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Egyptians Vote to Change Constitution [VIDEO]

Egypt: Constitution Changes Pass in Referendum

CAIRO -- Egyptian voters overwhelmingly approved changes in the constitution, opening the way for parliamentary and presidential elections within months, according to final results from a landmark referendum announced today. Opponents fear the swift timetable could boost the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood and members of...

Egypt Votes Freely for First Time in Half-Century

CAIRO -- Millions of Egyptians voted freely on Sunday for the first time in more than half a century, joyfully waiting for hours to cast their ballots on a package of constitutional changes eliminating much-hated restrictions on political rights and civil liberties. Young people traded mobile-phone pictures of ink-stained...

Yemen Declares State of Emergency; 40 Protesters Killed in Crackdown

SANAA, Yemen -- As snipers hidden on rooftops fired methodically on Yemeni protesters Friday, police sealed off a key escape route with a wall of burning tires, turning the largest of a month of anti-government demonstrations into a killing field in which at least 40 people perished. Many of the victims, who included...

Opinion: Egypt's Jump-Ball Revolution

If you weren't thrilled by the images of last week's revolution in Egypt, then you might want to check for a pulse. For a while, it looked as if "Les Miserables" had been transported to Cairo and simulcast on CNN, Twitter and Facebook. Even more remarkable: these events occurred in the Middle East, where tyranny, poverty...

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Denise Dennis: Pennsylvanians Mobilize in Response to New Voter ID Law

Eighty to ninety thousand eligible voters in Pennsylvania could be disenfranchised because they do not have the photo identification required by the Commonwealth's new voter ID law.

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Amazon Drops ALEC Under Pressure From Advocacy Group

The giant Internet retailer Amazon.com Thursday said it will withdraw its membership from the American Legislative Exchange Council, the conservative public policy group that engineered controversial "stand your ground" gun laws and sweeping voter ID requirements that critics say threaten to disenfranchise minority voters....

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"No Sweet Fruit Comes From a Bitter Seed"

He believed that true reform is from within: a change in attitude and values and this is the root of the social, nonviolent action to change systems such as education, public administration and inspiring the people not to accept the brutality of the oppressors but at the same time not using brutality to get rid of...

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Angela Merkel Party Down After State Election Flop, Poll

A new poll finds support for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives has fallen after an embarrassing election defeat in Germany's most populous state.

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Egypt Elections: Egyptians Head To The Polls To Pick A President For The First Time (VIDEO)

Egyptians began voting freely on Wednesday for the first time to pick their president in a wide open election that pits Islamists against men who served under deposed leader Hosni Mubarak.

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05/28/12 Letter: Put pictures on ballots Source: News Sentinel - Knoxville TN Gary Loe, candidate in the Republican Primary for the state House of Representatives, District 13, sat next to me at the lunch honoring New Sentinel cartoonist Charlie Daniel.
05/27/12 Despite Polls, 32 States Have Rejected Gay Marriage Source: Newsmax.com Poll after poll shows public support for same-sex marriage steadily increasing, to the point where it's now a majority viewpoint.
05/27/12 Absentee Ballots Adding Up in the Villages Source: Mount Pleasant-Sturtevant Patch - Mount Pleasant-Sturtevant WI The number of absentee ballots getting sent out of the clerks' offices in Mount Pleasant and Sturtevant is up dramatically during this recall election cycle, and it's costing them money.
05/27/12 Student holds successful voter drive Source: HometownLife.com Christine Geoghegan, community service organizer for Birmingham Public Schools, said it was about six months ago that a Groves student came up to her and asked if it was possible to hold a voter registration drive.
05/27/12 Politics and promises won't sway young Millennials Source: TBO.com - Tampa Bay FL The biggest, most diverse and technologically connected generation in American history cares little for political parties, labels or promises they know won't be kept.

Background on Democracy

Democracy is an egalitarian form of government in which all the citizens of a nation together determine public policy, the laws and the actions of their state, requiring that all citizens (meeting certain qualifications) have an equal opportunity to express their opinion.

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