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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Bloc voting |
 | | It was used in the Australian Senate from 1901 to 1948 (from 1918, this was preferential bloc voting), is widely used for local elections in the UK and is often used to elect the boards of directors of corporations. | | | Bloc voting (or block voting) (also called Plurality-at-large) refers to a class of voting systems which can be used to elect several representatives from a single constituency. | | | Candidates with the smallest tally of first preference votes are eliminated (and their votes transferred) until a candidate has more than half the vote. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/B/BL/BLO/Bloc_voting
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| | Table of voting systems by nation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Independent candidates need to gather votes equal to the total number of votes cast in the constituency divided by the number of local seats. | | | These tables deal with voting to select candidates for office, not for the passing of legislation. | | | The remaining seats are distributed among parties by the d'Hondt method applied to the total number of votes for each. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_voting_systems_by_nation
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| | Park Alumni Society |
| | Bloc voting is a method of voting that allows each voter to vote for up to X number of candidates. | | | Ranked voting is a method of voting that allows each voter to cast a more nuanced vote than simply voting for their ”top ranked” candidate, as is the case in most elections. | | | Each vote is counted towards a total for each candidate. |
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http://www.parkscholars.org/voting.php
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| | Prentice Hall Documents Library: Thornburg v. Gingles (1986) |
| | Because loss of political power through vote dilution is distinct from the mere inability to win a particular election, a pattern of racial bloc voting that extends over a period of time is more probative of a claim that a district experiences significant polarization than are the results of a single election. | | | A showing that a significant number of minority group members usually vote for the same candidates is one way of proving the political cohesiveness necessary to a vote dilution claim, and consequently establishes minority bloc voting within the meaning of § 2. | | | Second, appellants' interpretation of "racially polarized voting" creates an irreconcilable tension between their proposed treatment of socioeconomic characteristics in the bloc voting context and the Senate Report's statement that "the extent to which members of the minority group. |
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http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/dye4/medialib/docs/thorn.htm
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| | Southern Regional Council - Voting Rights HelpNet - Glossary |
| | The percentage of the white population that votes for the minority candidate in an election. | | | Also called "single transferable vote," preference voting is a form of limited voting in which voters have one vote, but can maximize the strenght of their vote by ranking candidates in order of preference. | | | This section of the Voting Rights Act, as amended in 1982, prohibits any voting practice or procedure, including any redistricting plan, which "results" in a denial or abridgement of the right to vote on account of race or color. |
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http://www.southerncouncil.org/helpnet/glossary
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| | DAILY BRUIN ONLINE |
| | When students voted at on-campus polling locations student groups could provide incentives, such as free pizza, in exchange for votes, he said.Another aspect of voting during the 2004 elections that was different in the previous elections was that students were not able to vote between midnight and 7 a.m. | | | In the 2003 USAC election, an additional measure intended to curtail bloc voting was in place. | | | Election Board officials for the undergraduate student government said last spring's general election results were not compromised by bloc voting though election statistics released this week show several individual Internet Protocol addresses contributed numerous votes. |
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http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/printable.asp?id=30168&date=10/5/2004
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| | The expert calculated the percentage of the blacks who voted for Jones by estimating, based on the existing data, what the vote would be in a hypothetical precinct that was 100 percent black. | | | That petitioners' estimate is faulty is illustrated by the fact that the sum of the black vote for all candidates as calculated by their method is only about 86 percent rather than 100 percent. | | | Indeed, such elections have typically been considered in the analysis of racial bloc voting in Section 2 cases. |
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http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/briefs/1988/sg880049.txt
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| | Al-Muhajabah's Islamic Blogs: the politics of bloc voting |
| | It should be beyond obvious that voting for the front-runner in a primary election because he's "electable" is not an effective bloc voting strategy. | | | The bloc of votes becomes a bloc of delegates to be wooed by the other candidates and then delivered to one of them once that candidate has made the necessary concessions. | | | Muslims need to get educated about bloc voting because it seems that a lot of people, including those in leadership positions in the community, are not clear on how it works. |
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http://www.muhajabah.com/islamicblog/archives/veiled4allah/007743.php
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| | Haaretz - Israel News - Anti-pullout Likud rebels agree on bloc voting in Knesset |
| | The group is expected to vote in favor of the 2006 state budget and in support of Ehud Olmert's permanent appointment as finance minister. | | | The rebels are also keeping their cards close to their chests when it comes to Knesset votes, and have decided that the group will convene and vote ad hoc on any issue on the agenda. | | | MK Erdan clarified that the decision pertained only to voting on political and security issues linked to the values and positions of the Likud. |
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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/633294.html
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| | President's Book Part B |
| | All groups or individuals must be elected by at least a three-fourths affirmative vote of the active members present and voting affirmatively or negatively, so long as the affirmative vote is a majority of the total active membership of the chapter. | | | After all candidates have been considered and voted on there shall be a second individual ballot taken in the same order for each candidate who failed election on the first ballot. | | | At the election meeting the character-evaluation reports of the interview committees, departmental caucuses, resume screening committees, or project evaluation committees are given to the chapter. |
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http://www.tbp.org/Chapters/Resources/PresidentsBook/PBB/PBBIII.cfm
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| | Company News On Call |
| | Register and Vote 2004 seeks to show that interest of any level for an issue is enough of a reason for young people to engage in the political process and vote. | | | Register and Vote 2004 seeks to increase voter registration and voting behavior among 18-24 year-olds in 2004. | | | Participation in the poll titled Name the 18-24 Year-Old Voting Bloc, further engaged young adults in the voting process by allowing them to vote on their own name, before voting again in November. |
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http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/07-27-2004/0002218836
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| | Determine the ultimate result of an election with bloc voting List all coalitions for which a given voter is critical under bloc voting. | | | Given the results of a preferential election, determine the winner under all six of the voting systems that we have discussed. | | | Compute the Total Banzhaf Power and the Banzhaf Index of all voters in a reasonably small Yes-No voting system when bloc voting is considered. |
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http://www.academic.marist.edu/~jzg8/courses/m111/Spring04/Sect113/m111ot2S043.doc
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| | dallasobserver.com News Cell-bloc Voting 2003-12-18 |
| | The legislation, however, died in the House Elections Committee, which was heavily dominated by Republicans, all of whom voted against the bill. | | | The next step, at least for Dutton, was a bill he introduced in the 2003 session that would have "informed ex-felons that they had regained the right to vote," he says. | | | "The form required residents to 'affirm' that if they were a felon, they were eligible to vote under Section 13.001 of the Election Code. |
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http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2003-12-18/news.html
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| | We The Fans: Bloc Voting |
| | Bloc voting is simply delivering the accumulation of individual votes as one "Block." Bloc voting at | | | Regardless of the action, it will come from the vote of the Membership and carried out with 100% participation. | | | The position with the most votes will be considered the "Official" |
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http://www.wethefans.com/blockvote.htm
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| | Data Mining in Politics |
| | Where the Agreement Index operates at the parliamentary party group level, the voting similarity analyses are able to analyse and illustrate the individual MP level. | | | Under the bloc-voting model, the Senate can be interpreted as a weighted vote system, and we were able to estimate the empirical voting power of individual blocs through what-if analysis. | | | For each roll call, the vote of every senator is recorded in three ways: `Yea', `Nay' and `Not Voting'. |
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http://www.ailab.si/aleks/politics
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| | The League : How to Host a Progressive Strategy Session (and not have it blow up in your face) |
| | A voting bloc that can document its impact on local, state, or federal elections has power to hold elected officials accountable. | | | If all the voter turnout efforts are exclusively focused on registration, the hole that needs to be filled might be surveying or collecting pledges to vote progressively or to vote based on certain issues that are relevant in the upcoming election. | | | You need a solid, campus-wide GOTV (Get Out The Vote) plan. |
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http://www.indyvoter.org/article.php?id=129
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| | Sunni Sister: Blahg Blahg Blahg » Blog Archive » The Bloc Vote Mafia and Who Are Your Friends? (Take 1) |
| | Or that voting as an individual would be dangerous to the Muslims, since bloc voting is the greatest thing since sliced bread. | | | All I care about when it comes to Muslims voting and who they’re voting for is that you’re informed about the various special interest groups, and wings, and candidates pandering for your vote. | | | I do so not in the hope that I might become my own Bloc Vote Mafiosa, but in the hope that I might fill up some time and present you with information you were previously unaware of. |
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http://www.sunnisisters.com/sunnisister?p=81
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| | The Australian: Bloc-form voting for the Senate [October 04, 2005] |
| | VOTERS at the next election will be able to able to distribute in bloc form their own party preferences for the Senate, without having to number dozens of boxes on the ballot paper. | | | Special Minister of State Eric Abetz will tonight announce changes that will allow voters to "determine their own party preferences, but without the need to number, for example, 78 boxes". | | | The Australian: Bloc-form voting for the Senate [October 04, 2005] |
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16807112^2702,00.html
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| | EDGE - Curriculum - Biology |
| | Is the disability community a voting bloc which politicians should pay attention to? | | | Still, those percentage points translates to a large number of votes. | | | As we learned earlier, one factor which creates a voting bloc is that people's common circumstances ininfluence their political beliefs. |
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http://www.disabilityhistory.org/dwa/edge/curriculum/gov_contenta6.htm
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| | Reason |
| | The most fundamental is that the United Nations is built on an obsolete premise: that countries governed by their people and countries governed by thugs, thieves, or tyrants should meet on equal terms, one vote each. | | | What had yet to happen was for the caucus to meet at the U.N. to do actual business: devise common positions, advance resolutions, eventually vote as a bloc on nominations and policies. | | | African countries, for example, are pressured to vote together, with undemocratic governments often calling the shots and democracies going along to get along. |
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http://www.reason.com/rauch/032204.shtml
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| | Vets-Voting-Bloc.Org : To Help A Veteran, Register Here! |
| | You are currently viewing all Voting Bloc National Office news items. | | | You may change this by selecting another news source from the options below. | | | Total Visitors for Voting Bloc National Office: 2115822 |
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http://www.vets-voting-bloc.org
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| | CubaCentral :: Goal: Divide GOP voting bloc |
| | The goal: Match or exceed President Clinton's 1996 performance, in which he snagged 40 percent of the Cuban-American vote and won Florida's electoral votes. | | | Important issues, recent votes, current legislation, and more. | | | For election results, enter your ZIP Code or search by state. |
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http://www.cubacentral.com/todaysnewsdetail.cfm?ID=105
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| | Academy Award Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography |
| | Actors (with a membership of 1,311) make up the largest voting bloc. | | | Special Awards, which are voted on by special committees, rather than by the Academy membership as a whole, include: | | | Less subjectively, it is clear that movie studios spend large amounts of money on campaigning for their films. |
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http://encyclopedia.localcolorart.com/encyclopedia/Academy_Award
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| | Matt Szabo: Times Poll Identifies Pro-Corruption Voting Bloc! |
| | Of course, L.A.’s corruption coalition could be as large as 16% of voting population. | | | Matt Szabo: Times Poll Identifies Pro-Corruption Voting Bloc! | | | Likely voters were determined by a screening process which included questions on intention to vote, certainty of vote, interest in the campaign, absentee voting and past voting history. |
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http://www.mattszabo.com/archives/2005/05/la_times_poll_i.html
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| | But evidence exhumed from "white only" elections may still be relevant in assessing the totality of the circumstances in a vote dilution case, especially if it tends to rebut the evidence of cohesion or white bloc voting extracted from "mixed" elections. | | | [3]We recognize that such widely used terms of art as "white bloc voting" and "racially polarized voting" may not always capture the subtleties of specific problems that arise in the political process. | | | denied, 498 U.S. 937 (1990), elections in which minority candidates run are often especially probative on the issue of racial bloc voting. |
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http://www.law.emory.edu/1circuit/dec95/95-1581.01a_fn.html
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| | Women senators plan to wield bloc voting sparingly |
| | They likely would not vote often as a bloc, in large part because they belong to parties with conflicting agendas, subject to pressures of party discipline on critical issues. | | | Women senators plan to wield bloc voting sparingly | | | Yet several women senators said issues important to women are likely to get a careful hearing in the Senate because women voted for Democrats by a lopsided margin in November, not just because there are more women senators. |
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http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/120896/women.htm
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| | Bloc Voting - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of its continuing as a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. | | | By bloc voting, I mean a group of people organized in voting together for their interests. |
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http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=61890
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| | Racial bloc voting may not have dominated the contests of the redistricted Congressmen in 1996, but these elections were a special case. | | | From Bullock, "Racial Crossover Voting and the Election of Black Officials," 46 J. | | | Compared to the Voting Rights Act, affirmative action measures have a minimal scope; private discrimination may impede some persons' opportunities to gain the job or education they desire, but discrimination in apportionment or elections may effectively disenfranchise thousands. |
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http://wso.williams.edu/~bthomas/thesis/CHAP4.HTM
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| | bloc, parliamentary on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Parties announce blocs in preparation for parliamentary elections in Ukraine | | | saw the development of bloc voting by groups of states in the General Assembly of the United Nations. | | | A bloc may form because of a specific issue and dissolve when that issue has been resolved, or it may have a more permanent character, based on a more general interest. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/b1/bloc-par.asp
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| | VDARE.com: Electing a New People, by Peter Brimelow & Ed Rubenstein |
| | Then we lowered this high-water mark by accounting for the shifting ethnic balance that the Census projects will result from immigration, assuming that the ethnic groups continued to vote as they did in 1988. | | | This figure happens also to be the average vote received by the Republicans in presidential elections since 1968—the largest advantage won by any party over any six elections in American history. | | | And it is the vote received by Republicans in 1994, when they took control of the Senate and House. |
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http://vdare.org/pb/people.htm
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| | Election Results |
| | Such threats contribute to the “growing worker insecurity” that has been hailed by Alan Green- span and others as a significant factor in improving economic health by limiting wages, benefits, and inflation that would be unwelcome to financial interests. | | | Higher-income voters favor Republicans, but class-skewed voting does not come close to accounting for the ability of the more openly pro-business party to garner half the vote. | | | Such voting against interest is understandable among people who feel powerless, taking for granted that government is run by “a few big interests looking out for themselves”; half the population in 1984, rising to over 80 percent a few years later as the “neoliberal reforms” were more firmly instituted. |
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http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/feb01chomsky.htm
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| | 'Security Mom' Bloc Proves Hard to Find (washingtonpost.com) |
| | How many votes were required to invoke cloture when the Senate first adopted the rule in 1917? | | | Electoral College Map: Post analysis, polls and recent voting history from 16 swing states. | | | It was not until the early 20th century that the Senate enacted rules allowing members to end filibusters and unlimited debate. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63197-2004Sep30.html
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| | Kerry Haters for Kerry :: Main Page |
| | His baby steps in the direction of reform liberalism during the 1990s were all followed by hasty retreats. | | | His Senate vote against the 1991 Gulf War demonstrates an instinctive aversion to the use of American force, even when it's clearly justified. | | | Worried that you'll blurt out to friends and acquaintances what you really think about Kerry, costing him precious votes? |
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http://www.kerryhatersforkerry.com
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| | Flynn Files -- Cell-Block Voting Bloc |
| | I agree that it does not need to be forever, but it doesn't mean that as soon as they do "their time" that they should be able to vote. | | | If you buy into political scientist David Mayhew's theory that Congressmen are "single-minded seekers of reelection," what, other than a belief that criminals would vote for Democrats, explains Hillary Clinton's enthusiasm for a proposal forcing the states to allow convicted felons to vote? | | | If a con gets out in October, I don't think they should be able to vote in November. |
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http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/politics2005/cellblock_voting_bloc.html
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| | The League : Hip-Hop Voting Bloc? |
| | Massive registration drives, marketing campaigns and even music videos by the likes of Eminem and Jadakiss all helped create a heightened awareness of the importance of voting in young communities of color. | | | A year ago the press was heralding the possibility that a young, progressive and hip-hop-influenced voting bloc would decide the 2004 presidential election. | | | If everything goes according to plan, a voting bloc as influential as the religious right, but progressive, could be firmly established. |
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http://www.indyvoter.org/article.php?id=506&preview=1
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| | U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Harris Poll Finds Bush Making Progress Among Likely Voters With Disabilities..." |
| | If the numbers from this latest survey hold up, it would represent a notable shift from the 2000 vote. | | | This finding marks a dramatic shift in support among this voting bloc, which has historically supported the Democratic candidate in every election since Harris Interactive first measured it in 1988. | | | This poll result is part of a larger disability survey project studying voter preferences, issues of concern, and barriers to voting during this election season. |
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http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=37206
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| | Veterans Voting Bloc |
| | You need not be a registered Member to add your comments | | | Our Objective: To Monitor and Vote Out ALL Politicians, regardless of political party, who do not support issues that are favorable to Veterans, Active Duty & Retired Military Personnel and their dependents, whether by City, County, District, State or National levels. | | | You need not be a registered member to add your comments in this forum. |
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http://p208.ezboard.com/fveteransvotingblocfrm1
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| | We currently have over 3,000 voting squads established throughout the country. | | | Veteran's Voting Bloc - The Stanley for U.S. Senate Campaign - 2002 Colorado ^ | | | Phil Jones, National Director, Veteran's Voting Bloc and the Stanley for U.S. Senate Campaign |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=medicalneeds
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| | Voting Bloc |
| | A VOTING BLOC is a group of members with a common interest who tend to vote alike on an issue. |
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http://www.c-span.org/guide/congress/glossary/bloc.htm
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| | Article A Voting Bloc Without a Party |
| | But the New York vote is not an anomaly. | | | And Republicans are sure to try—and could succeed with—platforms that stress new economic opportunity for students, first-time home-buyers and small businesses. | | | Politicians in state after state are finding that Latinos are not automatic Democrats. |
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http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_nyt-a_voting_bloc.htm
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| | STUDY INDICATES RACIAL-BLOC VOTING CHESAPEAKE ANALYSIS FINDS RACIAL POLARITY EXISTS, BUT BLACKS AREN'T LOCKED OUT. |
| | The 1965 Voting Rights Act requires Virginia and most other Southern states to seek federal permission before changing any election law. | | | That polarization diluted black voting power and violated the Voting Rights Act, according to the federal agency, and would not be acceptable in the School Board elections. | | | A city-funded analysis of voting patterns here seems to support charges made last year by the Department of Justice: that Chesapeake's at-large election system has resulted in a pattern of racially polarized voting. |
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http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950706/07060362.htm
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| | Pan-Asian voting bloc is group's goal |
| | The 80-20 Initiative is a non-partisan political action committee that is trying to organize Asian Americans into a voting bloc. | | | Even if there is agreement on that point, the extent to which Asian Americans will participate in the initiative is uncertain; to establish a voting bloc, there must be voters. | | | But speaking -- or voting -- with one voice is the goal of a national campaign aimed at increasing the influence of Asian Americans in presidential elections. |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/106649_woo31.shtml
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| | Priorities & Frivolities: The Latino Vote |
| | I do not know whether there was actually a significant rise in the Hispanic vote for George W. Bush in this election... | | | So why should there be an axiomatic assumption that Hispanic or Latin voters should all vote for the same political Party. | | | I'd suggest that the "Latino vote" issue is really a matter of definition. |
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http://www.tagorda.com/archives/003703.php
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| | Commentary Magazine - Bloc Voting, Unity, Prayers |
| | ...A rousing vote in favor of something as tried and true as a representative organ for American Jewry was a painless way to affirm those loyalties... | | | With a Catholic candidate for the presidency, the so-called Jewish vote was bound to attract the scrutiny of reporters and the attention of politicians. | | | ...In general, Jews will vote for a candidate because he is a Jew only when other things are equal-reputation, party affiliation, and the like-or when they feel they have been slighted politically... |
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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V30I6P74-1.htm
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| | Brayden King: The religious voting bloc? |
| | Almost everyone voted Republican in the local, state, and national elections. | | | Using data from the General Social Survey, they show that evangelicals are actually quite politically divided and that the real base of the Republican party is the wealthy. | | | If the working classes tend to vote Democratic, my town clearly doesn’t fit the pattern. |
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http://www.braydenking.com/weblog/archives/000382.html
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| | Republicans woo Catholics, a critical voting bloc |
| | No wonder both parties are courting their vote. | | | Republican presidential candidates have steadily increased their share of the Catholic vote since 1992. | | | Still, Catholics do not vote as a bloc and surveys indicate that most do not choose candidates based on their position on abortion. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/08/30/politics1421EDT0625.DTL
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| | Earth-Shattering Distinctives |
| | When Bill and I first got married, we decided that we would vote the same way, and if we couldn't agree on a vote, then his choice would be what got filled in. | | | However, for the past couple of years we have decided to vote as a household. | | | That may seem sort of funny for a woman who doesn't vote individually; but just as I am a steward of the money my husband makes for the household, I am a steward of our voting information and our absentee ballot. |
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http://distinctives.blogspot.com/2004_01_25_distinctives_archive.html
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| | WorldNetDaily: The voting bloc that won`t defend itself |
| | The Republican Party is happy to have white evangelicals vote Republican and donate money. | | | The white evangelical bloc could be a formidable voting bloc indeed. | | | WorldNetDaily: The voting bloc that won`t defend itself |
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39721
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