SAY
Presidential debate Hillary Clinton wins final head-to-head against Donald Trump, polls say... READ MORE›
BERNIE SANDERS CAN STILL BEAT HILLARY CLINTON
US election 2016 Why Hillary Clinton could lose the Democratic nomination to Bernie Sanders... READ MORE›
SAUDI WOMEN ALLOWED TO VOTE FOR FIRST TIME
On Saturday 12 December Saudi Arabia will go to the polls, and women in the country will be voting and standing for office for the first time... READ MORE›
BRITAINS BREXIT HOW BABY BOOMERS DEFEATED MILLENNIALS IN HISTORIC VOTE
According to data gathered by the British pollster YouGov on election day, a staggering 75 percent of people aged between 18 and 24 voted for Remain... READ MORE›
OBAMA CALLS FOR RESTORATION OF VOTING RIGHTS ACT
In March, Obama called the Voting RIghts Act one of the crowning achievements of our democracy... READ MORE›
HOW YOUR MP VOTED ON IRAQ STRIKES
Related Stories The government's motion proposing air strikes was carried by 524 votes to 43 after being backed by the Labour opposition... READ MORE›
TRIAL TO START IN LAWSUIT OVER NORTH CAROLINA'S VOTER-ID LAW
But the name on her North Carolina voter-registration card was Rosanell Johnson Eaton, a combination of her maiden and married names... READ MORE›
JEREMY CORBYN ALMOST CERTAIN TO BRUSH OFF OWEN SMITH CHALLENGE
The Labour leadership contest is a two horse race between incumbent leader Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith, the former Shadow Work and Pensions Minster... READ MORE›
OPPOSITION PARTY PROJECTS VICTORY IN BURMAS FIRST DEMOCRATIC ELECTION IN YEARS
In Burma's last democratic election in 1990, Suu Kyi and the NLD won an overwhelming majority, but the country's military dictators ignored the results... READ MORE›
NIGERIA POSTPONES PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TO FIGHT BOKO HARAM
Some 800 people were killed in riots in the mainly Muslim north after Buhari, a Muslim, lost 2011 elections to Jonathan, a Christian from the south... READ MORE›
BERNIE SANDERS SAYS HE WILL VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON
Bernie Sanders says he will vote for Hillary Clinton and work to stop Donald Trump... READ MORE›
VIRGINIA'S 'SOPHISTICATED JIM CROW' BANS FELONS FROM VOTING
Arthur Walker, a courteous 56-year-old, was one of the 13,000 people who obtained his voting rights after McAuliffe signed the order... READ MORE›
IN MILESTONE SAUDIS ELECT FIRST WOMEN TO COUNCILS
It was unclear late Sunday exactly how many women had won across the country, as results in many districts were announced locally... READ MORE›
IVORY COASTS PRESIDENT SECURES 2ND TERM IN LANDSLIDE
Voting hours had to be extended to 7 p.m... READ MORE›
ELECTIONS CALLED OFF IN 2 UKRAINE CITIES AMID FRAUD CHARGES
Late Saturday, with just 12 hours before polls were to open, local election officials said they had discovered printing flaws on the ballots and destroyed them... READ MORE›
WHEN IS US ELECTION 2016, WHAT IS THE TIMETABLE FOR THE NIGHT, AND WILL THERE BE EXIT POLLS?
Dixville Notch in New Hampshire is the Sunderland of America... READ MORE›
LIND IS THERE TOO MUCH DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
DOES the rise of Donald J. Trump mean there is too much democracy in America?... READ MORE›
CONGOLESE SEE NO END TO PRESIDENTS FINAL TERM
The 2011 presidential election was tainted by serious irregularities and voter fraud, according to American and European electoral observers... READ MORE›
HAITI POSTPONES PRESIDENTIAL RUNOFF AS VIOLENCE RISES
The current president's handpicked successor, Jovenel Moise, a banana exporter who was a virtual unknown in Haiti, officially came in first with 32.8 percent of the vote... READ MORE›
THOUSANDS OF U.S. VOTERS IN LIMBO AFTER KANSAS TOUGHENS ELECTION LAW
It's a complete mess, said Marge Ahrens, co-president of the nonpartisan Kansas League of Women Voters... READ MORE›
LEADING CANDIDATE FOR PERU PRESIDENCY BARRED FROM ELECTION OVER TECHNICAL ERROR
Peru's electoral tribunal has barred the second-placed presidential candidate Julio Guzman from the electoral race over a technical error in the registration of his candidacy... READ MORE›
IOWANS CLAIM INSTANCES WHEN SANDERS WAS SHORTED DELEGATES
But the Iowa Democratic Party's final results state that Hillary Clinton won one county delegate and Bernie Sanders received zero... READ MORE›
NATIVE AMERICANS MOVE TO FRONTLINES IN BATTLE OVER VOTING RIGHTS
In sparsely populated states such as North Dakota, with just 739,000 people, congressional elections have been decided by just a few thousand votes... READ MORE›
NORTH CAROLINA 'DISCRIMINATORY' VOTER ID LAW OVERTURNED
Last week, a federal appeals court ruled against Texas' strict voter identification law, saying it discriminated against minorities and must be softened before the November elections... READ MORE›
1.4M EXPATRIATES BARRED FROM VOTING AFTER COURT RULING
The lawyers representing Frank and Duong said they intend to seek leave to appeal Monday's ruling to the supreme court of Canada... READ MORE›