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A Vote of Confidence for Philippine Elections? (Time.com)

April 26th, 2010

Time.com - How overseas voters could help ensure next month’s Philippine presidential elections go smoothly

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Vote monitors: Sudan elections short of standards (AP)

April 17th, 2010

Southern Sudanese election observers and political party agents witness the start of ballot counting in Juba, Friday, April 16, 2010. Under watchful eyes, polling officials display and count each individual ballot. Sudan's first multiparty presidential, parliamentary and local elections which began last Sunday, were marred by allegations of fraud and boycotts, and have now raised concerns of new unrest. (AP Photo/ Pete Muller)AP - International monitors said Saturday that Sudan’s first multiparty elections in more than two decades failed to meet international standards, an assessment that diminishes hopes the voting would set the…

Sri Lankans vote in parliamentary elections (AP)

April 8th, 2010

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa leaves after casting his vote for parliamentary elections in his home town village Madamulana, 225 kilometers (140 miles) from south of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, April 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)AP - Sri Lankans faced a clear choice in parliamentary elections Thursday between further strengthening the president’s hand in deciding the nation’s postwar fate or trying to check his power.


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Afghan president blames foreigners for vote fraud (AP)

April 1st, 2010

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, second right, shakes hands with an Election Commission official during his visit to the Afghan Election Commission office in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, April 1, 2010. Karzai told election workers there had been 'vast fraud' in the Aug. 20 ballot but that it was not committed by Afghans. (AP Photo/S. Sabawoon, Pool)AP - President Hamid Karzai lashed out at the U.N. and international community Thursday, accusing them of interfering in last year’s fraud-tarnished presidential election and seeking to weaken his authority after…

Iraqi vote winner hopes to form government soon (AP)

March 27th, 2010

Supporters of former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, seen in the poster, take to the streets after the results released by Iraq's election commission show a secular challenger has beaten the country's prime minister in parliamentary elections, positioning him to be the first to try to form a government in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 26, 2010. The narrow margin — 91 seats for Ayad Allawi's coalition to 89 for al-Maliki's alliance — sets the stage for months of political wrangling as the veterans of Iraq's young democracy attempt to win support for a majority coalition. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - The top vote-getter in Iraq’s parliamentary elections says he wants to negotiate with all parties to form a government that can restore Iraq’s place in the Arab and…

Iraq to release full results from March 7 vote (AP)

March 26th, 2010

Supporters of Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki chant anti-Baathist slogans at a protest in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 26, 2010. Hundreds of residents protested near the Baghdad provincial council demanding a manual recount of the elections. The banners in Arabic read, 'No for return the Baath party and No for fraud.' (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Iraq’s electoral commission insisted it will announce full election results as scheduled Friday, despite calls for a delay amid fears of violence over the tight race.


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French pres. shakes up Cabinet after vote losses (AP)

March 22nd, 2010

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, centre left, and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy leave the polling station after casting their votes for the second round of the regional elections, in Paris, Sunday, March 21, 2010. President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative party was bracing for a massive setback Sunday as frustrated French voters cast ballots in regional run-off elections likely to favor the opposition left and to set the stage for the 2012 presidential race. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy dismissed his labor minister and reshuffled several other Cabinet posts Monday after leftists walloped his conservatives in France’s regional elections — a defeat that exposed…

French left beats Sarkozy’s party in regional vote (AP)

March 21st, 2010

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, centre left, and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy leave the polling station after casting their votes for the second round of the regional elections, in Paris, Sunday, March 21, 2010. President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative party was bracing for a massive setback Sunday as frustrated French voters cast ballots in regional run-off elections likely to favor the opposition left and to set the stage for the 2012 presidential race. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - The long-flailing French left made a big-time comeback Sunday, crushing Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservatives in regional elections colored by voters’ economic worries — and informally kicking off the 2012…

Partial results show French left wins regions vote (AP)

March 21st, 2010

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, centre left, and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy leave the polling station after casting their votes for the second round of the regional elections, in Paris, Sunday, March 21, 2010. President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative party was bracing for a massive setback Sunday as frustrated French voters cast ballots in regional run-off elections likely to favor the opposition left and to set the stage for the 2012 presidential race. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - France’s opposition Socialists and their allies handily defeated President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservatives in regional elections Sunday, according to partial official results after a vote that helps set the…

Chaos marks Iraq election vote tally (AP)

March 18th, 2010

Iraqi journalists look at screens Tuesday, March 16, 2010, showing the partial preliminary results in Baghdad, Iraq. Dozens of Iraqi journalists waited hours for results in Iraq's election. What they got Thursday, March 18, 2010 was a single CD containing the information and instructions to make copies themselves, prompting a mad dash to the nearest Internet cafe where they paid $1.20 each to find out who was ahead in the ballot count. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Dozens of Iraqi journalists waited hours for results in Iraq’s election. What they finally got was a single CD containing all the information and instructions to make copies…

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