WASHINGTON — Andy Welsh of Portland, Ore., was so enthusiastic about President Obama’s first run for the White House that he voted absentee while spending a semester abroad in Spain. But Mr. Welsh, ... Read more
WASHINGTON — Andy Welsh of Portland, Ore., was so enthusiastic about President Obama’s first run for the White House that he voted absentee while spending a semester abroad in Spain. But Mr. Welsh, ... Read more
BOSTON — Getting voters’ attention for a special election at an unexpected time of year is hard enough. It is even harder when the airwaves have been taken over by wall-to-wall coverage of a major ... Read more
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s Public Ministry, a body of independent public prosecutors, has begun an investigation into a claim connecting former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to a vast ... Read more
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s Public Ministry, a body of independent public prosecutors, has begun an investigation into a claim connecting former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to a vast ... Read more
NAIROBI, Kenya — The landmark legal challenge to Kenya’s presidential election wrapped up on Friday, and the last bits of evidence confirmed what many observers had suspected from the beginning: ... Read more
Voters overwhelmingly approved Zimbabwe’s new Constitution, the Election Commission announced Tuesday, with more than three million people voting yes and fewer than 200,000 voting no. The new ... Read more
WASHINGTON — With the exception of the Senate, where voters from states with small populations have vastly more power than those from, say, California or Texas, the rest of the American political system ... Read more
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Batsi Munyaka, 27, an unemployed mechanic, had not read the document that could govern his nation for decades to come. But he said he was tired of trying to cobble together a living ... Read more
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department’s independent inspector general on Tuesday portrayed its voting rights section as torn by “deep ideological polarization” and “the harassment and ... Read more