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Polls to payments: What India taught the world about serving people on scale
Firstpost
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August 15, 2025
The 1940s and 1950s were a transformative time for the world. Dozens of countries finally broke free from colonial rule and emerged as independent nations, eager to chart their own destinies. India was among the largest and most complex of these...
‘Vote theft’: Unease in BJD ranks as party protests, but at a distance from INDIA
The Indian Express
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August 15, 2025
While the “vote theft” allegations levelled against the BJP by Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi have seemingly galvanised the Opposition, the absence of the Naveen Patnaik-led Biju Janata Dal (BJD) from the August 11 protest...
Political parties disappointed over SC’s reference to Pahalgam attack in statehood restoration
Daily Excelsior
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August 15, 2025
Suhail Bhat Srinagar, Aug 14: The ruling National Conference (NC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Congress, and Peoples Conference (PC), today criticised the Supreme Court’s reference to the recent Pahalgam terror attack while hearing a petition...
Humiliating Defeat In Family Fiefdom Of Pulivendula In local body polls, A severe political setback For former Andhra Pradesh CM Jaganmohan Reddy
News24
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August 14, 2025
Lakshmana Venkat Kuchi For former Chief Minister and YSRCP chief, YS Jaganmohan Reddy it was a humiliating defeat in the family fiefdom of Pulivendula Zilla parishad territorial constituency local body elections on Thursday. For the first time...
Bye-elections: INEC urges political parties, candidates, others to adhere to law
Peoples Gazette
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August 14, 2025
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has appealed to political parties, candidates and all stakeholders participating in the Saturday bye-elections to adhere strictly to the provisions of the law, regulations and guidelines. INEC,...
Expanded list of docs to prove citizenship voter-friendly: Supreme Court
ETGovernment
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August 14, 2025
The Supreme Court on Wednesday orally remarked that the Election Commission's decision to expand the list of acceptable documents for establishing a voter's identity in the Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR) was "actually voter-friendly." A...
When and how to conduct SIR is Election Comission's exclusive domain: Supreme Court
ETGovernment
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August 14, 2025
Supreme Court prima facie disagreed on Wednesday with the argument that the Election Commission had no authority to conduct an intensive revision of electoral rolls and observed that it was within the sole domain of the poll panel to decide when...
Why are young people in Serbia increasingly interested in politics?
Serbian Monitor
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August 14, 2025
Until two years ago, 22-year-old Natalija Lukić was mainly interested in books, music, and films. Now, she is interested in politics as well. “All my knowledge of politics mostly came from my family. I didn’t have a formed opinion, nor did I study...
Bye-Elections: Zamfara APC raises alarm over deployment of outlawed security outfit
Peoples Gazette
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August 14, 2025
The Zamfara chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has cautioned against the deployment of outlawed security volunteers popularly known as ‘Yansakai’ to Kaura Namoda Local Government Area ahead of Saturday’s State House of Assembly...
Saturday is Election Day in Opelousas
KATC 3 ABC - Louisiana
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August 14, 2025
Election Day is Saturday in the City of Opelousas. Here's the only item on the ballot: City of Opelousas (Sales Tax Proposition) Shall the City of Opelousas, Louisiana (the "City") be authorized to levy and collect a sales tax (the "Tax") at the...
ADC coalition: A real third force or political gamble in South West?
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 15, 2025
In the build-up to the 2027 elections, the African Democratic Congress (ADC) is moving deftly to the drumbeat of real opposition to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its struggling Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) archrival in the...
Austin City Council approves $6.3 billion budget, will pursue tax rate election
KVUE - Texas
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August 14, 2025
Voters will need to approve the tax rate increase during the November election. AUSTIN, Texas — Members of the Austin City Council have approved the city's next annual budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year. The $6.3 billion plan aims to address the...
Contemporary Politics in America
The Independent - California
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Politics in America is in bad shape. Rather than seeking the best resolutions to the problems besetting the country, some members of the government diligently sidestep or duck their responsibilities to fulfill those campaign promises intended to...
DeMaio again vows to defeat Newsom’s ‘corrupt scheme to end fair elections’ in California
Lassen County Times - California
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August 14, 2025
According to a statement by California Assemblyman Carl DeMaio, as expected, Governor Gavin Newsom today called for a Nov. 4 Special Election to amend the state Constitution, giving politicians the power to manipulate the lines of their election...
By-elections: INEC deploys poll materials as parties end campaigns
Punch
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August 14, 2025
The Independent National Electoral Commission has completed arrangements for Saturday’s by-elections in 16 constituencies across 12 states, even as political parties and candidates intensified campaigns ahead of the close of political activities...
With most primary votes tallied, challengers take lead in both Ogden City Council races
Standard Examiner - Utah
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OGDEN — All but a scant few votes have been tallied in this year’s municipal primary election. And in the two Ogden City Council races on the ballot, it was a good night for a couple of newcomers in the political arena. As of Thursday afternoon’s...
Lawsuit: Chouteau County, Montana Must Update Election System so Native Votes Count
American Civil Liberties Union
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GREAT FALLS, Mont. – On August 14, 2025, the Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy’s Reservation and two Native voters filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana challenging Chouteau County’s unfair, at-large voting...
California Democrats Announce Special Election to Redraw Congressional Maps
The American Prospect
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August 14, 2025
LITTLE TOKYO, LOS ANGELES—As ICE and Customs and Border Patrol agents swarmed outside, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the political leadership of California announced their intention to hold a November 4 election for new mid-cycle maps that could net...
Dem Senators Who Won Elections With Corporate PAC Money Now Pledging To Refuse It
Independent Journal Review
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August 14, 2025
Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly of Arizona and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan are proposing to ban corporate PACs, but they won elections after receiving money from one designed to funnel individual donations from many corporate employees, campaign...
Chin resistance says regime election not solution to crisis; Naypyidaw wants safe and secure polls in December
Democratic Voice of Burma
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August 15, 2025
Chin resistance says regime election not solution to crisis Chin resistance forces told DVB that the regime’s elections scheduled to begin in December “do not represent” the people in Chinland since out of its nine townships, regime forces only...