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Hong Kong voters defy Beijing, endorsing protest leaders in primary

Austin Ramzy, Elaine Yu and Tiffany May, The New York Times
Posted at Jul 14 07:36 AM

Defying warnings from local officials that the Hong Kong opposition’s unofficial primary vote could be illegal under a sweeping new security law, hundreds of thousands of people chose avowedly pro-democracy candidates to run in citywide elections this year, results released Monday showed.   Read more »

Appealing to colleagues, 6 solons cite jobs, press freedom in defense of new ABS-CBN franchise

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 09 03:33 PM

MANILA - Stressing that none of the allegations against ABS-CBN have been proven, some congressmen on Thursday urged their colleagues to vote in favor of a new franchise for the network to save jobs and uphold press freedom. Read more »

Can 'conscience vote' save ABS-CBN?

Christian V. Esguerra, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 09 11:34 AM

MANILA (UPDATED) -- ABS-CBN's struggle to resume broadcasting will move to a crucial phase on Thursday with a congressional committee inching closer to a vote on its application for a new operating franchise, following weeks of intense and unprecedented scrutiny. Read more »

Ex-Japan justice minister, lawmaker wife charged over vote buying

Kyodo News
Posted at Jul 08 11:16 PM

Former Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai and his lawmaker wife Anri were indicted Wednesday on a charge of vote buying during her upper house election campaign last summer. Read more »

Cayetano: No intimidation ahead of ABS-CBN franchise vote

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 08 08:02 PM

House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano on Wednesday denied reports alleging that groups are "threatening and intimidating" lawmakers before they are scheduled to vote whether to reject or approve ABS-CBN's fresh 25-year franchise bid. Read more »

Google removes misleading ads in voting-related searches

Reuters
Posted at Jun 30 08:24 AM

Alphabet Inc's Google said on Monday that it had removed search ads that charged users searching for voting information large fees for voter registration or harvested their personal data. Read more »

Former Japanese justice minister, lawmaker wife arrested for suspected vote-buying

Linda Sieg and Kiyoshi Takenaka, Reuters
Updated as of Jun 18 08:54 PM

TOKYO (UPDATE)- A former Japanese justice minister and his lawmaker wife were arrested on Thursday on suspicion of vote-buying, prosecutors said, in a serious blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as he struggles with falling public support. Read more »

LeBron James looks to promote African-American voting rights

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 11 03:30 PM

LeBron James announced Wednesday that he and several other professional athletes plan to found a charitable organization to protect black Americans' voting rights. Read more »

Coronavirus worries drive push in US for November 'vote by mail'

Paul Handley, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 10 09:03 AM

Worries that the COVID-19 threat will persist into the November election is driving a push for US voters to vote by mail nationwide, but the biggest opponent is President Donald Trump, who admits it threatens his Republican Party. Read more »

Virus disrupts White House race as Sanders, Biden cancel rallies

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 11 08:51 AM

Democratic presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden both cancelled their election night rallies in Cleveland, Ohio Tuesday as fears of the coronavirus took hold in their taut primary battle.  Read more »

Biden and Sanders enter key phase in Democrats' race

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 08 08:50 AM

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders on Saturday began what amounts to a fresh campaign for the Democratic nomination for president, as the septuagenarians prepare to go head-to-head at the polls for the first time since the field narrowed to two credible candidates.   Read more »

Facebook removes Trump ad disguised as census message

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 06 07:06 AM

Facebook has taken down an ad from President Donald Trump's campaign which critics said misled people into believing it was an official message about the US census. Read more »

Revived Biden earns endorsement from 3 ex-rivals in bid to halt Sanders

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Mar 03 02:49 PM

Democrat Pete Buttigieg endorsed Joe Biden for US president on Monday, providing a major boost to the former vice president's White House hopes just one day after the onetime Indiana mayor himself dropped out of the race. Read more »

In new gaffe, White House hopeful Biden says running for 'Senate'

Agence France-Presse 
Posted at Feb 26 07:05 AM

Joe Biden's White House bid has been rocked by a series of verbal slip-ups days before South Carolina's Democratic primary, a make-or-break contest as the former vice president struggles to reverse his campaign's slide.  Read more »

Pete Buttigieg: Millennial trailblazer eyeing White House

Michael Mathes, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 05 07:14 AM

Millennial White House candidate Pete Buttigieg is no creature of Washington.   Read more »

K-pop group X1 disbands after vote-rigging issue

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 06 11:34 PM

South Korean boy group X1 has disbanded after the group figured in vote-rigging allegations, the members' respective talent agencies announced Monday. Read more »

Sexist slurs mar Taiwan presidential elections

Amber Wang, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 27 02:04 PM

Taiwan has forged a reputation as Asia's most progressive democracy and it boasts a higher proportion of women in parliament than anywhere else in the region -- yet misogynistic insults have littered its presidential race.   Read more »

Bloomberg calls for Trump defeat, takes new step towards 2020 run

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Nov 13 08:09 AM

Billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg called Tuesday for President Donald Trump's defeat in 2020 as he took a new formal step towards joining the Democratic presidential race.  Read more »

Ultra-rich threaten to bail on Britain if Corbyn wins

Jean-Baptiste Oubrier, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 07 07:24 AM

Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whose right-wing Conservative government is seeking re-election on December 12, has this week slammed left-winger Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn's "visceral" hatred of capitalism and compared him to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.   Read more »

Sanders had heart attack, doctors confirm as he is released

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 05 07:20 AM

Doctors confirmed on Friday that US Senator Bernie Sanders suffered a heart attack three days ago, as they announced that he had been released from hospital in Las Vegas. Read more »