By Greg Flakus Houston 07 November 2006 Voters in Texas will decide the winner in a four-way race for governor and at least one hotly contested congressional seat. Some candidates in the Lone Star state can be found outside voting stations asking fo

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By Amelia Shaw Port-au-Prince 18 February 2006 After days of turmoil and protests, the interim government of Haiti declared Rene Preval president on Thursday. Preval receives 51 percent of the votes,t

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By Challiss McDonough Cairo 26 March 2007 Egyptians are voting in a hastily arranged referendum on 34 controversial constitutional amendments. The ruling party says the changes will help build democracy and fight terrorism, but critics say they threa

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The speaker of Iraq's parliament has resigned, paving the way for lawmakers to authorize British and other non-U.S. foreign troops to remain in the country into 2009. Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani (C) and pol. leaders discuss the security

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Nigeria Counting Votes From Parlimentary Elections Election officials in Nigeria are counting votes from Saturday's parliamentary elections in which large numbers of people turned out to cast ballots despite instances of violence. Counting began as s

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布隆迪乡村民众大选前感受到压力 Far from Bujumbura,the Burundian countryside seems little affected by the months of political protests and unrest in the capital city. 距布琼布拉很远处, 首都城市几个月的政治抗议和骚乱

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By Joe Bavier Cotonou 04 March 2006 On the eve of presidential elections in Benin, prosperity is one of the key issues for the country's four million voters. Presidential candidate Yayi Boni seen duri

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By Jeffrey Young Washington 05 October 2007 While political parties in the United States other than the Democratic and Republican have fielded presidential candidates for years, they have never won the White House. VOA's Jeffrey Young explores how th

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Around election time you often hear that every vote counts, but it's rare that turns out to be literally true. However, Republicans have lost control of Virginia's statehouse after a recount in a race where the winning Democrat go

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Today the West Virginia House of Delegates holds the fate of that state's Supreme Court in its hands. Legislators are deciding whether or not to impeach all four remaining state Supreme Court justices. The allegations - lavish sp

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Democratic Party appears poised for a big change in the way it chooses its presidential nominees by reducing the role of party leaders known as superdelegates. The DNC has been meeting in Chicago this week. They'll vote on prop

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NOEL KING, HOST: Congressman Tom MacArthur, a Republican from New Jersey, ran in 2016 on a pledge to repeal the Affordable Care Act. That helped him win re-election in a district that President Trump also won. But following through on his promise cou

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Afghanistan's government-appointed Independent Election Commission has released what it calls final but preliminary results from the August 20 vote for president. The disputed returns show incumbent President Hamid Karzai with enough ballots to avoid

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By Jim Malone Washington 06 November 2006 A U.S. congressional election campaign dominated by the war in Iraq is drawing to a close, with opposition Democrats expecting to make gains when the vote takes place on Tuesday. VOA national correspondent J

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By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 05 February 2008 U.S. Democrats living in Indonesia cast the first votes in the Super Tuesday round of primary elections. Chad Bouchard reports from Jakarta, where Senator Barack Obama was the favored candidate. More than 100

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By Delia Robertson Polokwane, South Africa 18 December 2007 The National Conference of the African National Congress has elected Jacob Zuma as the new president of the organization. VOA's Delia Robertson reports from Polokwane. The announcement of Ja

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By Jim Fry Washington 18 April 2008 Pennsylvania, with more than 12 million residents, is next to vote on which candidate the Democratic Party should nominate for U.S. president. With its combination of rural communities, small cities and large metro

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By Paula Wolfson Pittsburgh 20 April 2008 All eyes in the U.S. presidential election campaign are on Pennsylvania, where voters will cast ballots Tuesday in the race for the Democratic Party nomination. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from southwestern P

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By Paula Wolfson Pittsburgh 22 April 2008 Voters in the state of Pennsylvania are going to the polls to show their preference for who should win the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from Pittsburgh that there is

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By Steve Herman New Delhi 17 September 2009 Afghanistan's president is denying there was any major fraud in last month's voting. Full, preliminary results show the incumbent, Hamid Karzai, capturing enough votes to avoid a runoff with his closest ch

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