Britain’s Queen Elizabeth meets Scottish leader Sturgeon amid new independence vote push
The monarch met Nicola Sturgeon at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh a day after Scotland’s First Minister announced plans for a 2023 referendum. ⌘ Read more

Scotland takes fight for independence vote to UK’s top court
Scotland’s government drew the battle lines for a historic tussle with London as it announced plans to hold a second independence referendum on October 19, 2023. ⌘ Read more

Hong Kong’s largest public healthcare workers union opts to dissolve as journalism group lowers vote threshold to disband
Former chairman of Hospital Authority Employees Alliance confirms group voted to disband after special general meeting. ⌘ Read more

Why do Some Minorities Support the US Republican Party?
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In contemporary US politics, the Democratic Party is often regarded as the most welcoming to racial minority groups. Even so, each election cycle sees many members of these groups cast their vote for the Republican Party. In 2016, for example, Chinese Americans from the East Coast to Silicon Valley organised rallies for Republican candidates. Even thoug … ⌘ Read more

China’s coronavirus controls top concern for European firms, who may ‘vote with their feet’ if uncertainty persists
Beijing’s stringent approach to containing Omicron outbreaks is the biggest challenge for European businesses in China for the second year running, a new survey by a business lobby shows. ⌘ Read more

Colombia elects former guerilla Gustavo Petro as first leftist president
Petro beat construction magnate Rodolfo Hernandez with an unexpectedly wide margin of some 719,975 votes. ⌘ Read more

World swimming’s governing body bans transgender athletes from women’s events
Fina members voted 71.5 per cent in favour of its new ‘gender inclusion policy’ that only permits swimmers who transitioned before age 12 to compete in women’s events. ⌘ Read more

Apple workers vote to form tech giant’s first-ever US union
It wasn’t the first time employees at an Apple store had tried to unionise, but it was the first attempt that resulted in a vote. ⌘ Read more

Coronavirus: vaccine roll-out for American children under 5 close after CDC panel vote
US President Joe Biden’s administration plans to roll out the vaccines to the under-5 age groups as early as next week. ⌘ Read more

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Climate Change: China’s firms lag behind Asia, North America, Europe in net-zero targets with only 4 per cent adherence, study finds
Net zero target disclosure rules have gained significance as global fund managers have started to vote with their US$68 trillion of assets to persuade companies to embrace the climate change agenda. ⌘ Read more

We need to talk about how to vote | with Giordano & Ellen ⌘ Read more

How to Vote! ⌘ Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckg3Y6x-i3A vote : que faire à la prochaine election ?

if you believe that blue-collar republicans are voting against their own interest, well, what about white-collar democrats?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de
With those two (Message-ID, and In-Reply-To) the hashing could become superfluous, and no longer needed. I would vote for that!

The last post notwithstanding, please don’t drink and drive. Or drink and vote. Or drive and vote.

Jokes about Starbucks’ drink-size names are old enough to drink, drive, and vote by now, but calling the 30-oz. size “trenta” is probably the least dumb name in the history of names for sizes

Chatcontrol, searching messages for illegal content
On July 6 the EU parliament voted yes to a proposal from the EU\
commission (PDF) on a temporary law to allow services to automatically
search messages for suspicious content with a focus on child
exploitation.

We have quite strict confidentiality laws within EU even when it comes
to electronic communication. Its current basis is the … ⌘ Read more

i’m sure people have studied this: maybe strategically voting iteratively reaches a fixed point in which point report their actual preferences?

« Les classes dominantes ont financé les options politiques xénophobes, climato-négationnistes et sexistes qui ont conduit aux votes dits populistes » ⌘ Read more…

Commit your vote on election day! ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-11-02-commit-your-vote-on-election-day/

Vote, and contribute to democracy through open source ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-10-22-vote-and-contribute-to-democracy-through-open-source/

Voting | ContraPoints ⌘ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Vah8sUFgI

Dear America, Need some fresh air? Take your vote with you and ⌘ https://blog.opencollective.com/walkthevote/

On the blog: Voting as a Communal Activity https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/10/11/vote.html #politics #voting #rant

Voting ⌘ https://xkcd.com/2361/

Ensure your neighbors have the right to vote: A software engineer volunteers at his local elections office ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-09-16-ensure-your-neighbors-have-the-right-to-vote-a-software-engineer-volunteers-at-a-local-elections-office/

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, busy with work and life. 😂 Also I got voted into the #XSF so probably I’ll be more busy with #XMPP im the future. How are you doing?

Ready to vote in the U.S. 2020 elections? ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-09-01-ready-to-vote-in-the-u-s-2020-elections/

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: On Electability and Complicity https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/01/electability.html #politics #rant #voting

Elections 2020
Election time is always an important time. We, the people, get to vote for the person that will be our nation’s president for at least four years—and with any luck, eight. The presidential election of 2020 is going to be an interesting one. I know, I know, we could say the same for every election. This time, though, it’s easy to understand why the upcoming election holds an extra weight.

I could go on, and describe the reasons why Trump shouldn’t get re-elected. They ar … ⌘ Read more

twitch plays ophelia in a new production of hamlet where every actor is actually a complete online community collectively voting on small muscle movements

Article 13 has been voted by the EU parliament. Shit

Bad idea of the day: make UBI contingent only on compulsory voting

Forget voting “ it’s time to start choosing our leaders by lottery | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/forget-voting-it-s-time-to-start-choosing-our-leaders-by-lottery

What universe does Marc Andressen live in, to call a group of wealthy upwardly-mobile careerists ‘extremely left-wing’ for voting Clinton? (Don’t answer that.)

Hot take: if you can ‘vote with your wallet’ that means you live in an aristocratic oligarchy, because some people inherit large numbers of extra votes & other people start out with negative votes.

Bad idea of the day: Current prisoners have mandatory voting while non-prisoners (including ex-prisoners) have the option to vote

Should People in Prison have a Right to Vote? | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXXZucuS7s4

Bad idea of the day: ‘twitch writes a novel’: the previous ~15 words are shown & the top ~20 next words based on a markov model of some corpus are voted on over a 2 minute period (going to the first item, if no votes are cast) until 50k words are written.

Why Did Some Countercultural Types Vote For Trump? - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2018/05/10/why-did-some-countercultural-types-vote-for-trump/

Bad idea of the day: Require a 60% majority in a state-wide popular vote for congressional redistricting.

Mueller goes after the Trump Organisation
I have disliked other presidents in the past, for actions taken while they were in the office that I—and many others—considered stupid, crazy, or just plain wrong. My dislike for the current president eclipses any of my previous. I voted for Hillary, and wrongly predicted that she would win the presidency.

[Today news](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/ … ⌘ Read more

Bad idea of the day: voting, except with a 30 year delay, to force people to actually think ahead.

@saabeilin Voted 1 but the answer really depends on the context :)

The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/guardian-of-the-vote/544155/

CCC | Software to capture votes in upcoming national election is insecure ⌘ https://ccc.de/en/updates/2017/pc-wahl

online service where people vote for DNA sequences to be included in the next season’s flu