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Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday dismissed opposition criticism of the country's general election as "illegitimate" as she celebrated securing her fifth term in power. "The election was free and fair" she told reporters, in her first comments since the vote on Sunday, insisting that "those who want to criticise can criticise". SOUNDBITE
Tehran, Jun 20 (EFE/EPA).- The United States Saturday said it would build on the "meaningful progress" on the possible return to the 2015 nuclear accord even as Iranian presidential elections were not free and fair.In the first remarks after ultraconservative chief justice Ebrahim Raisi was declared winner in the presidential race, the US Department of State said the Joe Biden administration would keep discussing possibilities of returning to the deal.Raisi is seen close to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 81, who holds ultimate political power. (Camera: ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH).FOOTAGE SHOT ON JUNE 19, 2021, SHOWS SUPPORTERS OF IRANIAN PRESIDENT ELECT EBRAHIM RAISI CELEBRATE IN IMAM HUSSEIN SQUARE IN TEHRAN, IRAN.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday offered his congratulations for holding 'free and fair elections.' However, he didn't offer them towards his own country. Nor has he recognized President-elect Joe Biden as the winner. Instead, Business Insider reports Pompeo congratulated Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves on his reelection in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Pompeo on Friday left Washington for a 10-day trip to seven countries with leaders that have congratulated Biden on his 2020 victory. Countries across the globe have congratulated Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. But St. Vincent and the Grenadines has not.
A record-shattering 100 million Americans cast their ballots in the 2020 general election before polls opened Tuesday. CNN reports the millions of mail-in ballots are expected to lead to a delay in the counting of votes once the polls close. Nevertheless, President Donald Trump has continued to falsely claim that the count is supposed to be completed by Election Night. His stance is politically beneficial because more GOP voters are expected to show up on Election Day, while more Democrats are expected to vote through the mail. Even before polls opened on Election Day, both presidential camps were gearing up for legal confrontations. The changes to voting rules due to the pandemic sparked a litany of court cases over rules related to voting and the counting of ballots.
While general elections in the United States may seem highly regulated and bureaucratized, it wasn't always that way. Bustle reports that during the first election in 1789, only white men who owned property could vote. That rule excluded a whopping 94 percent of the population. The Constitution didn't define a specific Election Day, either. In fact, in the early 1800s, people could vote anywhere from April to December. Elections are only held on Tuesdays because people had to travel by buggy to vote. Sunday church couldn't be disrupted, and Wednesday was market day. Until 1804, presidential nominees didn't name a running mate. Instead, the candidate who got the second most number of votes became the vice president. Dozens of states used to have laws restricting buying alcohol on Election Day, to prevent people from buying or selling votes. South Carolina was the last state to do away with their laws, in 2014.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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