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Outside the Maricopa County Recorder’s office in downtown Phoenix, amid a hum of construction, Don Newton searched for a location where he could drop off his ballot for the midterm elections. The 82-year-old said he doesn’t trust the ballot boxes the county has set up to help facilitate early voting — and he’s not alone. “There’s a movie out there called 2000 Mules with all sorts of video of the stolen election, with the ballot boxes out there in the sticks with no lights on them or anything,” he said. The film Mr Newton cited has been widely debunked. But that hasn’t stopped it from sewing an alarming degree of mistrust in the electoral process among a wide swath of Americans. In Arizona, it has inspired far right groups to send people — sometimes armed and wearing body armour — to monitor ballot boxes. Those armed poll watchers were affiliated with a group calling itself Clean Elections USA. Led by an evangelical Christian pastor from Oklahoma, Clean Elections USA, has advocated for ...

 France is days away from round one of the French presidential elections 2022. Incumbent President Emmanuel Macron is seeking to repel the threat coming from far right, spearheaded once again by the redoubtable and resurgent Marine le Pen. Elections of this nature are never fought with the gloves on, but this year's French elections have been particularly spicy, their temperature raised to boiling point by divisions over France's response to Covid-19, Islamic terrorism and - above all other considerations - economic inequality. Here, The National gives the timeline of French presidential elections 2022 and explains how they work. When are the French presidential election 2022 polls? The first round of voting is this Sunday: April 10. Should it be needed, there will be a second round of voting on April 24 before the winner is formally anointed on May 13. Emmanuel Macron on the election trail in Paris on April 2.  How do the French presidential elections work? The 12 candidates ...