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Midterm elections - live updates: Homeland Security forced to respond to reports that voting machine failures are stopping people casting ballots in key states. At least a dozen states are having problems that are stopping people casting their ballots, according to US rights activists. People are still running into widespread issues with registration problems, fault equipment and issues like intimidation during early voting. US media are heavily discussing an interview, given by Trump last night, in which he expressed regret over his "tone". He said he wishes he had been "softer" – a strange concession from someone who very rarely admits that there is anything wrong. Reports of broken ballot scanners are leading to long lines at several polling sites across New York City.  Turnout was so heavy Tuesday morning at one packed precinct on Manhattan's Upper West Side that the line to scan ballots stretched around a junior high school gym. Poll workers told voter...

Iran has faced “forty years of American hostility” and the nation’s global allies “will ensure that our people are least affected by this indiscriminate assault” and the “economic warfare” waged by the US against the Iranian people, Zarif says. Zarif also called out the US’ “discredited addiction to unilateralism and sanctions” as tools of statecraft, which he said was pushing Washington into “global isolation.” Washington, he continued, would be better off “addressing the catastrophes and crises it has engineered” in the Middle East. Read more Iranian women walk past an anti-US mural in Tehran © AFP / Atta KenareThe blacklist: Targets of new US sanctions against Iran “Where to begin?” the foreign minister asks before reeling off a list of Washington-led disasters in the region. In Afghanistan, the US “created Al-Qaeda to fight the Soviets.” Later in Iraq, he said, the US supported Saddam Hussein “including his use of chemical weapons against Iran” and then later invaded Iraq “to...

Examples of electoral frauds Reconstruction, an effort to secure the voting rights of former slaves, ultimately failed in the states of the former Confederate States of America as reactionary interests used violence and intimidation against freedmen as well as political legerdemain to disenfranchise African-Americans, including poll taxes and so-called literacy tests, for almost a century after the American Civil War, ensuring the continuing hegemony of élite agrarian interests at the expense of all other interests in the South until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Politically enabled by the Reichstag Fire Decree on March 23, 1933, Hitler arrested or murdered all MPs from the Communist Party of Germany that were unable to flee or hide, and some from the Social Democratic Party of Germany. He also intimidated most of the other MPs into supporting him. This helped the NSDAP to get the needed two-thirds-majority to pass the Enabling Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers. In Romania, the ...

List of notable elections involving voter fraud or procedural challenge This is a list of notable elections involving accusations of direct voter fraud or in which the results were procedurally contested, extensively protested, or recognized as fraudulent by a reliable international organization. United States of America New York gubernatorial election, 1792 – John Jay received more votes than George Clinton, but on technicalities the votes of Otsego, Tioga and Clinton counties were disqualified and not canvassed, giving George Clinton a slight majority in the official result. United States Presidential Election, 1824 Bleeding Kansas election, March 30, 1855 – An election to decide whether Kansas should be a free state or a slave state involving massive immigration to sway the vote and resulted in post-election violence, including a severe beating of a US Senator by a Congressman. The events it encompasses directly presaged the American Civil War. (See Kansas–Nebraska Act) United...

2-17-18 FROM THIS POINT FORWARD.YOU MUST DELIVER.!!!!!!!!!!! OR YOUR ENEMIES WILL DEFEAT YOU AS SHOWN ..YOU UNDERESTIMATE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!!!  YOU UNDERESTIMATE THE SCOPE AND LENGTH THERE WILLING TO GO TO.TIME FOR YOU IS NOW AND YOUR COURSE OF DESTINY TO WHO YOU WILL BE AND BECOME IS A SWINGING DOOR OF YOUR OWN MAKING..NO TRUMP CON THIS TIME! United States of America New York gubernatorial election, 1792 – John Jay received more votes than George Clinton, but on technicalities the votes of Otsego, Tioga and Clinton counties were disqualified and not canvassed, giving George Clinton a slight majority in the official result.United States presidential election, 1876 – One of the most disputed and controversial presidential elections in American history between Samuel J. Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes, resolved by the Compromise of 1877.United States presidential election, 1960[1] Some accounts claimed that mobster Sam Giancana and his Chicago crime syndicate played a role ...

World News Amid Saudi-led bombing, Pompeo pins responsibility for starvation in Yemen… on Iran Published time: 6 Nov, 2018 12:29 Amid Saudi-led bombing, Pompeo pins responsibility for starvation in Yemen… on Iran A woman holds her malnourished son in Sanaa, Yemen October 7, 2018. ©REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah Saudi Arabia may be maintaining a blockade of Yemen and facing repeated accusations of indiscriminate bombing of civilian sites, but US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says starvation in the country is Iran’s fault.