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• All set for counting of votes in Jharkhand

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Ranchi, Dec 22 (IANS) The Election Commission has made elaborate arrangements to ensure speedy counting of votes cast in the recently concluded Jharkhand assembly elections, an official said Tuesday.“We have made elaborate arrangements for counting of votes in the districts. Adequate security forces will be ...
  5 hours ago

• Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer: Great Courage

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 440
  On August 6, 1964, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party was formed as an alternative to the segregated Mississippi Democratic Party. Organized in conjunction with the Freedom Summer voter registration drives of SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and COFO (the Council of Federated ...
  13 hours ago

• Jharkhand voter turnout a rebuff to Maoists: Chidambaram

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Monday said the healthy voter turnout in the just concluded Jharkhand assembly elections was a “stinging rejection” of the Maoist rebels’ call for boycott of the polls.“This is a stinging rejection of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) and ...
  1 day ago

• 80 percent turnout in Tamil Nadu by-polls (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Chennai, Dec 19 (IANS) Eighty percent voter turnout was recorded in the by-polls for two assembly seats in Tamil Nadu Saturday, officials said. The polling was peaceful.Speaking to reporters here, state chief electoral officer Naresh Gupta said: “Polling was by and large peaceful with 82 percent votes cast in ...
  3 days ago

• Online Voting: The John Grisham Novel of Civic Responsibility

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 647
  EKOS Research has a new poll out looking at the opinions of Canadians towards online voting in federal elections that outlines strong support for the idea, Canadians strongly favour the introduction of voting over the internet according to a major poll of Canadians conducted by EKOS Research Associates for the ...
  3 days ago

• High voter turnout in Jharkhand so far despite Maoist boycott call

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Ranchi, Dec 14 (IANS) The ongoing assembly polls in Jharkhand have recorded high voter turnout in areas considered Maoist strongholds despite a boycott call by the rebels. The election commission and the police say people could come out and vote in large numbers thanks to the security cover and infrastructure in ...
  1 week ago

• House bills will allow residents to register to vote online

  
  The Conservative Media — Authority: 129
  LANSING – House Democrats continue to eliminate barriers to voting and make it easier for residents to register to vote and to discharge their duty as U.S. citizens and vote. On Wednesday the House Ethics and Elections Committee took testimony on two bills that will allow residents to register to vote online. As ...
  1 week ago

• (Left-winger) Coakley takes early lead, (GOP) Brown wins (Mass Senate primary today)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  With the clock ticking down towards the close of the polls at 8 p.m., some communities reported low voter turnout in the special primary elections for US Senate. People breezed past community centers, gymnasiums, town halls, and other polling places without a second thought, the majority paying no mind to the race to ...
  1 week ago

• 56 percent turnout in Jharkhand third phase polls

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) The third phase of the Jharkhand assembly elections Tuesday witnessed 56 percent voter turnout, while two Border Security Force (BSF) personnel were killed in a Maoist attack, the Election Commission said here.“Voter turnout till 3 p.m. was approximately 56 percent,” said a statement issued ...
  2 weeks ago

• Atlanta Mayoral Race Will Be Decided By Black Voter Turnout

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 599
  ATLANTA – Just a few weeks ago, some suggested Atlanta was about to name its first white mayor in a generation. Instead, the Nov. 3 election set up a hard-fought runoff battle that’s expected to break down largely along racial lines when voters return to the polls Tuesday. Mary Norwood, the white candidate, and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why Do People Vote? III

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Even after I left the field of rational choice theory of politics and became an evolutionary psychologist, the paradox of voter turnout (and my own theoretical resolution of the paradox) continued to haunt me.  Why do people act like their vote made a difference in the past electoral outcome? From an evolutionary ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why Do People Vote? II

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  The paradox of voter turnout – why do millions of people bother to vote in large national elections when they have virtually no chance of affecting the outcome? – is one of the major theoretical puzzles in the rational choice theory of politics.  It’s a theoretical puzzle that I attempted to tackle when I was a ...
  4 weeks ago

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