International Business News - Election http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Canada's prime minister will likely schedule an election in October to try to shore up his minority government, a senior official in his office said Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080829/official-canada-elections-to-be-set-for-october.htm Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:31:40 EDT Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Tuesday he might call an early election, a move that would head off opposition efforts to topple his minority government. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080826/canada-pm-suggests-election-is-near.htm Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:59:06 EDT Southern Baptists are organizing a nationwide prayer campaign to accompany their values-voter registration drive, seeking spiritual renewal for families and churches, and God's favor for public officials who are guided by the Bible. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080826/southern-baptists-lead-get-out-the-vote-prayer.htm Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:26:42 EDT A push by Canadian Prime Minister Stephan Harper to call early elections picked up steam Monday, with his spokesman accusing the head of the country's main opposition party of refusing to meet or speak with the government's leader. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080825/canada-pm-aide-says-opposition-severs-contact.htm Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:42:59 EDT An appeals court has declined to throw out money-laundering indictments against two of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's political operatives, who had claimed that state elections law used to charge them was too confusing to proceed. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080824/indictments-to-stand-against-delay-associates.htm Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:11:09 EDT The demise of touch-screen voting has produced a graveyard of expensive corpses: Warehouses stacked with thousands of carefully wrapped voting machines that have been shelved because of doubts about vanishing votes and vulnerability to hackers. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/112249-election-junk.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080819/states-throw-out-costly-electronic-voting-machines.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080819/states-throw-out-costly-electronic-voting-machines.htm Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:23:50 EDT Nepal's national assembly chose the leader of the Himalayan nation's former rebels as the new prime minister Friday, two years after he gave up a bloody insurgency and joined the peace process. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/109537-nepal-premiership-election.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080815/nepal-assembly-votes-to-elect-prime-minister.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080815/nepal-assembly-votes-to-elect-prime-minister.htm Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:06:23 EDT Supporters of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe delivered more than 5 million signatures, hauled in three trucks, to election authorities Monday calling for a referendum on whether he should be allowed to run for a third consecutive term. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080811/uribe-backers-submit-re-election-vote-signatures.htm Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:22:00 EDT All it takes is one vote to win. Just ask a Tennessee woman who was elected constable by voting for herself. Angela Tuttle, 32, said her father encouraged her to run as a write-in candidate because no one else was vying for one of the positions in Hancock County, which is in northeastern Tennessee. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080808/tenn-constable-wins-election-by-1-vote-_-her-own.htm Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:05:00 EDT Last weekend's Cambodian national elections failed to meet international standards because of biases in favor of the country's ruling party, the European Union said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080729/eu-monitor-says-cambodian-election-is-biased.htm Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:43:01 EDT Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling party claimed it had sealed a landslide victory in parliamentary elections Sunday that were expected to usher in a new term for the former Khmer Rouge soldier who has ruled for 23 years. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/98791-cambodia-election.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080727/cambodia-border-dispute-strengthens-pm-in-vote.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080727/cambodia-border-dispute-strengthens-pm-in-vote.htm Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:42:56 EDT A dispute with neighboring Thailand over border land near an 11th century Hindu temple has sparked nationalist pride throughout Cambodia and strengthened the longtime prime minister's popularity ahead of parliamentary elections Sunday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/98472-cambodia-temple-dispute.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080726/cambodians-go-to-polls-amid-border-row.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080726/cambodians-go-to-polls-amid-border-row.htm Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:19:53 EDT Prime Minister Gordon Brown faced new political embarrassment Friday after his party lost a Scottish seat it had held for more than 50 years and both the opposition and some of his own Labour Party members urged him to step down. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/97723-britain-election.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080725/scottish-voters-deal-blow-to-british-leader-brown.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080725/scottish-voters-deal-blow-to-british-leader-brown.htm Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:39:18 EDT Venezuela's ruling party pledged Thursday to seek to reform the nation's constitution to let President Hugo Chavez seek indefinite re-election. Proposed changes to end the two-term limit for presidents will be presented to Congress or the National Electoral Council and ultimately to voters after state and municipal elections now scheduled for November, said Freddy Bernal, a leader of Chavez's United Socialist Party. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080718/chavez-party-seeks-changes-for-3rd-term.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:59:49 EDT Iraq's Kurdish leaders blocked a vote on the country's proposed provincial election law Tuesday when they walked out of parliament, leaving the legislature without a quorum. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080716/iraqi-kurds-block-vote-on-election-plan.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:19:59 EDT John Paul Stevens still plays tennis at 88. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 75, works out regularly in the Supreme Court gym. The oldest two justices--half the court's liberal wing--top the list of those considered likely to retire during the next presidential administration. Despite Stevens' and Ginsburg's apparent vigor, change on the Supreme Court is more likely than not over the next four years. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/90179-scotus-election.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080712/at-supreme-court-no-one-rushes-into-retirement.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080712/at-supreme-court-no-one-rushes-into-retirement.htm Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:47:56 EDT The members of the Supreme Court, by age: John Paul Stevens, 88 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080712/ages-of-supreme-court-justices-and-recent-retirees.htm Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:14:01 EDT Police and soldiers in riot gear patrolled downtown sections of Mongolia's capital Friday, the final day of a four-day state of emergency declared following post-election riots that left five people dead and 220 hurt. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85463-aptopix-mongolia-election.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/mongolian-riot-police-maintain-calm.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/mongolian-riot-police-maintain-calm.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:28:23 EDT Police and soldiers in riot gear patrolled downtown sections of Mongolia's capital Friday, the final day of a four-day state of emergency declared following post-election riots that left five people dead and 220 hurt. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85383-aptopix-mongolia-election.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/heavy-security-in-mongolia-after-riots.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/heavy-security-in-mongolia-after-riots.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:06:28 EDT Rifle-toting soldiers and armored vehicles guarded Mongolia's capital Wednesday, one day after at least five people died in rioting sparked by allegations of fraud in parliamentary elections. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/84572-mongolia-election.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/mongolian-capital-calm-after-protests.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/mongolian-capital-calm-after-protests.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:05:01 EDT