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James O'Keefe Makes Grab for Eric Holder's Ballot

Kevin Spak — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:38:57 CDT

James O'Keefe is at it again, and this time he's getting personal with the US attorney general. In a new video released today to Breitbart , the infamous fake pimp puts voter fraud in his crosshairs, and sets out to show the danger inherent in not having voter ID laws by...

All Signs Point to Runaway Election Fraud in Russia

Polly Davis Doig — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:55:00 CST

The bad news just keeps rolling in for Pooty-Poot: The Wall Street Journal took a long, hard look at Russia's Dec. 4 elections and finds solid indicators of major, widespread, in-your-face fraud—by one measure, casting doubt on some 14 million of the 65.7 million votes purportedly cast. Seems...

Violence Roils Congo After Disputed Vote

Mark Russell — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:19:05 CST

With opposition leaders rejecting yesterday's re-election win for Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila, fighting and unrest has broken out in Kinshasa and threatened to plunge the fragile African country back into war, reports Al Jazeera . Protesters burned tires and gunshots rang out last night in the capital, as...

Angry Haitians Protest Vote

Matt Cantor — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:20:17 CST

As protesters hit the streets, presidential candidates in Haiti banded together yesterday to demand the election be canceled, citing foul play, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Twelve of the 19 candidates are accusing the outgoing president’s party of “massive fraud.” Protesters—some peaceful, some throwing stones—marched after hundreds of...

Afghan Officials Find 'Missing' Votes

Kevin Spak — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:02:00 CST

Well this doesn’t look suspicious at all. Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission discovered tens of thousands of uncounted ballots yesterday, even as 200 people marched through Kabul protesting the results of the September contest. “We checked our warehouses and found those,” a commission official tells the Washington Post . The ballots will...

Obama Bashes Rigged Myanmar Election

Kevin Spak — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:00:00 CST

Vote counting has barely begun in Myanmar after the country's first election in 20 years, but critics say the outcome is a foregone conclusion. Reports have been flying of foul play, the Wall Street Journal reports. President Obama criticized the elections as "fundamentally flawed" and urged the junta to release...

Afghan Elections: A Corrupt 'Free-for-All'

Polly Davis Doig — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 07:48:53 CDT

From stuffing ballot boxes to arresting election workers to, incredibly, haggling over the sales price of a vote, Afghanistan's election is so rife with corruption and fraud that the results are questionable in one-third of its provinces, reports the New York Times. And as a test of Afghanistan's nascent democracy,...

Thousands of Complaints Expected in Afghan Election

Kevin Spak — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 07:07:43 CDT

Looks like this weekend’s election in Afghanistan went about as poorly as the last one. Afghanistan’s official election watchdog says it’s already received more than 700 complaints, and expects the figure to reach 3,000 over the next two days, according to Reuters . An independent watchdog meanwhile said there had...

White House Threatens to Cancel Karzai Visit

Nick McMaster — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:36:18 CDT

The White House may cancel a visit by Hamid Karzai if the Afghan president continues to make volatile statements. Karzai is supposed to come in May, but press secretary Robert Gibbs said his erratic behavior has the administration thinking twice, reports CNN . Karzai's recent bombshells include blaming foreigners for electoral...