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  • 16
    Mar
    2013
    12:14pm, EDT

    Zimbabwe votes on constitution to cut president's power

    Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi / AP

    Zimbabweans wait in a queue to cast their votes during a referendum in Harare, Zimbabwe, on March, 16, 2013. The country is holding the referendum on a new constitution which will pave way for the adoption of the draft constitution as the country prepares to hold elections later in the year.

    By MacDonald Dzirutwe, Reuters

    Zimbabweans voted on Saturday in a referendum expected to endorse a new constitution that would trim presidential powers and pave the way for an election to decide whether Robert Mugabe extends his three-decade rule.

    Mugabe, Africa's oldest president at 89, has ruled the former British colony since independence in 1980 and has been accused of waging violent crackdowns on the opposition and weakening state institutions like the cabinet and parliament.

    The new constitution would set a maximum two five-year terms for the president, starting with the next election, expected in the second half of this year. But the limit will not apply retroactively, so Mugabe could rule for another two terms.

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    Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi / AP

    Two men pray in front of a polling station during a referendum in Harare, Zimbabwe, on March 16, 2013.

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    Women cast their vote at a polling station in Chitungwiza, on March 16, 2013, for a key referendum on a new constitution that would curb President's powers and pave the way for elections later in the year.

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    Robert Mugabe will simply claim the voting was in favor of his version of the constitution and the elections won't ever happen.

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  • 5
    Mar
    2013
    12:29pm, EST

    'Spoiled' ballots could be critical as Kenya anxiously awaits election results

    Phil Moore / AFP - Getty Images

    Kenyans listen to a man speaking as residents of the Kibera slum in Nairobi discuss the incoming election results in the Kenyan capital on March 5.

    By Jason Straziuso, Rodney Muhumuza, The Associated Press

    A slow ballot count in Kenya's presidential election raised questions Tuesday about the election process, but it was the more than 325,000 "spoiled ballots" that emerged as a potentially bigger issue.

    More than 325,000 ballots — a number that keeps rising — have been thrown out for not following election rules, raising criticism of the electoral commission's voter education efforts. Those spoiled ballots, as they are called in Kenya, could still play a huge role on the election math and whether a runoff is declared for the top two candidates. Continue reading.

    Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin / AP

    Kenyans watch the provisional results for the presidential candidates as they are announced on television, at a restaurant in downtown Nairobi, Kenya on March 5.

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    Slideshow: Kenyans vote in crucial election

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    Five years after more than 1,200 people were killed in election-related violence, Kenyans went to the polls in a nationwide election seen as the most important in the country's 50-year history since independence.

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    Related: Kenya braces for elections, Odinga supporters rally


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  • 6
    Nov
    2012
    8:58pm, EST

    Ricardo Arduengo / AP

    People wave a Puerto Rican flag atop a moving vehicle during elections in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Nov. 6, 2012.

    Puerto Rico goes to the polls

    Associated Press reports — Puerto Ricans were facing a fundamental question on Election Day: Should they change their ties with the United States?

    Citizens in the U.S. island territory cannot vote in the U.S. presidential election, but many were excited to participate in a referendum that could push the territory toward statehood, greater autonomy or independence. Full story…

    Slideshow: Election 2012

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  • 6
    Nov
    2012
    7:22pm, EST

    From a pool hall to a barber school, Americans vote in some unexpected places

    Jeff Haynes / Reuters

    A voter casts her ballot at Marie's Golden Cue pool hall during the U.S. presidential election in Chicago, on Nov. 6.

    John Gress / Reuters

    Charles Durham votes at the Gordies Foundation Barber School during the U.S. presidential election at Sam's Auto Sales in Chicago, on Nov. 6.

    John Gress / Reuters

    Josephine Troesch picks up her ballot at Su Nueva Laundromat during the U.S. presidential election in Chicago, Nov. 6.

    Lucas Jackson / Reuters

    Poll workers attempt to start a generator to power a polling site built to service residents of the Queens borough neighborhoods of Breezy Point and the Rockaways on Nov. 6 in New York. The original voting site was damaged during Hurricane Sandy.

    Tom Mihalek / Reuters

    Sharon Applegate, left, looks on as Josh Caruso signs a book before voting at the Bay Head Fire Company in Bay Head, N.J., on Nov. 6.

    John Makely / NBC News

    John Dotterweich, a site inspector for the Ocean County Board of Elections removes the "Vote Here" sign from the "Mobile Voting Precinct" after about fifteen voters cast their ballots in Little Egg Harbor, N.J. on Nov. 6. The voting bus allowed those affected by Hurricane Sandy to cast their vote at the American Red Cross shelter in the Pinelands Regional Junior High School.

    Mike Groll / AP

    Voters fill out their ballots in a vehicle storage bay at Armory Garage, a Jeep, Chrysler, Dodge and Ram auto dealership, on Nov. 6 in Albany, N.Y.

    Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP

    Dave Reyes II waits to be the first voter in his precinct outside of the polling station set up in the garage of the Gallegos residence in Stockton, Calif., on Nov. 6.

    Jeff Haynes / Reuters

    Barbra Hunter, of Chicago casts her vote at the Urbanimal Pet Store polling place in Chicago on Nov. 6.

    Also on PhotoBlog:

    • Kids at the polls: They can't vote but we love to bring them along
    • One displaced voter heads to the polls in New Jersey town devastated by Sandy
    • The charms of rural voting: Casting your ballot in a neighbor's living room
    • Amid destroyed homes, Hurricane Sandy victims question going to the polls

    Slideshow: Election 2012

    Campaigning with Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, voting and election results.

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    Your Election Day photos

    Share pictures of you voting, your polling station, what’s important to you, or anything else that best sums up this American experience with us.  Post pictures on Twitter or Instagram by tagging them #NBCPolitics or upload photos using the form below. See what readers have already submitted.

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  • 6
    Nov
    2012
    5:38pm, EST

    This woman is really, really excited to vote

    Jeff Kowalsky / EPA

    Nina Bush reacts as she casts her ballot on an electronic voting machine at the Toledo Police Museum in Toledo, Ohio on Nov. 6 in this combination photo.

    By Jonathan Sanger, NBC News

    Nina Bush said that she was happy that she was able to cast her vote, believing she had done 'a good thing' by voting in the presidential election, according to photographer Jeff Kowalsky.

    Slideshow: Election 2012

    Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA

    Campaigning with Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, voting and election results.

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    Your Election Day photos

    Share pictures of you voting, your polling station, what’s important to you, or anything else that best sums up this American experience with us.  Post pictures on Twitter or Instagram by tagging them #NBCPolitics or upload photos using the form below. See what readers have already submitted.

     

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    I love that Nina Bush photoset. Probably one of the few advantages to voting in person. It's less of a production when you're filling it out on your couch.

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  • 6
    Nov
    2012
    12:14pm, EST

    The charms of rural voting: Casting your ballot in a neighbor's living room

    Randall Hill / Reuters

    Horse Gall precinct clerk David Smith, right, greets voter Paul Hiers at the home of Vincent Smith in Varnville, S.C., on election day. The polling place for the U.S. presidential and local elections is located in the den of David Smith's father's home. It used to be in the family garage but was moved to the den 30 years ago.

    Randall Hill / Reuters

    Horse Gall precinct clerk David Smith talks with poll workers Evelyn Moody, left, and Charlene Smith on election day in his father's den.

    John Flavell / AP

    People sign in to vote Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012 at the Elizaville precinct in Elizaville, Ky. The precinct is located in a general store built in 1821 and has 524 registered voters.

    Toby Talbot / AP

    Nancy Tassey casts her ballot next to the wood stove on Election Day at the Town Hall, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Calais, Vt.

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    • Home sweet...voting station?
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    Slideshow: Election 2012

    Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA

    Campaigning with Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, voting and election results.

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    I always voted in an old school house that was built in the late 1800's but now our new city center is the place. I like the old school better.

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  • 7
    Oct
    2012
    5:20pm, EDT

    Fate of Hugo Chavez's presidency lies in hands of Venezuelan voters

    Rodrigo Arangua / AFP - Getty Images

    People line up to cast their vote at a polling station in Caracas on Oct. 7. Venezuelans went to the polls Sunday in the toughest election President Hugo Chavez has faced in almost 14 years in power after fresh-faced rival Henrique Capriles electrified the opposition.

    Rodrigo Abd / AP

    Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez arrives to a polling station during the presidential election in Caracas, Venezuela, on Oct. 7.

    Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters

    Venezuela's opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles is mobbed by supporters after he voted in the presidential election pitting him against President Hugo Chavez, in Caracas on Oct. 7.

    Slideshow: Hugo Chavez through the years

    The life of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez from his rise as a lieutenant colonel after his failed coup attempt in 1992.

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    NBC News staff and wire services -- As Venezuelans streamed to the polls, President Hugo Chavez said Sunday he will accept the results of the country's election, whether he wins or loses.

    "We'll respect the results, whatever they are," he told reporters after casting his vote in Caracas. He also said voters were turning out in massive numbers in Sunday's election.   

    The Venezuelan leader is running against opposition leader Henrique Capriles in a vote widely viewed as the toughest electoral challenge of Chavez's nearly 14-year-old presidency.  Chavez was greeted at the polling center by American actor Danny Glover and Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu.

    The vote is an all-or-nothing contest between two camps that deeply distrust each other and question whether the other side will respect the results of the election. The stakes couldn't be higher. 

    If Chavez wins, he will have a free hand to dominate Venezuela for six more years on top of the 14 years he has already been in office, letting him push for an even bigger state role in the economy and cement his legacy.

    Continue reading.

    Sharon Steinmann / AP

    A man and woman ride a motorcycle decorated with a Venezuelan flag near a polling station during the presidential election in the 23 de Enero neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, on Oct. 7.

    Jorge Silva / Reuters

    Venezuelan presidential honor guards line up before casting their vote during the presidential elections in Caracas on Oct. 7.

    Ramon Espinosa / AP

    People wait to vote in the presidential election at a polling station in Caracas, Venezuela, on Oct. 7. President Hugo Chavez is running against opposition candidate Henrique Capriles.

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  • 27
    Sep
    2012
    1:06pm, EDT

    Iowa welcomes early voters ahead of the November 6 elections

    Scott Olson / Getty Images

    Residents wait in line to pick up a ballot during early voting at the Black Hawk County Courthouse on Sept. 27 in Waterloo, Iowa. Early voting starts today in Iowa where in the 2008 election 36 percent of voters cast an early ballot.

    Charlie Neibergall / AP

    Mark Cooper, of Des Moines, Iowa, places his ballot in the box during the first day of early voting for the November election, Sept. 27, at the Polk County Election Office in Des Moines, Iowa.

    Scott Olson / Getty Images

    A sample ballot hangs on the wall during early voting at the Black Hawk County Courthouse on Sept. 27 in Waterloo, Iowa.

    Charlie Neibergall / AP

    A voter fills out his ballot during the first day of early voting for the November election at the Polk County Election Office in Des Moines, Iowa on Sept. 27.

    Iowans on Thursday began voting in person at early voting sites and returning absentee ballots they requested by mail or in person. Iowa is one of 32 states that allow early voting, and any registered voter in Iowa is allowed to fill out and submit a ballot before the Nov. 6 election.

    • Complete election coverage at NBCPolitics.com
    • Obama ahead of Romney in Iowa polls as vote starts

    Slideshow: On the campaign trail

    Reuters, Getty Images

    In the final push in the 2012 presidential election, candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama make their last appeals to voters.

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  • 12
    Sep
    2012
    3:25pm, EDT

    Vincent Jannink / EPA

    Home sweet...voting station?

    Citizens of the village of Marle cast their ballot in the living room of the Westhoff family in the Netherlands, Sept. 12. The Westhoffs' house has been home to the smallest polling station for Dutch general elections since 1948. View more photos from the Netherlands on PhotoBlog.

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  • 5
    Jun
    2012
    11:39am, EDT

    Wisconsin votes on recalling their governor

    Scott Olson / Getty Images

    Residents vote shortly after the polls opened in the Wisconsin recall election at the Beloit Historical Society on June 5, in Beloit, Wisconsin. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, a Democrat, is trying to unseat Republican Governor Scott Walker in the recall election. Opponents of Walker forced a recall election after the governor pushed to change the collective bargaining process for public employees in the state.

    Jeffrey Phelps / AP

    People wait in line for voting to open on June 5, in Milwaukee. Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker is taking on Democratic challenger Tom Barrett in a recall election.

    AP reports -- After a brief but bruising campaign that followed a more than yearlong fight over union rights and the state's cash-strapped budget, voters in a narrowly divided Wisconsin began casting ballots Tuesday on whether to recall Gov. Scott Walker.

    The first-term Republican was back on the ballot just 17 months after his election. Enraged Democrats and labor activists gathered more than 900,000 signatures in support of the recall after they failed to stop Walker and his GOP allies in the state legislature from stripping most public employees of their union right to collectively bargain. Continue reading.

    For more information: Wisconsin recall vote continues the age of polarization.

    Morry Gash / AP

    Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker votes on June 5, in Wauwatosa, Wis. Walker faces Democratic challenger Tom Barrett in a special recall election.

    John Gress / Reuters

    Gubernatorial candidate and Milwaukee's Democratic Mayor Tom Barrett lines up to vote at the French Immersion School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 5. Wisconsin voters will decide on Tuesday whether to throw Governor Scott Walker out of office in a rare recall election forced by opponents of the Republican's controversial effort to curb collective bargaining for most unionized government workers.

    Jeffrey Phelps / AP

    Voters cast their ballots on June 5, in Milwaukee. Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker is taking on Democratic challenger Tom Barrett in a recall election.

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  • 3
    Apr
    2012
    10:40am, EDT

    Time to vote in Wisconsin, Maryland and D.C. primaries

    Jeffrey Phelps / EPA

    An election worker puts up a clock above voting booths in Saukville, Wisconsin, on April 3. Reports state that voters are going to the polls in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington to make their choice in the Republican presidential primary election.

    Jacquelyn Martin / AP

    Election worker Marline Coughman tapes a "voting" sign outside of Eastern Market on Washington's primary day in Washington, Tuesday, April 3.

    Luis M. Alvarez / AP

    Michael Finn votes at a polling place during a primary election in Ballenger Creek, Md., on Tuesday, April 3. Candidates in Maryland's 6th Congressional District focused their last-minute campaigning mainly on Montgomery and Frederick counties Tuesday as voters went to the polls to choose their parties' nominees.

    Although Rick Santorum has claimed the Wisconsin primary isn't "do or die," pretty much everyone else seems to disagree. The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd reports.

     For more on the primary season and to see results later today check out the NBC Politics.com reports.

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  • 29
    Nov
    2011
    12:52pm, EST

    Violence, missing ballots mar election in Congo as voting extends to a second day

    Phil Moore / AFP - Getty Images

    A voter shouts at an election official at the Njanja polling station in Lubumbashi on Nov. 29, 2011. The polling station was attacked by seven armed gunmen yesterday, who burned all of the ballot papers, including those already cast. Monitors reported widespread fraud in Democratic Republic of Congo elections and presidential rivals demanded an annulment as votes were counted Tuesday in polling marred by deadly violence.

    Jerome Delay / AP

    A Congolese man walks Tuesday Nov. 29, 2011 through ballots claimed to be fake by opposition supporters and then shredded and burned in a school used as a polling station in the Bandal commune in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, one day after the country went to the polls for presidential and parliamentary elections. The vote is only the second since the end of Congo's last war, and the first to be organized by the government instead of the international community. The election was supposed to mark another step toward peace, but if the results are not accepted by the population, especially the country's fractured opposition, analysts fear it could drag Congo back into conflict

    Simon Maina / AFP - Getty Images

    The Congolese national army patrols on Nov. 29 in the the town of Saki west of Goma. The armed forces have been deployed following several attacks in the country following the just concluded presidential and legislative election that was marred with violence in some parts of the country.The DRC held its second presidential and legislative election since 1960.

    Finbarr O'reilly/Reuters

    Results from a single polling station showing main opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi (bottom) with 56 votes to incumbent President Joseph Kabila's 36 votes (3rd from top) are posted on a wall in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa, November 29, 2011. First results emerged from the Democratic Republic of Congo's chaotic elections on Tuesday but some voters were still casting their ballots in a vote tainted by confusion, violence and allegations of fraud. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

    Phil Moore / AFP - Getty Images

    A voting official sits in the Njanja polling station in Lubumbashi on Nov. 29, 2011. Monitors reported widespread fraud in Democratic Republic of Congo elections and presidential rivals demanded an annulment as votes were counted Tuesday in polling marred by deadly violence.

     From the AP:

    KINSHASA, Congo — After an election marred by missing ballots and violence, officials extended voting to a second day Tuesday in an attempt to prevent further unrest in sub-Saharan Africa's largest nation.

    Country experts had urged the government to postpone Monday's presidential and legislative elections, arguing that a delayed vote was better than a botched one.

    Congo is in a race against the clock, though, because the five-year term of President Joseph Kabila expires next week, and the country could face more unrest if he is seen as staying past his constitutional mandate. For more on the story click here.

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    If think that one could notice two things. The first one is that despite the use of disproportinate violence by the government, the Congolese people rushed to the polling stations. To me it means that they are eager to have their voice eared. The second one is that despite the use of fraud, pressure …

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