Voters Shift Opinions to Align with Political Party Leader Positions, Study
A longitudinal study of voters in New Zealand found that the views expressed by political party leaders can change how people feel about an issue. The findings are published in Psychological Science. Lead More...
Hillary Calls for Automatic Voter Registration from 18 Years of age — Nationwide
Hillary Clinton accused the Republicans of enacting state voting laws based on a “phantom epidemic of election fraud” in a speech she gave Thursday in front of 2000 Texas Southern University students. More...
The Countries Where Voting Is Compulsory
Participation in national elections is considered a fundamental right of citizenship by democracies across the globe. In fact, some governments believe in this principle so strongly that More...
More than 750, 000 Israelis Vote in First 3 Hours
Some 13.75 percent of eligible Israeli voters cast ballots in the first three hours of the elections for the 20th Knesset, based to data released by the official electoral commission Tuesday morning. There More...
Mark Cuban Says ‘No’ To Fans Voting For All-Star Games
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban thinks fans shouldn’t have a say anymore about which payers are going to be in the NBA All-Stars lineup, because not enough fans seem to care enough to vote, as reported More...
30, 000 Americans Living in Israel Voted in Midterm Elections
By Anav Silverman More than 30, 000 U.S. citizens living in Israel cast their vote in this week’s midterm elections. iVoteIsrael, the leading organization facilitating American voting in Israel, has More...
Judge Implies Whiff of Impropriety about Allergan Hostile Bid, but Won’t Bar Ackman, Valeant, from Voting
– While federal judge David Carter said Allergan had raised ” serious questions” about the legal implication of Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square and Valeant’s $53 billion takeover More...
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Says Supreme Court Should Do More to Combat Racism
At 81, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is still going strong and is outspoken. Since the Warren Court, which presided over landmark Civil Rights cases in the 1960s, the notion of “activist More...
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is ‘Amazed at How Things Have Changed’
Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, believed that things have changed in the Supreme Court and in America and large –and not for the better– in issues of race. “What is amazing More...
Behind the Scenes Manoeuvres Continue As Carl Icahn Tries to Outlast Michael Dell
– Michael Dell / Getty – /By Clive Minchom / Recently the Board of Directors of Dell Inc. accepted a revised offer from Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners to buyout the company and privatize More...