[…] Arsen Avakov ran for election as Kharkiv city mayor, but was defeated by Hennediy Kernes, a local business rival. The election was accompanied by widespread accusations of vote fraud, and the result was hotly contested. Electoral fraud is so commonplace in Ukraine that there is a nationally-known slang term for it – ‘Buckwheat’ – […]
[PDF file]: […] issues, that two Republicans actually voted against her. For the first time in the history of the US Senate, the Vice President had to use his casting vote to carry an appointment to the Cabinet. Pence is also close to her brother, Erik Prince – the founder of the notorious Blackwater mercenary company – […]
[PDF file]: […] again in November 1964.6 On p. 70 of his book (see footnote 2) Mr Margolick records how, as Eisenhower’s VicePresident, Richard Nixon had also courted the black vote in the 1950s, manoeuvres which included joining the NAACP and making ostentatious fact-finding visits to Africa. Dr King, watching Nixon’s careful repositioning, presciently observed: 6 Continues […]
[PDF file]: […] dead and Amanda shooting herself.13 The America Whitelash led to the election of Donald Trump as President in 2016 – albeit with a minority of the popular vote, we must always remember. Even with Trump defeated in the 2020 election, Lowery nevertheless concludes that ‘it’s hard to look at the horizon and not see […]
[…] dead and Amanda shooting herself.13 The America Whitelash led to the election of Donald Trump as President in 2016 – albeit with a minority of the popular vote, we must always remember. Even with Trump defeated in the 2020 election, Lowery nevertheless concludes that ‘it’s hard to look at the horizon and not see […]
[PDF file]: […] nationalists could all be put back in the bottle and the whole terrible experience could be put behind them. Instead Trump became President, despite losing the popular vote quite decisively, installed in office by the Electoral College. For the Republican establishment, this posed a serious problem. Did they continue to oppose Trump, did they […]
[PDF file]: […] maps the virtual tripling in party membership that liberated its finances from years of indebtedness and assorted financial embarrassments5 that saw Labour take a 40 per cent vote share in the 2017 general election.6 Two years earlier under Ed Miliband’s leadership Labour had barely topped 30 per cent and Corbyn’s many party foes in […]
[PDF file]: […] was a discussion about what percentage of the votes Kagame should give himself. The general feeling among his people was that he should receive 70% of the vote, because this would give the election credibility in the West. Kagame dismissed such concerns and gave himself 95.1% of the vote. Such a result demonstrated his […]
[PDF file]: […] and the Liberal Democrats backing the government. But 50 Conservative MPs rebelled, either by voting against the motion or abstaining; and in the three-hour debate before the vote they lined up to condemn the measures. Graham Brady MP, one of the senior grey suits in the powerful 1922 Committee, stated: ‘It is essential Parliament […]
[PDF file]: […] the 2020 presidential election. As early as September 2020, Navarro was apparently convinced that the Democrats were getting ready ‘to steal the election with absentee ballots and vote harvesting’. (p. 209) Their plans could still have been thwarted, if only Trump had not been betrayed by so many of those around him. Mitch McConnell […]
