“They (voters) feel like politicians are part of the problem and don’t care about them,” said Colette Forrest, co-founder of the Charlotte Black Voter Project. “I do not know what to do.”
Iranians will cast ballots in legislative and key assembly elections on Friday, with conservatives expected to tighten their grip on power in the absence of any serious competition.The Islamic republic's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is due to be the first to cast his ballot on Friday at 8:00 am (0430 GMT) at one of the 59,000 polling stations.
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Following are unofficial early vote counts in Indonesia's presidential election compiled by independent pollsters, based on ballots counted at a sampling of voting stations nationwide. Unofficial "quick counts" by reputable outlets have in previous elections proven to be accurate. An official result is expected within 35 days of the contest.
"In the United States, previous elections were falsified through postal voting . they bought ballots for $10, filled them out, and threw them into mailboxes without any supervision from observers, and that's it," Putin said, without providing evidence. Putin's opponents say the March election in Russia is no real contest as the president wields unchallenged power and his main rival, Alexei Navalny, is serving more than 30 years in jail on charges that Navalny says were trumped up. They say the use of electronic voting creates scope for authorities to manipulate the vote in Putin's favour without detection.