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Early voting has begun in Ghana for essential workers ahead of national elections which comes up next week Monday December 7.
More than 100 security personnel, journalists and staff of the electoral commission who will be busy on election day are expected to vote according to the Electoral Commission.
The polls would hold in 275 constituencies and include ballots for the presidency and parliament.
President Nana Akufo-Addo is facing a re-election challenge from former president John Mahama in what is expected to be a tight contest.
During campaigns the two main presidential candidates promised to spend more if they win the election. Their campaign promises comes amid concerns over the west african country's economy and rising debt profile.
Ghana, a major producer of gold, oil and cocoa, suffered its first economic contraction in almost four decades this year, as a result of the covid 19 pandemic.
Opposition leader John Dramani Mahama, 61, in a campaign promise hinged on the tag ‘Operation rescue Ghana’ is trumpeting massive infrastructural development as a trump card in this year’s polls.
However, a recent survey by the Center for Democratic Development (CDD) conducted between September 28 to October 16, 2020 shows that the incumbent President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo enjoys a slight advantage over him.
Around 17 million eligible voters are expected to exercise their franchise on December 7.
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Black voters in the state are standing in long lines.
Fewer than 6 in 10 Americans in a new poll say civil rights for Black people in America have gotten stronger over their lifetime, the lowest amount in 25 years of Gallup polling.
In about 2012, after lambasting the ‘Cadillac lifestyle’ of the PPP/C regime, focusing upon the salaries, pension and other tax free benefits to which former presidents were entitled, the opposition in the hung parliament that resulted from the 2011 national elections sponsored and passed a resolution in the National Assembly calling for substantial reductions in those benefits and promised to make its recommended changes if it ever came to government.
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Savannah- Chatham County and surrounding areas are invited to participate in a virtual “Ballot Review & Primary Election Wrap-up,” hosted by the Hungry Club Forum of Savannah, Inc. (HCFS).
,” the HCFS, as a community service, over the last six weeks, through its use of print and social media., has spotlighted and interviewed thirty-three (33) of the candidates appearing on the upcoming ballot.
If you have questions or comments, you, your family and neighbors are encouraged to tune in on May 30th, when leaders, advocates and consultants will be coming on the Livestream to participate in our roundtable discussion on the importance of casting your ballot in this General Primary/Presidential Preference Primary.
The HCFS, “Harnessing the Power of Collaboration on the issues of today and tomorrow,” is a non-profit, non-partisan community education and issues forum committed to generating positive dialogue for the progress of the community in general.
According to Diana Harvey Johnson, President, Pinnacle Communications Corporation, a consultant to the HCFS, “we will continue our format for providing candidates and the public with an opportunity to participate in an informal, relaxed community dialogue.
The upheaval of the coronavirus pandemic will reshape one of the most fundamental aspects of ordinary life starting Monday: voting. Poll workers will begin greeting voters from behind face masks and shields as early voting begins in primary runoffs that will look and operate differently from any Texas election in the past 100 years. Although []
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Africas infection rates are still relatively low to the wonderment of some in the western world who predicted infection rates in the billions. In fact, African governments in many cases took preventative steps – from [...]
During the early voting period, more than 30,458 Fulton County voters cast their ballots, according to a joint statement by Fulton County Board of Registration & Elections Chair Mary Carole Cooney and Director of Registration & Elections Richard L. Barron.
In an unprecedented election season, the Fulton County Election Commission added two polling locations, one in Roswell and another in College Park.
Since early voting began in May, Fulton County has experienced socially distanced lines that resulted in waits of up to four hours, a backlog of absentee ballot applications.
The Fulton County Election Commission has acknowledged the number of voters who applied for absentee ballots but never received them.
Meanwhile, U.S. Senate candidate Pastor Raphael Warnock of Ebenezer Baptist Church, said Friday that America suffers from COVID-1619, an alliteration to the first slaves arriving at Jamestown at 1619 and the country’s inability to effectively discuss race.
to suppress the vote of African-Americans under the guise of suppressing Democratic vote of Milwaukee’s African Americans.”
Former Attorney General Eric Holder
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The three top leaders in the D.C. metropolitan region talked about the coronavirus pandemic, racial and social injustice and transportation Friday during a Capital Region Business Forum.
Malawians head to the polls Tuesday for a rerun of the May 2019 presidential election, annulled by the courts over massive fraud.
65-year old former evangelical pastor and leader of the Malawi Congress Party, Lazarus Chakwera, is convinced that his time has come.
Since the beginning of the era of democracy, his party has systematically lost all national elections.
Peter Mutharika, the outgoing president and leader of the Democratic Progressive Party has yet to make a statement.
The cancellation of Malawi’s 2019 presidential election due to fraud, has plunged the country into a political crisis marked by protests often fraught with violence.
On July 14, Texas will hold its 2020 runoff elections to decide the final spots for Democrats and Republicans on the November general election ballot. There are 35 congressional, legislative and state board nominations up for grabs. You can view the full ballot here and find polling locations here. With early voting starting Monday, this is what you []
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MANDEVILLE, Manchester: President of the Jamaican Bar Association, Emile Leiba, has called for the hiking of costs charged to candidates who request magisterial recounts in national elections. At present, a sum of $40 is required of each candidate...
Hopefully, everyone has voted in the Primary Election that ended August 18, and elected the first African American female judge in Duval County as well as other representatives. Now gear up for the General Election to add your name in the annals of positive change in America and elect this nation’s first woman Vice President who also happens to be […]
Pan African Lawyers Union (Palu) has moved to the African Court on Human Rights and People's Rights in Arusha to have elections scheduled in 21 African countries postponed, citing the negative impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Palu, whose membership is drawn from individual lawyers and national lawyers' associations on the continent, filed the request on June 2, and wants the court to issue rules and standards to govern elections during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Lawyers want the court to advise the African Union, African states and citizens on the legal obligations and applicable standards, whether they decide to proceed with elections that were scheduled during this period, or should they opt to postpone them.
\"Elected governments will only be considered legitimate by their citizens if elections are transparent, inclusive, and credible,\" said Chidi Odinkalu, a senior legal officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative.
Palu's petition is based on the premise that while many AU member states have opted to adopt their own practices in handling elections amid the pandemic, there are growing calls for a harmonised approach that will safeguard the right to effectively participate in civic duty as enshrined in the key legal instruments of the AU and of the Regional Economic Communities.
BY ANDREAS BUTLER DAYTONA TIMES With early voting set to end on Nov. 1 and the general election on Tuesday, local Black leaders are making one last pitch to get the Black community to vote. On Oct. 30, a press conference was held behind the Midtown Cultural & Educational Center in Daytona Beach where leaders […]
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The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, will remain in place, keeping nearly 650,000 undocumented young people safe from deportation, thanks to a ruling on Thursday by the Supreme Court.
In a 5-4 decision authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court ruled that President Donald Trump wrongly ended DACA.
In the same November tweet saying he would make a deal for DACA recipients to stay in the U.S., Trump wrote: “Many of the people in DACA, no longer very young, are far from ‘angels.’
While some Trump administration officials have said DACA recipients wouldn’t be priorities for deportation should they lose their protected status, Trump ended other Obama administration policies prioritizing some immigrants for deportation over others.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has reopened removal cases against DACA recipients, and ICE acting director Matthew Albence confirmed in January that if individuals “get ordered removed and DACA is done away with by the Supreme Court, we can actually effectuate those removal orders.”
