News of voting

ELECTIONS 2025

Foreign residents can vote in Buenos Aires – here’s what you need to know

16-05-2025 14:13 Here's what you need to know for the 2025 elections.

Brazil prosecutor charges Bolsonaro over failed coup plot

19-02-2025 14:47 Brazil's attorney general charged ex-president Jair Bolsonaro for an alleged coup attempt, including approval of a plan to poison his political rival amidst the 2022 election.

UNITED STATES ELECTION 2024

Win the vote but still lose? Behold America's Electoral College

04-11-2024 15:39 An inside look at the United States's Electoral College system that won Donald Trump the election in 2016.

UNITED STATES ELECTION 2024

US Embassy issues election voting reminder for citizens in Argentina

20-09-2024 06:27 Ambassador Marc Stanley calls on voters to “make sure their vote counts” in voting registration deadline drive.

by Cimran Naik

EDITORIAL

Are youth votes wasted on the young?

06-07-2024 05:27 Electoral opportunism is at work.

POLITICS

La Libertad Avanza wants lower voting age in time for 2025 midterms

05-07-2024 16:31 Idea is taking form in the Casa Rosada these days along with the political reform the government plans to launch in the second half of the year. Along with lowering the age of criminal responsibility to 13, the government is evaluating allowing children aged 14 or over to cast ballots in elections.

by Rosario Ayerdi

POLITICS

Group of Unión por la Patria deputies to back Milei’s Omnibus bill

17-04-2024 16:40 "Yes to the law, no to the Emergency Decree." Sources in Peronist caucus say some deputies – who will not make their stance public for now – will back President Milei’s reform bill in Congress.

by Ramón Indart

VOTING & DEMOCRACY

104-year-old grandmother wins court battle to protect her vote

07-11-2023 16:00 Berazategui grandmother Fanny Magdalena Córdoba, has voted in every election since 1951, when women first won suffrage in Argentina. Blocked in this year's elections from casting a ballot due to her age, she went to court to ensure she retained her democratic right to vote.

by Ariel Stemphelet

ELECTION 2023

Which of Argentina’s presidential candidates won the prison vote?

31-10-2023 14:28 Electoral roll for incarcerated population reveals that more than 25,000 prisoners cast a vote in the October 22 presidential election, with Sergio Massa receiving almost 72%.

ELECTION 2023 RESULTS

Massa overturns odds in election, will face Milei in November run-off

22-10-2023 21:18 With 76% of polling stations reporting, Sergio Massa leads the race for the Presidency with 35.9% of the vote; Javier Milei set to join him in run-off after taking 30.5%; Bullrich all but out with just 23%.

ELECTION 2023

Exit polls forecast presidential run-off as polling stations close in Argentina

22-10-2023 18:11 Argentines nationwide headed to the polls Sunday to pick a president they will trust with the urgent mission to pull the economy from the brink of disaster.

Election 2023

Voting underway as polling stations open across Argentina

22-10-2023 09:25 Argentina's polling stations nationwide open doors to voters for crunch election; Some 35.8 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots on election day but must do so before 6pm.

ELECTION 2023

Radical outsider Milei fires up young Argentines ahead of election

05-10-2023 11:50 Many young people are flocking behind radical upstart Javier Milei, the libertarian lawmaker who has surged to the front of Argentina's presidential race.