MAJURO — Postal absentee ballots have upended three high-profile candidates in the Marshall Islands demonstrating the increasing power of Marshall Islands voters living in the United States to influence national elections. Parliament incumbents Amenta Matthew, the current health minister, and Gerald Zackios, a three-term incumbent and former foreign minister, would have won reelection based on the domestic vote...

but have now lost with the announcement Wednesday of the postal absentee results.

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