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By BOOM FACT Check Team Election campaigns, speeches, promises made by politicians—your social media feeds would have it all. But, how well do you know the candidate you're voting for? Here's how you can source official information about all the nominated candidates in 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Go to the affidavit portal on the Election Commission's (EC) website.You can search by name of the candidate or use filters and choose the state and constituency they're representing.You will see a 'download' button and the affidavit will contain details of movable and immovable assets, liabilities and ...
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As a Hungarian who lived in Belgium for seven years, I know first-hand the opportunities and challenges of being a mobile European citizen. The ability to live, work, and study anywhere in the EU has been game-changing for people like me and many millions of others and is one of the core reasons for being in the EU. With the 2024 European Parliament elections on the horizon, it’s crucial for those of us living outside our home countries to understand what is at stake — and, importantly, how much our vote matters. Against a backdrop of stirring anti-democratic forces, which could threaten our f...
Euronews (English)
By Hazel Gandhi Several old photos of prosthetic fingers from Japan are viral online with the false claim that they show "fake fingers" being used for voting fraud during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. BOOM found that the claims are false, the photos date back to 2013 and show how former and current members of the Yakuza, a Japanese crime syndicate, make use of prosthetic fingers to hide their severed digits. One of the posts on X shows two photos of fake fingers with a text in Telugu that can be translated to English as, "Fake fingers are ready for elections. I think polling officers should...
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How do you get the youngest generation excited about voting? This is the challenge an initiative is tackling ahead of this year’s European elections. Changemakers is a wide-ranging initiative from the European University College Association (EucA) that runs programmes to engage young voters across the continent. Its latest programme, Gen Z Votes, takes place over four events in four different countries and puts participants in the driving seat to drive policymaking and the information campaigns around elections. BAFTA Game Awards 2024: Belgian title "Baldur's Gate 3" triumphs with five wins A ...
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Columbus (AFP) - As the clock ticks down on a high-stakes vote in the US state of Ohio, activists are out in force urging voters to decide whether to explicitly enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution. It is a fraught, emotional issue and passions run high for the Tuesday vote -- partly because the decision may prove a bellwether of sentiment on the issue in national elections that are one year away. Some Ohio residents have been voting in advance for weeks but activists on both sides of the issue are canvassing to the last minute. On a sunny morning, 27-year-old Summer McLain...
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Atlanta (AFP) - Under slate gray skies in an African American neighborhood in the southwestern outskirts of Atlanta, Mardie Hill knocks on doors, her easy charm an antidote to an unusually frigid late spring afternoon. The 64-year-old grandmother has been going door-to-door for more than 15 years to encourage residents who may otherwise slip through the net to exercise their hard-won right to vote. The Deep South state of Georgia is poised to become ground zero for both parties in November's midterm elections, with broad implications for Joe Biden's presidency and the US Congress. But casting...
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Washington (AFP) - US senators dealt a death blow Wednesday to President Joe Biden's push to defend voting rights against what Democrats frame as an all-out assault by conservative states targeting racial minorities. Faced with a blockade from Republicans complaining of federal overreach, the ruling Democrats were unable to push through the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act passed by the House of Representatives last week. "I am profoundly disappointed that the Senate has failed to stand up for our democracy. I am disappointed -- but I am not deterred," Biden sai...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - The US Senate was set to vote Wednesday on a seemingly futile push to shore up voting rights as Republican-led states introduce a raft of restrictions that Democrats say has hit racial minorities hardest. The Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act passed the House of Representatives last week but are all but guaranteed to fail in the upper chamber, with Republicans united in opposition to what they frame as a partisan power grab. Democrats and voting rights activists have championed the measures as a necessary response to Republican efforts to ...
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Washington (AFP) - US Democrats began debate Tuesday on an almost certainly doomed effort to enact sweeping voting rights reforms they argue would protect democracy against threats posed by Republicans. President Joe Biden is pressing Congress to pass two major bills broadening access to the ballot box, placing more onerous conditions on states attempting to change voting laws and protecting election officials from undue influence. The Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act passed the House last week in a package that has majority support among senators. But neit...
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Washington (AFP) - Members of Martin Luther King Jr's family joined marchers Monday in Washington urging Congress to pass voting rights reform as the United States marked the holiday commemorating the slain civil rights leader. King's son Martin Luther King III spoke at the march, warning that many states "have passed laws that make it harder to vote" more than half a century after the activism of his father. The march's message was aimed at boosting support for the Freedom to Vote Act currently before the Senate, and which passed in the House of Representatives last week. But the bill faces a...
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