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Polls close at 7 p.m.!
That means you have until 7 p.m. to:
š³ Vote in-person
š³ Be in line to vote in-person
š³ Drop off your ballot in a drop box (NOT in the mail)
š³ Register to vote
#copolitics #ElectionNight #Elections2021 #ElectionResults2021
That means you have until 7 p.m. to:
š³ Vote in-person
š³ Be in line to vote in-person
š³ Drop off your ballot in a drop box (NOT in the mail)
š³ Register to vote
#copolitics #ElectionNight #Elections2021 #ElectionResults2021
Election results will begin coming in 7 p.m., but are not final until they've been certified...
...which the state plans to do on Nov. 29th, barring any recounts.
...which the state plans to do on Nov. 29th, barring any recounts.
A THREAD.
The FIVE kinds of people you'll find in the queues at #Elections2021today:
1. The complainers. At least one person will be trying to moan to the people around them in the queue about how long itās taking.
The FIVE kinds of people you'll find in the queues at #Elections2021today:
1. The complainers. At least one person will be trying to moan to the people around them in the queue about how long itās taking.
These people also have all sorts of solutions on how to make the process quicker. They'll tell you the country is a mess and 'queues like this are unacceptable in this day and age'.
2. Those who wear the shirts of the party theyāre voting for. We don't care. Your vote is your secret. Iām not going to change my vote because I see you in your shirt. Some of them even have flags.
Per Mayor Neely:
Flint will be opening 15 police substations & distributing grants for neighborhood crime watch groups
#elections2021 #flint
Flint will be opening 15 police substations & distributing grants for neighborhood crime watch groups
#elections2021 #flint
candidate Tonya Burns priorities:
1. Crime (public safety)
2. Blight (demolition of abandoned houses)
3. Economic Delopment
1. Crime (public safety)
2. Blight (demolition of abandoned houses)
3. Economic Delopment
Calcutta High Court to hear today election petition filed by West Bengal Chief Minister @MamataOfficial challenging the election of BJP leader @SuvenduWB from Nandigram constituency in the 2021 assembly elections
#MamataBanerjee
#SuvenduAdhikari
#MamataBanerjee
#SuvenduAdhikari
The case will be heard by Justice Kausik Chanda.
Banerjee had meanwhile written to Acting Chief JusticeĀ Rajesh BindalĀ requesting him to reassign theĀ election petitionĀ on the ground that Justice Chanda was an active member of BJP before he became a judge
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Banerjee had meanwhile written to Acting Chief JusticeĀ Rajesh BindalĀ requesting him to reassign theĀ election petitionĀ on the ground that Justice Chanda was an active member of BJP before he became a judge
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Bench assembles. Dr AM Singhvi appears.
Are you for petitioner: Court.
That is a very delicious question. I am for the petitioner, says Dr. Singhvi.
#MamataBanerjee #suvend
Are you for petitioner: Court.
That is a very delicious question. I am for the petitioner, says Dr. Singhvi.
#MamataBanerjee #suvend
1/7. The number of schoolteachers who died of Covid-19 after compulsory duty in UPās panchayat polls has risen to 1,621 ā 1,181 men and 440 women. And the toll could rise further. Link to story (with full list of those deaths) at end of thread.
#COVID19 #Elections2021
#COVID19 #Elections2021
2/7. The UP government says there is no proven connection between the holding of the elections and the deaths of these teachers who, as the Allahabad High Court noted, did not volunteer to render their services ābut it was all made obligatory.ā
#COVID19 #Elections2021
#COVID19 #Elections2021
3/7. The UP government, the unions point out, sought no postponements. Rather, its pleader had assured the Supreme Court āthat guidelines for protecting people from Covid infections would be strictly followed during counting of votes.ā That never happened.
#COVID19 #Elections2021
#COVID19 #Elections2021
What to look out for over the next 24 hours and beyond ššš
Big macro questions hanging over these results
1) are the Tories continuing their advance in Labourās northern and midlands redoubts?
2) if so, how much of that is a continuation of 2019 and how much can be attributed to the vaccine effect? Ie how much is structural/transitory?
1) are the Tories continuing their advance in Labourās northern and midlands redoubts?
2) if so, how much of that is a continuation of 2019 and how much can be attributed to the vaccine effect? Ie how much is structural/transitory?
3) Just how strong is the pro-independence contingent in Holyrood?
Am off almost certainly to sit awake in a darkened room for a few hours but Iāll be back on air on the BBC News channel from 0330ish. Then Breakfast from 0600. Join us! #Elections2021
Am off almost certainly to sit awake in a darkened room for a few hours but Iāll be back on air on the BBC News channel from 0330ish. Then Breakfast from 0600. Join us! #Elections2021
@SpelthorneBC how long does it usually take for your monitoring officer to reply to a residents formal complaint when it has already been upheld that a #conservative #Councillor - namely Cllr Michelle Gibson - DID breach #GDPR when she gave my address to her other half please?
@shamusdoherty @cazbie16 @Sammy_18_ @Lisa_SEND @TheRealGrumpDad @CharlieL28 @SENWorldcom @L4ASurrey STILL rumbling onš¤ @ICOnews as the holder of my own data can i freely share my communications? The DPO at #Spelthorne council upheld my GDPR complaint about Cllr Gibson! #GDPR
I have of course raised this as a formal complaint no #Councillor should feel free to misuse their power to use residents personal data to allow someone to try to intimidate them! Itās absolutely disgraceful!! #ConservativeGovernment #LocalElections2021 #LocalElections #politics
1. "Yesterday was such a frustrating day that by evening I had to go to bed with chest pains..."
Thread. What is a #Hybrid #VotingMachine & Why Do I Care?
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#SMARTelections #ElectionProtection
Thread. What is a #Hybrid #VotingMachine & Why Do I Care?
lulufriesdat.medium.com/yesterday-was-ā¦
#SMARTelections #ElectionProtection
2. "It started out a good day. The day before I celebrated my 14th anniversary with my husband. The cherry blossom tree we planted in the backyard was exploding in pink taffy balls, and the smell of the lilies he got me floated through the living room as I walked to my desk."
#Breaking Karnataka HC refuses to entertain two IAs seeking to postpone elections of local authorities in the State, scheduled to be held on April 27 amid COVID-19.
#ElectionCommissionOfIndia
#Elections2021
#COVIDEmergency2021
#COVID19India
#ElectionCommissionOfIndia
#Elections2021
#COVIDEmergency2021
#COVID19India
Karnataka HC was hearing a case registered suo motu after noting that in large number of municipal corporations, elections not being held as per Constitutional mandate.
#COVIDEmergency2021
#COVID19India
#ElectionCommissionOfIndia
#Elections2021
#COVIDEmergency2021
#COVID19India
#ElectionCommissionOfIndia
#Elections2021
ORDER: Firstly, we must note here that intervenor wants drastic relief of postponing elections for 10 local authorities. We fail to understand under which provision of law, intervenor can seek relief of stay.
#COVIDEmergency2021
#COVID19India
#ElectionCommission
#COVIDEmergency2021
#COVID19India
#ElectionCommission
We're going to jump in and out on today's @TheAUMA leaders' forum. On the agenda: discussion on the elections and plebiscites.
Guest speaker is @RachelNotley
Notley to municipal leaders: "You protected public health even as some demanded you do not."
With 4 states and 1 UT due to get new govts next month, we looked at political representation of women in India. Of the 4,235 members of legislative assemblies (MLAs) in India, only 11% are #women. Follow the thread to know more:
#Elections2021
#Elections2021
Among states that had elections in March & April 2021, #WestBengal had the highest representation of #women, at 13% of all MLAs. 7% of MLAs in #TamilNadu are women, 6% in #Kerala & 6% in #Assam, data from @GoIStats recent collation of #gender data show:
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In the last 20 years, no more than 6% of MLAs in Kerala have been #women. Our report on how mainstream political parties in the state have denied women political and leadership roles at the state level:
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#MadrasHighCourt disposes of DMKās petition seeking various measures to ensure the purity of elections in TN.
Election Commission informed Court:
- CCTV, webcasting, to be monitored by election officials, to cover close to 11,000 critical & vulnerable polling booths
(1/n)
Election Commission informed Court:
- CCTV, webcasting, to be monitored by election officials, to cover close to 11,000 critical & vulnerable polling booths
(1/n)
- About 44,000 polling booths would be under CCTV surveillance totally
- EVMs manufactured between 2017-19 to be used; not older machines
- Pre-poll guarding of the EVMs would be conducted in accordance with Election Manual
(2/n)
#MadrasHighCourt
#Elections2021
- EVMs manufactured between 2017-19 to be used; not older machines
- Pre-poll guarding of the EVMs would be conducted in accordance with Election Manual
(2/n)
#MadrasHighCourt
#Elections2021
- EVMs cannot be tampered with by any wi-fi or radio device, electronic supply inside strong rooms would be cut off to ensure no short circuit
- Random counting of votes as per SCās directions would not take away the power of RO to count paper trail on candidateās request
(3/n)
- Random counting of votes as per SCās directions would not take away the power of RO to count paper trail on candidateās request
(3/n)
As per the Assam Polls 2016 seat-sharing in numbers:
BJP ā 60,
CONG ā 26,
AIUDF ā 13,
AGP ā 14,
BPF ā 12, IND ā 1
TOTAL - 126Ā
Now BPF,CON,AIUDF,LEFT looks very strong rainbow š alliance but seat sharing will leads to disaster.
#elections2021 #Assemblyelections2021
BJP ā 60,
CONG ā 26,
AIUDF ā 13,
AGP ā 14,
BPF ā 12, IND ā 1
TOTAL - 126Ā
Now BPF,CON,AIUDF,LEFT looks very strong rainbow š alliance but seat sharing will leads to disaster.
#elections2021 #Assemblyelections2021
BJP had contested 2016 Assam polls in alliance with the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) & Bodoland Peopleās Front (BPF). It won 60 of the 89 & AGP 14 of the 30 seats contested while the BPF had the best strike rate by winning 12 of the 13 seats contested.
#AssamAssemblyElections2021
#AssamAssemblyElections2021
The BJP replaced the BPF with the United Peopleās Party Liberal this time and there are chances that the new regional ally, confined to the Bodoland Territorial Region, would end up contesting fewer seats than it is eyeing for.
#AssamAssemblyElections2021
#AssamAssemblyElections2021
Voting to take place for:
ā”ļø126 seats in Assam
ā”ļø234 in Tamil Nadu
ā”ļø294 in West Bengal
ā”ļø140 in Kerala
ā”ļø30 in Puducherry
: Sunil Arora, @ECISVEEP
ā”ļø126 seats in Assam
ā”ļø234 in Tamil Nadu
ā”ļø294 in West Bengal
ā”ļø140 in Kerala
ā”ļø30 in Puducherry
: Sunil Arora, @ECISVEEP
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#AssemblyElections2021: Assam
Phase 1
Polling: March 27
Counting: May 2
#Elections2021 #AssemblyElections2021 #ElectionCommissionOfIndia
Phase 1
Polling: March 27
Counting: May 2
#Elections2021 #AssemblyElections2021 #ElectionCommissionOfIndia
#AssemblyElections2021: Election Commission of India addresses media; to announce election dates for Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal shortly.
#AssemblyElections #Elections2021
#AssemblyElections #Elections2021
Chief Election Commissioner, Sunil Arora briefs media on #AssemblyElections2021 for 5 states -- Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.
#Elections2021
#Elections2021
"Amid the challenges of #covid19, we shall find immense comfort in the stories of hope": Sunil Arora, Chief Election Commissioner of India.
#Elections2021 #AssemblyElections2021
#Elections2021 #AssemblyElections2021
Thread: Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister OPS, who also handles the finance portfolio, starts presenting the interim state budget for 2021-22 at Kalaivanar Arangam, Chennai.
#Budget #TamilNadu #Elections2021
#Budget #TamilNadu #Elections2021
Key pointers from the TN interim budget:
-TN govt has incurred a total expenditure of Rs13,352.85 crores for handling Covid19 pandemic.
-Out of the 413 recommendations given by economic expert committee, govt has implemented 273 of them.
-TN govt has incurred a total expenditure of Rs13,352.85 crores for handling Covid19 pandemic.
-Out of the 413 recommendations given by economic expert committee, govt has implemented 273 of them.
- TN is expected to register a positive growth of 2.02% at 2011-12 constant prices in 2020-2021. This is against an all India negative growth of 7.7 percent.
In Punjab, the @INCIndia clean swept the civic body elections by winning six out of eight Municipal Corporations and emerging as the largest party in seventh. CM @capt_amarinder credited his govt's developmental policies for the victory ahead of state elections next year.
Overall, the Congress won 1,373 of the 2,218 seats that went to the polls, followed by the SAD (285), AAP (60), BJP (49), and BSP (5). This was also considered as the semi-final before the state goes in the election next year.
The BJP and SAD had to suffer the humiliating loss, due to the anti farm law sentiments and widespread protest. However, agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar attributed local politics to this while brushing off any causal link between election and farm laws protest.
