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☆ Arizona county backs hand count of ballots in U.S. midterm elections
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Tim Reid | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

LOS ANGELES, Oct 25 (Reuters) - A Republican-controlled county in the presidential battleground state of Arizona voted to hand count ballots in next month's midterm congressional elections, a tallying method that has been called for by Republicans who claim voting machines are unreliable. Despite warnings by election experts that hand counting is less reliable, could delay results and is more expensive than machine tallies, the Cochise County Board of Supervisors in rural southeastern Arizona voted 2-1 on Monday to count ballots in November's elections by hand. The county will also count ballots by machine, but experts warned that a hand count could delay results of the Nov. 8 election and raises the prospect of two different vote totals, something they say could further undermine faith in the U.S. election system. The Republican candidates for governor, secretary of state and attorney general in Arizona this year all back Trump's election conspiracy theories and are in favor of hand counts. The two Republicans on the three-member County Board of Supervisors in Cochise County voted in favor of the hand count move, while the Democratic chairwoman voted against the measure.

☆ Top Arizona election official refers more cases of potential voter intimidation to law enforcement
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Zoë Richards | Zoë Richards Is The Evening Politics Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has referred six reports of possible voter intimidation to law enforcement in the past week, as well as an allegation of harassment of an election worker, her office said Monday. The cases were referred to the state attorney general’s office and the U.S. Justice Department for further investigation. Early voting got underway Oct. 12 in the battleground state, where Hobbs is the Democratic nominee for governor. Hobbs’ office said it also referred a report of election worker harassment to law enforcement Saturday. The case is being pursued by the Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force, which was launched in June 2021.

☆ Gov. Gavin Newsom is threatening to cancel a San Francisco toilet that could cost $1.7 million and take more than two years to build
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Gavin Newsom is threatening to halt plans for a $1.7 million toilet in San Francisco. The city's Rec and Park department said the costs included planning, drawing, permits, and reviews. Gavin Newsom is threatening to halt plans to build a public toilet in San Francisco after it received huge backlash over its $1.7 million cost and 2-year construction time. "A single, small bathroom should not cost $1.7 million," Erin Mellon, the governor's communications director, told the Chronicle in a statement. "The state will hold funding until San Francisco delivers a plan to use this public money more efficiently.

☆ Former University of Southern California dean pleads guilty in political bribery case
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

LOS ANGELES — A former dean at the University of Southern California pleaded guilty Monday in a bribery case involving a powerful Los Angeles politician who promised to help steer a multi-million contract to the school if his son got a scholarship and a teaching job. Flynn and Ridley-Thomas, who is now on the Los Angeles City Council, were charged in the public corruption case last year. He pleaded not guilty last October, only hours after his colleagues suspended him and the city controller cut off his pay. Mark Ridley-Thomas at the re-opening of Leimert Park, in Los Angeles, Calif., on June 19, 2021. Flynn, who could have faced up to 10 years in federal prison, pleaded guilty to one count of bribery.

☆ (video) 10 filme despre campanii electorale pe care să le privești în ziua alegerilor
▼ + stars: | 2015-06-28 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +3 min

(video) 10 filme despre campanii electorale pe care să le privești în ziua alegerilorAstăzi este ziua în care atât în Chișinău, cât și în alte localități se desfășoară turul doi al alegerilor locale. Lista celor mai bune 10 filme propusă de Forbes include alegerile, începând cu cele din școală, terminând cu cele prezidențiale. ElectionElection este o comedie americană din 1999 despre alegerile dintr-un liceu, care ironizează și aduce o paralelă între acestea și lumea politică. The CandidateThe Candidate este o comedie din 1972, despre alegerile din America, ce satirizează acțiunile și intrigile ce au loc pe parcursul unei campanii electorale. Filmul a fost nominalizat de opt ori la Oscar și a câstigat două Oscaruri: Premiul pentru cel mai bun actor – Sean Penn (rolul titular) și Premiul pentru cel mai bun scenariu original – Dustin Lance Black.

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