As municipal elections approach, The Associated Press Oakley has two city council vacancies to fill in November, but no one has filed the papers to be placed on the ballot, and the deadline for write-in candidacy looms ever closer.

Police in northwestern Pakistan are initiating an inquiry after receiving complaints that two dead women won positions at a local election held last month. The women were elected as councilors in the Upper Dir district in the North West Frontier Province. However, both died 13 years and three years ago, respectively.

To keep his promise, a New Zealand politician runs naked through the streets on Sunday. He earlier pledged to run naked if he lost an election bet. According to Agence France-Press

A new ringtone invades cellphones all across the Philippines: the allegedly wiretapped voice of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's comments on vote-rigging. A voice resembling that of Arroyo is heard talking to an election official requesting assurance of a one-million-vote margin over her fiercest opponent during the May 2004 election.

New York's crime-fighting Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is usually immersed in the task of fighting crime on a large scale. He did however, take time to handle a smaller crime, in which a restaurant owner was allegedly pocketing the tips given to his waiters and waitresses.