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The government-controlled electoral authority has declared Nicolás Maduro the winner of Venezuela's presidential election, securing his third consecutive six-year term. But the opposition is crying foul, contending that the authoritarian socialist did not, in fact, receive the most votes. With 80 percent of the ballots counted, the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced on Monday that Maduro had won 51 percent of the vote while opposition candidate Edmundo González, of the Democratic Unitary Platform, garnered 44 percent. In his victory speech, Maduro described the results as "a triumph of...
Reason
Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who has been in exile in Russia since 2013, warned attendees at the Bitcoin 2024 conference about politicians trying to woo them over crypto. In a July 26 speech held virtually at the crypto conference, Snowden said many lawmakers were trying to earn the “love” of Bitcoiners, hinting at those attending the Nashville event. He did not explicitly refer to US or international politicians, though US Senators Bill Hagerty, Cynthia Lummis, and Tim Scott addressed attendees in different panels shortly before Snowden spoke. “Cast a vote, b...
Cointelegraph
On review, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has upheld Mississippi's lifetime felon disenfranchisement law, which ranks among the harshest in the nation, and reversed a panel decision last year that found it violated the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution. The 5th Circuit ruled in a 13–6 decision Thursday that Mississippi's disenfranchisement scheme was not punishment, and even if it was, it wasn't cruel or unusual. To find otherwise, Judge Edith Jones wrote in the majority opinion, "even as to a limited set of offenders, is at odds with the Supreme Court's and other courts' dec...
Reason
Famously molding the Republican Party in his populist image, Donald Trump's defining reach-the-people moment undoubtedly came with his response to the attempted assassination at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. He rose to his feet to pump his fist, prompting the crowd to break into a chant of "USA! USA!" The moment was captured in images, including iconic photos by A.P. photographer Evan Vucci that recorded blood streaming down the former president's face as the stars and stripes flew above. It was strong stuff that likely cemented the once and, perhaps, future president's bond with voters of...
Reason
A voting method is the procedure at the heart of an election that specifies what information is to be gathered from voters, and how that collected information is to be utilized to determine the winning candidate. The U.S. Constitution is mute as to what voting method should be employed. The simplest, known as "plurality," has historically been the default, and still dominates as the voting method for U.S. public elections. Plurality allows each voter only to vote for a single candidate. The candidate receiving the largest number of votes is the winner. At about the time of the American Revolut...
Reason
The writer Tom Wolfe once quipped, "the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe." After a series of elections culminating in the first round of a national vote won handily by France's National Rally, we might replace "fascism" with "populism," which has certainly landed feet-first in the old world and seems to be settling in for a stay across much of the continent. France's Populist Surge"French voters on Sunday put the National Rally (RN) in a commanding position in the first round of snap elections, placing the party founded by supporters ...
Reason
On the last full day of canvassing ahead of the UK polling day on Thursday 4 July, some voters are still waiting for Royal Mail to deliver their postal voting cards. The company has rejected criticism of what some see as tardiness and says the "surprise" date of the election is to blame for the hold up in deliveries. Voters remain sceptical, pointing out this particular election campaign has been going on for six weeks, double the minimum time required of three weeks. A Royal Mail spokesman was quoted by The Telegraph as saying: "We have no backlog of postal votes and, whilst we are not compla...
Euronews (English)
With France set for its most high-stakes election in recent years, there are plenty of posters, stickers and leaflets around to get the French population mobilized to vote in the snap parliamentary election. It all kicks off this Sunday (30 June) with the second round on 7 July, and could lead to France having either a hard-left or hard-right government, with President Macron having to appoint a prime minister from an opposition party – an arrangement known as “cohabitation”. This could force him to compromise during the remainder of his presidential term. Bold move on Macron’s behalf, after h...
Euronews (English)
By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: Social media posts claiming the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) won 30 seats with a margin of less than 500 votes and won more than 100 seats with a margin of less than 1000 votes, are viral online. Fact: BOOM analysed data published by the Election Commission of India (ECI) and found that the lowest victory margin for a seat won by the BJP is 1587 votes, thus rendering the claim false. Tools used: BOOM found that the lowest victory margin was not below 1587 votes. The three Lok Sabha seats where the BJP secured the narrowest victory margins were - 1) Jajpur (Odisha)...
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It can be said that sex is a deeply political act. Who we have sex with and how are both political questions. But can politics itself be sexy? Well, as the UK general election draws near, advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi have designed a new wonderfully promiscuous campaign to get young people to the polling booths and register by 18 June. Their bold proposition? Voting makes you sexier. Backed by new research commissioned just for the campaign, it turns out that 40% of 18-24 year-olds perceive regular voters as more attractive. Moreover, over half of the respondents associate voting with g...
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