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US Voters Want More Ocean Protections
New polling by Oceana has shown that US voters favor increased safeguards for our oceans. Highlights of the polling show clear interest in a wide range of topics, from the protection of whales to the use of slave labor in seafood production. These include: 91% do not want seafood caught using slave labor or human
Swiss voters back boosting pensions—something they hadn’t done in 176 years—as high cost of living takes toll
Swiss voters backed a plan to raise pensions, the first time in the country’s history that social benefits got an increase via plebiscite. The proposal to introduce a 13th annual payout to pensioners was supported by 58.2% of the electorate and also met the additional requirement of being passed in the majority of Switzerland’s cantons. A second initiative to raise
Voters reject effort to change Ohio constitution over abortion
Ohio voters on Tuesday resoundingly rejected a Republican-backed measure that would have made it more difficult to change the state’s constitution, setting up a fall campaign that will become the nation’s latest referendum on abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nationwide protections last year.The defeat of Issue 1 keeps in place a simple
Millions of UK voters’ data accessible in cyber-attack
Confidence in the UK’s electoral regulator has been thrown into question after it emerged a hostile cyber-attack accessing the data of 40 million voters went undetected for a year and the public was not told for another 10 months.The Electoral Commission apologised for the security breach in which the names and addresses of all voters
Women voters stopped Trump from getting a second term. Will they stop Morrison?
If only men voted, Donald Trump would have won the 2016 presidential election in a landslide. Men preferred Trump 52%-41%, while women backed Hillary Clinton by a greater margin of 54%-39%. The 26-point net difference was the largest voting gender gap in US history. Clinton won the popular vote, because more women vote than men. But for the Nineteenth Amendment,…
Voters block agreement for planned Georgia spaceport
by Jeff Foust — March 10, 2022 By a nearly three-to-one margin, residents in Camden County, Georgia, voted to terminate an agreement the county had to purchase land for the proposed Spaceport Camden, putting the project in jeopardy. Credit: Spaceport Camden WASHINGTON — Voters in a Georgia county have dealt a potentially fatal blow to…
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday said a total of 2,525,471 registered voters will be participating in the November 6 Anambra governorship election. INEC Chairman Professor Mahmood Yakubu, who disclosed this at an emergency meeting with political parties, said 77,475 valid registrants at the end of the First Quarter of the Continuous Voter Registration…