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Oscar had just moved to New York City. He registered to vote. A week later, he received his voter card. Now he was a registered voter. He read the voter notice from the Board of Elections. It said to call VOTE-NYC if he had a question. He had a quest

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By Anne Look Dakar 29 September 2009 Ivory Coast announced that it will release provisional voter lists Thursday for the country's long-delayed presidential elections, now scheduled for November. With just two months before the presidential poll, th

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Democrats, Republicans Battle Over Voter ID Laws A court battle over the state of Pennsylvania's controversial voter identification law is being seen as a proxy in the battle between Republicans and Democrats. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has asked

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Low Voter Enthusiasm Doesn't Prevent Romney Win in Ohio Tonight we are doing some counting. We are counting up the delegates for the convention, and it looks good. And we are counting down the days to November, and that looks even better, exclaimed R

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Debate continues in Ivory Coast over the creation of a definitive voter list, despite pressure from the United Nations Security Council this week to hold the country's long-delayed presidential elections as soon as possible. The U.N. Security Council

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Effort Underway to Boost US Voter Participation Shakei Haynes is helping college students register to vote in the November election. He's been doing this since 2005 when he was 16-years-old. Now he's a political science student at Howard University i

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: President Trump's Election Integrity Commission went to New Hampshire yesterday to hear from witnesses about voter attitudes and voter fraud. The panel's stated mission is to find ways to boost confidence in the integrity of

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By Joe Bavier Cotonou 03 March 2006 The last day of campaigning for Benin's presidential election opened Friday with concerns over whether the vote will live up to democratic hopes. Some fear for the

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 17 September 2007 Angola has completed a 10-month voter registration drive in preparation for elections next year. The balloting will be Angola's first in 15 years and is aimed at consolidating a transition to multi-party d

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BEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said Wednesday it will fiercely combat fraud in the election of academicians. The CAS, one of the country's top think tanks, said the election will focus on candidates' academic quali

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Voters in Angola went to the polls Friday to elect a new parliament, in the country's first elections in 16 years. Turnout was massive, but numerous irregularities and technical problems were reported. VOA's Scott Bobb reports from Luanda. Angolans

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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation says it has smashed a global Internet credit card fraud ring. The FBI's New York office calls it the biggest such operation in history, lasting more than two years and involving undercover law enforcement agen

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Controversy over the voter list in Ivory Coast is threatening to once again push back long-delayed presidential elections. Election-related protests erupted around Ivory Coast this past week. Ivorian investigators have confirmed evidence of fraud in

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Protesters came out across the worlds largest country to demand clean elections and to say what, only one week ago, was unsayable. Russia Without Putin was the favorite chant of thousands of demonstrators who marched within earshot of the Kremlin in