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It’s Nomination Day in Barbados and candidates are heading out to nomination centres across the island. At the Rices Pavilion in St Philip, incumbent, St Philip South MP Indar Weir was flanked by supporters chanting, 'Who is the man? Indar is the man.' In the 2018 general election, Weir secured 4, 656 votes defeating […]
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Critics have called it a stunt to invite sympathy. Yet Amuriat says campaigning without shoes is a protest and that those who do not get its symbolism are missing a point.
Uganda is due to hold a general election on January 14. Amuriat and another opposition candidate, Bobi Wine have had their rallies violently dispersed by security forces or been arrested.
In mid-November, scores of people were killed as security forces attempted to quell protests against the arrest and detention of Bobi Wine.
Police has accused the candidates of addressing huge gatherings in contravention of regulations on COVID-19 prevention.
Swollen feet
In an interview with one of the dailies in Uganda, Amuriat said his feet hurt a lot and has to pour cold water on them in between campaign stops for some relief.
Doctors have cautioned him on the potential danger of contracting tetanus from cuts to his feet.
Yet Amuriat remains adamant. He says by refusing to wear shoes, he’s standing in solidarity with people whose wealth and opportunities have been stolen by the country’s longtime ruler Yoweri Museveni.
JUST IN: FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat has been arrested at the border of Rubirizi and Bushenyi districts. The reason for his arrest is yet to be known📹 @MukhayeD#MonitorUpdates#UGDecides2021 pic.twitter.com/xopK4FMoD0
— Daily Monitor (@DailyMonitor) December 4, 2020
Museveni, in power since 1986 is seeking a new term. In 2017, he changed the constitution to remove age limits that would have stopped him from seeking re-election.
FDC is Uganda’s largest opposition party. In 3 previous elections, the party fronted veteran activist and retired army colonel Kizza Besigye for president.
Ambassador William Beverly Carter is the first Ambassador-at-Large, and the second African American, to be appointed an ambassador by three Presidents. In 1972, President Richard M. Nixon appointed him ambassador to Tanzania. Four years later, President Gerald R. Ford named him ambassador to Liberia. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter appointed him U.S. Ambassador-at-Large.
Carter, born in 1921 in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, was raised in nearby Philadelphia after the age of four. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in biology from Lincoln University in 1944, and his Law degree from Temple University in 1947. One of his Lincoln classmates was future Ghanaian head of state Kwame Nkrumah.
While at Lincoln University, Clark worked parttime for The Philadelphia Tribune (1943-1945). He later became city editor for The Philadelphia Afro-American (1945-1948). He briefly attended the New School for Social Research (1950-1951) in New York City, New York before serving as publisher for the Pittsburgh Courier (1955-1964), and president of the National Newspaper Publishers’ Association (1958).
From 1952 to 1958, Carter worked with 40 soon-to-be independent African nations to help them develop their own news and information services. Between visits to Africa, Carter became involved in civil rights activism in the United States as a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the National Urban League. In 1954, he also tried his hand at electoral politics, running for Pennsylvanias Fourth Congressional District as a Republican, losing in the general election to the incumbent Earl Chudoff, a Democrat.
In 1965, Carter joined the U.S. State Department as Public Affairs Officer in the United States Information Agency (USIA) in Nairobi, Kenya. The following year, he was promoted to diplomat as Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Lagos, Nigeria. While there he reported on the first two years of the Nigerian Civil War.
In 1969 Carter became Deputy Assistant Secretary
All planned Election Commission (EC) activities between March and May 2020, including elections for Special Interest Groups (SIG), have been suspended until further notice.
The EC secretary, Mr Sam Rwakoojo, on Tuesday said the Covid-19 lockdown affected many programmes on the elections roadmap and that discussions with different stakeholders are on-going to see how to readjust.
At the time government issued the directives, the EC was completing the public display of the national voters' register for the elections scheduled for April 2020.
The activities which have been affected according to the roadmap include display of tribunal recommendations for deletion or inclusion on the National Voters Register (NVR), gazetting and publishing of candidates' nomination dates and venues, Elections of Special Interest Groups (SIGs), including older persons, Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) and youth at village and parish levels and internal political party candidates identification processes.
Former coordinator of Citizen Coalition for Electoral Democracy in Uganda, Mr Crispy Kaheru, said the way out is to suspend the planned 2021 electoral programmes to fit between the months of July and October or have the elections of SIG after the General Election.
[Ethiopian Herald] Ethiopia is set to hold the 6th general elections in the coming June, 2021. As the country is undergoing social, economic and political reforms, the general election is drawing special attention. The government has vowed its resolve time and time again to create conducive environment for citizens to elect their representatives freely and peacefully.
GEORGTOWN, Guyana (CMC) — Former secretary general of the African Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP), Dr Patrick I Gomes says it is “shameful” that four months after a regional and general election, voters in Guyana are yet to know the official results.
Gomes said that it is “shameful to our sister countries in the Caribbean Community (Caricom) and internationally, that Guyana, held in such high regard, is failing to complete in a fair and credible manner, the recount of votes cast in an election some four months ago”.
GECOM was due to announce the results after deliberating on the report, paving the way for what political observers said would be the formal announcement of the elections which the main Opposition People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) said that it won based on the national recount of votes that ended on June 9.
Meanwhile, the Court of Appeal was due to hear an injunction filed by a private citizen, Eslyn David, seeking to prevent Lowenfield from submitting a report to the GECOM chairperson, retired justice Claudette Singh.
In her affidavit, David, who said she lives in the capital Georgetown, said that “during the recount, the Guyana Elections Commission were written letters by the A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change election agent Joseph Harmon in which he pointed out numerous discrepancies and anomalies which impacted on the credibility of the elections”.
As the June 9 primary elections draw nearer, the importance of absentee voting in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic becomes more apparent.
There are a couple of ways to do so: 1) You can call the Charleston County Election Commission at 843-744-8683; 2) You can visit a great website put together by the Charleston County Democratic Party to request your ballot by email; 3) If you cannot do option 1 or 2, you can vote in-person absentee at the Charleston County Headquarters (4367 Headquarters Rd North Charleston SC 29405) beginning Monday, May 11th which will be open Monday – Friday (excluding holidays) from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Our office is committed to ensure that all voters can cast their ballot whether via absentee balloting or by voting at the polls on Election Day.”
All registered voters are eligible to cast absentee ballots for the June 9 primary and runoffs.
Some of the options being discussed include:
1) Mail-in ballot applications to all churches with a point of contact at each church to speak about registering and voting;
2) Full page newspaper ads on the importance of being registered and requesting an absentee ballot; and 3) Use newsletters and Facebook to deliver information about the importance of being registered and voting by Absentee Ballot this November.
Born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1938, Juanita Millender McDonald was an educator and member of the United States House of Representatives. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Redlands and a master’s degree from California State University at Los Angeles.
Millender-McDonald taught in the Los Angeles School District, and was the editor of Images, a textbook designed to improve the self-esteem of young women. As director of gender-equity programs for the school district, Millender-McDonald received national recognition when she served on the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future.
In 1990, Millender-McDonald became the first African-American elected to the Carson City Council. She was elected mayor pro tem for Carson in 1991, and won a set in the California State Assembly in 1992.
Millender-McDonald announced her candidacy for the U.S. representative of California’s Thirty-Seventh Congressional District after Representative Walter R. Tucker III resigned. She defeated eight other candidates in the March 1996 Democratic primary, and ran unopposed in the general election. She was sworn into office in April 1996, and was reelected to five terms. Millender-McDonald was a member of the Congressional Black Caucus and served on the House Committee on Small Business, and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. She was also the first African American woman to chair the Committee on House Administration.
In the House, Millender-McDonald had a liberal voting record. She worked on issues which included election reform and genocide in Darfur and Cambodia. She also worked with Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and Ambassador John Miller on human trafficking and women’s rights issues. Millender-McDonald drew national attention in 1996 when she had then-CIA director John Deutch address the community of Watts, California, about allegations that profits from domestic sales of crack cocaine were funneled to the CIA-backed Contras in Nicaragua.
Throughout much of
[East African] Kenya's two leading presidential hopefuls have resisted the pressure to name their running mates early, amid fears of possible falling-out in the new parties or coalitions they are building for the 2022 general election.
[Monitor] Members of Parliament (MPs) sitting on the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee yesterday rejected the Electoral Commission's (EC) decision banning open public rallies ahead of the 2021 General Elections.
Evans Gathaga died in May after falling into a river in the US.
The skills of Dr Peter Phillips will be sought to play an advisory role in the future development of the People's National Party (PNP), if presidential aspirant Mark Golding has any say in the matter.
ANTHONY Williams, attorney for People's National Party (PNP) Clarendon North Western candidate Richard Azan, says, based on the 1,107 ballots rejected in the September 3 General Election, it would be 'foolhardy' not to seek a magisterial recount in that constituency.His comments come ahead of the start of the exercise in the Clarendon Parish Court in Chapelton, this morning, at the behest of the PNP.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In a victory for voting rights, a Tennessee court has ruled the state must make absentee voting available to every eligible voter for all elections in 2020, including the August 6 primary and November 3 general election.
The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Tennessee, and Dechert LLP were in court yesterday seeking the order due to the highly contagious and deadly COVID-19 outbreak and the risks it poses to many voters.
While most states allow any eligible voter to cast an absentee ballot, Tennessee requires voters to provide an “excuse” to do so from a very narrow list of criteria; practicing social distancing measures and/or self-quarantining was not included, meaning the vast majority of voters would have been forced to vote in person — or avoid voting at all for fear of becoming ill, disenfranchising thousands.
This ruling eliminates the excuse requirement for the 2020 elections, meaning Tennesseans will not have to risk their health in order to vote,” said Dale Ho, director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project.
The court also ordered the state to provide guidance instructing local election officials to issue absentee ballots to all eligible voters for the primary, and conduct a public information campaign informing voters about the elimination of the excuse requirement at this time.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ decision to strip Portland West Member of Parliament Daryl Vaz of the land, environment, and climate-change portfolio has been lauded by a leading environmentalist and public commentator.
Vaz was reassigned days after an Observer report revealed a controversial bid by the minister to obtain a 25-year lease that would have allowed him to construct a private cabin on protected lands within the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park, a World Heritage Site.
Jamaica House announced on Tuesday evening that newly appointed Minister without Portfolio Leslie Campbell would be assigned to Vaz’s erstwhile duties.
“The prime minister could not alienate Vaz at a time like this.
However, the JCDT said that Vaz’s cabin plan was for private gain, while their holdings were to part-fund management of the lands.
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ national popularity could help the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) create a political upset by snatching at least one seat in Westmoreland, a parish that has long been a People’s National Party (PNP...
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The Atlanta Hawks will flip State Farm Arena into an early voting site for Georgia’s upcoming elections.
Starting with early voting on July 20 for the primary runoff election on August 11, as well as the general election on November 3, voters will be able to park around the area for free and cast their ballots while maintaining the CDC’s social distancing requirements.
READ MORE: Stacey Abrams slams GOP over voter suppression in Georgia
“We aim to be a community asset, and in order to fulfill that goal, we need to be more than just a basketball team,” Hawks CEO Steve Koonin said.
The partnership comes after several Georgia residents (and lawmakers) took to social media to complain about their chaotic voting experience this month, especially in Fulton County, theGrio previously reported.
READ MORE: Georgia secretary of state vows to investigate voting delays in minority areas
“This didn’t just happen in Georgia.
Rich Township Highway Commissioner and current Rich Township Democratic Committeemen, Calvin Jordan, was sworn in Monday as the 2nd African American to be elected as Rich Township Supervisor. U.S. Congresswoman Robin Kelly, Illinois State Senator Michael Hastings, Illinois State Representative Debbie Meyers-Martin, a host of Mayors, Rich Township officials, and residents openly expressed their complete joy … Continued
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This nonpartisan effort will amplify critical information about voter protection through a grassroots GOTV community outreach campaign Atlanta—The Young Black Lawyers’ Organizing Coalition (YBLOC) has announced the launch of its Black Ballots, Black Futures–Georgia GOTV voter protection campaign, which will seek to empower Black voters and protect Black voting rights during the Georgia run-off elections. […]
