Ecuador’s outgoing president urges quick and accurate vote count
Uncertainty persists days after presidential election over second candidate who will participate in an April run-off. The outgoing president of Ecuador has urged the country’s National Electoral Council (CNE) to deliver accurate election results quickly, as uncertainty persists over the second candidate who will participate in an April run-off. Lenin Moreno, who did not seek […]
Vote count under way in Uganda after hotly contested election
People turned out in droves on Thursday to make their mark in an historic election in which Museveni’s reign is said to be strongly tested by Bobi Wine. Ugandans have voted under heavy security and an internet blackout in an election pitting veteran leader Yoweri Museveni against a former popstar Bobi Wine after one of […]
Will the pro-Trump riot change US politics? Don’t count on it
It was months after a disputed election and charges of an “illegitimate” president were dominating an era of deep political divisions that were growing deeper by the day. Then terrorists attacked the United States on September 11, 2001. Hours after planes were flown into buildings in New York City and Washington, DC, and nearly 3,000 […]
Pence says ‘violence never wins,’ McConnell decries ‘attempted insurrection’ as Congress resumes electoral count
WASHINGTON: A woman has died after being shot on Wednesday during the storming of the US Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump, a spokeswoman for the Washington police department said.No other details were available, the spokeswoman said. It remained unclear who shot the woman.Hundreds of Trump supporters entered the Capitol on Wednesday in a […]
US judge rejects lawsuit against Pence over electoral count
Republican legislator’s lawsuit sought to allow Mike Pence to reject Electoral College votes for Joe Biden when Congress meets on January 6. A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit from a Republican congressman that sought to allow Vice President Mike Pence to reject Electoral College votes for Joe Biden when Congress meets on January 6 […]
Empty salons: Indonesia’s transgender women count cost of COVID
Medan, Indonesia – Iwan is transgender, and a “micro-minority” in Indonesia. Before COVID-19, he employed four other transgender people as hairdressers and makeup artists at his Anna Sui Salon in Medan in North Sumatra, but now he can afford to hire only one. “We used to have 10 to 15 customers a day, now we haven’t […]
Australia Gears Up for the Great Koala Count, Using Drones, Droppings and Dogs
MELBOURNE, Australia — One would think that koalas are easy to find — and count — because they are large, fluffy and mostly immobile since they are prone to sleep for about 20 hours a day. Not so. “It’s the fact that they don’t move much that makes them hard to spot,” said Desley Whisson, […]
Joe Biden declared winner in Georgia after manual ballot count #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
United States President-elect Joe Biden has officially been declared the winner in the state of Georgia, flipping the historically Republican-voting state for the Democratic Party for the first time in decades. The Associated Press news agency said late Thursday that Biden had secured Georgia’s 16 Electoral College votes, stretching his lead to 306 Electoral College […]
GOP poll watchers not excluded from Michigan count: Witnesses #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
United States President Donald Trump’s campaign filed a new lawsuit in the state of Michigan on Wednesday, alleging its poll watchers – known as “challengers” – were blocked from witnessing the ballot count at a convention centre in Detroit on November 4. The legal challenge in Michigan, where Joe Biden won by 146,000 votes, also […]
Russia wants final US vote count before congratulating anyone #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
President Vladimir Putin has remained silent on the issue since Democrat Joe Biden clinched the presidency on Saturday. The Kremlin says it will wait for the official results of the US presidential election before commenting on its outcome, and that it had noted incumbent Donald Trump’s announcement of legal challenges related to the vote. President […]
Trump supporters continue protesting vote count in Arizona #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
Supporters of Donald Trump in Phoenix have propagated a number of conspiracy theories about the US election result. Phoenix, Arizona – Outside the Maricopa County Elections Department, hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump rallied for a fourth consecutive day, insisting the Democratic Party had stolen the election. The demonstrators took turns addressing the crowd […]
Harris’s ancestral village in India hopeful as Biden leads count #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
Thulasendrapuram village in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state is where Kamala Harris’s maternal grandfather was born. Villagers in the Indian ancestral home of Kamala Harris have painted slogans on roads wishing her victory as Joe Biden, her Democrat running mate in the United States presidential election, moved closer to the White House. Thulasendrapuram, located about […]
Pennsylvania officials ask for patience as ballot count continues #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
Malvern, Pennsylvania, United States – Hours after Election Day voting came to a close in the United States elections, officials in the battleground state of Pennsylvania said it could take days to count all the remaining ballots – and not to expect final results on Wednesday. Before noon local time (17:00 GMT), President Donald Trump […]
Georgia’s governing party leads early vote count, says official #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
The governing Georgian Dream party led Georgia’s parliamentary election with a vote share of 54.7 percent, the Central Election Commission said on Saturday, citing results from nearly a third of polling stations. The opposition, however, said it would not accept those results. Tamar Zhvania, the head of the CEC, told reporters that the vote count […]
Final count gives Luis Arce a big victory in Bolivia election #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
The result, which was a vindication to Evo Morales’s MAS party, also gave majorities in both houses of Congress. Leftist leader Luis Arce has won a smashing victory in Bolivia’s presidential election, a final official vote count released on Friday shows, providing vindication for the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party of overthrown President Evo Morales. […]
Guinea: Vote count begins after tense election #duzline #duzlinenews #follow4follow
Main opposition candidate Diallo suggests President Conde may ‘cheat’ in order to ‘grant himself a presidency for life’. Vote counting is under way after Guinea’s high-stakes election in which the 82-year-old President Alpha Conde is seeking a controversial third term. Sunday’s vote follows months of political unrest, where dozens of people were killed during security […]