Hike fees for magisterial recounts, says Leiba

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Hike fees for magisterial recounts, says Leiba

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: President of the Jamaican Bar Association, Emile Leiba, has called for the hiking of costs charged to candidates who request magisterial recounts in national elections. At present, a sum of $40 is required of each candidate...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Voters take part in 'illegal' election in Ethiopia's Tigray region | Africanews

Ageing war veterans and university students joined long pre-dawn lines in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region to vote Wednesday in parliamentary elections that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government has deemed

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Isaias near hurricane strength as it crawls toward Carolinas - Black News Channel

By Sam Metz AP/Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada lawmakers passed a bill that would add the state to a growing list of U.S. states mailing active voters ballots ahead of the November election amid the coronavirus pandemic. The bill, which was passed Sunday, now heads to

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Malawi re-run: opposition candidate wins, unseating Mutharika

June 27: Chakwera declared winner

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Malawi votes in closely-watched historic presidential re-run

Malawian voters defied the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday to return to the polls for the second time in just over a year after President Peter Mutharika's re-election was annulled in a dramatic court

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How Malawian voters celebrated president Chakwera's poll victory | Africanews

Supporters of Malawi’s new president Lazarus Chakwera gathered for a fireworks display in the capital Lilongwe, celebrating his victory in a keen presidential election

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Burundi elections: Top court rejects opposition bid to annul poll results

Burundi's constitutional court on Thursday rejected an opposition bid to overturn the results of last month's contested election, declaring the ruling party's presidential candidate Evariste Ndayishimiye the

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"It's a Runoff Election" | The Savannah Tribune

In a runoff election, the candidate with the greatest number of votes wins outright in the first round if he/she obtains more than a predefined fraction of the votes (called the threshold for the first-round victory). If no candidate wins in the first round, then a second round is held between the

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Ethiopia: Abiy Put Ethiopia On the Road to Democracy, But Major Obstacles Still Stand in the Way

In particular, the Tigray People's Liberation Front, a regional political organisation that had major dominance over the old revolutionary front, has now emerged as a major political foe to Abiy's Prosperity

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Magisterial recounts start in Westmoreland Eastern on Friday

THE first of three magisterial recounts requested by lawyers for Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidates with close losses in last Thursday's general election will be held on Friday in Westmoreland Eastern.One of the lead attorneys for the candidates, Caroline Chuck, confirmed yesterday afternoon

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Strict Rules in Place as D.C. Prepares for Early Voting Next Month

With early voting in D.C. beginning Oct. 27, the city's board of elections remains focused on getting some 3,000 poll workers trained by the second week of the month.

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Source: The Washington Informer

Trump demands ‘these votes must not count’ after California opens poll site in heavily Black area

President Donald Trump demanded that votes from a new voting location in a Los Angeles suburb with a large black population “must not count” as he lashed out at California for its attempts to make it easier Americans to

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Works at Soin-Koru dam to start soon after tender is floated

The project is expected to reduce flooding in lower areas of the River Nyando, and supply water for domestic use, irrigation and

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How long more do we have to endure the ordeal of not having a legitimate government in place?

On 13 June, the Chief Election Officer presented his report to the Elections Commission on the recount of the votes cast in the 2020 elections, as required by paragraph 12 of the gazetted Order of

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8 minutes and 46 seconds: May we never witness this again

Over the past weeks across the nation, united demonstrations have made the message clear: People have had enough of the ongoing struggle for equality and equity, of the battle against systemic injustice, and the fear of being a person of color in

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Low turnout as France votes in local polls

PARIS, France (AFP) — French voters abstained in their millions Sunday from a final round of municipal elections predicted to deal a blow to the party of President Emmanuel

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Pulpit to presidency: Malawi's new president takes office

June 28: Chakwera, Chilima sworn in

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Oprah's OWN Network Launches New Voting Intiative For Black Women

This week media mogul Oprah Winfrey's television network, OWN, has announced that it will be launching the "OWN Your Vote" as a bipartisan initiative to encourage Black women to go out and vote.

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OP-ED: 8 minutes and 46 seconds | The Michigan Chronicle

By Ray Curry, Secretary-Treasurer, UAW Over the past weeks across the nation, united demonstrations have made the message clear: People have had enough of the ongoing struggle for equality and equity, of the battle against systemic injustice, and the fear of being a person of color in America. The

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Zambia, a landlocked country in south-central Africa, is about one-tenth larger than Texas. It is surrounded by Angola, Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia. The country is mostly a plateau that rises to 8,000 ft (2,434 m) in the

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EOJ crafts COVID rules for election day

Jamaicans gearing up to cast their ballot are being urged to wear masks when they vote on election day but Director of Elections Glasspole Brown said that those in breach will not be turned away from polling stations. Instead, Electoral Office of...

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My Truth: Three Things!

I received a note from a Census 2020 exec that I know should be of assistance to some: “There is a big recruiting effort going on due to

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Letters to the Editor

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Malawi ruling party cries foul over presidential vote re-run

Malawi's governing party has called for a third presidential election, citing irregularities and intimidation in this week's re-run vote as unofficial tallies show incumbent President Peter Mutharika losing to the opposition

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Fulton Registrations and Elections announces polling site changes for primary

Shifting poll sites required because of loss of locations due to COVID-19 pandemic

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Cuthbert-Flynn sprints to second term

OLYMPIAN Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn sprinted to a second term as the member of parliament (MP) for St Andrew West Rural after securing more than 3,000 more votes than her contender, the People’s National Party’s (PNP) Krystal Tomlinson. Cuthbert-Flynn...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

15 first-timers on their way to Gordon House

OF the first-time candidates fielded by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People's National Party (PNP) in yesterday's general election, 15 have been elected to office: 13 for the JLP and two for the PNP. Eight of them are men.

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Trump Doubles Down On Fact-Free Fraud Theory About Mail-In Voting

President Donald Trump on Sunday posted on Twitter alleging that mail-in ballots allow for widespread election fraud, despite widespread evidence to the

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OP-ED: Check Your Mailbox —Your Vote Will Count

She recently announced her department will be sending out unsolicited absentee ballot applications to 7.7 million registered voters in

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Stacey Abrams Angered By Georgia Primary Voting Collapse, May Take Legal Action

Extremely long lines at the polls during the Georgia primary that caused voters to wait as long as eight hours to cast ballots were a source of chaos in the election, which had already been postponed because of

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F.W. de Klerk , in full Frederik Willem de Klerk (born March 18, 1936, Johannesburg, S.Af.), politician who as president of South Africa (1989–94) brought the apartheid system of racial segregation to an end and negotiated a transition to majority rule in his country. He and Nelson Mandela

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