Posts Tagged “election”
MOSCOW (Reuters) ? President Dmitry Medvedev ordered an investigation Sunday into allegations of fraud in Russia’s parliamentary election, one day after tens of thousands of protesters demanded it be annulled and rerun. Medvedev responded on his Facebook site to the protesters’ complaints that the December 4 election was slanted to favor of his and Prime [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday halted the use of judge-drawn Texas election maps that favor minority candidates and Democrats in 2012 congressional and state legislative elections and agreed to decide the dispute that could have national implications. The justices said they would hear arguments on January 9 in the first battle [...]
Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev, right, speaks as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin listens during their meeting with supporters in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. Russia’s main independent election watchdog says prosecutors have opened a probe against the group suspecting it of breaking election laws just three days before the parliamentary vote. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, pool) [...]
MOSCOW ? The leader of Russia’s only independent election monitor was detained at a Moscow airport for 12 hours, a colleague said Saturday ? the latest government pressure on a watchdog that has documented thousands of election law violations ahead of Sunday’s parliamentary vote. Golos has compiled some 5,300 complaints from voters during the latest [...]