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I am here today not at all to inspire you with our success story of the zipper list and the elections.
For elections did not bring peace and stability and security in Libya.
Our society needs national dialogue and consensus-building more than it needed the elections, which only reinforced polarization and division.
There are two elections every election cycle in Lesterland.
The United States also looks like this, also has two elections, one we called the general election, the second we should call the money election.
To do this would require a single statute, a statute establishing what we think of as small dollar funded elections, a statute of citizen-funded campaigns, and there's any number of these proposals out there: Fair Elections Now Act, the American Anti-Corruption Act, an idea in my book that I call the Grant and Franklin Project to give vouchers to people to fund elections, an idea of John Sarbanes called the Grassroots Democracy Act.
He's decreased his voting in presidential elections, and he's started to go to prison a lot more often.
They easily become prey to populists in elections, or even take up arms.
So in 1967, elections were coming, things were going well in the campaign, the house was electric.
I had just been elected prime minister, but I had the unhappy privilege of revealing a truth that our deficit was not 6 percent, as had been officially reported only a few days earlier before the elections by the previous government, but actually 15.6 percent.
The good belongs to those who are democracies and are charged with a mission of spreading it around the globe, sometimes by force, against the evil of those who do not hold elections.
Yes, China is a one-party state run by the Chinese Communist Party, the Party, and they don't hold elections.
I'm not sure, actually, elections produce responsive government anymore in the world.
Where there's really been uptake even faster is in the international environment, where there's a 55-percent drop in the first neighborhood in Puerto Rico, where interruptions are just beginning in Honduras, where the strategy has been applied in Kenya for the recent elections, and where there have been 500 interruptions in Iraq.
I make things like neural networks that predict the results of elections based on weather reports, because I'm intrigued about what the actual possibilities of these weird new technologies are.
In Ghana in the elections, in December 2012, the battle between the two candidates was over education.
One of my first experiences that challenged this way of thinking was during the 2000 presidential elections.
In Tuscaloosa, at the University of Alabama, there's an organization on campus called, kind of menacingly, the Machine, and it draws from largely white sororities and fraternities on campus, and for decades, the Machine has dominated student government elections.
And taking an even bigger leap of faith, we ran for elections in October last year with this idea: if we want a seat in Congress, our candidate, our representatives were always going to vote according to what citizens decided on DemocracyOS.
In the last two years, two of the world's most consolidated, oldest democracies, the U.S. and France, held nationwide municipal elections.
Right here, in my city of Rio, in spite of mandatory voting, almost 30 percent of the voting population chose to either annul their votes or stay home and pay a fine in the last mayoral elections.
So I was born in Russia, and three years ago, in 2011, there were the Russian federal elections.
This is Beppe Grillo he was a populist Italian blogger who, with a minimal political apparatus and only some online tools, won more than 25 percent of the vote in recent Italian elections.
["Filmed with hidden cameras"] Man: We are now going to speak about the upcoming elections.
Even the elections this past week passed without much drama.
In 2006, when Congo held the first free national elections in its history, many observers thought that an end to violence in the region had finally come.
The international community lauded the successful organization of these elections as finally an example of successful international intervention in a failed state.
And it elevates the organization of general elections, which is now a sort of cure-all, as the most crucial state reconstruction mechanism over more effective state-building approaches.
But his party won two major elections within a year of the Gezi protests with comfortable margins.
We poll a tiny fraction of the electorate and we predict the outcome of national elections.
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