Elections

Haiti reached an unfortunate milestone on Tuesday morning, as the last ten senators in its parliament departed from their offices, leaving the country with no elected officials whatsoever. (Prime Minister Ariel Henry is still there, but he was not elected – he became “acting” leader of the government after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in July 2021.)

The group of three major Venezuelan ‘opposition’ parties that voted on Thursday to dissolve the nation’s legitimate interim government led by Juan Guaidó ratified its decision with a joint statement released via social media on Tuesday.

Flavio Dino, Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s nominee for the office of Minister of Justice and Public Security, on Sunday declared the peaceful protesters who have challenged the results of October’s presidential election by setting up camp near military bases are “incubators of terrorism.”

Donald Trump Jr. told Breitbart News on Sunday that while conservatives are winning on the issues, none of that matters if they’re not “playing the game at the ballot box” the way the Democrats do during elections.

One in ten Americans either have moved or are planning to move to another part of the country that better aligns with their beliefs, a recent Convention of States Action/Trafalgar Group survey found.

Chinese state media on Monday celebrated the party of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen faring poorly in local elections against candidates from the more Communist-friendly Kuomintang party (KMT), gloating that Tsai’s effort to capitalize on public apprehension over the threat from mainland China had “backfired.”

Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mourão told the national newspaper O Globo on Wednesday that President Jair Bolsonaro’s prolonged absence from Planalto, the presidential office, was due to a painful skin condition that makes it impossible for him to wear pants.

Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA) has won his election in the race for Pennsylvania’s Eighth Congressional District against Republican challenger Jim Bognet.

The issue of abortion has shown to be more popular than the Democrat candidates themselves in elections that have taken place following the U.S. Supreme Court overruling Roe v. Wade this summer.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) on Tuesday emerged the victor of her state’s gubernatorial election against Democrat opponent Jamie Smith.

Wes Moore, an author endorsed by Oprah Winfrey, won against Republican challenger Dan Cox in Tuesday’s Maryland gubernatorial race.

Polls in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, have been instructed to remain open until 10:00 p.m. on Tuesday night, following problems with voters’ ballots.

Social Democrats, an otherwise left-wing party known for their anti-mass migration stance, scored their largest election victory since 2001.

LaRose rolled out an initiative aimed at organizing state and local power to keep bad actors from damaging the election process.

The UK Guardian on Monday found ominous portents for New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s far-left Labor party in the latest round of local elections, which looked like a grassroots taxpayer revolt against the once-popular PM and her authoritarian policies – or a “lurch to the right in most major centers,” as the Guardian put it.

Officials in Clark County, Nevada, have begun sharing poll worker data after the RNC filed a lawsuit against the county for denying public records requests.

Mohamed Yunus al-Menfi, head of the Presidency Council that administers the internationally-recognized LIbyan government, told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that his country remains fractured a decade after former U.S. President Barack Obama’s invasion, with constant threats of factional violence.

The Solomon Islands Parliament on Thursday voted to postpone the next general election until late April 2024, roughly seven months behind schedule. Opposition leaders blasted the move as an unconstitutional power grab by pro-China Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, who claimed the delay was necessary because the island nation will host the Pacific Games in November 2023.

Supporters for election integrity scored a major victory Friday when the Arizona Supreme Court held that Proposition 210 — a ballot initiative to undo Arizona’s new election integrity law, financed with George Soros’s money — cannot be on the November ballot due to a lack of valid signatures.

President Jair Bolsonaro sat down for a contentious 40-minute conversation with one of Brazil’s most prominent establishment news programs, TV Globo’s Jornal Nacional, on Monday, at one point having to urge host William Bonner to “calm down” as he was accused of trying to stage a coup.

Kenya’s long, slow presidential election concluded on Monday, with anti-China candidate William Ruto declared the winner by 50.5 percent to 49 percent against Raila Odinga, chosen candidate of outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Early vote tallies in Kenya on Wednesday appeared to show a small lead for current Deputy President William Ruto, an outspoken critic of China’s growing influence in the country.

Reuters reported Monday that Democrat lawmakers have stalled a $100-million sale of Javelin anti-tank missiles to Brazil over worries about Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s “Trump-like questioning of voting integrity ahead of Brazil’s Oct. 2 election.”

The 2022 midterms are on pace to blow past the 2018 cycle’s record ad spending after nearly $3.6 billion has already been spent on political and issue ads so far, according to data provided to Axios by an analytics firm AdImpact.

A task force created by the Justice Department last year to investigate threats against election workers looked into over 1,000 contacts reported as “hostile” or “harassing.”

President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing the state of Arizona for its law requiring residents to prove their United States citizenship in order to vote in presidential elections.

Spain’s conservatives made huge gains in the traditionally left-wing Andalusian regional election Sunday, and the populists also made gains.

Out of a total population of just over ten million people, an estimated one million foreign-born residents of Sweden will be eligible to vote in the coming national elections to be held later this year.

Three candidates who campaigned as “strong conservative voices” were elected Tuesday to the Conway School District school board in Arkansas.

Democrats, months away from the midterm election where the GOP is favored to take back the House, are looking to pass bills to show they have been able to do something productive for the country while having total control of Washington, DC, as Republicans also look to put them on the record opposing hard-line bills.

Almost half of Republicans say Democrats are using mass immigration to alter the United States electorate by bringing in millions of new voters, an Associated Press (AP)-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds. 

People in Britain are voting Thursday in local elections that will decide the makeup of local authorities across the country.

Republican voters in Ohio have decided to send Gov. Mike DeWine to represent them in November’s general election as the governor has fended off two primary challengers, former Rep. Jim Renacci (R-OH) and Joe Blystone.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro traded barbs with actor Leonardo DiCaprio on Friday after DiCaprio urged young Brazilians to vote for a “healthy planet,” implicitly suggesting they vote against the incumbent president in the October general election. Bolsonaro retaliated by dismissing DiCaprio as a tool of “crooks who serve foreign special interests.”

Democrats are reportedly looking to raise $80 million to fund a three-year “a way-down-the-ballot” effort to find, train, and support candidates for local offices in charge of election administration.

Most Americans do not consider the Chinese coronavirus a top issue in the country anymore, as “fair elections” tops the list of voters’ concerns, a Change Research survey found.