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It's local body election time in New Zealand, and like weeds billboards have sprung up on street corners, fences, and vacant lots. The words 'Strong' and 'Stronger' feature on many billboards - it seems that everyone wants to be a 'Strong leader', whatever that means.
I especially liked the top billboard for its intricate play between the halo and the word 'RESURRECT' - nice religious motif there. But the phrase 'NEW BLOOD' is disconcerting ... it makes the candidate seem like a bloodsucking vampire. What were they thinking?
But seriously, does Wellington need to be resurrected? I didn't realise that the city had died?
Posters advertising political candidates before the election for the Danish Byråd (City Council) and Regionsråd (Regional Council), November 2013
Viborg, Midtjylland
A 4-foot long bar graph showing the current electoral vote count as the exit polls arrive on Election Day 2008.
... for the 4 March 2013 elections. So many new offices had been created, all to be filled in this election, that a detailed leaflet was provided to explain it all.
With a 40%+ illiteracy rate in Morocco, the 2007 election took place by making walls into poster lists of who the Morrocans' could vote for
Accession Number: spa.2828.6
The 2016 Scottish Elections took place on 5th May. Ben Macpherson was the SNP candidate for Edinburgh Northern and Leith
The Scottish Political Archive is housed at the University of Stirling. The archive is home to the oral interviews, personal papers and associated material from prominent Scottish politicians. For further information about the work of the archive please visit our website www.scottishpoliticalarchive.org.uk
Catawissa, Pennsylvania (October 14, 2016) -- Election signs in the front lawn of a house in Catawissa, Pennsylvania.
Tunisian representants of ETTAKATOL party Khalil Ezzaouia and Mehdi Ben Abdallah (L) attend a meeting in Tunis, Tunisia on October 20, 2011. The Tunisian parliamentary elections will take place on sunday 23 october 2011. AFP PHOTO / JOHANNA LEGUERRE
Commemorating the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, where he had travelled to support AFSCME sanitation workers striking for the right to collective bargaining. The Madison rally was one of many around the country in support of unions and the memory of Dr. King. Jesse Jackson, who was at King's side when he was shot, spoke at the Madison event and spoke movingly about then and now and the importance of voting in tomorrow's spring election.
Additional election officers with Board of Supervisors Chairman Sharon Bulova, and Electoral Board Chairman Seth Stark, Vice Chairman Brian Schoeneman, Secretary Carol Ann Coryell, and General Registrar Cameron Quinn.
The Anti-Masonic Party (also known as the Anti-Masonic Movement) was the first "third party" in the United States.
It strongly opposed Freemasonry and was founded as a single-issue party aspiring to become a major party. It introduced important innovations to American politics, such as nominating conventions and the adoption of party platforms.
The Anti-Masonic Party was formed in upstate New York in 1828.
Some people feared the Freemasons, believing they were a powerful secret society that was trying to rule the country in defiance of republican principles. These opponents came together to form a political party after the Morgan affair convinced them the Masons were murdering their opponents. This key episode was the mysterious disappearance, in 1826, of William Morgan (1774-1826?), a Freemason of Batavia, New York, who had become dissatisfied with his lodge and intended to publish a book detailing the secrets of the Freemasons. When his intentions became known to the lodge, an attempt was made to burn down the publishing house. Finally in September 1826 Morgan was arrested on charges of petty larceny. Someone paid his debt and upon his release he was seized by parties and taken to Fort Niagara, after which he disappeared.
The event created great excitement and led many to believe that not just the local lodge but all Freemasonry was in conflict with good citizenship. Because judges, businessmen, bankers, and politicians were often Masons, ordinary citizens began to think of it as an elitist group. Moreover, many claimed that the lodges' secret oaths bound the brethren to favor each other against outsiders, in the courts as well as elsewhere. Because the trial of the Morgan conspirators was mishandled, and the Masons resisted further inquiries, many New Yorkers concluded that Masons "controlled key offices and used their official authority to promote the goals of the fraternity. When a member sought to reveal its 'secrets', so ran the conclusion, they had done away with him, and because they controlled the officials, were capable of obstructing the investigation. If good government was to be restored all Masons must be purged from public office". They considered the Masons to be an exclusive organization taking unfair advantage of common folk and violating the essential principles of democracy. True Americans, they said, had to organize and defeat this conspiracy.
Opposition to Masonry was taken up by the churches as a sort of religious crusade, and it also became a local political issue in Western New York, where, early in 1827, the citizens in many mass meetings resolved to support no Mason for public office.
In New York at this time the faction supporting President John Quincy Adams, called "Adams men," or the "Anti-Jackson" faction, were a very feeble organization, and shrewd political leaders at once determined to utilize the strong anti-Masonic feeling in creating a new and vigorous party to oppose the rising Jacksonian Democracy. In this effort they were aided by the fact that Andrew Jackson was a high-ranking Mason and frequently spoke in praise of the Order. The alleged remark of political organizer Thurlow Weed, that a corpse found floating in the Niagara River was "a good enough Morgan" until after the election, summarized the value of the crime for the opponents of Jackson. In the elections of 1828 the new party proved unexpectedly strong, and after this year it became the main opposition party in New York. In 1829 it broadened its issues base when it became a champion of internal improvements and of the protective tariff. The party published 35 weekly newspapers in New York. Soon one became preeminent, the Albany Journal, edited by Thurlow Weed.
The party invented the convention, a system whereby locally elected delegates would choose state candidates and pledge their loyalty. Soon the Democrats and Whigs recognized the convention's value in building a party, and held their own conventions. By 1832 the movement had lost its focus on Masonry, and had spread to neighboring states, becoming especially strong in Pennsylvania and Vermont. A national organization was planned as early as 1827, when the New York leaders attempted, unsuccessfully, to persuade Henry Clay who was a Mason, to renounce the Order and head the movement. In 1831, William A. Palmer was elected governor of Vermont on an Anti-Masonic ticket, an office he held until 1836.
The third Anti-Masonic National nominating convention was held in Temperance Hall, Philadelphia, on November 13–14, 1838. By this time, the party had been almost entirely engulfed by the Whig Party. In any case, the AMP convention unanimously nominated William Henry Harrison for President and Daniel Webster for Vice President. When the Whig National Convention nominated Harrison and Tyler, the Anti-Masonic Party did not make an alternate nomination and vanished.
The growth of the anti-Masonic movement was due more to the political and social conditions of the time than to the Morgan episode, which was merely the catalyst. Under the banner of "Anti-Masons" able leaders united those who were discontented with existing political conditions. The fact that William Wirt, their choice for the presidency in 1832, not only was a former Mason but also even supposedly defended the Order in a speech before the convention that nominated him indicates that mere opposition to Masonry was by no means the central premise of the political order.
Republican US Senate candidate Kelly Ayotte speaks at her election night event in Concord, November 2, 2010. (Tracy Lee Carroll, NHPR)
Poster around the corner from my house. Someone's really taking the high road with this one. Still pretty funny though.
Taken at President Obama’s Ypsilanti, MI campaign office watch party tonight. It was a great event, with high emotions, friends, food & celebration.
What a phenomenal day, night & memory!
Parliamentary Elections: President Paul Kagame Leads RPF Coalition Campaigns in Gisagara District, 23 August 2018.
I snapped this picture while driving from Austin to College Station, near the small town of Dime Box, Texas! Women should determine what they do with their bodies and the fetuses dependent on their bodies, not the government or the Republican Party! Why can't the GOP value women's rights as much as they value guns rights? Happy 1st day of early-voting Texas!
National Elections Commission polling staff prepare to distribute ballot boxes to polling centers around the country in Monrovia, Liberia, 09 October 2017. Liberians head to the polls on 10 October in the very first African nation to obtain independence in 1847. These elections hoped to be the first peaceful and democratic transfer of power from one democratically elected government to another who has to continue the countries rebuild following nearly two decades of brutal civil war. PHOTO: Emmanuel Tobey
We have elections on at the moment in Norn Iron and i would trust this goblin more than any of them if i voted .(which i don't I'm non political)
We had a UKIP leader in Northern Ireland interviewed on the radio and he said he would kick out foreigners if the broke the law including a parking ticket! I don't know what is more mind numbing him or the numpties who vote for him ha ha!
By the way who would buy this for the garden?
(Ps if you are not from these islands and wonder who UKIP is think of the type of people who secretly are in the KKK and who would think Donald Trump is intelligent and you would get a pretty close match ha ha.)