World Stands Up to Be Counted in Election
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At crunch time in U.S. presidential elections, the perennial swing state of Ohio gets plenty of attention, blitzed by the candidates and their volunteers. But this time, Ohioans are also being courted from some unusual, far-flung places.
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New poll of attitudes shows people feel the election is about whether voters have faith in US actions globally.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Eric Weiner reports on a corps of international election observers who have been dispatched to several US states to monitor voting on Election Day.
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One of the primary goals of modern society is to enhance a worldwide commitment to democracy. With so many national differences concerning preferred electoral processes, it helps to have a general definition of a democratic government.
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It was a race in which the rest of the world claimed an enormous stake. And as the American presidential vote count today tilted and then tumbled toward President Bush, leaders
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The election for president in Afghanistan may have brought us one small step closer to worldwide democracy. At least the people there left no doubt that they wanted to vote.
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GABORONE  - Queues of voters in diamond-rich Botswana waited patiently to cast their ballots in elections that are expected to hand victory to the party in power since independence in 1966 in one of Africa&#39;s most stable countries.
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The Middle East is entering a historic process. Iraq under US occupation, and Palestine under Israeli occupation will hold two critical elections in January (if they are not postponed).
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The war over the war is almost over. Courtesy of the large turnout in Iraq's election a week ago, the United States and key European allies are beginning to make up after two years of bitterly strained ...
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Voters appeared on track to cast a record number of ballots in Tuesday's presidential primaries.
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As 2005 approaches, the world sees much more than a passing political season. Pivotal elections and ongoing strategic shifts announce a historic time, whose significance will define the coming decades.
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Vote counting in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election got under way Thursday, five days after a landmark vote meant to cement a new era of stability after more than two decades of strife.
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National elections on Sunday are shaped by one of the world's highest murder rates.
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SHARM EL SHEIKH: The worldâs main powers and the Middle East countries put on a rare show of unity on Tuesday to support January elections in Iraq that UN chief Kofi Annan termed âcriticalâ to quell rampant violence.
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Even non-Americans can cast a vote in the upcoming U.S. presidential election thanks to a website tracking world opinion on the race for the White House.
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A flood of foreign observers is expected for the Dec. 26 rerun of the presidential vote. KIEV, UKRAINE - Both sides are declaring victory and insisting they&#39;re looking forward to a fresh - but this time
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People outside the United States could only watch, wait and vent as Americans voted Tuesday in an election that provoked an extraordinary degree of emotional involvement beyond U.S. borders.