Voting

Vote count under way in Zambia after tight presidential election

Partial and regional tallies start to trickle in on Friday, with final consolidated results expected by Sunday, although President Edgar Lungu's party hints it is heading for victory.

Voters go to polls in Cape Verde to elect new government

The parliamentary election pits Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva's Movement for Democracy against its main challenger, the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde, a socialist party led by Janira Hopffer Almada.

Big businesses push back against GOP-led restrictive voting bills and laws

Some of the largest US corporations and powerful business leaders sign new statement objecting to “any discriminatory legislation," including Amazon, American Airlines, Bank of America, Google and Best Buy, Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg.

Giuliani and Fox News sued for $2.7 billion over election-rigging claims

Smartmatic has alleged that Fox and other defendants invented a story that the election was stolen from Trump and decided to make the company “the villain in their story."

Indonesia holds nationwide poll despite virus warnings

More than 100 million Indonesians are registered to vote at polls staffed by almost 2.7 million election workers, with some taking ballot boxes to hospitalised Covid patients.

US media project Biden win with 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232

President-elect Joe Biden solidified his victory over Trump in the US election with a win in traditionally Republican-leaning Georgia, according to US media.

There is nothing ‘exceptional’ about American democracy

If it wants to have a functional democratic system, the US would do well to benchmark itself against other countries – and learn something from them too.

Everything we know so far about the 2020 election

The polls have closed in the US presidential election but the race for the White House between Trump and Biden is still unresolved.

Tanzania oppositions demand fresh election, call for mass protests

Tanzania's two main opposition parties have called for a re-run of Wednesday's election after populist President John Magufuli was declared the winner with a crushing 84 percent of votes amid fraud allegations.

Tanzanians to vote amid alarm over stifling of democracy

Voters on the Tanzanian mainland and semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar will cast their ballots for a president and lawmakers after an energetic campaign which saw massive turnout for both the ruling party and opposition.

As final presidential debate nears, Trump holds rally while Biden preps

Weeks of wrangling over the debate format and structure appeared to have subsided after the Commission on Presidential Debates unveiled a rule change meant to reduce the chaotic interruptions that plagued the first Trump-Biden encounter last month.

North Macedonia imposes state of emergency ahead of election

The government said the eight-day state of emergency that came into force immediately will allow authorities to make the necessary preparations to ensure public health is protected during the campaign and voting amid the coronavirus pandemic.