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The term election typically refers to a process where voters choose, though a system of balloting, a candidate to fill a particular office. In the United States, elections are held to elect positions from local village presidents to the President and leader of the Country.

In a country where freedom of speech reigns supreme, web users have the opportunity to share thoughts, write parody, blog about and rally support for their adopted candidate(s).  Further, today's candidates have the opportunity to promote themselves.  Constituents can research a candidate's life work, create entries on their blogs, donate money and volunteer to help with a campaign.  Candidates can create buzz by uploading videos of their campaign trail.

The web has created a system that allows voters to be as informed and active as they choose to be in any election. Elections in the U.S. are a right and privilege of each qualified citizen.  Now, no voter has to go into an election booth without a clear understanding of what he or she is voting for.

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  • Eve of Poll


    Moreton and Saughall Massie Matters — Authority Authority: 136
    What a great night it was tonight, led by Steve Williams,  15 people turned out on a pretty cold evening.    Special thanks to Tony, Jade, Adam, David and Shahil (think i got that right) for coming over from Liverpool and Runcorn.   We covered loads of ground, delivering leaflets, and door knocking on the ...
    2 hours ago

  • News Analysis: Afghan Strategy Will Contain Messages to Several Audiences


    Presidential Race 2008 - Election 2008 - President 2008 Blog — Authority Authority: 144
    American soldiers were on patrol in Kashmiri Bala, a village in Logar Province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday.
    4 hours ago

  • Where Was The Libertarian Party?


    Last Free Voice — Authority Authority: 100
    Election Day 2009 has come and gone. Relatively speaking, this election was as insignificant as any off-year election is, as opposed to a mid-term election, but it still could have been an important year for the Libertarian Party, if we had simply bothered to show up. There were six elections / ballot initiatives ...
    5 hours ago

  • Articlesmm/general-and-his-commands-part-2 by photayokeking


    democracy for burma — Authority Authority: 157
    ကမၻာ့အလားအလာ ဗမာ့အလားအလာႏွင့္ လူငယ့္တာ၀န္ – အပိုင္း(၂) ရွာေဖြတင္ျပသူ – ေမာင္ေက်ာ္ရင္ အပိုင္း (၁) ကို ဒီေနရာမွာ ...
    5 hours ago

  • Lou Dobbs for Resident!


    Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority Authority: 535
    Have you heard that Lou Dobbs, curmudgeonly pundit against latino immigrants, is considering a campaign for President of the United States? Dobbs is considering running for the Senate first, against the only Hispanic in the U.S. Senate, Robert Menendez , then springing on from that victory to the White House in ...
    6 hours ago

  • Time Names 2000’s ‘The Decade From Hell’


    Mediaite — Authority Authority: 802
    We are about to head into six weeks of non-stop, end-of-decade countdown and highlight lists. Newsweek got a head start on the competition with their much passed-around the decade in seven minutes, but that is no doubt just the tip of the iceberg of what’s to come between now and December 31. Granted it’s ...
    6 hours ago

  • Louisiana Democrats Ask Vitter to Denounce Landrieu Prostitute Comments


    S E N A T U S — Authority Authority: 554
    The Louisiana Democratic Party, in a “rather humorous and bold press release on Tuesday, called for Senator David Vitter (R-La.) to denounce conservatives who have called his fellow Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) a prostitute for her support of health care reform,” the Huffington Post reports. Vitter, of course, has ...
    6 hours ago

  • Polling stations open at 07h00 on Friday


    Namibia's Online Community — Authority Authority: 169
    Do you know which is your nearest polling station? Unfortunately the ECN has not included the polling stations on its website. If you are not sure where you can vote, check the ECN insert that has been in the newspapers in recent days.
    6 hours ago

  • Steve WILLIAMS


    Leah Fraser — Authority Authority: 132
    Steve Williams Tomorrow, voters in Moreton West and Saughall Massie go to the polls, in the first council election since the local authority’s Strategic Asset Review and their u-turn on leisure provision.  The by-election was called due to the death of Councillor Suzanne Moseley, who had represented ...
    6 hours ago

  • The Shine Is Tarnishing – The True Obama Appears


    NO QUARTER — Authority Authority: 560
    Well, it seems like it is finally happening. The world community to which Obama pandered during the campaign is starting to realize what many Americans now know (and some of us always did): He’s not all he’s cracked up to be. In this article from Spiegel , Obama’s Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World ...
    6 hours ago

  • Lou Dobbs: Can he take lessons from a reformed racist to win a Senate seat?


    DailyFinance — Authority Authority: 805
    Filed under: People , Media Lou Dobbs is mad as hell, and hes not going to take it anymore. And now that hes left his bully pulpit at CNN, hes hoping the masses will join him with their pitchforks and torches. Dobbs wants to challenge Sen. Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, as a third-party candidate for ...
    7 hours ago

  • Newsweek: 118 Days, 12 Hours, 54 Minutes


    cyrusfarivar.com — Authority Authority: 561
    I’m a little behind, but I just read Maziar Bahari’s account of his 118 days in an Iranian prison in Newsweek . It’s frightening to say the least, and confirms similar accounts I’ve heard by others who have had the pleasure of Evin Prison’s hospitality. Robert Mackey in The Lede blog writes: Mr. ...
    7 hours ago

  • TV Spot: Jodie Haydon On Business


    Page One — Authority Authority: 547
    Here’s one of Jodie Haydon’s latest ads: Thoughts?
    7 hours ago

  • Which way is MORI going to go next?


    politicalbetting.com — Authority Authority: 415
    UKPollingReport Can you predicts its next set of numbers? I don’t think that there’s been a poll in recent times that has had such an impact on the media narrative that the November Political Monitor from Ipsos-MORI. Even though it’s now four days since it was published and nearly a week and a half since ...
    7 hours ago

  • We Were Warned


    The Pajama Pundit — Authority Authority: 492
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    8 hours ago

  • First phase of Jharkhand polls passes off peacefully, 53 percent votes polled


    Thaindian News — Authority Authority: 719
    Ranchi, Nov 25 (ANI): First phase of polling for 26 assembly seats in Jharkhand passed of peacefully on Wednesday. State Joint Chief Electoral Officer A. K. Sinha said that approximately 53 percent electorates cast their votes in the polling, which ended at 3 p.m. The Election Commission had made elaborate ...
    8 hours ago

  • Aung San Suu Kyi allowed repairing her home


    democracy for burma — Authority Authority: 157
    by Nem Davies Wednesday, 25 November 2009 20:20 New Delhi (Mizzima) – Aung San Suu Kyi, detained Burmese opposition leader has been permitted to repair her lakeside home on Rangoon’s University Avenue, Nyan Win her party spokesperson said. The Rangoon municipality has granted the Nobel Peace Laureate permission ...
    8 hours ago

  • Doug Hoffman, No recount, Election over, Sequoia voting machines, Count errors, Voter fraud, Nancy Pelosi, NY district 23, Bill Owens broke 4 campaign promises


    Citizen Wells — Authority Authority: 583
    Doug Hoffman, who narrowly lost the congressional race in NY District 23 to Bill Owens, has declared that the election is over and there will be no recount. This comes after numerous errors were committed election night, Nancy Pelosi certifying Bill Owens the winner, before he was certified by the state of New York, ...
    8 hours ago

  • International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) operating in Burma are likely to suspend their activities during Election Period


    democracy for burma — Authority Authority: 157
    INGO Work in Burma Could Stop During Election Period International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) operating in Burma are likely to suspend their activities next May, according to NGO sources in Burma. Although no official announcement has yet been made by the regime, some government officials warned that ...
    9 hours ago

  • New York Senate: Ford Reportedly Discussing a Gillibrand Challenge


    S E N A T U S — Authority Authority: 554
    Democratic sources “say that former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Jr. — who relocated to New York City after his unsuccessful Senate bid in 2006 — has been talking about the possibility of running against vulnerable rookie New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand,” Glenn Thrush reports. Ford, who was mentioned as a ...
    9 hours ago

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