Elections

India’s election authority voided the results of the parliamentary vote from 11 locations in the troubled state of Manipur on Monday and held a do-over with heavy security, in response to complaints that armed men interfered with voting and destroyed some of the balloting machines.

South Africa’s top election court on Tuesday overturned an election commission ban on former President Jacob Zuma, clearing the way for Zuma to run in the May 29 election despite having been jailed in 2021 for refusing to testify in a corruption probe.

Exit polls in South Korea’s midterm elections on Wednesday predicted a landslide win for the left-wing Democratic Party (DP) and its “sister party,” the Democratic United Party (DUP).

Senegal’s outspoken and combative opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was disqualified from running for president in the March 24 presidential election, but he had the last laugh on Thursday when his former lieutenant Bassirou Diomaye Faye appointed him as prime minister. Faye ran in Sonko’s place and won a resounding victory with over 54 percent of the vote.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his AKP suffered their worst defeat in more than twenty years in local elections.

Israel is a “very robust democracy” and does not need any kind of “foreign intervention in dealing with our own leaders,” according to Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum.

Indonesia takes some pride in holding the world’s largest single-day election, but the toll this takes on overworked election staffers is severe.

As the dust settled from Pakistan’s highly contentious elections, presumptive prime ministerial candidate Nawaz Sharif stepped aside in favor of his younger brother Shehbaz, the former PM who is now likely to receive another term – even though the populist party of his predecessor Imran Khan won the most seats.

Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto claimed victory in the presidential election on Thursday with 55 percent of the vote.

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), the political party of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, held massive protests over the weekend to denounce “rigging in the general election” held last week.

Early results in Pakistan’s elections show former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party taking the lead.

Pakistan’s elections were marked by a government shutdown of mobile Internet services and bloody terrorist attacks.

Two bombings targeting a political party headquarters and a local government office killed at least 28 people in Balochistan, Pakistan, on Wednesday – the day before a massive nationwide election preceded by outsized political violence and what some have branded state persecution of opposition parties.

The parliament of Senegal voted on Tuesday to delay the February 25 presidential election until December 15, sparking violent protests across the country.

India’s stock market is soaring as investors seek an alternative to China’s faltering economy and oppressive policies.

Just one day after receiving a ten-year sentence for mishandling documents, former Pakistani PM Imran Khan got 14 years for corruption.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol told attendees at a major defense council meeting on Wednesday that the “irrational” communist regime North Korea would likely execute “many provocations aimed at interfering in our elections,” scheduled for April.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was sentenced to another ten years in prison for mishandling security documents.

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro ordered the activation on Tuesday of a security operation branded “Bolivarian Fury.”

The government of Pakistan banned former Prime Minister Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (PTI) from using its distinctive cricket bat logo on Monday, which effectively means PTI candidates cannot appear on ballots.

Hu Xijin, the ultra-nationalist former editor of China’s state-run Global Times and now an editorialist, said in Monday’s edition of his Hu Says video blog that Taiwan and the United States could provoke a war by pushing for Taiwanese independence under newly elected President William Lai Ching-te.

The Chinese Communist government sent a threatening message to Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., on Tuesday, warning that he was “playing with fire” by congratulating William Lai Ching-te for winning Taiwan’s presidential election over the weekend.

Chinese officials and state media predictably set their hair on fire after Lai Ching-te won Taiwan’s presidential election on Saturday, extending the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) hold on power to an unprecedented third term.

The Chinese Defense Ministry on Friday sought to bully Taiwanese voters by warning it will “smash any Taiwan independence plots,” implicitly threatening the Taiwanese if they make the “wrong” choice by voting for Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate William Lai Ching-te on Saturday.

China uses everything from disinformation to “gray zone” psychological warfare and outright intimidation to influence Taiwan’s election.

Left-wing activists working to put abortion on the ballot this year in Florida have surpassed the number of signatures required by the state to move forward, data from the Florida Division of Elections shows.

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday mocked Taiwanese and U.S. media for being concerned about “harmless weather balloons flying over the island.” 

The Taiwanese Defense Ministry tracked four Chinese balloons passing over the Taiwan Strait on Monday and Tuesday. Three of the balloons passed over the center of Taiwan Island, coming fairly close to the airbase at Ching Chuan Kang before disappearing.

The Chinese regime-run Global Times newspaper lamented the expected wave of democratic elections around the world in 2024 as a source of “uncertainty” on Monday, warning that “the rise of far-right politics” could damage the advancement of “globalism.”

A Republican will serve as mayor of Charleston for the first time in nearly 150 years after voters elected William Cogswell Tuesday.

Biden is trailing behind Trump with likely voters in Michigan less than a year out from the 2024 election. 

Planned Parenthood is looking to expand its abortion business in Ohio after voters codified the supposed “right” to kill the unborn.

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) is warning against a ballot initiative that would give voters the option to enshrine the supposed “right” to abortion in the state Constitution.

Georgia and Washington authorities are investigating “suspicious” envelopes sent to election offices Wednesday.

MA State Rep. Peter Durant scored a victory Tuesday night in a special election for a state Senate seat in the Worcester-Hampshire district.

A judge allowed two polling locations in Louisville, Kentucky, to stay open longer on Tuesday after reported disruptions from a gas leak and a police pursuit.