Elections – Page 84 – People's World

Brazil shifts right; Bolsonaro pledges to eliminate “the reds”

October 30, 2018 By Emile Schepers

According to the new president, the only problem with repression under the old military dictatorship was that it did not kill enough people.

Voter rights propositions look like winners in battleground state of Michigan

October 29, 2018 By Roberta Wood

With voter suppression sweeping the country, Michigan activists are going on the counteroffensive with an effort called “Promote the Vote.”

North Dakota tribes struggle against voter suppression

October 29, 2018 By Blake Nicholson

First-time voter Colten Birkland, 19, says, “In the end, we’re going to do whatever we can to vote."

Will even more GOP-held districts flip in Virginia?

October 25, 2018 By Emile Schepers

A surge in absentee voting and new polling data suggest Democrats might oust as many as 4 of the GOP’s current 7 members of Congress.

Brazil’s Bolsonaro promises to purge the left if elected

October 25, 2018 By Steve Sweeney

“These red outlaws will be banished from our homeland. It will be a clean-up the likes of which has never been seen in Brazilian history,” the candidate threatened on Wednesday.