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CAIRO (Nov. 22) -- Egypt's streets are festooned with posters of rival candidates competing for seats in Sunday's parliamentary elections. Loudspeakers boom candidate slogans and followers chant their support. But despite the carnival air of competition, activists and opposition groups warn this could be Egypt's most unfair election in a decade. Thousands of candidates are vying for 508 seats, including 64 reserved for women, in the People's Assembly, Egypt's lower house of parliament, but they will likely do so without any substantive independent monitoring. Elections in Egypt are ...
Islamic Law in Oklahoma? Vote to Bar Sharia May Be on Fall Ballot
By David Gibson - Politics DailyOklahoma sure doesn't seem like the kind of place where the Islamic law code known as Sharia might take over. With just 30,000 Muslims out a population of nearly 3.7 million, and a whole wheat, corn-fed reputation that inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Oklahoma is about as far from Saudi Arabia -- one Muslim country that follows a strict version of Sharia -- as you can get. But legislators in the Sooner State figure you can never be too careful. Hence their push to put a question on November's ballot that would ask voters to make state courts rely on federal and state laws when ...
Gay Marriage Split: Why Maine Is Mainstream
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe outcome of a referendum that has thwarted gay marriage in Maine was understandably celebrated by conservative Christian lobbies that had poured money and resources into the state to convince voters to vote "yes" on Question 1, a ballot initiative launched in September to undo a new law legalizing same-sex marriage. "If they [gay rights advocates] can't win there, it really does tell you the majority of Americans are not on board with this gay marriage thing," Maggie Gallagher, president of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), which is spearheading the fight against same-sex ...
Osama for President
By Denise Williams - Politics DailyRensselaer County, NY election officials had a little bit of a controversy on their hands when 300 absentee ballots went out with a typo. Instead of Barack Obama, the ballot reads Barack Osama.According to the Albany Times Union, it looks like just an honest mistake:Elections officials on both sides of the aisle insist a simple typographical error caused the national embarrassment. "It was a mistake innocently done," McDonough said. "We catch almost everything."Republican officials were apologetic. "We have three different staff members who proof these things and somehow the typo got by us," ...
SC Democrats Block Colbert Ballot Bid
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyPresidential candidate and right-wing fun-dit Stephen Colbert barely (bert-ly?) met today's noon deadline to file his ballot application for the South Carolina Democratic Primary, according to this AP story. Party officials have now decided not to place Colbert on the ballot, stating that he does not meet the standard of national viability, according to a report on CNN.com. Colbert announced on his show last night that he would not seek the Republican nomination in South Carolina, citing the GOP's $35,000.00 filing fee, citing Federal Election Commission regulations and a fee that exceeeded ...
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