Tag: elections

Iranian voters will boycott country’s upcoming ‘sham’ elections, resistance group says

Most Iranians will boycott the country’s March 1 parliamentary elections because their political system is rigged in favor of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his favored candidates, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the world’s largest exiled Iranian dissident movement. At a press conference in Washington on Thursday, NCRI officials said […]

Taiwan vote hacking efforts could be a warmup for U.S. elections

Hackers got busy as Taiwanese voters prepared to cast ballots last month. Officials at U.S.-based cybersecurity firm Trellix said they detected a surge in hacking efforts against the island democracy just before fraught national elections. The firm assessed that the hackers were likely searching for compromising material to spring a last-minute surprise and shift voters’ […]