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Do people in USA have to take an unpaid vacation day to vote? [closed]
As a European I was quite shocked to hear that people in the USA have to take an unpaid vacation day from work to be able to take part in elections.
Is that really true? So do people really get ...
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Did Republicans take 10 of 13 Congressional seats in the 2018 North Carolina general election with roughly the same number of votes as Democrats?
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Gerrymandering in North Carolina
1,747,742 votes for Democrats = 3 Congressional seats
1,638,684 votes for Republicans = 10 ...
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Did Facebook ads significantly influence voting behaviour in the 2016 presidential election?
There have been significant concerns in some political groups about foreign interference via social media on many recent elections. But there seems to be little hard evidence that any content on ...
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Is Brian Kemp, Georgia’s Secretary of State, openly suppressing the right to vote? [closed]
I just got an email from vote.org saying the following:
Georgia’s Secretary of State [Brian Kemp] put 53,000 brand new voter registration forms “on hold” based on a controversial exact-matching ...
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Are discrepancies between exit polls and official election results in the US usually indicative of systematic election problems? [duplicate]
Paul Grossinger writes on Inc.com about the last US presidential election:
1) In 28 states doing exit polling, 23 states had a margin favoring Trump, against 5 for Clinton. That's 82% of states ...
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In Kentucky, did one man beat up another man after they both bought the same woman's vote?
According to the Washington Post article Selling votes is common type of election fraud:
corrupt candidates in Clay County, Ky., once paid $100. But that was probably too much: It attracted one ...
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Does gerrymandering have a significant effect on the number of congressional seats won by Republicans?
From an AP article titled
Analysis indicates partisan gerrymandering has benefited GOP:
The AP’s findings are similar to recent ones from the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University ...
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Was there electoral fraud at the Catalan independence referendum?
The Catalan Independence Referendum of Oct 1, 2017, certainly has problems enough (deemed illegal beforehand, low participation, police conflicts, etc.), but apart from that - was there voter fraud
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Are there “1,071 Proven Cases of Voter Fraud”?
The Heritage Foundation, an American Conservative think tank, has recently published a report listing over a thousand individuals who committed voter fraud:
The United States has a long and ...
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Did non-voters outnumber the supporters of each political party in the UK in 2010?
I have noticed this image in social media recently:
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Non-voters outnumbered the supporters of every single political party in 2010
Did not vote: 15.9m - these people could change ...
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Are 2 million non-citizen Hispanics illegally registered to vote in the United States?
A large number of non-citizen Hispanics, as many as 2 million, were illegally registered to vote in the U.S., according to a nationwide poll.
The National Hispanic Survey provides additional ...
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Did the same Mexican citizen vote illegally in the United States 5 times between 2012-2014?
A Fox News story says:
Rosa Maria Ortega, 37, was found guilty Wednesday on two counts of illegal voting after she falsely claimed to be a United States citizen and voted at least five times ...
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Are there 141 US Counties that have more registered voters than residents?
141 Counties in the United States have more registered voters than they have adult residents
A public interest law firm is threatening to bring lawsuits against more than 100 counties across the ...
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Does Mexico have stringent voter ID requirements?
Does the picture below (found on Facebook) accurately describe laws regarding voter identification cards in Mexico?
To vote in Mexico every eligible Mexican citizen has to have a tamper-proof photo-...
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Was an amendment proposed making everyone in favour of a war liable for military service?
Apparently from Ultrafacts.tumblr.com, with a tweet version retweeted 137 times:
In 1916 an amendment was proposed to the Constitution that all acts of
war would be put to a national vote. Anyone ...
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Were there 1 million fraudulent votes in the 2012 US election?
According to this article: (emphasis mine)
But now, for the very first time, comes concrete proof that massive voter fraud might have taken place in the 2012 election, sufficiently widespread to ...
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Is there a “red shift” in U.S. elections — a significant shift to republican votes between polls and voting? Does this imply fraud?
This questions on Politics SE introduced me to the concept of the red shift. In short, the claim of a red shift boils down to a statistically significant difference between outcome of final exit polls ...
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Does United States have no technology to allow Internet voting in a secure way?
In 2011, nearly a quarter (24.3%) of participating voters in Estonia cast their ballot by remote electronic voting (that is, on their computer/phone/tablet via the Internet).
Several larger ...
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Is voter fraud practically non-existent in the United States?
The issue of voter fraud comes up very often at election times. In the media, it is nearly always pictured as a really important and urgent problem. It ranges from whether photo identification should ...
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Was there 100% turnout and 100% Obama support in Cuyahoga County in 2012 Presidential Election?
The Tea Party Facebook page posted this Monday night.
Is it accurate that:
There are exactly 900135 registered voters in Cuyahoga County Ohio for the 2012 predidental election
There were 900135 ...
