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There have been five disputed elections in U.S. history. Only one prompted an armed insurrection – and soon, the man behind it will be back in the Oval Office, David Shribman is the former executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of U.S. politics. Since the procedure for certifying American presidential-election results [...]

Bangladesh, Dec. 31 -- The United States has intensified its support for Venezuelas opposition by recognizing Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as the legitimate president-elect. On December 30, US Secretary of State [...]

Byline: Aaron Wiener A court declined Friday to throw out the contested election results for two Advisory Neighborhood Commission seats representing American University's campus, ruling that the city election board's [...]

More than 250 people have died in this southern African nation as protesters disputing the results of the presidential election clash with the police and military. The southern African nation [...]

Mozambique's top court has confirmed the ruling party Frelimo's victory in an October election which sparked massive protests by opposition groups who say the vote was rigged. The Constitutional Council [...]

Byline: Rachel Savage Southern Africa correspondent Mozambique is on edge ahead of a ruling expected on Monday to determine the final results of October's disputed elections, after allegations of rigging [...]

The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has released 103 people imprisoned following the country's contested July election, which the opposition (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/1/a-fake-fabricated-result-questions-swirl-around-venezuelas-election) accused Maduro of stealing. The citizen security service, [...]

Byline: PETER SEGALL A special election may have to be called in a race for the Greenfield Union School District Board of Trustees after it was discovered more than 100 [...]

Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Where two members of the Waynesboro Board of Elections said they would not certify the City's general election results because they believed the use of electronic [...]

Byline: Brennen Kauffman One month after Election Day, Rebecca Keltie is expected to win Colorado House District 16 by a scant three-vote margin. But that may not be the final [...]

Byline: Nicole Asbury The Prince George's County Board of Education elected its leaders for the year and sat all but one of its new members Thursday after the state finally [...]

Byline: Rachel Savage and agencies in Windhoek Namibia has elected its first female leader, with Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah declared the winner of last week's presidential election in a result that will [...]

RALEIGH The 100 county boards of elections in North Carolina will soon begin hand counts of ballots from randomly selected precincts and early voting sites in the statewide election for [...]

Namibia appears set to get its first female president, with Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah holding a healthy lead as the count from last week's disputed election proceeds. With 65.57 percent of votes [...]

Romania's Constitutional Court has validated the shock first-round result in its presidential election, setting the stage for a run-off vote on December 8, which could upend the country's pro-Western orientation [...]

Byline: Randy Billings Dec. 2A hand recount of more than 400,000 ballots in Maine's 2nd Congressional District race began on Monday and is expected to take weeks to finish. Incumbent [...]

Byline: PETER SEGALL With some close races coming out of this year's general election, it's possible one of them could see a recount. In most of the races in this [...]

Byline: Jon Henley Europe correspondent The head of Romania's election bureau has said the first round of its presidential election could be rerun, as the country's constitutional court prepared to [...]

Byline: Shari Phiel Nov. 27Results for the Nov. 5 general election were certified Tuesday. While there were plenty of close races, two will require recounts. In the race between Brad [...]

Byline: Ryan Deto Nov. 22Pennsylvania's automatic recount has ceased. Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt announced Friday morning that a legally mandated recount in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race has been [...]

Mr. McCormick, a Republican former hedge-fund executive, toppled Mr. Casey, a three-term Democrat, in one of the nation's top Senate races and biggest 2024 upsets. Senator Bob Casey, a three-term [...]

Byline: Savannah Eller House District 16 voters will have to wait a few days longer to find out who will represent them after a very close race between Democrat incumbent [...]

Byline: Savannah Eller House District 16 voters will have to wait a few days longer to find out who will represent them after a very close race between Democrat incumbent [...]

Byline: Michael Shepherd Nov. 21A Republican lawmaker facing domestic violence allegations kept his seat by a single vote after a Thursday recount broke a tie with his challenger. State Rep. [...]

Byline: Randy Billings Nov. 21AUGUSTA A Republican lawmaker from Sanford accused of choking his wife less than two weeks before Election Day won his seat in the Maine House by [...]

Jamaat Islami Karachi has demanded resignation from the election commission official alleging that the People's Party has been provided fake victory in the city's local council by elections. Ameer JI [...]

Byline: Julia Terruso and Katie Bernard U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., conceded to Republican Dave McCormick on Thursday, formally ending his reelection bid and acknowledging defeat two weeks after the [...]

Byline: Ryan Deto Nov. 20Election workers in Allegheny County on Wednesday joined their counterparts across the state as they launched a legally mandated recount in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race. About [...]

Byline: Isayen Herrera, Julie Turkewitz, Genevieve Glatsky and Adriana Loureiro Fernandez From inside a sweltering Tocorón prison on Sunday, the detained peered out at their anguished relatives, throwing kisses from [...]

The decision came after officials in at least four counties had ignored the court's pre-election guidance not to count mail ballots that were undated or misdated. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court [...]

Byline: Hannah Shields CHEYENNE An election error in Weston County worried some members of the public, who called on elected officials to halt the process of certifying Wyoming's election results [...]