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2024 elections: Vote based on competence not tribe… Weija-Gbawe Constituency parliamentary aspirant
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CP NewsAlert: Elections BC confirms recount in two key ridings
Top Stories Tamfitronics VANCOUVER — Elections BC says votes will be recounted by hand in two ridings where the provincial NDP and Conservative candidates are separated by fewer than 100 votes.The agency says recounts will take place in the key ridings of Juan de Fuca-Malahat and Surrey City Centre as part of the final count between Oct. 26 and 28, meaning the result of British Columbia's provincial election won't be official for another week.The New Democrat candidates are leading by very thin margins in the two ridings, where the result could determine which party forms B.C.'s next government. David Eby's incumbent NDP are leading in 46 ridings, while John Rustad's Conservatives are leading in 45, and neither have reached the 47 seats needed to form a majority...
How Kano council elections will compromise LG autonomy, By Ikeddy ISIGUZO
Politics tamfitronics NOBODY is talking about the damage that the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission, KANSIEC, is about to unleash on Nigeria’s local governments, and the large politics of Nigeria with the nomination fees of N10m for chairmanship candidates and N5m for councillorship positions.Some would say that how Kano runs its local government elections is an issue for the state. Even if it is a local election, whatever happens in Kano would have a fundamental impact on our local government system.The election billed for 30 November 2024 will be the first since constitutional amendments awarded enormous autonomy to local governments. The ruling party in Kano is doing all it can to keep Kano firmly in its control such that the 2027 elections will be more predictable.Here is a glimpse of the picture.If three major parties...
The tech that changed elections forever
Politics tamfitronics What’s the most important technology in the history of politics? Born on the battlefield and evolved at a pivotal time in US history, the walkie-talkie-lookie changed the way Americans saw politicians. Literally. In 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson were squaring off in the US presidential election and the walkie-talkie-lookie helped beam the candidates into the homes of millions of voters for the first time.Right before the conventions in the June 1952 issue of Popular Sciencereporter Gardner Soule wrote that the new “walkie-talkie-lookie” would make it possible to “pursue a Presidential candidate or a delegate right up to the door of his bathroom.” Soule also noted that this technology and its ability to follow a subject anywhere was “a thought to chill almost anyone,...
