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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah's suspended the national parliament and state legislatures for an unspecified period of time under the nation's new virus restrictions.
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    Malaysia's Coronavirus Lockdown Is Not A Coup, Prime Minister Says

    Jan 12, 2021
    In his declaration, Malaysia's king suspends the national parliament and state legislatures, delaying the country's general election.
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    Middle East
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) wears a protective face mask as he makes his way to attend the swearing-in ceremony of his new government, at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in May. The Knesset has dissolved and Israel is headed to n
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    Israel To Hold 4th Election In 2 Years As Coalition Fails To Pass Budget

    Dec 22, 2020
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing trial on corruption charges, has a difficult path to another term. He is Israel's longest-serving prime minister.
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    World
    Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's de facto leader, casts an early ballot for the Nov. 8 general election in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Oct. 29.
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    Suu Kyi's Party Expected To Win Myanmar Election Amid Minorities' Disenfranchisement

    Nov 07, 2020
    Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won in a 2015 landslide and is expected to win again. But with voting denied or canceled in some areas, more than a million voters are disenfranchised.
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    Nevada Judge To Decide GOP Bid To Stop Las Vegas Ballot Counting

    Oct 29, 2020

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge says he'll decide soon whether Las Vegas election officials can continue to process mail-in ballots and use a computer to verify voter signatures.

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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    Poll workers at the Miami-Dade County Elections Department deposit returned mail-in ballots into an official ballot drop box on primary election day on Aug. 18 in Doral, Fla.
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    How A Florida Elections Official Is Leaning On Creativity During A Complicated Year

    Sep 23, 2020
    Chris Anderson, supervisor of elections in Seminole County, Fla., talks about finding the solution to an equipment problem at Dollar Tree and other challenges of running an election during a pandemic.
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    Elections
    Opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya speaks at a news conference Monday in Minsk, Belarus, after the Belarusian presidential election.
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    Belarus Elections End With Landslide Winner — And Massive Protests

    Aug 10, 2020
    Five-term incumbent Alexander Lukashenko is declared the winner. Opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya rejects the results.
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    Newscast headlines

    Republicans Sue Clark County For Election-Related Records

    Jun 02, 2020

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Republican Party and Republican National Committee are suing Clark County officials for public records related to the June primary election.

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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    A man wearing a face mask to help protect against the spread of the new coronavirus has his temperature checked upon his arrival to cast his vote for parliamentary at a polling station in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday.
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    In South Korea, Success Fighting The Virus Brings Success At The Ballot Box

    Apr 16, 2020
    President Moon Jae-in's ruling Democratic Party won a landslide victory in legislative elections, an apparent national vote of approval for his government's handling of the pandemic.
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    World
    Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gets off his election campaign bus — emblazoned with the slogan "Get Brexit Done" — to visit Washington, England, on Monday. Britain goes to the polls on Thursday.
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    U.K. Election: Voters Hope To Decide Brexit's Fate And Their Country's Future

    Dec 11, 2019
    It will be the third general election since 2015. The stakes are high, voters are weary and the two main candidates for prime minister are polarizing.
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    Europe
    Alexei Navalny, one of Russia's most prominent opposition figures, appears in a Moscow courtroom on July 24. A longtime critic of President Vladimir Putin, he was recently arrested after calling for a mass protest against the exclusion of opposition cand
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    Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Hospitalized With 'Severe' Allergic Reaction

    Jul 28, 2019
    Navalny, a longtime critic of President Vladimir Putin, was recently arrested after calling for a mass protest in Moscow.
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    World
    Social Democratic leader Mette Frederiksen walks with supporters after the election results at Christiansborg Castle in Copenhagen early on Thursday.
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    In Denmark's Election, A Shift To The Left — Unlike In Much Of Europe

    Jun 07, 2019
    Denmark's Social Democrats made a strong showing in this week's elections — but voter support came in part because of the increasingly hard line the party has taken on immigration.
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    Goats and Soda
    India offers hundreds of symbols for political parties. The flashlight, "lady farmer" and lotus blossom (Prime Minister Modi's party symbol) appear on voting machine ballots for elections this spring. No party claimed the violin, the computer mouse and t
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    India's Ballot Has Some Really Offbeat Symbols For Its Political Parties

    May 14, 2019
    A flashlight, a flower and a "lady farmer" are a few of the symbols on the ballot. They were originally meant to help illiterate voters. New symbols reflect urbanized, modern India.
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    World
    Ekrem Imamoglu spoke to supporters last month after he was declared the winner of the Istanbul mayor's race. The country's election authority has now announced that the race must be re-run, according to state media.
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    Opposition Candidate's Victory Tossed Out In Istanbul Mayor's Race

    May 06, 2019
    Turkish election authorities have cancelled a major election victory for the country's main opposition party, according to Turkish state media. The Istanbul mayor's race will be re-run on June 23.
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    World
    Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy walks backstage during the filming of the <em>League of Laughter</em> comedy show on March 19 in Kiev, Ukraine.
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    A Comedian Plays Ukraine's President On TV. Will He Become One In Real Life?

    Mar 30, 2019
    Volodymyr Zelenskiy's only connection to politics is the role he plays in a hit TV series about a man who accidentally becomes Ukraine's president. He's leading in polls ahead of Sunday's elections.
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    Africa
    Protesters clashed with police in the streets of Algiers, Algeria, during a demonstration denouncing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term on Friday.
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    Protests Against Algerian President's Bid For Fifth Term End In Chaos

    Mar 01, 2019
    Throngs of people flooded the streets of the North African country's cities on Friday to demand the ailing president withdraw from the April 18 election. Clashes with police developed in Algiers.
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    World
    Sanjay Sathe, 44, grows onions on about an acre of land on a roadside in India's Maharashtra state. His family farm prospered under his grandfather and father, but now he has to raise goats because the price of onions keeps falling.
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    'I Rue The Day We Ever Became Farmers': In Rural India, A Struggle To Survive

    Feb 12, 2019
    "The farmer dies feeding this country, but no one fights for the farmer," says a woman whose son, a farmer, died by suicide. He was $40,000 in debt. Her husband died of a heart attack days later.
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    John L. Smith On Changing The State's Election Schedule

    Dec 11, 2018

    New leaders in Carson City mean new ideas are starting to percolate.

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    Europe
    People hold Spanish flags during a demonstration called by the far-right Vox Party, over the weekend in Madrid. On Sunday, the once-derided party claimed 12 seats Andalusia's regional elections.
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    Anti-Immigrant Party Breaks Socialist Stronghold In Spain

    Dec 03, 2018
    The Vox Party had remained on the fringes since its founding four years ago but on Sunday, its right-wing anti-immigration platform lead to a 12-seat victory that could shift the balance of power.
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    Politics
    Volunteer observers keep watch Friday as election workers at tables examine ballots during a hand recount of votes cast in Palm Beach County for the U.S. Senate race.
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    After Nearly 2 Weeks and 2 Recounts, Florida Senate Race Ends

    Nov 18, 2018
    Nearly two weeks after Election Day, a statewide recount showed that Republican Gov. Rick Scott continued to hold the lead in the Senate race against incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson.
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    Analysis
    President Trump arrives at a campaign rally Monday in Fort Wayne, Ind.
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    Democratic Control Of The House Is Trouble For Trump, And 6 Other Election Takeaways

    Nov 07, 2018
    The biggest story of the night is that Democrats took back the House. That will stop President Trump's agenda in its tracks unless he compromises with the other side.
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    Politics
    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, speaking to reporters outside the U.S. Supreme in 2016. Paxton's office has made voter fraud a major focus of its efforts even though election experts say incidences of fraud are very rare.
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    Ahead Of The 2018 Election, Texas AG Ramps Up Voter Fraud Prosecutions

    Oct 28, 2018
    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been charging a record number of people with so-called "voter fraud" in the state, which is something voting experts say is extremely rare.
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    Politics
    Women gather for a rally and march at Grant Park on Saturday in Chicago to urge voter turnout ahead of the midterm elections.
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    Voter Turnout Could Hit 50-Year Record For Midterm Elections

    Oct 18, 2018
    Half of eligible voters might go to the polls this fall, which would be the highest turnout level in a midterm election since the mid-1960s, another time of cultural and social upheaval.
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    KNPR's State of Nevada
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    Rep. Jacky Rosen On Why She Wants Sen. Dean Heller's Job

    Oct 10, 2018

    They’re calling it the race that will decide the fate of the U.S. Senate. 

    GOP incumbent Dean Heller will face Democrat Jacky Rosen during the 2018 Midterm elections. 

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    Politics
    A sample of a deceptive social media image shared by Russian operatives during 2016 designed to discourage voters from casting a ballot.
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    California Launches New Effort To Fight Election Disinformation

    Sep 23, 2018
    The state's new Office of Elections Cybersecurity will focus on combating social media campaigns that try to confuse voters or discourage them from casting ballots.
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    World
    Two "democracy ambassadors" for a get-out-the-vote organization started by Ibrahim Taha chat with boys in Malmö's Holma neighborhood. "The Sweden Democrats have a view that you can only be black or white," Taha says. "And reality is not like that. You c
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    Ahead Of Elections, A Swedish City Reflects The Country's Ambivalence On Immigration

    Sep 07, 2018
    In Malmö, where roughly a third of the city's residents were born outside Sweden, voters are gearing up for Sunday's national election — which will be dominated by immigration issues.
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