Washington, Nov 4 : Telling voters in this swing state that “change is on the way,” Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said he is not shy to express his view of the origin of women’s strength.
Biden greeted a crowd primed for the home stretch of this long campaign with as much energy as he’s had in the last two months on the trail as well as some typical Bidenese, FOX News reported.
The latest was about his sister, Val, his wife Jill, and Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, who introduced the Bidens at the rally of 1,100 people in the gym at Longview Community College.
Biden called his sister a “girl-boy,” meaning a tomboy, and then explained that girl-boys are softer than “girl-girls.”
Vilnius - The four parties that will form the next Lithuanian coalition government launched talks in the capital, Vilnius, Tuesday aimed at drawing up a program for their four-year term.
Nine days after their first informal get-together on election night, the four leaders are believed to be formalising their alliance by means of two documents: one detailing the most urgent measures facing the new administration and another outlining an intended legislative program over a full parliamentary term.
Bangkok - Democrats Abroad members will be gathering in special venues throughout Asia, from a secret "watering hole" in alcohol-free Kabul to a popular barbecue house in Bangkok, to watch the US election results on Wednesday, Asia time.
If pre-election interest is anything to go by, the turnout to watch the televised results abroad is expected to break records for Democrats Abroad - the official arm of the Democratic Party for Americans living outside of the United States.
"Democrats Abroad in Thailand has more than tripled our membership in the past 10 months," said Phil Robertson, chairman of Democrats Abroad Thailand. "I've never seen such excitement over an election."
London, Nov. 4 : A public official is sacked or reprimanded virtually every single working day for losing data or breaching protection rules, official figures show.
According to The Telegraph, parliamentary answers from three Government Departments reveal that up to 260 officials were disciplined or dismissed "for alleged breaches of data protection requirements and inappropriate use of personal or sensitive data" in the past year.
Most of the people - 192 - were disciplined or dismissed at HM Revenue and Customs, which last November admitted losing personal details of 25 million people from the child benefit database.
Washington, November 4 : A University of Maryland researcher has come up with several recommendations that can enable voters to minimize the chance of election machine-related errors.
Paul S. Herrnson, the University of Maryland political scientist, has revealed that his team’s recommendations are based on a comprehensive study of the problems voters may face while using touch screen and paper-based machines.
"In our experiments, even with the simplest ballot design and the most user-friendly machines, we found voters still cast their ballots for the wrong candidate about three percent of the time," Herrnson says.
