Some members of Richland County Council now seem reluctant to allocate public money to educate voters on the details of a penny sales tax referendum. Tonight, the council holds a public hearing on the $25,000 budget amendment one that has helped unite opponents of raising the local sales tax to...

There have been 56 national elections or referendums worldwide since Iraqis voted in the parliamentary poll on March...

By Andrew Heavens KHARTOUM (Reuters) - South Sudan's army said on Tuesday it planned to buy its first transport helicopters in the near future and hoped to build up a full air force if southerners chose independence in a looming referendum.

TODAY is the National Day of Macedonia. It has been a national holiday since 1991, when a referendum for independence took place. The Republic of Macedonia gained its independence from Yugoslavia, where it was a federal state, and became a sovereign parliamentary...

KONYA, Turkey (Reuters) - Shortly before sweeping to power, Tayyip Erdogan pledged at the tomb of state founder Ataturk to revive a secular democracy he said was losing the nation's...

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Low voter turnout fails to break political impasse that has left Europe's poorest country without president for a year. Last Modified: 06 Sep 2010 00:33 GMT A referendum aimed at breaking a political stalemate in Moldova, which has left the country leaderless, has failed following a low voter turnout.

Ljubljana, 6 September (STA) - Daily Delo criticizes the Croatian government on Monday for trying to prove the unions cheated in collecting 800,000 signatures in support of a referendum against labour...

Filed at 6:46 a.m. ET CHISINAU (Reuters) - Moldova's pro-Western leaders pondered their next move on Monday after a referendum designed to break a political deadlock in the ex-Soviet republic failed due to poor turnout, dealing them a humiliating...

Moldovans stayed away from the polls in a referendum on whether the voters should elect their president directly. The low turnout appears to have dashed hopes of a resolution to the political deadlock in the...

Reuters/Chisinau Moldovas pro-European leaders agreed yesterday to call new parliamentary elections to break a political deadlock after being dealt a humiliating setback on Sunday when a referendum flopped due to a poor...

Reuters/Khartoum Sudan plans to more than double its gold output in two years partly to help make up for a possible fall in oil revenues if its crude-producing south chooses to secede in a looming referendum, the minerals minister said...

The Miami Parking Authority is fighting back. In July, Miami commissioners put a referendum on November's ballot asking voters to let the city take over the semiautonomous agency -- with a view to use the MPA as leverage to borrow millions and backfill the city's depleted...

Europe's poorest country Moldova votes Sunday in a referendum aimed at ending a protracted political stalemate and paving the way for the selection of a new...

By RFE/RL Moldovans are going to the polls today to vote on a constitutional referendum on reestablishing direct presidential elections. The referendum aims to end a political deadlock that has left Moldova without a president or the ability to pass new legislation for a...

Filed at 5:30 a.m. ET CHISINAU (Reuters) - Moldovans voted on Sunday on whether to elect their president directly, a change that Moldova's West-leaning ruling coalition says would bring an end to chronic political...

A referendum asking Otago Polytechnic students whether they support the student organisation withdrawing from its national association will be held this...

Ten local government referendum questions with financial ramifications will be scattered on Lake County ballots in November. In addition, voters in some towns will get to weigh in on an advisory question asking if the governor and state legislators should take meaningful steps to implement public...

Ljubljana, 4 September (STA) - Dnevnik suggests in a commentary on Saturday that PM Borut Pahor was slightly overconfident when stating that the government would win a potential referendum on the pension...

By Illeana Breitenstein It has been almost exactly one year since Moldova's Communist president, Vladimir Voronin, stepped down, and the country's deadlocked legislature has been unable to muster the 61 votes needed to elect a successor, despite repeated...