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Nothing fancy..This provides a countdown till the final elections, analysis, online polls and election updates.. A good place to check from time to time to know whats going on and what people are saying.

Al jazeera's detailed updated on all steps of the US elections

The Republican Campaign Trail Weekend Update. Santorum seems to be in the lead for Southern electors. Make sure to watch the video, it's a great compliment to the text. Mississipi and Alabama follow Tuesday so let's keep an eye out.

Interesting analysis of the US motives from the Kony intervention

Actually, it doesn't necessarily mean "dishonest" at least in the way the campaign developed. Just because the NGO didn't roll out their entire agenda in a video doesn't mean they're hiding anything. The video itself was aimed at a component of their objective in Uganda: Make Kony a household name. Dishonest here is a matter of opinion, in terms of how the campaign construction and evolution (encoding) is done. Calling it a scam is like saying advertisers are trying to steal your money, they don't tell you we want to make profit, but rather you need to consume our product. If you choose to participate and donate, it is your job as an activist to do the necessary research, at least in my opinion. The rest can be chalked up to the debate: should campaigners give its audience all of the information or should they give them enough and have them make a decision (lethargic & informed vs. active & smart). Then we seek to define how much is enough, which gets down to opinion. The bottom line however is over such a short period of time and the quick rise of the deviant opinion is something we should definitely examine. The "hidden" motives are basically the motives that weren't included in the video KONY2012 video. However it fulfilled its purpose as a medium, raise awareness about the cause (itself, but not the NGO's agenda), involve as many people as possible. In the end it comes down to framing the issue. As for Invisible Children as an organization, it has its Vision and Mission Statement set clear on its website. There were very broad headlines concerning their Kony initiative, they offered a step by step plan when major criticism began to surface. They have updated their page accordingly: http://www.invisiblechildren.com/critiques.html - and cracking down because of their funding of the Ugandan army is a matter of political debate. Either you prefer to arm the Ugandans (past human rights abusers) and have them expel the threat themselves, allow the threat of the L

RA to grow, or allow foreign intervention to deal with the issue. From here it's a matter of perspective, and which proponent is thinking of the case of Uganda.

25 February 2012 Last updated at 22:11 ET Mr Wade's candidacy has sparked violent protests People in Senegal are set to vote in a presidential election, with incumbent Abdoulaye Wade seeking a controversial third term. Mr Wade's re-election bid sparked protests in which several people died.

3 March 2012 Last updated at 13:15 ET Webcams have been installed at polling stations in response to fraud allegations Russian voters are going to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president. Vladimir Putin, who was president from 2000-2008, is hoping to return to the post after spending four years as prime minister, a step he took to abide by the constitution.

29 February 2012 Last updated at 21:44 ET The Santorum and Romney campaigns will be paying close attention to Ohio's primary voters US Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have each won half of Michigan's 30 available primary delegates, officials say.

3 March 2012 Last updated at 11:13 ET Friday's elections to the Iranian parliament are the first nationally since the 2009 protests Iran's interior minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar has said that initial figures show turnout in Friday's parliamentary elections was 64%.

I am not disagreeing but I just like to push people to question their beliefs and where they come from. In other words, acknowledge the 0.00001% chance that the elections were not fabricated and consider what that would actually mean.

I agree with you! It's always good to play devil's advocate and challenge what people say.

28 February 2012 Last updated at 15:59 ET The legislative elections were the first since the uprising against President Hosni Mubarak Egypt's upper house of parliament has chosen an Islamist as its speaker, consolidating the Muslim Brotherhood's control of the country's legislature.

Rural Ohio Voters Grudgingly Accept Romney But voters in this city, which sits in John Boehner's congressional district, seemed divided at the polls, between those who had decided, grudgingly, to accept Mitt Romney, and those who just couldn't do it.