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Tag: Elections

Burundi

How to vote in Burundi

May 6, 2020 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2020 Election, International, Voting News Leave a comment

For those who don’t vote in the US because they think it’s too time-consuming, too complicated or too confusing, consider the voting process in

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12 election questions posed by smart 10 year-olds

January 22, 2020 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2020 Election, Children, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

28-year smart fourth graders visited election headquarters. They asked some very challenging and creative questions about voting.

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Overseas

US to stay in Universal Postal Union, averting chaos for overseas voters

September 25, 2019 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2020 Election, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

In another attempt to destroy a long-standing international agreement, Donald Trump threatened to create chaos for overseas voters by withdrawing from the Universal Postal

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Russia report

I read the Russia election-tampering report. Here are some highlights.

August 4, 2019 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Russia Leave a comment

It’s not a hoax. The recently released (July 25, 2019) Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election makes that

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videos

Two get-out-the-vote videos, one for a chuckle, one for a tear

October 18, 2018 Renee Shur 2018 Election, Activism, Crime/Violence, Guns, Voting/Elections, Youth issues Leave a comment

“I don’t wanna be brave. I just wanna be safe.” – Lyrics from “The Most Vicious Cycle,” by Kesha. Two must-watch videos. Two approaches

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cofused

Confusing the vote: 2018 midterms edition

September 4, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, Voting/Elections, Widgets: Voting One comment

With a few heartening exceptions, the trend in voting rights in America is toward suppression and trickery—with just 9 weeks to go before the

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“Xenophobic, anti-Islam, anti-Semitic racist.” Who, me?

March 30, 2018 Bill Kesler 2018 Election, Civil Rights, Education, Justice, Religion in Politics Leave a comment

When you’re running for a school board position in suburban St. Louis and tweet out memes about banning Islam in America, what could possibly

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Dunaway

Lessons learned: Kelli Dunaway’s candid take on running for office

December 5, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, Democrats, Missouri region, Politics, Women One comment

First-time political candidate Kelli Dunaway thought she had a shot at unseating Ann Wagner, the conservative Republican Congresswoman from Missouri’s 2nd District. She never

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Uncontested: One of the worst words in a democracy

May 25, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Campaigns, Democracy, Missouri region Leave a comment

It has always been hard to unseat an incumbent candidate. The advantages of already possessing a legislative title like State Representative or State Senator

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Democratic [and Republican] caucuses are not very democratic.

February 3, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Civil Rights, Media, Voting/Elections 2 comments

What’s so [small-d] democratic about this year’s [capital D] Democratic and Republican caucuses? Not much. The first time I caucused–back in 1972, in Missouri–I

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