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Showing posts with label election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label election. Show all posts
Friday, February 24, 2023

Nigerians pin high hopes on horse-race election

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Voters bear PDP flags at a rally in Ilé-Ifè, Osun State, in December. RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Update, March 1, 2023: Nigerian electi...
Friday, August 26, 2022

McMahon debates incumbent insider in DA race

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[UPDATE, Sept. 7, 2022.] With 90% reporting, the N.Y. Times lists Quinn prevailing with 65% of the vote to McMahon's 35%. This result i...
Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Kenyan presidential election has Nairobi on edge

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UPDATE, Aug. 19: William Ruto won the Kenya presidential election.  Read more at NPR, Aug. 15. Kenya will vote for a new president next mont...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Shannon McMahon for Bristol County, Mass., DA

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[UPDATE, Sept. 7, 2022.] With 90% reporting, the N.Y. Times lists Quinn prevailing with 65% of the vote to McMahon's 35%. This result is...

Rob Steinbuch, law prof, for Arkansas House

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UPDATE, June 26: I'm sorry to report that Professor Steinbuch did not prevail in the primary. But wow did he come close with 46.5% of th...
Sunday, January 10, 2021

What goes around comes around: U.S. election cycle, Capitol riot draw 'banana republic' gibes

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Seth Doane has an excellent piece out today ( Facebook , YouTube , and embed below) on foreign perspectives on the Capitol riot, insurrecti...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

FOIA scores among John Oliver's three favorite things

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Of all the funny takes on an outraged voter's crashing of a Nevada election press conference, John Oliver's takes top honors for fe...
Monday, November 9, 2020

All politics is local

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This Ayrshire Daily News , Scotland, headline refers to the Trump Turnberry Golf Courses .  The headline caught the attention of BBC's ...
Sunday, November 1, 2020

Peace, power at stake in elections around the world

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Pres. Ouattara ( s t CC BY 2.0 ) With the U.S. election looming, it's easy to miss crucial elections going on elsewhere in the world, s...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

'Right to repair' of Mass. Question 1 would close loophole, aid consumers; industry opposition misleads

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Teen mechanic in Philippines, 2014 (Rojessa Tiamson-Saceda, USAID, via Pixnio CC0 ) Massachusetts has a right-to-repair initiative ( Questi...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Amid pandemic, ballot access restrictions yield to right to run for office, state supreme court rules

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Because of the coronavirus pandemic, political candidates will have to produce only half the usual number of voter signatures to see their n...