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Tomorrow federal elections will be held in Germany. Prime minister Angela Merkel's party the conservative CDU will most likely win these elections. But it is unclear if she can form another coalition with the liberal FDP as it is not clear that party will get more than 5% of the votes necessary in Germany to be representated in parliament.
CFS BBQ at Goolwa Primary
Election Booth BBQ fundraiser for the Country Fire Service ....two of them (BBQs) in Goolwa today. Just a snap with the FA 20-35 at 23mm. The volunteers get about 150 call outs a year (pager on call 24/7) and also have to try and fund raise and attend multiple Community events.
Election time is rolling around in Singapore again. The winner is a moot point but the excitement is nice all the same.
These two students hosted and put together most of special set we used for our election day coverage. They really did a good job of keeping it fair, informative, and impartial. To be honest we have equal number of sign for both Obama and McCain, but we did not have any signs for the other THIRTEEN candidates that were on the Florida ballot for president. Sorry!
Mayor Bill de Blasio waits in line with hundreds of New Yorkers to vote early in the presidential election at the Park Slope Armory YMCA on Tuesday, October 27, 2020. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
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Very important day in Taiwan today. The national election. Everyone woke up early to vote and then later planted themselves in front of the TV to watch the tally live on the special news coverage.
Oh my god... Could you think of anything more boring a painful? Pulling out my own toe nails with pliers sounds more exciting than watching election coverage on the TV.
Mana's little cousin seemed to think the same. We went to the park and played around while the grown ups watched the TV. I have two massive bruises on my shins now from trying to hang upside on the monkey bards.
Taken at Times Square, NYC.
McCain has just held a beautiful speech declaring Obama the winner of the election! Hooray!
This photo has been included in the publication Campaigning for the MDGs: Making Votes and Voices Count in Elections
Doreen Bogdan-Martin, BDT Director, Secretary-General elect, delivering her election acceptance speech at the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2022 (PP-22), Bucharest, Romania.
29th September 2022
©ITU/M. Jacobson-Gonzalez
Mayor Bill de Blasio hands out pizza as he waits votes early in the presidential election at the Park Slope Armory YMCA on Tuesday, October 27, 2020. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
Senate midterm election results as relevant to the student body of Whitman College. Created for the school publication The Pioneer.
Bhutto Appoints a Bengali To Serve as Vice President
by Malcolm W. Browne Special to The New York Times
December 22, 1971,
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Dec. 21—Pakistan's new President, Zulfikar All Bhutto, appointed a Bengali as Vice President today and declared that the Bengali secessionist leader, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, would soon be moved from prison to house arrest. Both moves seemed to be gestures of insistence that East Pakistan—the Bengali region seized by India in the 15‐day war this month—remain part of Pakistan. The new Vice President is Nurul Amin, leader of a small right‐wing Bengali party, who will have his 78th birthday on Thursday. He is not expected to have any real power in Mr. Bhutto's Government, but his appointment is considered symbolically important. “We shall move soon to transfer Sheik Mujib to some kind of house arrest situation rather than imprisonment,” President Bhutto said in a meeting with newsmen tonight. He disclosed that Sheik Mujib was being held at a prison in Lyalipur, in the Punjab region of West Pakistan, but would be moved from there “very soon.” There was speculation that Mr. Bhutto would order the re lease of Sheik Mujib, who has been imprisoned since March 25, and his return to East Pakistan, once public opinion has been prepared for such a step. Sheik Mu jib is held in high esteem by the Bengalis and it is considered almost certain that he would be named as the head of the regime now functioning in East Pakistan if he were permitted to return there.
Mr. Bhutto, 43‐year‐old leader of the Pakistan People's party, was installed as Presi dent yesterday, succeeding Gen. Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan, who was forced from office as a result of widespread bitter ness over his conduct of the war with India. The new President, who has made a plea for popular support in his efforts to meet the national crisis, issued a policy directive today outlawing both capital and corporal punishment in Pakistan. His decree commuted all death sentences imposed on common criminals to life imprisonment and stipu lated that sentences involving lashes were not to be carried out. Execution of prisoners in Pakistan is normally by hanging, and there are many executions each year. Prison sentences frequently are accompanied by up to a dozen lashes.
The President also ordered “the immediate withdrawal of cases against students, laborers and peasants pending in military courts.” The order was tantamount to a general amnesty for many political prisoners held in Pakistani jails. In keeping with his statement last night that he in tended to prevent the flight of capital from the country, Mr. Bhutto issued a decree today prohibiting Pakistanis from go ing abroad. The appointment of Mr. Nurul Amin as Vice President is clearly a gesture to indicate Mr. Bhutto's insistence that East Pakistan, where secessionist leaders, supported by India, have proclaimed the establishment of Bangladesh, or Bengal Nation, is still part of this country. Mr. Nurul Amin has only a very small political following, although he currently heads a coalition of right‐wing and mainly religious splinter parties, all more or less in opposition to Mr. Bhutto. Mr. Nurul Amin was designated Prime Minister by General Yahya Khan in a conciliatory gesture after the war with India began, but the Bengali declined to serve after his home province was taken by Indian troops and Bengali secessionists.
Mr. Bhutto came to office yesterday after what amounted to a bloodless coup d'6tat against President Yahya Khan. According to a series of official announcements, General Yahya Khan said Sunday that he would resign as soon as Mr. Bhutto returned from a trip to the United States, where he had participated in United Nations debater: on the Indian Pakistani crisis and then met with President Nixon. General Yahya did, in fact, step down within an hour after Mr. Bhutto's arrival. Photographs were released showing President Yahya Khan with the new President at the swearing‐in ceremony yesterday, and the outward impression was one of a constitutional transfer of power.In fact, however, there is no constitution and General Yahya Khan was forced from office partly by a series of unrestrained public demonstrations in which his home in Peshawar was burned, but mainly at the insistence of armed forces commanders who had turned against him. Pakistan's difficulties—which Mr. Bhutto last night called “the worst crisis in our history”—grew out of what the Bengalis of East Pakistan long considered their economic exploitation by the Punjabi‐dominated West Pakistan regime.
In the nation's first general election last December, the Awami League, the Bengali party headed by Sheik Mujib, won a national majority on a platform demanding autonomy for East Pakistan. President Yahya Khan reacted by cancel ing the election results and, after fruitless negotiations, imprisoning Sheikh Mujib. This was followed by military action last spring in which many Bengalis were killed.The flight of millions of refugees from East Pakistan into India raised tensions between the two neighboring countries that erupted into full‐scale war this month, with India sup porting the secessionist Bangladesh leaders.The leaders of the military faction that demanded the ouster of President Yahya Khan presumably included Air Marshal Abdul Rahim. Khan, Commander of the Air Force, and Lieut. Gen. Gul Hasan, who was appointed by President Bhutto yesterday as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. In other appointments today, Mr. Bhutto named Aziz Ahmed, a former Ambassador to the United States, as Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry and Yahya Bakhtiar as Attorney General. Mr. Bhutto, in addition to being President and Chief Martial‐Law Administrator, is also Foreign Minister and Minister of Defense.
Last night Mr. Bhutto declined to answer a question at a news conference as to whether General Yahya Khan would be put on trial. “The people will have to decide that question, which is prematurely asked,” he said. But the political coalition headed by the new Vice President, among many other groups, has demanded publicly during the last two days that the former President be tried on charges of responsibility for “the shameful defeat and dismemberment of the country” by India. Mr. Bhutto, probably acting at the insistence of the new upper tier of military commanders, yesterday dismissed former President Yahya Khan and six other army generals from the service.
For what good it'll do . . . Georgia is pretty conservative indeed, so I'm not getting my hopes up too much.
There was an initiative on the ballot about sanctifying in our actual bloody state constitution the right to hunt and fish, by the way. 9.9 (Three guesses which way I voted on that!) Sometimes I seriously worry about the state, and about humanity in general.
Half an hour 'til the polls close here. Keep your fingers crossed and, if religious, politely ask the deity of your choice that we regain control of at least part of Congress. (The Democrats are far from perfect, but in their favor is the very important point that they are, except perhaps for some arch-conservative Democratic politicians in Georgia, not Republicans.) Me, I'll be sacrificing a block of tofu on the altar of the great divine Commonsensia, asking that this election goes well.
Pike County Clerk Bob Kirkpatrick shows members in the audience who the huge whiteboards work with election totals.
-Marianne Everhart, EAGLE 102 News
Early voting in presidential elections at Rockaway YMCA in Averne, Queens on Monday , October 26, 2020. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
INEC Ballot Papers with exclusion of some Political Parties in Ijesha ward of Lagos State Before the cancelation pronouncement by the INEC Chairman, Professor Jega. over Nationwide logistic problem of Election materials not getting to destinations on time... saturday
Photo: Kunle Ogunfuyi