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Right-wing wins spell end of the Marin govt, perhaps best known for partying when she was, by her own virus rules, supposed to be quarantined.

A nationwide referendum to make possible an early election has failed to produce a legally binding result because the turnout was too low.

Incumbent Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro counted truckers among his most fervent supporters in Sunday’s presidential election.

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton urged her supporters to pay more attention to political races in state legislatures, warning that the future of the 2024 presidential election was at stake.

The German national election must be completely re-run in the city of Berlin as a result of multiple discrepancies, a court has ruled.

Japanese voters turned out in large numbers Sunday to help the nation’s conservative, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and a junior coalition party win enough seats to forge a two-thirds majority in the Upper House chamber of Japan’s national legislature, the Asahi Shimbun reported on Monday.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued a stay order Tuesday blocking the decision of a federal appeals court that required the counting of undated ballots in Pennsylvania elections.

Czechs voted in a parliamentary election for a final day Saturday, with polls suggesting Prime Minister Andrej Babis has a good chance.

The Trudeau minister who referred to “our brothers, the Taliban” four weeks ago has lost her Parliament seat.

Monday´s result means that currently all five Nordic countries now have left-leaning governments.

Joe Biden’s margins of victory in Arizona, Nevada, and Wisconsin were slimmer than totals of unaccounted-for ballots, Hans von Spakovsky said.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said he believes his future holds three options: prison, death, or victory in Brazil’s 2022 presidential election.

Moldovan voters vote this weekend in a election that could decide whether the former Soviet republic embraces pro-Western reforms.

Donald Trump responded to a series of comments that Bill Barr made to ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl for his book about the former president’s fight to challenge the results of the 2020 election.

Addis Ababa police confirmed on Tuesday that a U.S. citizen working as an election observer in Ethiopia was found dead in the capital city on Tuesday, Kenya’s EastAfrican newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The new Tory leader in the town said of historically strong-Labour council seats that had gone blue, “The red wall has crumbled”.

The Tories have had exactly eleven years and what have they achieved that’s remotely conservative in that time? Nada. Zip. Zilch.

An exit poll projected that the Socialists will win about 46% of the vote while the Democrats are expected to capture about 42%.

Marsha Blackburn said Democrats will use the Senate’s “Jim Crow 2021” hearing to cast voter-ID laws as “racist” to “make it easier to cheat.”

BERLIN (AP) — A leading figure in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right Union bloc has warned that there’s a growing “mood for change” in Germany, as surveys show voters losing faith in the long-time leader’s party six months before a national election.

Polling stations opened early Monday in a three day general election to allow people to vote safely during the coronavirus pandemic.

Ugandan soldiers have “surrounded” the home of opposition leader Bobi Wine, who wrote on Twitter on Monday that he and his wife are being held “captive” inside their house.

Opposition leader and presidential candidate Bobi Wine of Uganda accused soldiers of having “raided” his home and arrested his security guards on Monday morning during a live radio interview for a Kenyan radio station, Deutsche Welle (DW) reported on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) on Saturday to recalculate the state’s votes from the 2020 presidential election, according to audio of a phone call obtained by the Washington Post.

Ratcliffe may not sign a report to Congress if it doesn’t reflect a debate among intelligence analysts on China’s election influence efforts.

The electoral college on Monday voted in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to make Democrat former Vice President Joe Biden formally now the president-elect of the United States.

Trump fired Director of the CISA Chris Krebs in a tweet, after Krebs said the 2020 election was the most secure in the nation’s history.

David Plouffe, Democrat political strategist and former Obama campaign manager, said Thursday during a panel discussion on the 2020 election that the “most important people” in determining the direction of the Republican Party are Breitbart News and other conservative media outlets.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday said he expects there to be a second Trump administration when the outcome of the election is final.

President Donald Trump left the White House on Saturday afternoon for a round of golf after spending four days watching the election returns come in.

Thursday, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson opened his program, arguing that if the public lost confidence in America’s election processes, it would have consequences that would permeate throughout society.

Trump promised Thursday to level significant legal action to challenge elections in important swing states. “We think there’ll be a lot of litigation because we cannot have an election stolen like this,” he said.

Video from New York City shows a female protester spitting in a police officer’s face after screaming obscenities at him. The officer arrested the woman after she appeared to assault him by spitting in his face.

En anticipación de las elecciones presidenciales de Noviembre y considerando la creciente preocupación entre demócratas sobre su habilidad de conquistar el voto hispano, corresponsal de la frontera Ildefonso Ortíz y editora de noticias internacionales Frances Martel, de Breitbart News, analizaron la creciente popularidad de la ideología conservadora en su comunidad.

In anticipation of November’s presidential election and in light of growing concern among Democrats regarding their ability to court the Hispanic vote, Breitbart News border reporter Ildefonso Ortiz and international news editor Frances Martel discussed the increasing popularity of conservative ideology within their community.

Under Lithuania´s election system, the remaining 68 lawmakers will be elected in a proportional vote on Oct. 25.