Vladimir Putin is set to stay in power for another six years after polls suggested he received 88% of votes in an election overshadowed by the death and imprisonment of opposition figures.
Assembly Speaker hired, then fired former state Supreme Court Justice to lead failed effort.
In 2019, voter turnout in the EU parliamentary elections was just 42.7 percent.
Peace and stability are still needed in order for any poll to take place, he told Russian media.
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Georgia State Election Board member Edward Lindsey voted on matters brought before the board involving clients he was a registered lobbyist for.
The head of an independent vote-monitoring group that Russia has labelled a "foreign agent" says the presidential election that began on Friday and is widely expected to re-elect Vladimir Putin is the least transparent the country has seen. Stanislav Andreichuk, co-chairman of Golos (Voice), said the use of electronic voting for the first time in a presidential election, and the fact that voting is spread over three days, both serve to make the process more opaque. "These are the most closed,...
The DeKalb County GOP unanimously approved a resolution on Saturday calling on Georgia State Election Board member Ed Lindsey to resign.
According to a GOP lawmaker speaking to CNN Friday, the months-long Republican effort to impeach President Joe Biden will likely end without a vote because his fellow Republicans "don't have the guts" to follow through. “Yeah, that’s not gonna happen, but I wish we would vote on it regardless,” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) said when asked about the status of the impeachment effort. Critics of Republicans widely agreed that the eight-hour impeachment inquiry hearing that took place on Wednesday ended...
BATON ROUGE — Gov. Jeff Landry said Thursday that he wants current state public defender Rémy Starns to run Louisiana's new public defenders office, and he also named four members of a new, nine-member Public Defender Oversight Board that must affirm the appointment.At Landry's behest, lawmakers this year changed the way Louisiana governed its public defenders. A previous 11-member board established in 2007 allocated funds to various districts and selected public defenders, and of...
TikTok’s critics have long called it a national security threat.
Republicans have been saying a number of things publicly, and more in private, over the last few days to save face on their doomed impeachment inquiry into President Biden, which has served as a Trump