Dr Sekhon notes that, thanks to Karl Rove, the mastermind of George Bush's election victories in 2000 and 2004, the Republicans have been far more effective at exploiting new scientific information about voting and elections.
We are just beginning to see the power of social media on polling, on elections and voting.
The draft bill is understood to refer not just to prisoners' voting rights in general and local elections in the UK but also to elections to the European Parliament.
The government has already changed the voting system for European elections and will introduce some form of proportional representation for the polls for the Scottish and Welsh assemblies and the London mayor.
Frankly, while I absolutely endorse taking part in our democracy by going to the polls and voting and by participating in the political process during and outside of elections, I still think the world would be a better place if more people played video games and fewer people worried so much about politics.
Obamacare will be THE VOTING ISSUE in most senatorial and house elections.
Corporations also have a tremendous amount of flexibility on how to structure voting blocks, shareholder agreements, cumulative voting, staggered board elections, and minority shareholder protections.
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In Multnomah County, Oregon, which begins voting on October 8, Eric Sample, spokesman for the county elections division, says that early voting and the state's 100% vote-by-mail has increased voter participation.
Johnson 47 years ago Monday, the Voting Rights Act empowered the federal government to oversee elections in states with racially discriminatory voting practices, and outlawed the use of literacy tests for all American voters.
The election announcement ends weeks of speculation about when voting will take place and what kind of elections will be held.
The draft bill that Chris Grayling will publish this week will refer not just to prisoners' voting rights relating to domestic general and local elections.
Kids will discuss elections and get a voting sticker.
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And the Pope himself has made it clear that retirement is out of the question - this despite that fact that Roman Catholic cardinals are now forced to retire and relinquish their voting rights in papal elections when they reach the age of 80.
"People find it much easier if they can choose the time to vote ... rather than show up on one day of the week, " said Tom Slockett, Johnson County, Iowa, commissioner of elections and the county's voting auditor.
Older voters tend to vote more in mid-term elections and this year appear to be voting more Republican.
Many suffered stunning upsets in the elections, thanks both to the new voting system and to the strictness of the Election Commission.
Probably the most significant question was Mr Ancram's on the alleged chaos and even fraud in the experiment on postal voting for the elections.
There were fears that the electoral reform poll would overshadow the other elections and concerns over so-called "voting fatigue" if they were held on the same day.
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The islanders have American citizenship and may be recruited by the armed forces (around 4, 000 serve in the navy, for example), but they cannot vote in presidential elections and have only one (non-voting) member in the House of Representatives.
"Given what we know about the youth bulge in the population, Millennials and Hispanics will become ever more important voting blocs in upcoming presidential elections, " Taylor said.
In municipal elections in Brazil, voting is swayed mainly by local issues and personalities.
Lowering the voting age for all elections is a long-standing SNP policy, and the party says it has been backed by organisations including Scotland's biggest teaching union, the EIS, as well as the Scottish TUC, National Union of Students and the Electoral Reform Society.
Voting has been held amid tight security in key Indian state elections in Punjab and Uttarakhand.
Pollsters began to talk seriously about a gender gap in national elections in 1988 and, at times, the differences in voting and issues emphasis between men and women has often been striking.
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Although they remain popular with young people and minorities, those groups say they are not very excited about voting and tend to not to turn out in great numbers at mid-term elections anyway.
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Voting is the most fundamental pillar of a democracy and it is imperative that we keep elections free, fair and accessible to all.
This, the Gould report pointed out, enabled the SNP to appear at the top of all but one regional list in the elections, which saw a new ballot paper design and a new voting system for the council seats.
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Singer notes that in presidential and other political elections, if a person decides not to vote, that voting right isn't given to another person, so why were shareholder elections held to different standards?
This is likely to involve allowing 16 and 17-year-olds to taking part, whereas the minimum voting age in UK elections is 18.
Estonia's been keen on the idea of voting via the internet since 2001 and became the first country in the world to hold legit general elections when they implemented the remote e-voting process locally in 2005.
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