With council elections due to take place next week, we’re shining the spotlight on Sunderland’s candidates in the run-up to polling day. Voters will head to polling stations on Thursday, May 2, to either re-elect or replace holders of around a third of seats on Sunderland City Council. All candidates have been given the opportunity to tell readers why they’re standing and why you should vote for them. Here’s what candidates in the Barnes ward have to say: Candidates are listed in the order...
French authorities on Wednesday evicted hundreds of migrants from a squat in a southern suburb of Paris with just 100 days to go until the Olympics, encouraging them to board buses to other parts of France.Migrant and homeless charities have accused the authorities of seeking to remove the homeless from Paris and its outskirts before tourists arrive for the Olympics.
Graves Park ward has been a strong basis for the Liberal Democrats but as Cllr Ian Auckland is retiring the seat is up for grabs. The Lib Dems are trying to keep the ward as an all-orange one – they’ve got all three councillors at the moment – but it will not be easy, as we already mentioned in our Sheffield battlegrounds article. The Liberal Democrats will try to win with Tariq Zaman. He said: “I grew up and have lived locally for the past 46 years, and my children attended local schools. I...
Conservatives Call For House Hearing On Google Gemini Ahead Of 2024 Election Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, Conservative activists have been calling for the House GOP to hold congressional hearings regarding the threat of Google Gemini, Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) program, and its left-wing biases ahead of the 2024 election. As reported by Just The News, a letter signed by multiple conservative groups was sent to Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio),...
Some states have made it easier to remove registered voters from the rolls. Trump-aligned groups have launched data analysis tools to aid in large-scale challenges to voter registrations.
Some states have made it easier to remove registered voters from the rolls. Trump-aligned groups have launched data analysis tools to aid in large-scale challenges to voter registrations.
Wearsiders have only hours left to register to vote if they want to take part in May’s elections. The Electoral Register closes at 11.59pm (midnight) tonight - Tuesday, April 16, 2024. The good news is it only takes a few minutes to register online at Register to vote - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) Seats in each of Sunderland City Council’s 25 wards are up for election on May 2. There are also votes for the first mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority (NEMCA) and the Northumbria Police and...
Conservatives Seek To Ban Private Funding Of Elections Ahead Of 2024 Races Authored by Steven Kovac via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), During the pandemic-plagued 2020 election season, hundreds of millions of dollars from private sources were granted to big cities, an action that many Republicans believe unfairly tipped the scales in favor of Democrats. (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock) Distributed for the stated purpose of protecting public health and assisting...
Sanctuary Cities Set Migrant Sex Offenders Free Instead Of Handing Them Over To ICE Long painted as safe havens of humanitarianism by the establishment media, sanctuary cities are slowly being exposed for the underlying hypocrisy that motivates their policies. Red states such as Texas and Florida have been very effective in pulling back the curtain, using the busing of illegals to sanctuary cities as a tool to force Democrats to stand by their own open borders principles (or...
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According to the office of Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan, the letter follows reports that local election officials are advising voters against using USPS to mail in their ballots.