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By Ramona Mitchell, 15 | Artwork by Jae-Din Bryant, Youth Farm Participants Voting is a very big thing for everyone. It is a collective decision that is used to express an opinion, statement or questions. My name is Ramona Mitchell, I am 15 years old, I am currently a St. Pete resident, and my opinion matters […]

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Guest Editorial – Guyana In Crisis | New York Carib News

Guyanese must commit to dealing with long- term political crisis that has blighted the country for 50 years. After 50 years, can the PPP and the PNC be relied on to solve the constitutional and electoral problems they have created and sustained? These two parties have been at the forefront of every

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Source: The New York Carib News

County promises shorter lines for November voting

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County will use new technology to help voters track wait times and speed check-in at polls this November, in addition to sending vote-by-mail ballots to every registered voter in hopes of limiting the potential spread of COVID-19, officials said June

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Moment of truth approaches for GECOM Chair

As the recount of votes from the March 2nd general elections crawls along it must not be forgotten that what should have been an orderly process with a result within two or three days was obscenely overturned by the Returning Officer for District Four, Clairmont Mingo when he introduced numbers

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Trinidad's PM invites CARICOM, Commonwealth to observe August election

Trinidad (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has written to CARICOM Secretary General Irwin La Rocque and Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland inviting them to send election observers to the upcoming general election on ...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Dr Hinds is attempting to create an elections narrative that has no empirical basis

Dr. Hinds’ letter covered three broad themes and, at this time, I am limiting my response to the narrative he seeks to establish with respect to the credibility of the March 2, 2020

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Burundi: I Cry, Not for Nkurunziza, but for the Lives He Broke

On 25 April 2020, exactly five years after Pierre Nkurunziza announced he would run for a third term, I attended the virtual screening of a new

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Source: allAfrica.com

Do you Want to Honor Congressman John R. Lewis? Vote. - Houston Forward Times

I watched the Homegoing services for Congressman John Lewis with both sadness and

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Source: Houston Forward Times - Reporting The Truth | Affecting Change | Moving Forward

Major hitch in push for early referendum

“With adequate budgetary facilitation, the commission is ready to deliver on its constitutional mandates, among them conducting elections and referendums,” Mr Chebukati

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Madagascar | FactMonster

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Malawi: Chakwera Leads in Malawi Opinion Polls - MCP Says Not Taking Anything for Granted

With a month left until fresh presidential elections, opinion polls by Afrobaromete suggest that Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and UTM Party alliance presidential candidate Lazarus Chakwera would win the ballot, but MCP has said it will not be

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Source: allAfrica.com

Over the summer of 2012, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Ansar Dine, another radical Islamist group, took advantage of the instability and an increasingly weak military and captured Timbuktu, Kidal, and Gao. The groups briefly allied themselves with the Tuareg rebels, but severed ties and

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#Election2020: Democrats sue Georgia election officials over lines at polls | The Atlanta Voice

Democrats are asking a federal judge to order Georgia election officials to take steps to prevent long lines at the polls on Election Day. A lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court in Atlanta alleges that the causes of long lines that have forced Georgians to wait hours to vote during multiple

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Public comments now accepted to remove the MPD from the...

Members of the public interested in commenting on the proposed charter amendment establishing a new Department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention and removing the Police Department as a charter department can submit comments

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The elections end game

The most recent point at which Mr Granger could have done the right thing and spared the country from further agony was the presentation of the report of the three-person CARICOM observer team which bravely and sedulously undertook the scutinising of the recount and tabulation of votes over five

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Voting situation today in Fulton and DeKalb called unacceptable | Atlanta Daily World

Statement from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Investigation into Fulton and Dekalb County Elections Processes: The voting situation today in certain precincts in Fulton and Dekalb counties is unacceptable. My office has opened an investigation to determine what these counties need

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New roadmap for Uganda’s February elections

Uganda’s Electoral Commission announced on Tuesday that it will push ahead with organising the scheduled February 2021 General

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Source: The East African

FIFA Hearing over Alleged FIF Presidential Elections Malpractice | Africanews

New developments in the Ivorian Football Federation presidential race in light of a newly established committee to oversee the hearing of various actors involved in the election process after its suspension last

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Ghana: EC Outlines COVID-19 Measures for Compilation of New Voters Register

The Electoral Commission (EC) has outlined measures to curb spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) as it laces its boots for the compilation of a new voters

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Source: allAfrica.com

Louisiana Voters Endorsed Constitutional

Louisiana voters endorsed constitutional convention and elected delegates in first election under Reconstruction acts. The vote was 75,000 for the convention and 4,000 against. Elections for delegates to the conventions were held in other Southern states in October and November.

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Rowley invites Caricom, Commonwealth to observe Trinidad elections | New York Carib News

Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has written to CARICOM Secretary-General Irwin La Rocque and Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland inviting them to send election observers to the upcoming general election on August 10.

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Source: The New York Carib News

Same ole game - WS Chronicle

Same ole game The post Same ole game appeared first on WS Chronicle.

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Very plausible that 464,565 Guyanese cast their ballots in 2020

Given the generally perceived poor performances of the governments during this period it is no surprise that the three elections have been the most competitive (one seat majorities/minorities for the winner) in the history of

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

'Ballot harvesting' targeted amid fight over voting rules - Black News Channel

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — As President Donald Trump's reelection campaign challenged Nevada's new voting law in court, the president and Republicans argued the rules would facilitate fraud and illegal voting. Chief among their criticisms was a provision allowing 'ballot

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Thabo Mbeki: It is time for Côte d’Ivoire to cross the Rubicon

The possible return of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo to the Côte d’Ivoire after his acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity might well be the catalyst for negotiations in that country, argues Thabo

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Tia Mowry, Condola Rashad And Other Celebrity Beauty Looks Of The Week

Last week, celebrities, influencers, editors, creatives, change makers and other real women took to Instagram with a challenge to further the message that Black lives matter and that Black women have a voice that will no longer go

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Corporate cash splash

Corporate Jamaica has splashed out millions of dollars to support both major political parties in their campaign for tomorrow's general election.

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After assuming control of the country, the military dissolved Parliament and suspended the Constitution. It then presented a roadmap for a six-month transition to civilian rule. Plans included drafting constitutional amendments, a referendum to vote on them, and elections. Opposition supporters

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Burundi Counting Votes in Presidential Election; Opposition Alleges Fraud

Burundi’s opposition leader Agathon Rwasa is claiming an early victory in the country’s first presidential election in five

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Kenya: BBI Drive Runs Into Hurdles Despite Backers' Optimism

"We want all the issues raised by the women leaders captured in the final report," said Mr Odinga even as the BBI debate continues to draw division with political leaders differing on the

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Burundi Opposition Head Disputes Election Results

Agathon Rwasa, Burundi's opposition leader and deputy speaker of Parliament has filed a petition at the country's constitutional court disputing the win of the ruling CNDD-FDD party's Evariste

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