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She flies down to Chandigarh from Singapore only to cast her vote
June 02, 2024 12:25 am
Dr Kokil, a resident of Shivalik Enclave Manimajra, told The Indian Express, “My father and I woke up at 5 am today and stood in a queue at a polling station at a school by 6.15 am.
Man casts vote after cremating mother in Chandigarh
June 02, 2024 12:19 am
The family had decided to cast their votes at 7 am as their both daughters were excited to vote for the first time, but Kaanta felt unwell.
With a manifesto listing their demands, sex workers look forward to voting
May 02, 2024 8:32 am
Ahead of polling, the national network of sex workers, Maharashtra, has released a manifesto to put forth the demands of CSWs. It includes special drives to provide ration cards for CSWs.
Colour coding for polling booths will help citizens reach polling centres hassle-free: Mumbai Collector
May 02, 2024 9:32 pm
According to officials, there are a total 74 lakh voters under Mumbai Suburban Lok Sabha constituencies out of which 39 lakh are female voters, 34 lakh are male and as many as 812 are transgender voters.
Lok Sabha Election 2024: Don't have Voter ID? Here's how you can still vote
March 21, 2024 10:44 am
Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in 2024, the Election Commission of India (ECI) stated that one can still vote even if they do not have a physical copy of their voter ID card. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to add one's name to cast a vote without a voter ID card.
Voters should do due diligence while exercising right: Tendulkar
August 23, 2023 6:13 pm
Election Commission inducts cricketer Sachin Tendulkar as its national icon for voter awareness
New Zealand to decide on reducing the voting age to 16 after Supreme Court ruling
November 23, 2022 1:51 pm
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern said the vote would likely take place within the coming months but any change would not take effect until after next year's general election.
Right to make you vote: The debate over it, and the arguments against
August 07, 2022 12:59 pm
Arguing that voting was a right and not a compulsory duty, S P Singh Baghel, Minister of State for Law and Justice, said he “agreed with the sentiment of the members on compulsory voting but it was not practical to penalise people for not exercising their franchise” and that it might be “against the spirit of democracy”.
As Republicans take aim at voting, Democrats search for a response
July 13, 2021 11:21 am
Roughly a dozen Republican-controlled states passed laws this past spring restricting voting or significantly changing election rules, ostensibly in response to President Donald Trump’s false claims that voter fraud cost him the November election.
Joe Biden assigns Kamala Harris another difficult role: Protecting voting rights
June 02, 2021 11:05 am
Biden told the crowd that he saw the protection of voting rights as one of the most fundamental — and most endangered — pathways to ensure racial equity.
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