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August 3, 2022
In the first referendum since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and eviscerated abortion rights nationwide, Kansas voters have turned out to emphatically defend abortion rights.
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Radical-leftist Syriza party wins elections in Greece – exit polls
RT on Jan 25, 2015
Greek radical-leftist party, Syriza, has won between 35.5 and 39.5 percent of the vote in the national parliamentary election, leaving the country’s ruling New Democracy party more than 10 per cent behind, the exit-polls revealed.
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Moderate cleric Hassan Rohani wins Iran presidential election in 1st round
RussiaToday on Jun 15, 2013
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Francois Hollande is the new president of France – yet he’s never really tasted power in a lifetime of Soclialist politics.
Al Jazeera’s Andrew Simmons reports from Tulle.
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Nov. 2, 2010
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1 February 2010
Press Release
The British Tamil Diaspora overwhelmingly endorsed the principle of Tamil Eelam in two days of polling this weekend. With over 64,000 votes cast, over 99% voted in favour of an independent and separate state of Tamil Eelam.
British Tamils were asked if they endorsed the principles contained in the Vadukkoddai Resolution that was first put to a democratic mandate in 1977. In that historic election the Tamil polity in Sri Lanka voted overwhelmingly for an independent and sovereign state of Tamil Eelam in the traditional Tamil homelands.
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See also:- Lights turned off on media after elections: The AFP news agency reported that Iran’s wireless telephone network was shut down at 5:30pm GMT (10:00pm in Tehran), just as incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was making a television appearance to congratulate himself on a “great victory”.
See also:- Landslide or Fraud? The Debate Online Over Iran’s Election Results: We will bring you updates throughout the day and encourage Iranian readers to share their thoughts and experiences with us.
Was the Iranian election a fraud? That’s what our great western media sources want us to believe. While scanning through the coverage, I could not find one mainstream news article which covered the election results in an objective, unbiased manner. Either prominently displayed in the title or first paragraph, each of the articles suggest the election was a fraud. The obvious question arises – If their electoral system can’t be trusted, why were they watching the results so “closely” in the first place? I’d probably find better things to do then obsess over the results of a rigged game, but hey that’s just me.
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Was the election stolen? According to the Iranian Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli, there has been no ‘written complaint’ about voter fraud. He declared that the presidential elections were conducted in a manner that ruled out the possibility of voter fraud. “No violations that may have influenced the vote have been reported, and we have received no written complaint,” he said in response to a question posed by an Italian reporter.
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Some observations on the Iranian presidential election and its aftermath by Phil Wilayto
Presidential election in Iran: selected items from the British press
by Phil Wilayto
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/
June 13, 2009
As this is being written, official announcements in Iran today of a landslide victory by incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are being met with cries of “fraud” by supporters of his principal challenger, former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
by Prof. James Petras
Global Research, November 25, 2008
November 2008 Landslide
The pro-Chavez United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won 72% of the governorships in the November 23, 2008 elections and 58% of the popular vote, dumbfounding the predictions of most of the pro-capitalist pollsters and the vast majority of the mass media who favored the opposition.
PSUV candidates defeated incumbent opposition governors in three states (Guaro, Sucre, Aragua) and lost two states (Miranda and Tachira). The opposition retained the governorship in a tourist center (Nueva Esparta) and won in Tachira, a state bordering Colombia, Carabobo and the oil state of Zulia, as well as scoring an upset victory in the populous state of Miranda and taking the mayoralty district of the capital, Caracas. The socialist victory was especially significant because the voter turnout of 65% exceeded all previous non-presidential elections. The prediction by the propaganda pollsters that a high turnout would favor the opposition also reflected wishful thinking.
The significance of the socialist victory is clear if we put it in a comparative historical context:
by Gregory Wilpert
venezuelanalysis.com
November 24th 2008
November 23, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com)
President Hugo Chavez’s governing party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) got mixed results in the regional and local elections today, winning stronghly in 17 out of 23 states, but losing the country’s two most populous states and the Capital District of Caracas, with two more states still to be decided.
At midnight Venezuelan time, about eight hours after the first polls closed, the president of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE), Tibisay Lucena, announced the results of the regional and local elections, with 95% of the vote counted.
According to Lucena, participation had reached an unprecedented high for a regional vote, at 65.45%. Over 17 million voters were registered, which is several million more than in the last such election four years ago. As a result, lines tended to be long and many polling places had to remain open far longer than the official closing time of 4pm.
Chávez’s PSUV lost the governorships of the two most populous states, Miranda and Zulia, and the mayor’s office of greater Caracas, which will be a significant blow to Chávez and his movement.
The perhaps greatest surprise is the upset victory, with 52.45% of the vote, of opposition leader Antonio Ledezma, of the Brave People’s Alliance, in greater Caracas. Ledezma once was governor of the city, from 1992 to 1995, when it was an appointed office. He was then elected as mayor of the city’s main municipality of Libertador in 1995. Ledezma is considered to be an integral part of the country’s old political guard, given his ties to former President Carlos Andrés Perez.
By Sean Cockerham
Anchorage Daily News
McClatchy Washington Bureau
11/18/2008
Democrat Mark Begich appears headed to victory over Republican Sen. Ted Stevens in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race.
The Anchorage mayor widened his lead to 3,724 votes in Tuesday’s counting of absentee and questioned ballots.
The only votes left to count are approximately 2,500 special absentees from people living outside the U.S. or in remote parts of Alaska with no polling place.
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via McClatchy Washington Bureau | 11/18/2008 | Begich, 3,700 votes ahead, headed to victory in Alaska
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Here is Barack Obama Acceptance Speech Nov. 4, 2008
Updated several times, see below for the latest reports
At 1:27 AM with 3508 of 3533 precincts reporting in MO:
1,426,815 McCain
1,426,402 Obama
Election Returns: Continue reading
| Montana Democratic Primary Results | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Barack Obama | 97,825 | 56% |
| Hillary Clinton | 71,860 | 41% |
| No Preference | 4,062 | 2% |
Key:  WinnerPrecincts: 96% | Updated: 3:52 AM ET | Source: AP |
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| Montana Republican Primary Results | ||
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| Candidate | Votes | % |
| John McCain | 68,823 | 77% |
| Ron Paul | 19,157 | 21% |
| No Preference | 1,912 | 2% |
| Key: Winner |
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| South Dakota Democratic Primary Results | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Hillary Clinton | 54,179 | 55% |
| Barack Obama | 43,726 | 45% |
| Key: Winner Precincts: 100% | Updated: 3:52 AM ET | Source: AP |
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| South Dakota Republican Primary Results | ||
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| Candidate | Votes | % |
| John McCain | 42,843 | 70% |
| Ron Paul | 10,127 | 17% |
| Mike Huckabee | 4,337 | 7% |
| Mitt Romney | 1,982 | 3% |
| Uncommitted | 1,793 | 3% |
| Key: Winner Precincts: 100% | Updated: 3:52 AM ET | Source: AP |
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