A majority of Americans – including a growing number of Republicans and supporters of President Donald Trump – believe Russia will interfere with the upcoming midterm elections, according to a new poll released Tuesday.
Read moreVoters in Virginia are appealing a federal judge’s decision against a new election for a race that might have forced a 50-50 split in Virginia’s House of Delegates.
Read moreVoters who believe they were disenfranchised by election officials during Virginia’s 2017 general election appeared in federal court Friday afternoon in the hopes of getting a special election called for a still-contested state house race.
Read moreVirginia elections officials have set next Thursday as the day they will pick the winner in a bitterly contested race that could decide the balance of power in the Virginia House of Delegates.
Read moreVirginia Republican leaders say Democrats are trying to “litigate their way to victory” in a tied House race that could decide the balance of power in the House of Delegates.
Read moreFormer Catalan leader and separatist champion Carles Puigdemont called Friday for talks with his adversary, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy following a regional election in Catalonia that gave pro-independence parties a parliamentary majority.
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The race for mayor in Atlanta early Wednesday was too close to call, with one candidate declaring herself the city’s new leader and the other vowing to request a recount.
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Voters are heading to the polls on Tuesday to elect a new mayor after a heated campaign in which race, gender and city hall grudges all came into play.
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Kenya’s Supreme Court on Monday upheld President Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election in a repeat vote that the opposition boycotted while saying electoral reforms had not been made. The decision appeared to put an end to a months-long political drama never before seen in Africa that has left dozens dead.
Read moreDemocrat Ralph Northam has won Virginia’s hard-fought race for governor, a race widely seen as a referendum on the first 11 months of Donald Trump’s presidency.
Read moreLiberia’s Supreme Court on Monday halted the presidential election runoff, which had been scheduled for Tuesday, until the National Elections Commission investigates allegations of irregularities and fraud in the first round.
Read moreDemocrats are struggling to put the bitter 2016 election behind them as the party’s current chairman and his predecessor bicker over Hillary Clinton’s failed campaign, further exposing deep divisions two days before the closely watched Virginia governor’s race that could foretell Democratic prospects in 2018 and beyond.
Read moreA computer server crucial to a lawsuit claiming Georgia officials persisted in using antiquated voting technology despite fears the election could be hacked hacked, has been erased, a published report says.
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Clashes between Kenyan police and opposition supporters continued in several areas on Friday, a day after an opposition boycott of the repeat presidential election led to a sharply lower turnout. One man was shot dead, raising the death toll since Thursday’s vote to at least five.
Read moreRussian presidential hopeful Ksenia Sobchak urged President Vladimir Putin on Thursday to seek a full investigation of one of the country’s worst hostage crises, but stopped short of blaming him for the deadly raid that ended the standoff 15 years ago.
Read moreKenya’s Supreme Court plans to hear last-minute arguments that Thursday’s presidential election should be postponed because a free and fair vote cannot be guaranteed.
Read moreA 35-year-old Russian celebrity TV host who aspires to run for president in next March’s election said Tuesday that Crimea belongs to Ukraine despite its 2014 annexation by Moscow — a bold statement that has drawn angry responses from Russian officials and lawmakers.
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Fresh off a decisive election victory, Japan’s leader pledged Monday to tackle what he called Japan’s two national crises: the military threat from North Korea and an aging and shrinking population.
Read moreA presidential bid by a celebrity Russian TV host drew conflicting reaction from the country’s beleaguered opposition Thursday, with some accusing her of playing into the Kremlin’s hands and others welcoming her move.
Read moreHundreds of candidates took to the streets Tuesday as the official 12-day campaigning period for Japan’s Oct. 22 lower house election kicked off, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling party facing challenges from regrouped opposition forces.
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