JURIST

JANUARY 1, 2024

Multiple opposition presidential candidates in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rejected the provisional election results Sunday, which incumbent President Felix Tshisekedi was announced to have won, and urged supporters to mobilize. Additionally, two presidential candidates were killed in separate incidents.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

But the US election system needs a high number of volunteers at nearly every step: to finance campaigns, to register voters, to observe polls and to monitor the process of counting ballots. Even though I cannot vote, I met a woman who registers voters at a farmer’s market, and who enjoyed explaining the US system to me.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

third-party candidates; 11th Circuit reverses ruling lowering Georgia signature requirements”: Mark Niesse of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this report. House Independent and Minor Party Candidates.” “Court restores signature rules that hinder Ga. ” You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S.

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JURIST

MAY 16, 2022

To give a brief run-of-show, Pennsylvania primaries are limited participation elections, meaning only voters formally registered under the Democratic or Republican party can participate. Neither the gubernatorial nor the US Senate race have incumbent candidates (candidates who currently hold office) running this election cycle.

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JURIST

APRIL 5, 2024

If the law is adopted, civil organizations that receive over 20 percent of their funding from abroad must register as “agents of foreign influence.” The EU condemned on Thursday Georgia’s ruling party, Georgian Dream, for reintroducing a controversial foreign-agents law.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Since Brazil’s 2019 election of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, the number of guns in civilian hands has nearly tripled, to 2 million, the number of registered gun owners has increased threefold to 1.56

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JURIST

APRIL 2, 2021

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia decided that Georgia’s ballot access restrictions for third-party candidates are unconstitutional. The Georgia Democratic Party and Republican Party candidates appear automatically on the ballot for non-statewide elections.

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JURIST

AUGUST 10, 2022

Tension began to slowly rise on the eve of the elections when Kenya’s Court of Appeal ruled in favor of the United Democratic Alliance Party (UDA) and rejected the use of manual registers during voting. This was especially true in the Mount Kenya region where most polling stations barely reached 30% of their registered voters.

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SCOCAblog

JUNE 16, 2021

A replacement candidate must: File with the county elections official, in which the candidate is registered to vote, the following: A... A replacement candidate must: File with the county elections official, in which the candidate is registered to vote, the following: A...

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in electrical engineering (starting college at age 16); JD from Penn (EIC of the law review); Federal Circuit clerkship (Judge Schall); registered patent attorney; and litigated patent cases in courts across the country, including the PTAB.

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JURIST

MARCH 14, 2022

A Nicaraguan court Friday convicted former presidential candidate Cristiana Chamorro and her brother, Carlos Fernando Chamorro, for money laundering-related offences. Under this law, all entities receiving funding from abroad have to register themselves with the Interior Ministry as “foreign agents” within 60 days.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Interested candidates are invited to send the completed application form to events@aail.org by 13 October 2023. Registered participants will have pre-course access to the HAIL e-learning platform that provides reading materials prepared by the lecturers. However, full attendance is mandatory. All applications are subject to review.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 18, 2021

Legally qualified candidates, even write-ins who have made this substantial showing, are entitled to all the protections of the Commission’s political rules, including equal opportunities, lowest unit rates and, for candidates for federal office, reasonable access to buy advertising time on commercial broadcast stations.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Ballot Question Number 3 asked voters whether they approved or disapproved of an amendment permitting “voters the right to participate in open primary elections to choose candidate for the general election in which all voters may then rank the remaining candidates by preference.”

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JURIST

AUGUST 4, 2022

In addition to expanding Pennsylvania’s access to vote-by-mail, Act 77 also removed straight-ticket voting, increased the amount of time available to register to vote, allocated funding for voting system upgrades and reorganized the pay structure for poll workers. Since then, however, the law has come under attack from Republican politicians.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 21, 2021

Legally qualified candidates, even write-ins who have made this substantial showing, are entitled to all the protections of the Commission’s political rules, including equal opportunities, lowest unit rates and, for candidates for federal office, reasonable access to buy advertising time on commercial broadcast stations.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Veranika’s husband, Valer Tsepkala, had applied to be a candidate for the presidential election in 2020. However, he denied of registration as a candidate. He and his wife, thus, joined the campaign of the only alternative candidate – Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. Later they left the country under the regime’s pressure.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Democrats are adopting the same approach to the election: You can have any candidate on the ballot, as long as it’s Joe Biden. And if you want to register your discontent with Biden with a write-in vote, forget about it. As Democratic presidential candidate Rep. It was wrong then, and it is wrong now. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.)

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

This comes as grassroots organizations led by Black women helped register an unprecedented amount of marginalized voters, flipping the state in support of Democratic candidates for both the November presidential election and the state’s January Senate run-offs. CITIZEN — NOT VOTER ID.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has again called upon Georgia to follow most states and get rid of election runoffs — allowing for candidates to assume office with less than a majority of support of voters. In reality, runoffs can enhance minority voters by forcing candidates to reach out to every major voting bloc.

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SimplyLawJobs

MAY 21, 2021

Your candidate dashboard will store the jobs which you have recently searched for, saved for later or applied to. Improved candidate profiles. Recruiters regularly search our candidate profiles looking to cherry pick top talent. Competition is strong for legal jobs and recruiters are looking for the very best candidates.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Frank LaRose, the Secretary of State for Ohio, also spoke, where he made clear that in his view, “I owe a duty to the 8 million registered voters in my state to make sure that they have a free and fair opportunity to choose who their party’s nominee is going to be for president.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 5, 2023

Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, claimed in a presidential debate that then-candidate Donald Trump had “small hands.” It ruled that relying on Section 2(c) to prohibit Elster from registering the “Trump Too Small” phrase would violate the First Amendment. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 5, 2021

Comments will be due Monday, August 2, 2021, and reply comments will be due Monday, August 30, 2021. ( Federal Register )( Broadcast Law Blog ). Federal candidates (like those running in this year’s special House elections) are entitled to reasonable access and equal opportunities once the candidates become legally qualified.

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JURIST

MARCH 31, 2022

For example, Sviatlana Tsichanouskaya, candidate for the Presidency in the 2020 elections, has promised to free all the political prisoners when she takes power. Relatives and friends of prisoners are afraid of spreading information since it could harm detainees, or themselves. This could cause problems in future.

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JURIST

AUGUST 7, 2021

million signatures of the near 20 million registered voters as of 2018. Anyone who answers no to the first question is still forced to proceed to the second and pick a candidate. Republicans constitute the majority of the candidates. approximately 1.5 Failure to do so will count in favor of the opposing party.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In an election so contentious , that many votes can make all the difference, tipping the scales for one candidate or another. Of the requested mail ballots, 70% were requested by registered Democrats. Registered Democrats compose 73% of the returned ballots. So far, more than 550,000 ballots have been returned.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 21, 2022

Voting rights advocates and even some local election supervisors argue that the efforts can easily be abused and used as political cudgels or to intimidate people from registering and voting. Ron DeSantis asked the State Legislature last week for $5.7

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

A Federal Register notice announced that starting March 14, broadcast stations, in assessing political advertising from purported write-in candidates, will need to include in their review the candidate’s social media presence and creation of campaign website when determining if the candidate has made a “substantial showing” of a bona fide candidacy.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

On these platforms, the stand-by-your-ad provisions require that the candidate identify themselves and state that they approved the message. This decision clarifies that, for traditional political advertising on online platforms for federal candidates and elections, sponsorship identification is required.

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The Estrin Report

JUNE 12, 2023

Ranen dismissed another job candidate with, “How about someone who’s not a Jew. Registration: To register for this complimentary webinar, click here The post Taking a Stand Against Hate, Discrimination & Anti-Semitism appeared first on The Estrin Report. The epithets “fag” and “faggot” were deployed as all-purpose insults.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

Every year, law schools advertise open faculty positions via a Faculty Appointments Register sponsored by the American Association of Law Schools (AALS). by Dennis Crouch. This year’s list was just released, and lots of schools are looking to hire patent and IP professors. The new hire then starts work the following summer.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 3, 2024

A group of registered Republicans and unaffiliated voters eligible to vote in Colorado’s presidential primary had brought the lawsuit, arguing that Trump should not be included on the state’s primary ballot because as president he had sworn an oath to support the Constitution but had engaged in insurrection on Jan.

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JURIST

AUGUST 25, 2021

Clark also emphasized the need to restore the “preclearance” mechanism of the VRA, which essentially has all but been invalidated by the Supreme Court in Shelby County v.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 29, 2022

Broadcasters will have to consider social media activity and a campaign website when determining if a write-in candidate has made a “substantial showing” that they are a “legally qualified candidate.” Legally qualified candidates receive the benefits and protections of the FCC’s political broadcasting rules. Order ).

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JURIST

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson to confront the fact that nearly a century after the Reconstruction Amendments, “millions of citizens were still denied the ability to register, to vote, and to participate fully in American democracy because of their race.”

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Broadcast Law Blog

AUGUST 14, 2022

FCC staff alleged that the LPTV station was airing paid-for appearances by legally qualified candidates in what appeared to be a local news program without disclosing that the candidates had actually paid to be in the news segments. We noted that decision in a prior weekly update here.

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