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Congress questioning SIR in Bihar, attacking EC to win polls with votes of illegal immigrants: BJP
The Economic Times
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August 18, 2025
The BJP on Monday slammed the Opposition for disrupting Parliament business, accusing the Congress of raising questions on the voter list revision in Bihar and levelling baseless allegations against the Election Commission to protect illegal...
Tanzania envisions a civilized General Elections campaign
Daily News Tanzania
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August 18, 2025
DAR ES SALAAM: The Registrar of Political Parties, Justice Francis Mutungi, has called on political party leaders in Tanzania to ensure that campaigns for the 2025 General Election are conducted peacefully in a civilized manner, without the use of...
More space, more security, better elections: Why St. Joseph moved to new town hall
Hudson Star Observer - Wisconsin
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After nearly 50 years of cramped quarters, overfilled cabinets and crowded elections at the old town hall, elected officials and municipal staff from the Town of St. Joseph recently moved into a new facility, upgrading in total space and enhancing...
Politicians, parties buying votes are criminals, same as killers, robbers, kidnappers: Obi
Peoples Gazette
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August 18, 2025
Peter Obi has appealed to Nigerians to register and collect their Permanent Voter Cards in order to prevent looters and corrupt leaders from leading the country. In a statement on Monday urging action, Mr Obi described the PVC as a tool to fight...
Yiaga Africa Faults By-Elections Results, Seeks Reforms
Channels TV
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August 18, 2025
Election observer group Yiaga Africa has said that Nigeria must move beyond holding “relatively peaceful” elections to processes that inspire trust and confidence in the electoral system. Speaking on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on...
Bolivia the latest South American country to lurch right as fed-up voters reject ruling socialists
The Irish Times
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Nearly two decades of indigenous-led leftist hegemony over Bolivian politics came to a crashing end on Sunday as the ruling Movement Towards Socialism party was handed a humiliating defeat in presidential elections. The movement (known as the MAS...
Bihar elections 2025: EC releases names of 65 lakh voters deleted from voter list during SIR
Business Today
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August 18, 2025
The Election Commission (EC) has released the names of 65 lakh people removed from the draft voter list in Bihar under its special intensive revision (SIR) exercise. The step comes after the Supreme Court directed the EC to make voter deletion...
‘FG Threatening Governors To Defect, Planning To Rig 2027 Elections’ – Galadima Claims
Naija News
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August 18, 2025
A chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Buba Galadima, has asserted that the Federal Government is plotting to rig the 2027 general elections. Naija News reports that Galadima, who featured on Channels Television’s Politics Today on...
Trump vows to “get rid” of mail-in votes after Putin meeting
Salon
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August 18, 2025
President Donald Trump has called for an end to mail-in voting in the United States, claiming he will “lead a movement” and sign an executive order that purports to change the way Americans vote in the run-up to the 2026 midterms. “I am going to...
'Will Deal With All 3 ECs Once Our Govt Is Formed': Rahul Gandhi At Vote Adhikar Yatra Rally In Bihar (VIDEO)
Free Press Journal
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August 18, 2025
Patna: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday made a frontal attack on the Chief Election Commissioner and two other ECs by making a veiled threat to them that they would be dealt with firmly once the INDIA bloc formed the government at the centre...
Anambra APC Reacts To Acts Of Violence, Intimidation By Non State Actors During Senatorial Bye-Election
Daily Independent
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August 18, 2025
1 Charles Onyekamuo The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Anambra state has reacted to acts of violence, Intimidation of voters conspicuously displayed by the rival All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, spearheaded by the state’s Deputy...
APC alleges vote-buying, intimidation in Ibadan North by-election
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 18, 2025
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has rejected the outcome of the just-concluded by-election in Ibadan North Federal Constituency, alleging that the poll was marred by widespread irregularities, vote-buying, and voter intimidation....
Country will ask for affidavit from Election Commission of India: Rahul Gandhi
The Hindu
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August 18, 2025
Rahul Gandhi with LoP in Bihar Assembly and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, along with Bihar Congress President Rajesh Kumar, during his ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’, in Aurangabad district, Bihar on August 18, 2025. Photo: AICC via PTI A day after Chief...
After Rahul Gandhi Shares Video Of 'Wrongfully' Deleted Bihar Voters, EC Seeks Details
News18
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August 18, 2025
Last Updated:August 18, 2025, 22:27 IST Bihar's chief electoral officer asked for EPIC numbers and other information of the featured electors in "prescribed format" for "necessary investigations" and "further action" Congress leader Rahul Gandhi...
'Fandom' politics is aging and has little future
Korea JoungAng Daily
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August 18, 2025
Published: 19 Aug. 2025, 00:04 Audio report: written by reporters, read by AI Park Sang-hoon The author is a political scientist. The prevailing interpretation of “fandom politics” in Korea goes something like this. First, it is understood as a...
Chukwuemeka Eze: Nigeria Needs Political Summit To End Vote Buying And Electoral Manipulation
Arise News
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August 18, 2025
Law and Diplomacy expert, Chukwuemeka Eze, has called for a political summit in Nigeria to tackle electoral malpractices, vote buying, and voter manipulation, warning that the challenges will persist without meaningful reform. “I think we are...
Trump vows to end vote by mail and voting machines
FOX 12 - Oregon
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August 18, 2025
President Donald Trump declared that he will spearhead a push to eliminate the use of mail-in voting and voting machines in U.S. elections. Vote-by-mail has been an institution in Oregon since 2000. In a lengthy Truth Social post on Monday,...
“Will embark on Padayatra in support of Rahul Gandhi’s fight against vote theft”: Telangana CM Revanth Reddy
The News Mill
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August 18, 2025
Speaking at the 375th birth anniversary celebrations of Sri Sardar Sarvai Papanna Goud Maharaj in Hyderabad today, Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy said that the Congress will thwart all the attempts being made by some political parties for...
'Enormous abuse of power': Trump just laid bare his plan to 'corrupt the 2026 midterm elections'
AlterNet
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August 18, 2025
Democratic election lawyer, voting rights expert and Democracy Docket publisher Mark Elias is warning that President Donald Trump is determined to "steal the 2026 elections" — and his game plan, according to an August video, includes a combination...
National polls to begin in Myanmar Dec 28, says junta
New Age Bangladesh
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Agence France-Presse . Yangon, Myanmar 18 August, 2025, 20:35 A journalist takes a video of a voting machine during a demonstration of voting machines to be used in future elections in Yangon on September 5, 2023. | AFP photo Myanmar’s junta said...