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Brazilians voting to replace popular leader Silva (AP)

October 3rd, 2010

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, accompanied by his wife Marisa Leticia, center, poses for pictures after voting at a polling station during Brazil's general elections in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. Brazilians vote Sunday in national elections that could see front-running candidate Dilma Rousseff become the country's first female president, succeeding Lula, her popular ally and mentor. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)AP - A former Marxist guerrilla who was imprisoned and brutally tortured during Brazil’s long military dictatorship is the front-running candidate in Sunday’s presidential election, though she may be forced…

Police: Rocket hits Kabul on Afghan voting day (AP)

September 17th, 2010

An Afghan policeman stands guard near posters of candidates contesting in the upcoming Afghan parliamentary elections in Jalalabad, Afghanistan Thursday Sept. 16, 2010. Afghan officials and political figures sought to reassure wary Afghans on Thursday that it will be safe to vote in this weekend's parliamentary election despite an upswing in violence in recent months. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)AP - Police say a rocket struck Kabul about three hours before citizens planned to head to the polls to vote in Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections.


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Afghanistan: More voting stations to remain closed (AP)

September 8th, 2010

Afghan children look at a burning pile of 5 tons of expired medicines, on the outskirts of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/ Rahmat Gul)AP - Afghan election officials said Wednesday that scores of additional polling stations will have to remain closed during the Sept. 18 parliamentary vote because of the deteriorating security situation…

Poles to pick president in final round of voting (AP)

July 4th, 2010

Poles vote Sunday in an election forced by the air-crash death of conservative president Lech Kaczynski, in what looks to be a tight race between his bereaved twin and acting president Bronislaw Komorowski, pictured(AFP/Janek Skarzynski)AP - Poles vote Sunday in a presidential runoff election that pits the identical twin brother of the last head of state, who was killed in a plane crash, against…

Could a Referendum on Britain’s Voting System Kill the Coalition? (Time.com)

July 2nd, 2010

Time.com - Less than two months into Britain’s coalition government, it seems the Liberal Democrats are getting their way: next year the nation will hold a referendum on its voting…

Aquino seen as favorite as Filipinos begin voting (AP)

May 9th, 2010

Campaign posters dot the streets of Manila on Sunday May 9, 2010, the eve of the Philippines' first ever automated presidential elections. More than 50 million registered voters are expected to troop to polling places around the country to elect the highest position of the land from among nine candidates with Sen. Benigno 'Noynoy' Aquino III maintaining his double-digit lead in poll surveys over his closest rivals. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)AP - After a decade of corruption-tainted politics and untamed poverty, Filipinos stood in long lines Monday to elect a new leader, and surveys indicate they’re pinning their hopes on…

Hungary’s center-right leads voting, far-right 3rd (AP)

April 11th, 2010

Members of the controversial Hungarian Guard, wearing paramilitary-style uniforms, and supporters of Jobbik, Hungarian far-right wing party wait for the election results in their party election center in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, April 11, 2010. The latest polls expect the extremist Jobbik winning more than 10 percent of the vote in Sunday's parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)AP - Hungary’s center-right Fidesz party took a commanding lead in the first round of parliamentary elections on Sunday, while Jobbik, a far-right party with an anti-Gypsy and extreme nationalist…

Voting begins in Sudan’s historic elections (AP)

April 11th, 2010

Election officials post the list of eligible voters at a poling station set in a restaurant in Juba, southern Sudan, Sunday April 11, 2010. The people of southern Sudan will cast ballots in a national election for the first time in more than two decades as a three-day election begins Sunday. Despite the first-in-a-generation vote, most people are already looking past the elections to a vote next January considered far more significant: a referendum on independence that could signal the birth of a new African nation, if final negotiations with Khartoum over oil rights and the location of the border are worked out peacefully. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)AP - Voting has kicked off in Sudan’s first competitive elections in nearly a quarter century despite repeated opposition calls to delay the vote.


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Iraq early voting shattered by deadly blasts (AP)

March 4th, 2010

Iraqi security forces inspect the scene where a blast killed seven people in the Hurriya neighborhood about 500 yards (meters) from a polling station, in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 4, 2010. A string of blasts across the capital killed 17 people Thursday, authorities said, ratcheting up fear in an already tense city as many Iraqis cast early ballots ahead of Sunday's nationwide parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - A string of deadly blasts shattered an early round of voting in Iraq Thursday, killing 17 people and highlighting the fragile nature of the country’s security gains ahead…

Early voting begins ahead of March 7 Iraq election (AP)

March 4th, 2010

Iraqi relatives weep over the coffin of a victim of a suicide bomb which took place last night at the Shiite Muslim Abdel Karim al-Madani mosque in central Baquba, 60 kms northeast of Baghdad, September 2009. Three powerful co-ordinated suicide attacks in the central Iraq city of Baquba killed at least 33 people and wounded 55 on Wednesday, just days before nationwide parliamentary elections.(AFP/File/Str)AP - Early voting began Thursday morning in Iraq’s parliamentary election, which will elect a government that will guide the country as U.S. forces go home and help determine whether…

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