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Council vote sets municipal election
Tuscaloosa :: AL :: USA | 13 days ago
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The City Council voted Tuesday to call for an election of the mayor, council and all members of the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education. The vote set the election date as Aug. 27, established polling place hours of 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., ratified the seven
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Supreme Court turns away newspaper's beef about Pennsylvania election law
Boston :: MA :: USA | 15 days ago
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had challenged the law, unsuccessfully, in lower courts. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has lost its bid to renew a challenge to a Pennsylvania law that allows local election officials to prohibit news reporters and photographers
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Bristol Debates Where West End Voters Should Cast Ballots
Bristol :: United Kingdom | 1 month ago
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Rydingsward complained publicly that too many of the district's voters particularly the elderly can't easily get to the current polling place at West Bristol School. At a council meeting last week, she presented a petition signed by more than a dozen
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Herald News: Early voting was worth a veto
Newark :: NJ :: USA | 1 month ago
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When physical hardships prevail or a situation occurs that makes that impossible, citizens should have an option to vote by absentee ballot...Election Week or Election Month only weakens what should be a communal experience for all Americans. Last
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Candidates, voters reminded to keep polling places litter-free on Election Day
Manila :: Philippines | 1 month ago
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PhilippinesOn the weekend before Election Day, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources made a last-minute appeal to the candidates and the voters to observe a litter-free midterm election. The agency issued a reminder to all candidates to
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Sioux City schools may make changes for voting
Sioux City :: IA :: USA | 2 months ago
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Iowa (AP) Children should not attend classes at Sioux City public schools when the facilities are being used for elections, the Woodbury County elections boss has said, citing safety concerns about mixing the public with students. Elections
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Schools as polling places may become optional
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 3 months ago
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Every time I go, I have to be signed in, buzzed in, (and) go through a secure entrance...I think it's a risk we need not take," Franks said, who is working on legislation to minimize that risk. The issue of student and staff safety when schools are
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Totowa opposes bill to institute early voting
Totowa :: NJ :: USA | 3 months ago
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Borough officials say a measure the state legislature is considering to keep certain polling places open 15 days before elections would place an undue burden on them and other municipalities. It would have require extra workers and require the
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Illinois: Lawmakers want voters out of school
Marengo :: IL :: USA | 3 months ago
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This might be the last election where voters in Illinois go to a school to cast a vote. A handful of Illinois lawmakers and Illinois police leaders want to stop using schools as polling places, saying it is just not safe anymore. I just know in my
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Parent wants schools closed on election days
LaGrange :: GA :: USA | 3 months ago
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Over the years, she said, she has at times kept her children home on election days because of the number of unfamiliar people coming and going. But Ragaishis felt nudged into action after the Sandy Hook school shootings in December, and began
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