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Having made themselves safe from bullets, India's politicians have again shown that to them ballots are more important than the lives of faceless citizens who are more vulnerable to bullets today than ever before. The terror attack on Mumbai on November 11, 2006 has finally jolted the Government into action after long years of apathy and insensitivity. After the symbolic rolling of a few heads, ne

by Dave MindemanThere is the general feeling in the media that Al Franken was dealt a "serious blow" by the canvassing board's ruling on the absentee ballots.Maybe. But looking at the long term, maybe not.The Coleman campaign has been utilizing the liberal ballot challenge methodology to maintain their narrow lead in the visible sense. By that, I mean that the actual difference between

I hate how the NFL opens up pro bowl balloting in October. It’s like selecting an All-star team at midseason. Wait, you mean baseball, basketball and hockey all do that? Well, that’s silly. Anyway, I’ve waited this long for a reason: I wanted to see more of the season play out before I blindly vote [...]

Take a hard look at this ballot marking. Who do you think this person voted for? Al Franken says he wants "every vote counted", yet for some strange reason he wants this ballot thrown out... because it's really not clear to him who this person voted for. Is Al Franken sincere about counting EVERY vote, or just Al Franken votes? You make the call: A Neocon Express Post

by the Rev. Ruth Garwood and the Rev. Mike Schuenemeyer National Religious Leadership Roundtable We have come through a historic election and many of us were involved in important ways, working for the issues that we care about. Regardless of how one feels about the presidential results, the votes on ballot measures addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) concerns were

The National Basketball Association on Tuesday unveiled the official 2009 NBA All-Star ballot at a star-studded event in Phoenix, the locale for the 2009 NBA All-Star Game; as expected, the Phoenix suns had plenty of representation at the event, including Shaquille O’Neal, Raja Bell, Amare Stoudemire and Grant Hill.  The game will take place on February [...]

The effort by the anti-gay group MassResistance to reinstate the 1913 law has failed. The group had spent the past two months collecting signatures to place a referendum on the 2010 ballot to reinstate the law, which the legislature and Gov. Deval Patrick repealed in July, but by the Oct. 29 deadline for gathering signatures MassResistance had only managed to collect one-third of the total needed.

The dust is beginning to clear as attention on President-Elect Barack Obama's stunning victory turns to cabinet positions and glimpses of the new administration's direction. Before we dissect some of the information already coming out of Obama's administration, let's look at some of the environmental wins and losses on election day. Five particular environmental ballot initiatives attracted the

Several ballot measures shows the country moving left on the issue of abortion, while they remain adamant against gay marriage.As of November 6, 2008 at 2:30 PMArizona Proposition 2: Ban on Gay Marriage (PASS)Yes: 1,045,724 (56%)No: 805,551 (44%)Arkansas Initiative 1: Ban on Gay Couples Adopting Children (PASS)Yes: 579,695 (57%)No: 437,720 (43%)California Proposition 4: Abortion Limits (FAIL)Yes:

The NHL released the All Star Fan Ballot today. Ilya Kovalchuk & Kari Lehtonen are on the list to represent the Atlanta Thrashers this year. Voting begins on November 12, 2008 and runs through January 2, 2008. Voting will take place on NHL.com. This seasons games will be held in Montreal, Quebec.2008-09 XM / NHL All-Star Fan Ballot:EASTERN CONFERENCEGoaltenders:Martin Biron, Philadelphia Flyer

We’re flexing our polling muscles today and conducting a little experiment in the process. The national election for the 44th President of the United States is in full swing, and we want to know how you’re voting. Take a minute to answer this poll and tell us who you’re voting for. Or, if you don’t live in [...]

UPDATE: Heard from CNN - It appears that the wet soggy ballot problem is also occurring in Virginia. Now voters are being told to dry off before they vote… A coastal storm is bringing wet weather to two key battle ground states in the 2008 presidential election. This rain has already caused problems in North Carolina. [...]

Not sure where to go vote? Want to see a ballot before you go? WXYZ has a link on their site where you can click on to see your polling place.  Click here. To see a preview of your ballot before you... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -Martin Luther King, Jr. I am sure by now you have all heard about California's Prop 8, which if passed, would eliminate the right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry in California. However, California is not the only state dealing with anti-gay and discriminatory amendments on the ballot in this election, other states such as Arizona, Florida and

(Wasilla, AK) Early Sunday morning Levi Johnston, the young man made famous when his sperm skated past the net of Bristol Palin’s ovaries, made a daring move.  Before a day of cataloging baby gifts and campaigning for his future mother-in-law Sarah Palin and John McCain, Levi slipped out thru a basement window in order to cast an early vote for president. The Lost News obtained a copy o

Please stop forwarding your ballots to us. We have received over 10,000 blank ballots with instructions for us to vote for you. We never intended for that to happen. Any comments or correspondance we may have made were an error on our part.       

Well, less then a week away we’ll be casting our ballots (some of you already have), and it turns out there is more then just Obama and McCain to choose from. I’m not just talking about McKinney (she would have had my vote in 2004), I’m talking about the local politicians. This is not an [...]

SCIP Members: October 28 marks the beginning of the election for the 2009 SCIP Board of Directors. All SCIP regular, group, and life members in good standing have the privilege, and I would also add responsibility, of voting in this important election. The convenient, secure, web-based voting process will only take a couple of minutes at most. Results of the election will be announced within two w

Thanks to Mac Hall for letting me post his work to my Blog.   Cell 'Phones, Water Bottles, and the Ballot   Uncountable kazillions of electrons have been blasted into the universe questioning where Barack Not-Allowed-to-Say-His-Middle-Name Obama was born and wondering if the possibility of a foreign birth compromises his eligibility to rule over us all as President of t

If you haven’t received your absentee ballot to vote for U.S. President, don’t worry, you can still fax in your vote. You still have to mail in your vote as well. To note: when you fax your vote, you obviously relinquish your rights to a secret ballot, which is no big deal, really. Go to [...]

Predator Press [LOBO] “LOBO,” says Don Lewis over the speakerphone. “I’m too chicken to keep running this campaign against you and John Nobody. You guys are far more dynamic, have better ideas, and are flat-out better equipped to run this Great Nation.” “We’re better looking too,” I point out. ”Yes that is absolutely true.” “Why don’t you just write a con

I'm spreading the word. Democrats Abroad Korea will have Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot Assistance Sessions to help those who need it. Here is the information:If you need help with your absentee ballot, or have not yet received your absentee ballot and need a Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot (FWAB), then please come to one of our help sessions:Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot AssistanceItaewon

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Johnette Benkovic and Fr. Frank Pavone talk about the process Catholics should use when choosing which candidate to vote for.

This is an old post from Gateway Pundit Hillary Clinton supporter Philip Berg filed suit this week in US District Court to have Barack Obama removed from the ballot. Here is the front page (the whole document is posted here) from the suit filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against by Philip Berg against Barack Obama. Jeff [...]

Im sorry, but I think this was an intentional typo! What do you think?TROY, N.Y. - Who is running for president? In an upstate New York county, hundreds of voters have been sent absentee ballots in which they could vote for "Barack Osama."The absentee ballots sent to voters in Rensselaer County identified the two presidential candidates as "Barack Osama" and "John McCain." In the United States, th

It's so nice when labor and business gets together to make a common sense decision for the betterment of all. Last month, Ohio's labor unions and business organizations compromised on the removal of the Healthy Families Act from November's ballot. Now, Colorado's unions and employers have done the same on its four controversial ballot measures. The Denver Post reports that labor and management h

Yes, I'm blogging about this again.For most US election districts, early October is the deadline for voter registration and absentee ballot requests.Even this week I've run into a couple of US citizens that I know who have not registered or requested their ballots. I think this time it's less than normal, but even one unregistered voter is a waste. Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...There will be o

Things seem to be getting pretty technical; at least for Bob Barr, Libertarian presidential candidate.Bob Barr has filed suit that would keep voters from seeing the names Barack Obama and John McCain on their voting machines, saying they failed to follow the Texas law to get their names placed on the ballot. The Libertarians are claiming that both the Texas Democratic and Republican parties missed

This is an important time in our Country’s history.  Not only are we facing a Presidential election that will most likely come down to the wire, there are many other elections and issues facing us this November as well. One such issue is Ballot Measure 63 granting homeowners the right to do repairs or remodel their homes costing under [...]

Call me ignorant, but I never heard of the alien land law of 1926 until today. The law can stop people ineligible for US citizenship from owning property in the state of Florida. I did a little digging and it turns out the law came into existence out of fears that Asian immigrants would work for [...]

ACLU Warns This May Not Be the End FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: media@aclufl.org TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida today applauded the Florida Supreme Court's decision to remove proposed Constitutional Amendments 7 and 9 from the November ballot. The ACLU was one of several separation of church & state and public education organizations, including the Fl

Tampa Bay Real Estate News - Well all Tampa Bay property owners and investors got some bad news to followup on the Tampa bay property tax news we received on August 15th when a Leon County Circuit Court removed Amendment 5 (aimed at lowering Florida property taxes) from the November ballot. The wait is over here's the Tampa Bay real estate news:&nb

Tampa Bay Real Estate News - Well all Tampa Bay property owners and investors got some bad news to followup on the Tampa bay property tax news we received on August 15th when a Leon County Circuit Court removed Amendment 5 (aimed at lowering Florida property taxes) from the November ballot. The wait is over here's the Tampa Bay real estate news:&nb

Rumors started circulating early this morning that the Governor finally succeeded in getting the Healthy Families Act pulled from the ballot. Now, we have formal confirmation, courtesy of the Columbus Dispatch: Ohioans for Healthy Families, the group that backed the paid sick-day amendment, said today that it has asked that the proposal be pulled off the Nov. 4 ballot. Officials with the Se

The Florida Supreme Court has just shot down all three major education-related amendments that were headed for the November ballot. This order affirms the lower court ruling on Amendment 5. This order reverses the lower court ruling on Amendments 7...

The first round ballot nominations have been announced for the Stellar Awards, and Jonathan Nelson & Purpose has beeen nominated for 9 categories. The various nominations were for the single "My Name is Victory" and the popular CD "Right Now Praise". "My Name is Victory" has been nominated for Song of The Year"! It’s one [...]

Pinellas County Florida - Well all home owners, investors and others got some bad news today - Leon County Circuit Court ripped Amendment 5 off the November ballot. We still have a chance because the State will appeal the ruling and it will ultimately be decided by Florida's Supreme Court. Govenor Crist Weigh's In on Court's Ruling In the Florida Capital News Crist weighs in. Crist said Cooper's

Pinellas County Florida - Well all home owners, investors and others got some bad news today - Leon County Circuit Court ripped Amendment 5 off the November ballot. We still have a chance because the State will appeal the ruling and it will ultimately be decided by Florida's Supreme Court. Govenor Crist Weigh's In on Court's Ruling In the Florida Capital News Crist weighs in. Crist said Cooper's

Pinellas County Florida - Well all home owners, investors and others got some bad news today - Leon County Circuit Court ripped Amendment 5 off the November ballot.  We still have a chance because the State will appeal the ruling and it will ultimately be decided by Florida’s Supreme Court.  Govenor Crist Weigh’s In on Court’s Ruling In the Florida C

Mitch McConnell blames challenger Bruce Lunsford for the increase in the state’s gas tax. Michigan Rep. John Dingell pledges to stop price gouging and rein in energy speculators. Candidates are frequently using images of gas stations in campaign ads this year. Candidates are frequently using images of gas stations in campaign ads this year. [...]

The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that Ohioans for Healthy Families has submitted to the Secretary of State double the number of signatures needs to place the Healthy Families Act on the November ballot. The battle lines are being drawn between supporters of the ballot initiative and Ohioans to Protect Jobs and Fair Benefits, a coalition of businesses that opposes the initiative as bad for O

Say Yes to Sunday organizers are trying to come up with more than 37,000 signatures on a petition to get sales of beer and wine on the ballot in Ottawa County, Mich.Ottawa County, located on the west side of Michigan, is the only county in the state that bans Sunday sales of beer and wine. That law was put in place by a vote in 1976. You can purchase liquor by the glass as the result of a law pass

The beaches in San Diego, Calif., have been dry since a one year test alcohol ban was imposed. Now some city officials think voters should get a voice in the matter.A proposal has been floated to add a question to the Nov. 4 ballot regarding the ban. Proponents say the beaches should be reopened to alcohol. They claim that if police enforced laws regarding public intoxication and rowdy behavior th

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Lebanon finally has a government after a cabinet was agreed following eighteen months of political deadlock. With eleven opposition ministers included, Hezbollah has the cabinet veto it has been demanding (often violently). Democracy Arsenal reminds us that there are still major threats to Lebanon:The cabinet formation is good news, but as Mona Yacoubian noted last week, "an agreement on a unity g

PoliTex notes that State Sen. Kim Brimer (R-Fort Worth) has filed a lawsuit to keep Wendy Davis off the ballot. From PoliTex: The lawsuit is here. The suit requests the court to “disqualify Davis from the November 2008 general election.” The suit follows the same line of argument as three Fort Worth firefighters charged back in January, when they alleged in a suit that Davis couldn&#

Gay rights advocates asked California's highest court Friday to keep off the November ballot a citizens' initiative that would again ban same-sex marriage. Lawyers for Equality California filed a petition arguing that the proposed amendment to the California Constitution should be invalidated because its impact was not made clear to the millions of voters who signed petitions to qualify the

I blogged about efforts by FIERCE NYC to oppose private development of Pier 40 a place where LGBT youth of color and homeless youth in NYC have traditionally been safe to hang out and be themselves. Read more about that here...Please sign the petition to oppose privatization and support an LGBT youth center! "Our vote says YES to: * people coming before profit and a pier 40 re-development pla

Katherine Heigl dropped out of the Emmy race today, saying that she doesn’t think the writing for her character on Grey’s Anatomy is worthy of an award and did not want to take away the opportunity from other actresses. I’m sorry, has the woman forgotten that she’s working in television - the vehicle responsible for [...]

Germany's right-wing extremist National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) has long found some measure of success in the voting booths of eastern Germany. In Sunday municipal elections in the state of Saxony, the run of success continued. With the state's 2.9 million voters choosing new county and municipal councils, the neo-Nazi NPD pulled in some 5.1 percent of the vote across the state and

This is no surprise, but the news just came out that the "Gay marriage ban qualifies for California ballot," and that story is located here. For what it's worth, I'm cautiously optimistic, particularly given the results of the recent Field Poll, although mitigated by the results of two other polls, that the voters will defeat this measure by a slight margin, and that the California Supreme Court

 According to this article Colorado voters will vote to add an amendment to the state  constitution that defines a person as “any human being from the moment of fertilization”. This amendment has become known as the “Definition of a Person” Amendment.  In order to get this to the ballot the group “Colorado for Equal Rights ” [...]

Now that Midland City Councilman Bill Dingus has been declared ineligible for the ballot by a federal judge because he failed to resign his city council seat, one must wonder exactly what is next in HD 82. The Dallas Morning speculates that Dingus could still be made the nominee by the county chairs in HD 82, which get to select the nominee if one is declared ineligible from the ballot. Clearly, that would require Dingus to resign from the council. I question, however, if once a candidate has been declared ineligible if he can again be eligible in the same cycle.

The Washington Times‘ Christina Bellantoni wrote the pool report for Senator Obama’s visit to a clothing manufacturing plant in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on 1 April. It included one item that surprised me by not generating more comment: During the 25-minute tour, Obama called a woman “sweetie,” and thanked her in Spanish, then told another woman who [...]

From "Naftemporiki": "A group of around 20 persons wearing helmets, invaded an amphitheater of the veterinary school, a little before the elections start at 8:00, burnt voting papers and ballot boxes and caused minor damages to the elections hall. Earlier during the night, another group invaded a student elections event, and hanged down election banners and posters."Update: The following text together with some photo material was published at: morning at 8:00 am, an intervention against the elections was realised by 30 anarchists at the Veterinary school of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Once we entered the building, we moved towards the hall where the elections would take place, we took the ballot-box in our hands and together with some election material we set them on fire. This

I read this from the San Antonio Express-News with a little astonishment: Barack Obama would have the coattails to carry down-ballot Texas Democrats to victory in November and could be crucial to Democratic efforts to take Harris County away from Republicans, the Illinois senator’s state congressional supporters said Tuesday. Except for, perhaps, Harris County, I don’t see how Obama is more beneficial to Texas Democrats than Hillary Clinton. In fact, I’d argue Clinton would have longer coattails next November than Obama. You’ll note that the paragraph quoted above is pretty specific to Harris County. My first question is, “how can someone who didn’t win the state’s popular vote among Democrats manage to have longer coattails in November?” It

The NBA's reigning Most Valuable Player isn't prepared to say when he'll be ready to play again, although we continue to cling to our prediction here in Dimedom that he'll be back in less than the originally forecasted two weeks.

The NBA's reigning Most Valuable Player isn't prepared to say when he'll be ready to play again, although we continue to cling to our prediction here in Dimedom that he'll be back in less than the originally forecasted two weeks.

The Associated Press reported, “The late Pat Tillman, a former Arizona State linebacker who gave up a professional football career to join the military, is among 19 players up for election to the College Football Hall of Fame for the first time this year.” This is quite an honor for the local hero.  Tillman’s Sun Devils career [...]

The National Football Foundation announced the ballot for the 2008 class for the College Football Hall of Fame on Tuesday. The nominees include 75 players and eight coaches. Among the notable players are UCLA’s Troy Aikman, Notre Dame’s Tim Brown and Syracuse’s Art Monk, who was elected into the NFL Hall of [...]

What’s the Green news this week in Pleasanton that surrounds Real Estate? No Green Real Estate listings to note but Pleasanton Oak Grove referendum in on the table.  Pleasanton City Council tabled the referendum vote pending the Superior Court decision. Pleasanton’s City officials goal was to have the decision place on the June ballot but felt they [...]

  Maramiyya Group today cleared the ballot papers and ballot boxes for the upcoming presidential election from customs and handed them over to the Office of the Commissioner of Elections. Maramiyya Group won the bid to supply ballot papers and ballot boxes for this year’s presidential election by competing against major publishers of Maldives and Sri Lanka. Chief [...]

Ward B Waynesboro City Council candidate Chris Graham was certified for ballot access by Waynesboro voter registrar Mary Alice Downs on Tuesday - two full weeks before the March 4 filing deadline and a little more than two weeks after he entered the race for the open city-council seat.He is the first candidate to have secured his place on the ballot for the May 6 city election."I'm proud of the efforts of our campaign and our many volunteers who offered their time and energy toward completing this essential first phase of our effort at Moving Waynesboro Forward," Graham said today.Graham entered the race for the Ward B seat currently held by mayor Tom Reynolds on Feb. 1. Reynolds announced on Jan. 18 that he will not seek a third four-year term on the city council representing Ward B.Graha

The following video was taken by Bev Harris of Black Box Voting.org during the recounting of votes in the New Hampshire primary election which took place recently. The"chain of custody" and secure storage of the ballots are vital to ensure an accurate recount and prevent election fraud. Watch carefully the reactions and answers given by the "election officials" to the questions asked by Bev Harris and others present.If this was a bank storing currency for the night, would they just leave it in a room–because the whole building is secure? Or would they place it in the vault? The answer is obvious–the money would go into the vault. So why aren’t ballots treated with the same respect, considering they are the currency of a free democracy?For more detailed information on this and

As I have previously posted about here and here, the backers of the controversial GOP plan to steal California electoral votes has failed, yet again, to find enough fundraising to qualify for the June ballot. It looks like this sneaky move may not affect the 2008 race at all.From the LA Times, emphasis mine;A proposed initiative that drew national attention for its potential to affect next year's presidential election will not appear on the June ballot, organizers said Thursday.Republican backers of the measure, which could have tilted the presidential contest toward the GOP nominee by changing how California awards electoral votes, conceded that they were unable to raise sufficient funds.Sacramento consultant Dave Gilliard, the campaign manager, said that even if a financial angel were to shower the campaign with $1 million, there was not enough time to qualify the measure for June."I was surprised that more people that finance these types of efforts didn't step forward," Gilliard

It’s your duty as a football fan to vote! We don’t want any unproven QB’s slipping in there now do we? I guess that Tony Romo thing has worked out this season but I didn’t agree with it last year. I know, I know…you say “My vote doesn’t matter” but what could it hurt? If you don’t vote you can’t bitch if Larry Johnson gets in on name alone and the Law and Order guy becomes your President. Vote HERE. tag: nfl, sports, football, babes, cheerleaders, pro bowl, vote

As I mentioned earlier, I sent an e-mail to Kevin Sherrington, the Dallas Morning News writer that didn't have C.C. Sabathia on his AL Cy Young ballot at all. Everybody else had C.C. either first or second, so I wondered what Sherrington's logic was.He was kind enough to reply very quickly. His ballot was Beckett, Carmona, Santana, in that order. His explanation for each follows.Beckett:"No, the 20 games didn't do it. It's only a game's difference. Beckett'sballpark had something to do with it, along with my feeling that Beckett was a better big-game pitcher, a fact borne out again in the playoffs."It was good to see that Beckett didn't get the nod simply because he had a shiny win total. It's true that Beckett pitches in a slightly more difficult park (Fenway's park factor is 106; Jacobs Field's is 103). This does make Beckett's ERA+ (145) superior to Sabathia's (143)But that's a fairly minimal difference; it clearly doesn't make up for the huge innings disparity. And al

I'm tired of watching politicians on both sides of the political aisle pander to churches to get elected. I'm tired of hearing candidates talk about their relationship with God, like it's the end all be all for a politician today.Senator Obama belongs to the political party that defends (or is supposed to anyway) the separation of church and state Thomas Jefferson, our first Democratic President, so greatly promoted. Democrats and Libertarians have been vilified for too long recently, being called Godless and wicked because they refuse to give in to Christian fundamentalists who wish to turn the United States, the very nation that championed the secular state, into the Jesus-obsessing equivalent of the Middle East.We live in a secular country with a secular government. I'm proud of that. I'm proud of the fact that I feel we must defend our country from Christian fundamentalists who want to use the Bible to further their hatred, ignorance and bigotry, Christian fundamentalists who

NSC your .02...I got LSU No. 1 this week only because USF lost. I have a feeling Ohio State loses at Penn State this Saturday and BC could lose Thursday. An Oregon win over USC could vault the Ducks to No. 2 and possibly set up a top 5 matchup with Arizona State if the Sun Devils beat Cal. Wait...I am getting way ahead of myself.RankTeamDelta1LSU 2 2Ohio State-- 3Boston College 3 4Oregon 6 5South Florida 4 6Arizona State 1 7Oklahoma 1 8West Virginia 3 9Missouri 3 10Florida 4 11Kentucky 6 12Kansas 3 13Southern Cal 5 14Virginia Tech 5 15South Carolina 11 16Auburn 3 17Michigan 6 18Virginia 8 19California 10 20Georgia 2 21Alabama 5 22Rutgers 4 23Penn State 2 24Texas-- 25Hawaii 1 Dropped Out: Tennessee (#16), Texas Tech (#17), Cincinnati (#20), Kansas State (#21).©Copyright 2006, The Fresno State Football Blog/barkboard.com and Scout.com. All rights reserved.

I didn't vote last week, but here is this week's ballot. Any sugestions for changes?RankTeamDelta1South Florida 25 2Ohio State 24 3LSU 23 4South Carolina 22 5Kentucky 21 6Boston College 20 7Arizona State 19 8Oklahoma 18 9California 17 10Oregon 16 11West Virginia 15 12Missouri 14 13Auburn 13 14Florida 12 15Kansas 11 16Tennessee 10 17Texas Tech 9 18Southern Cal 8 19Virginia Tech 7 20Cincinnati 6 21Kansas State 5 22Georgia 4 23Michigan 3 24Texas 2 25Penn State 1 Dropped Out: ©Copyright 2006, The Fresno State Football Blog/barkboard.com and Scout.com. All rights reserved.

Giles Clarke proposed as new chairman of England and Wales cricket board Giles Clarke has been put forward as the new chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).The Somerset chairman has been proposed as David Morgan's successor after beating Michael Soper by 12 votes to six in a ballot of the 18 first-class counties and the MCC.Clarke's selection will now be put to the full membership of the ECB to be endorsed.Elections were first held this summer after it emerged Morgan was heading for the presidency of the International Cricket Council (ICC).At an initial ballot in September Clarke and Soper were tied on nine votes each. Soper is now expected to resign his deputy chairmanship of the ECB.Fifty-three-year-old Clarke's accession has surprised some commentators after he took the unpopular, but lucrative decision, to grant exclusive coverage of home Test series to satellite broadcasters.

If you want to be able to buy beer or light wine -- whatever that is -- in Yalobusha County, Mississippi, you had better hope voters in a special election on Dec. 11th pull the "Yes" lever.Yalobusha County Board of Supervisors agreed to hold a special election on legalizing the sale of beer and light wine. The Yalobusha Progressive Organization submitted a petition with 2,312 valid signatures. Even though the petition had more than the required 20 percent of the county's registered voters, it missed the deadline for the measure to appear on the Nov. 6 general election ballot. The group trying to repeal Prohibition in the county had hoped to benefit from a higher turnout during the general election, which includes the Mississippi gubernatorial race.

This was a tough one to compile. The top four teams are a no-brainer. Penn State was my preseason No. 5 team and they have not done anything to tarnish their ranking per se. But the No. 6 spot? Texas did not look like the No. 6 team this week. I am still no sold on the Mountaineers. Wisconsin continues to struggle, but the Badgers are still winning. But is any one playing better than Oregon right now? No. 6 maybe a bit high, but I don't know who else to put in there. The Cal-UO game in a few weeks will really clear up the top 5-6 teams in the nation.After No. 18, it is a crapshoot. There are about 10-15 teams that one can argue deserve top a top 25 ranking. Tulsa was a team I thought about ranking, let's see how they do against OU this week. And I am still not ready to put Virginia Tech back in the top 25.RankTeamDelta1Southern Cal 1 2LSU 1 3Florida-- 4Oklahoma-- 5Penn State-- 6Oregon 8 7Rutgers-- 8West Virginia 1 9California 2 10Texas 4 11Wisconsin 1 12Arizona State-- 13

Battle for blogosphere ballot box heats uphttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20164914/

Michael J. Gerson, writing in The Washington Post, accurately describes Tony Blair's foreign policy and its liberal intentions:More than that of any other world leader, Blair’s foreign policy approach is a rigorous, logical argument. Like advancements in communications and the global economy, political challenges, Blair contends, have “immediate impact, an ability to cross frontiers.” Irresponsible and failing states become bases of operation for terrorist, crime and drug syndicates. This chaos is tamed, in his view, by promoting economic development, treating killer diseases, fighting global warming and achieving peace in the Middle East — an agenda of exhausting idealism. “Justice,” he says, “is the thing that is most powerful in its appeal to people.”But Blair’s liberalism not only purrs, it bites. When distant chaos grows too intense and threatening, Blair has advocated military interventions from Kosovo to Sierra Leone to Afghanistan to Iraq.His muscular interna

Michael J. Gerson, writing in The Washington Post, accurately describes Tony Blair's foreign policy and its liberal intentions:More than that of any other world leader, Blair’s foreign policy approach is a rigorous, logical argument. Like advancements in communications and the global economy, political challenges, Blair contends, have “immediate impact, an ability to cross frontiers.” Irresponsible and failing states become bases of operation for terrorist, crime and drug syndicates. This chaos is tamed, in his view, by promoting economic development, treating killer diseases, fighting global warming and achieving peace in the Middle East — an agenda of exhausting idealism. “Justice,” he says, “is the thing that is most powerful in its appeal to people.”But Blair’s liberalism not only purrs, it bites. When distant chaos grows too intense and threatening, Blair has advocated military interventions from Kosovo to Sierra Leone to Afghanistan to Iraq.His muscular interna

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Bryan Caplan argues that voters hold an irrational anti-market bias:Why would the majority favor policies that hurt the majority? There is a good reason. The majority favors these policies because the average person underestimates the social benefits of the free market, especially for international and labor markets. In a phrase, the public suffers from anti-market bias. Economists have spent centuries explaining how markets channel greedy intentions into socially desirable results; how trade is mutually beneficial both within and between countries; how using price controls to redistribute income inflicts a lot of collateral damage. These are the lessons of every economics textbook. Contrary to the stereotype that they can't agree, economists across the political spectrum, from Paul Krugman to Greg Mankiw, see eye to eye on these basic lessons. Unfortunately, most people resist even the most basic lessons of economics. As every introductory teacher

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Gitanjali Gems Ltd has informed that the members of the Company, by way of Postal Ballot, have passed the following Special / Ordinary Resolutions, with requisite majority:1. Increase in the Authorised Share Capital of the Company from Rs 75,00,00,000 divided into 7,50,00,000 equity shares of Rs 10/- to Rs 120,00,00,000 divided into 12,00,00,000 equity shares of Rs 10/- each & consequential amendments in the Memorandum of Association of the Company.2. Authority to the Board to create, issue / offer and allot from time to time in one or more tranches, Equity shares to BIII Capital Partners LP and B III - A capital partners LP, whether or not such investors are members of the Company under a preferential allotment offer on such terms and conditions as may be determined by the Board in its absolute discretion, to issue and offer 1554050 equity shares or such number of equity shares. At such price as may be determined under the Guidelines for Preferential Issue as prescribed by SEBI an

The 2007 Baseball Hall of Fame ballots were released today. Here's the complete ballot: Harold Baines, Albert Belle, Dante Bichette, Bert Blyleven, Bobby Bonilla, Scott Brosius, Jay Buhner, Ken Caminiti, Jose Canseco, Dave Concepcion, Eric Davis, Andre Dawson, Tony Fernandez, Steve Garvey, Rich "Goose" Gossage, Tony Gwynn, Orel Hershiser, Tommy John, Wally Joyner, Don Mattingly, Mark McGwire, Jack Morris, Dale Murphy, Paul O'Neill, Dave Parker, Jim Rice, Cal Ripken Jr., Bret Saberhagen, Lee Smith, Alan Trammell, Devon White, Bobby Witt. If I had a ballot I'd vote for Gwynn, Ripken, McGwire, Rice, and Blyleven. The first three are no-brainer choices (although it's possible McGwire's steroid problems will keep him from getting in this year) while Rice and Blyleven have been repeatedly overlooked because later players have piled up bigger numbers. I'd also give serious consideration to Dawson, Gossage, John, Smith, and Trammell but don't think I'd vote for them. What are y

From the article:"The bill, misleadingly named the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), strips employees of their right to a secret ballot election when deciding on whether or not unionize, and leaves a system called "card check" as their only option.Card check is a process in which employers agree to recognize the union if a majority of employees publicly sign cards requesting a union's representation. Under current law the card check process is usually followed by a secret ballot election to ensure that employees have not been pressured into signing."