BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's election commission announced Monday that officials were investigating "unusually high" numbers of "yes" votes in about a dozen provinces during Iraq's landmark referendum on a new constitution, raising questions about irregularities in the balloting.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's electoral commission said Monday it intended to audit "unusually high" numbers in results coming from most provinces in Saturday's landmark referendum on the draft constitution.

In an attempt to alleviate rampant voter fraud discovered in previous elections, the state of Texas passed a new voter ID law in 2011, which the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) brazenly blocked on Monday because it claims the law would disenfranchise minority voters.

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's top electoral body, the Guardian Council, found "no major fraud" in the disputed June 12 election and ruled out annulling the the results, Iran's state TV Tuesday quoted a spokesman for the council as saying.

BANGKOK, Thailand - Thailand's Election Commission has ruled that the governing People's Power Party committed electoral fraud in December polls and should be dissolved.

I am appalled that my mother who is 88 years old, born in New England and recently moved to Arizona, has been denied registration to vote. She went to the motor vehicle office with her Florida voter registration, Florida state issued picture ID (she is blind and does not drive) and social security card. She was denied and told she must produce a birth certificate, which she does not have.

Arizona has to allow residents of other states to circulate petitions to put independent presidential contenders on the ballot, the U.S. Supreme Court has concluded.

It is long past time for former leftist Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to call off the massive (and mostly peaceful) protests that have tied up traffic and shuttered businesses in central Mexico City.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's electoral commission won't release final results from last month's election in coming days because the panel is waiting on international monitors to finish investigating fraud complaints, a senior Iraqi election official said Saturday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Rene Preval was declared the winner of Haiti's presidential election Thursday under an agreement between the interim government and electoral council, staving off a crisis over last week's disputed vote.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's election commission announced Monday that officials were investigating "unusually high" numbers of "yes" votes in about a dozen provinces during Iraq's landmark referendum on a new constitution, raising questions about irregularities in the balloting.

When our nation’s founders wrote the language in the First Amendment guaranteeing the right to “petition the government for a redress of grievances,” there were no words describing the form of that petition.

ELON, N.C. - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said Thursday that God blessed the nation with oil and gas resources and other forms of energy that should be tapped to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign suppliers.

The future of voting is online, and moving Arizona’s elections to the Internet would save money, deter voter fraud and increase efficiency, a state lawmaker says.

Attorney General Tom Horne will argue to the nation's high court on March 18 that Arizona should be allowed to enforce a 2004 voter-approved law requiring people to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote.

Legislation to revamp how Arizona conducts elections and to make it eligible for $58 million in federal funding is headed to Gov. Janet Napolitano after receiving overwhelming Senate approval.

MEXICO CITY - Felipe Calderon's slim lead in Mexico's presidential race was called into question as an official recount of vote tallies showed his leftist opponent slightly ahead late Wednesday. However, Calderon insisted he had won and even offered to include his rival in his Cabinet.

Efforts by Arizona Republican lawmakers to overhaul the early voting process and fight election fraud have drawn criticism from Democrats and civic groups who fear the proposed changes would limit turnout among the state's growing Hispanic electorate.

The Gilbert political scene is in a post-election lull since the March 10 primary. Residents are mulling the ramifications of the defeat of longtime Mayor Steve Berman, and candidates in the May 19 runoff are gathering strength and funding for the battle.

MEXICO CITY - Felipe Calderon was declared president-elect Tuesday after two months of uncertainty, but his ability to rule effectively remained in doubt with Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowing to lead a parallel leftist government from the streets.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Final results from Iraq's landmark referendum on a new constitution will likely not be announced until Friday at the earliest because of delays getting counts to the capital and a wide-ranging audit of an unexpectedly high number of "yes" votes, election officials said.

"Yet another friend of Obama's is being investigated for corruption. Was he elected because he said this would not happen under his watch?"

"Yet another friend of Obama's is being investigated for corruption. Was he elected because he said this would not happen under his watch?"

Secretary of State Ken Bennett has moved to strip the Green Party of its political status in Arizona. Bennett said the latest voter registration figures show that the party did not have enough members to qualify under state law for its own place on the ballot. He said that, under state law, it needed at least 20,773 registered voters; at last count there were only 4,216 Arizonans who, when registering to vote, listed themselves as members of the Green Party.