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19 hours ago ago from India Current Affairs
The Gujarat state Assembly on 19th December passed Gujarat Local Authorities Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2009, making voting to municipal corporations, municipalities, and district, taluka and village panchayats compulsory. Gujarat has emerged as the first state in the country to make voting compulsory. The Bill also ratifies the Centre's suggestion to reserve 50 per cent seats in all local bodies for women. It is the first state to given the ...
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12 hours ago ago from My School - I wish
Nod for must-vote bill BASANT RAWAT Ahmedabad, Dec. 19: The Gujarat Assembly today passed a bill making voting mandatory in elections to local self-government bodies, the landmark legislation coming under scrutiny from constitutional experts who said it violated the principles of freedom of expression. A brainchild of chief minister Narendra Modi, the controversial legislation, called Gujarat Local Authorities Laws (Amendment) Bill, ...
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6 hours ago ago from Global Voices Online
On December 13, more than 8 million Chileans went to the polls for general elections. The clear winner of the day was Sebastián Piñera , the candidate for the center right party. He won the first electoral round with 44% of the votes. The vote on the center to left was split between Eduardo Frei (29.6%), independent candidate Marco Enriquez-Ominami (20.1%) and Communist party candidate Jorge Arrate (6.2%). As expected, no candidate received ...
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41 minutes ago ago from News You Can\'t Use !
Gujarat has made voting compulsory in local polls, and Himachal Pradesh is keen to emulate the model : Modi says the new Act will help increase voter turnout and will take away black money and huge spending in elections. Until now, voters were affiliated to a candidate, caste or party. This bill gives a chance for the neutral voters to participate in the democratic process, said Modi. But if a person fails to do vote he or she will ...
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22 minutes ago ago from Anantifederalist's Blog
Don't be ridiculous that can't happen here in the United States! Such is the condescending response of those who argue for the complete ban on private possession of firearms (or at least the severe limitation on it), claiming that such is not the subject matter of the second amendment, when those who insist that the amendment does guarantee such a right warn that an unarmed civilian populace within the United States is yet but one more step ...
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Rob Richie: Fair Access to Voting News: FairVote in the New York Times, New Wins and Taking Action in Virginia
10 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Here's an excerpt from the FairVote Reformer for December 2009 focused on voting rights and fair access to participation. For years FairVote has suggested that it's time to stop outsourcing democracy and running democracy on the cheap. As Hawaii teeters on "electoral bankruptcy" and may have to delay for more than half a year a constitutionally required U.S. House election, and as one private company (Election Systems and Software) may soon ...
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