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Officials ask for patience in waiting on Election Day results
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Officials ask for patience in waiting on Election Day results

Raw Story  

It’s Election Day in America. “Election Day is not Results Day,” Virginia Kase Solomón, president and CEO of the voting rights organization Common Cause, told reporters last week. “Every vote must be counted, and that will take time.” Later, she added: “Democracy is worth waiting for.” Timelines for counting In Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, two states that could seal the race …

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Anxious L.A. voters poured out on this historic election day, even if they couldn’t sway the main event
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Anxious L.A. voters poured out on this historic election day, even if they couldn’t sway the main event

LA Times  

“Nervous.” “Emotional.” “Worried.” “Insecure.” Los Angeles-area voters were feeling much like the rest of the country as election day dawned. “That’s a hell no for me,” said Koryn Frye-Fuentes, 30, widening her eyes for emphasis as she panned Proposition 36 outside her polling place at Plummer Park in West Hollywood. Incarceration “doesn’t help people with drug addiction.” The proposition, backed …

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Arkansas Supreme Court asked to disqualify ballot measure that would block planned casino
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Arkansas Supreme Court asked to disqualify ballot measure that would block planned casino

Associated Press  

— Opponents of a proposal to block a planned casino in Arkansas asked the state Supreme Court Thursday to disqualify the measure from the November ballot. Cherokee Nation Entertainment, which was awarded a license to build and operate the casino, and a newly formed affiliated group filed a lawsuit challenging the proposed constitutional amendment a day after the secretary of …

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Telangana CM Revanth Reddy orders officials to speed up local body poll preparations
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Telangana CM Revanth Reddy orders officials to speed up local body poll preparations

India TV News  

Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday instructed state officials to accelerate the preparations for local body elections. According to an official release, the chief minister inquired about the expected timeline for receiving the list of the updated voters' from the Election Commission to State Election Commission. Reddy urged officials to commence the election process as soon as the …

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Billionaire-backed plan to erect a model California city qualifies for the ballot
6 months, 1 week ago

Billionaire-backed plan to erect a model California city qualifies for the ballot

LA Times  

The billionaire proponents of a brand-new city that would rise from the rolling prairie northeast of the San Francisco Bay cleared their first big hurdle Tuesday, when the Solano County Registrar of Voters certified that the group had enough signatures to put its proposal before local voters in November. In an interview Tuesday, Sramek said the question before Solano County …

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Brownfield planning rules shake-up would make it harder to object against new home builds
10 months, 1 week ago

Brownfield planning rules shake-up would make it harder to object against new home builds

Daily Mail  

Objecting to a new homes being built on a garden centre at the end of your road, or stopping your local pub being converted into flats will become more difficult, a planning expert has warned. Mr Gaine explained the new policy applies to the UK's largest towns and cities and essentially says if they are not meeting their local housing …

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Tunisians vote in local elections on Sunday to fill a new chamber as economy flatlines
1 year ago

Tunisians vote in local elections on Sunday to fill a new chamber as economy flatlines

Associated Press  

TUNIS, Tunisia — Butter and milk shortages. This is the environment in which Tunisians will head to the polls on Sunday for the country’s first local elections since President Kais Saied wrote a new constitution that voters approved last year. In the 13th election since the 2011 revolution, there’s little understanding about the stakes, what the new chamber has the …

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Local issues crucial to voters across States: survey
3 years, 7 months ago

Local issues crucial to voters across States: survey

The Hindu  

The “local” was of utmost importance in the decision-making of voters in the Assembly elections, according to a special post-poll survey conducted by the Lokniti-CSDS for The Hindu. As to the question whether any particular national issue made an impact at all, the surveyors found that one issue was particularly resonant across States — the Citizenship Amendment Act. Beginning today …

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Texas Republicans Look To Curb Local Efforts To Expand Voting Access
3 years, 8 months ago

Texas Republicans Look To Curb Local Efforts To Expand Voting Access

NPR  

Texas Republicans Look To Curb Local Efforts To Expand Voting Access Enlarge this image toggle caption David J. Phillip/AP David J. Phillip/AP Last year, when Isabel Longoria had to figure out how to safely hold an election during a pandemic, she saw the daunting task as an opportunity to do things differently. Longoria says figuring out how to make polling …

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