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The commission has also been given additional headaches following last month's local elections in Kano State. In the aftermath of that poll, a video emerged showing young children thumb-printing ballot papers. INEC did not oversee that election, but some claimed it had been responsible for registering ...

These days, having Facebook and national elections in the same sentence inspires more questions than confidence. Over the past week, as the extent of Cambridge Analytica's data harvest has become clearer, Facebook has faced severe questions over its own data policies. In his first public statement ...

Discovered by a security researcher last week, the files confirm that AggregateIQ, a British Columbia-based data firm, developed the technology Cambridge Analytica sold to clients for millions of dollars during the 2016 US presidential election. Hundreds if not thousands of pages of code, as well as ...

... held on Monday afternoon in Freetown, the court ordered that the interim injunction refraining the electoral commission from organising the election runoff is vacated. ''The interim injunction that the 1st and 2nd defendants should be refrained from conducting the March 27 presidential elections is vacated.

Democrats' triumph in a House special election in Pennsylvania gives them hope for big gains in November's midterm elections. But the party still faces a tough path toward winning two other House special elections set for later this year. Democrat Conor Lamb scored a narrow of win in Pennsylvania's 18th ...

This week in the Russia investigations: Washington turns its focus to election security. Will it be enough? The Russia imbroglio is so vast that only parts of it come into focus at one time. One day: social media agitation. Next day: potential collusion. But one of the biggest, least appreciated and potentially ...