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60,142 | Can a Supreme Court justice be nominated and confirmed under two different presidents? | <p>For example, if President Trump nominated a justice on his last day in office, could that person then be confirmed by the Senate during a Biden administration?</p>
 | united states supreme court judiciary | 1 |
60,146 | How many ballots have been sequestered in Pennsylvania and Michigan? | <p>By court orders, Pennsylvania and Michigan have been commanded to sequester domestic ballots that arrived at counting stations after the traditional deadlines.
For the purposes of this question, it is unnecessary to detail the legal arguments that lead to the orders.</p>
<p>Rather, this question is confined to two facts (that should be knowable at this time):</p>
<ol>
<li>How many ballots have been sequestered in each state ? and</li>
<li>Have those ballots been opened and the votes counted but the results are also segregated?</li>
</ol>
 | united states election presidential election voting | 1 |
60,147 | Why so much censorship on Trump's statements? | <p>After the 2009 Iranian presidential election, in which some people opposed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's reelection, Hillary Clinton defended U.S. efforts to ensure that the Twitter social networking service has remained available for use by Iranian protesters. She said she considered it important to keep "<strong>that line of communication open and enabling people to share information</strong> (see <a href="https://zeroanthropology.net/all-posts/annotated-bibliography-twitter-and-the-iranian-election-protests/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>)."</p>
<p>But now, in the US Election:</p>
<p>US president claims fraud in election, but most of effective media censor or tags his comments.
Isn't it important to keep
<strong>line of communication open and enabling people to share information</strong> in the US?</p>
<hr />
<p>Is there some law that help Trump on the issue?</p>
 | united states election donald trump democracy social media | 0 |
60,151 | What does the December 8th deadline mean for the certification of the results of the Electoral College? | <p>I have just read <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the Atlantic article</a> which describes a possible constitutional crisis in the USA in aftermath of the current presidential election.</p>
<p>Prevention of the election result certification in the appropriate battleground states is mentioned as a possible strategy to ensure Donald Trump re-election. My question below is most relevant for Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, all having D-Governor and R-Legislature.</p>
<p><strong>Does the certification of the election results before December 8th 2020 really prevent the legislature of these states from appointing an alternative slate of electors?</strong></p>
 | united states presidential election electoral college | 1 |
60,156 | Certification of presidential election results in battleground states | <p>I have just read <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the Atlantic article</a> which describes a possible constitutional crisis in the USA in aftermath of the current presidential election.</p>
<p>Prevention of the election result certification in the appropriate battleground states is mentioned as a possible strategy to ensure Donald Trump re-election. My question below is most relevant for Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, all having D-Governor and R-Legislature.</p>
<p><strong>Can the certification of the results before the deadline December 8, 2020 really be prevented by refusal of the canvassers to certify the results (on the state or county level)? Are there some means to counteract to this strategy?</strong></p>
<p>PS. This question was a part of my <a href="https://politics.stackexchange.com/q/60151/26455">previous one</a> but I was advised to ask it separately.</p>
 | united states presidential election electoral college | 0 |
60,162 | Where can I find good voting data on US Congressional Districts? | <p>For US Elections, I'm trying to find the Total Population, Voting Age Population, Registered Voters on Election Day, and the number of Ballots cast, for the years of 2020, 2018, 2016, and 2012, sorted by congressional districts. I've been able to locate some but not all of these fields, and I do understand that 2020 may contain incomplete data.</p>
 | united states election voter turnout data sources voting registration | 0 |
60,165 | Is there objective proof that Jo Jorgensen stopped Trump winning, like a right-wing Ralph Nader? | <p><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/11/10/libertarian-jo-jorgensen-difference-joe-biden-donald-trump-in-key-swing-states/" rel="noreferrer">Breitbart is pushing the theory</a> that if Jo Jorgensen hadn't run, Trump would have won (assuming that he didn't). Is this correct? Is there objective proof that all (or enough) of her votes would have been for Trump if she hadn't run, such that he would have won? And that all of her voters would have voted, as opposed to not voting?</p>
<p>I'm not convinced on either count.</p>
 | united states presidential election libertarianism third party | 0 |
60,167 | Why do the courts have the power to change the US election result? | <p>This is a sort of sequel to this other question <a href="https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/59944/when-the-us-president-is-declared-after-winning-enough-states-for-270-electoral">When the US president is declared after winning enough states for 270 electoral votes, have they definitely won?</a></p>
<p>President Trump is pursuing a number of legal options to challenge the election results in several states. There's even been talk of him going to the US supreme court.</p>
<p>But can the courts actually help him to win and overturn the result in any state? If the final decision is with the electors it would seem to me that the best a court can do is provide a recommendation and surely it's the electors he should be petitioning rather than the courts. What power do the courts have in bringing about a certain result?</p>
 | united states presidential election | 0 |
60,180 | What plans do the Biden-Harris administration have for helping and contributing to the African-American Community? | <p>Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been elected as President and Vice President by citizens of the United States of America and have said they have plans to help the African-American community. I am interested and would like to know their plans in detail. So what are they planning to do apart from...?</p>
<blockquote>
<p>“rooting out systemic racism from our laws, our policies, our institutions, and our hearts,</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-releases-plan-focused-african-american-community-racial/story?id=70497573" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-releases-plan-focused-african-american-community-racial/story?id=70497573</a></p>
 | united states president presidential election vice president | 0 |
60,190 | How is North Korea democratic, if there's only one party with one ideology? | <p>How is North Korea, which is officially called the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea", democratic, if there's only one party with one ideology? Is this a moving box in a non-movable box?</p>
 | democracy terminology north korea socialism juche | 0 |
60,198 | Can the Secretary of Defence sack Generals and appoint new ones? | <p>In this highly controversial time, some Democrats are suggsting that Trump might use the power the military to retain power, and that this would constitute a military coup, and that Trump's appointment of new civilian leaders of the Pentagon is a staging post on the road to this.</p>
<p>Some people suggest that this wouldn't be possible, because civilian leaders can't just issue any order to military generals and expect it to be complied with.</p>
<p>My question is, can the DoD officials simply sack the generals and replace them with other generals who would be more co-operative? Or is there a more complex process than this?</p>
 | united states donald trump military | 0 |
60,202 | To what is Trump referring when he says "700,000 ballots were not allowed to be viewed in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh"? | <p>This is Trump's latest tweet:</p>
<p>"700,000 ballots were not allowed to be viewed in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh which means, based on our great Constitution, we win the State of Pennsylvania!"</p>
<p>What is he referring to with this statement? Does this refer to a court ruling?</p>
 | united states donald trump presidential election | 0 |
60,208 | Doesn't the 22nd amendment prevent Donald Trump from running for president again in 2024? | <p>In multiple news articles such as ones <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/12/politics/donald-trump-2024-republican-nomination/index.html" rel="noreferrer">here</a> and <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-run-2024-advisers-say-openly-discussed/" rel="noreferrer">here</a>, they mention Donald Trump running for president in 2024 because it is projected Joe Biden will be president starting 2021.</p>
<p>I thought the 22nd amendment which said no person can run for president twice nonconsecutively (emphasis mine):</p>
<blockquote>
<p>No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and <strong>no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once</strong></p>
</blockquote>
<p>So I have two questions regarding this:</p>
<ol>
<li>Can Donald Trump run as president in 2024 and become president?</li>
<li>If not (which seems the case because of the 22nd amendment), why do these news sources not mention that Donald Trump cannot legally do that without an amendment between now and 2024?</li>
</ol>
<p>Edit: so I understand Grover Cleveland served 2 non-consecutive terms as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, but my question pertains to modern day politics since the 22nd amendment didn't get ratified until 1951.</p>
 | united states president presidential term | 1 |
60,214 | What is the total cost of the administration of the US 2020 presidential election? | <p>The US 2020 presidential election seems to be a costly enterprise to the taxpayers. What is the total cost of the administration of the US 2020 presidential election?</p>
 | united states election presidential election budget | 0 |
60,216 | Do swing states in the US count their votes faster due to external pressure? | <p>On a related question <a href="https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/60071/why-do-california-and-new-york-need-so-much-time-to-count-their-votes-compared-t">Why do California and New York need so much time to count their votes compared to other states?</a> Arcanist Lupus left the following comment:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Critically, on a macro scale nobody cares what the results of the California and New York votes are. They're so blue that their races can be called early and there's very little pressure to get the exact count done quickly like there is in the swing states.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Is the above a true statement? Do swing states try to count their votes faster due to the whole country waiting to see the results, compared to states like New York which always vote Blue for the President and the Senate?</p>
 | united states election | 0 |
60,217 | Could the leaving of pro-brexit advisors be a prelude to the UK remaining in the EU? | <p>There are people who were influential in attempting to make the UK leave the EU. Some of them have gone. Some of them were <em>significant</em> influences.</p>
<p>Now that Nigel Farage and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54941846" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Dominic Cummings</a> (BBC link) have gone away/are leaving the scene, given that Boris Johnson was on the fence over Brexit just before he wrote his first (or at least an early) article about it to potentially position himself for more power in the time of David Cameron being prime minister, and that the EU have said, essentially, that we could pretend it never happened, could it be that Brexit could be eliminated?</p>
 | united kingdom european union brexit | 1 |
60,221 | What does the gray gap in the NV election site bar means? | <p>The official Nevada (Clark county) site shows the ballot count results and has a bar with Red and Blue percents, as well as a gray gao between them. What does this gray bar means? Is it the remaining uncounted ballots?bor something else?</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/RdHff.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/RdHff.jpg" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
 | united states election ballot us states | 1 |
60,228 | COVID-19 Vaccine: State Distribution plans versus Federal Distribution Plans | <p><a href="https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/10/16/trump-aministration-partners-cvs-walgreens-provide-covid-19-vaccine-protect-vulnerable-americans-long-term-care-facilities-nationwide.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">HHS 10/16/2020</a></p>
<blockquote>
<p>To meet the Trump Administration's Operation Warp Speed (OWS) goals, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Defense today announced agreements with CVS and Walgreens to provide and administer COVID-19 vaccines to residents of long-term care facilities (LTCF) nationwide....</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I just finished reading the Ohio COVID-19 Vaccination plan <a href="https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/static/docs/Interim-Draft-COVID-Vaccination-Plan-10-16-20.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ohio Dept of Health</a> wherein Ohio says that they (Ohio) will be determining who will be able to administer COVID-19 Vaccines (including LTCF facilities).</p>
<p>As I understand it each state was required to submit their plan for their jurisdiction in mid-October, a quick glance at those state plans appears that each state is responsible for their own residents.</p>
<p>OTOH, the Federal Warp Speed press releases give the appearance that the Federal government is responsible for distribution and administration.</p>
<p><strong>Who is actually in charge and responsible for the distribution and administration of this vaccine, the Federal government or each of the states?</strong></p>
 | united states covid 19 virus vaccine hhs | 0 |
60,230 | Why is the US still heavily relying on cash bails? | <p>According to <a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/criminal-justice/reports/2020/03/16/481543/ending-cash-bail/" rel="noreferrer">this article</a> there seem to be serious downsides to heavily usage of money (cash) bails (emphasis mine):</p>
<blockquote>
<p>In effect, <strong>the cash bail system criminalizes poverty</strong>, as people
who are unable to afford bail are detained while they await trial for
weeks or even months. <strong>Cash bail perpetuates inequities in the
justice system that are disproportionately felt by communities of
color and those experiencing poverty.</strong></p>
<p>Spending even a few days in jail can result in people losing their
job, housing, and even custody of their children. <strong>Studies show that
pretrial detention can actually increase a person’s likelihood of
rearrest upon release</strong>, perpetuating an endless cycle of arrest and
incarceration. What is more, the cash bail system often leads to the
detention of people who do not pose a threat to public safety.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>This <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/oct/09/gavin-newsom/are-us-philippines-only-two-countries-money-bail/" rel="noreferrer">PolitiFact article</a> explains the uniqueness of US bailing system:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"only the U.S. and Philippines have a cash bail system that is
dominated by commercial bail bondsmen." This makes a difference
because a commercial bail industry has a financial stake in the
system.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Money bails <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bail" rel="noreferrer">are also used in other countries</a>, but it seems to be less systematic than in US or at least in a way that does not make it so unfavorable for the poor:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>In other countries, such as the United Kingdom, bail is more likely to
consist of <strong>a set of restrictions that the suspect will have to abide
by for a set period of time.</strong> Under this usage, bail can be given both
before and after charge.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I am wondering why does the US still use this type of bail system despite its apparent drawbacks?</p>
 | united states law | 1 |
60,234 | How many congressional districts produced a split result in the 2020 House and Presidential elections? | <p>I was trying to find out more about districts who voted for one party for president and the other for House. We have data on this for 1972 to 2016. I am asking because I'm researching polarization.</p>
<p>According to preliminary results, Biden is ahead by 3.7 points nationally and Dems have narrowly held a House majority. Biden has been declared the winner as well.</p>
<p>How many districts split their tickets for president and House? And did this beat the low in 2012 or 2016? </p>
 | united states presidential election house of representatives statistics | 0 |
60,237 | Where to view election litigation status | <p>Is there a way to view aggregated data for the litigations related to the recent federal elections in the US? I’m looking for a who/what/why status of each piece of litigation so I don’t have to check several separate data sources.</p>
 | united states election data sources | 1 |
60,241 | What is the biggest change in votes following a recount? | <p>In <a href="https://www.wxyz.com/news/error-in-election-results-reveals-losing-candidate-as-actual-winner-in-rochester-hills" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Michigan</a>, a Republican in a local election went from barely losing to winning clearly after picking up ~1200 votes in a recount. That seems like a lot to me, which got me wondering. What is the most a vote has changed as a result of a recount?</p>
 | united states election | 0 |
60,242 | Why hasn't the filibuster been removed? | <p>In the US senate, there is a rule called a filibuster that allows a minority to block a bill by endlessly debating an irrelevant/arbitrary topic and a simple majority wouldn't be enough.</p>
<p>Why wasn't the filibuster removed? Couldn't senators from both parties agree on that because they would be able to take advantage of no filibuster when they get majorities in the Senate if the filibuster was abolished?</p>
<p><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt4jHLteXag" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt4jHLteXag</a></p>
 | united states senate filibuster | 0 |
60,250 | Is a coup still possible in the United States? | <p>I am aware of <a href="https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/57506/when-was-the-last-time-the-us-electoral-college-chose-a-president-other-than-the">this question</a>, but what I am asking is slightly different.</p>
<p>I remember from January 6, 2001, that during the constitutional counting of the vote of the presidential electors, to be done before a joint session of congress presided over by the vice president, that if at least one representative and one senator together challenge a slate of electors from any state, that this is sufficient to cause congress to stop the routine count and to consider the objection. In 2001, the Congressional Black Caucus, led by Jesse Jackson Jr. objected to the slate from Florida. But no senator joined in, so the objection was not recognized by the presiding officer (who was VP Gore) and the count continued and Bush won as expected.</p>
<p>But there is so much <a href="http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Veracity_of_statements_by_Donald_Trump" rel="nofollow noreferrer">obvious</a> <a href="https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/59981/wouldnt-it-be-beneficial-for-democrats-to-support-a-bipartisan-investigation-in/59985#59985">dishonesty</a> coming from Trump and Republican lawmakers in congress that continue to humor him, that I am concerned that on January 6, 2021, they <em>could</em> throw this into the House to choose the president and the Senate to choose the vice president. And, solely for this presidential election, the vote in the House is "by states", which means each state delegation counts as one vote. And a majority of states are <em>"red"</em>. They <strong>could</strong> still steal the election as they are trying to do right now.</p>
<p>Is this still a danger, technically?</p>
 | united states presidential election congress electoral college | 0 |
60,265 | What prevents me from voting in the next USA elections? | <p>I am not an USA citizen, I was not ever in the U.S. But I could visit the USA embassy any time, where I could probably get easily a tourist visa. The only reason for me to not do this, is that I have better place for my money than buying the tickets.</p>
<p>Imagine that I do that at autumn 2024. Then, I arrive, for example, in New York, about at late Oct. I would find a place to live on Airbnb. Until then, I could visit your wonderful streets which I can do even for free, on the google street view, and which look exactly so as of my country.</p>
<p>Then, as the day of the election comes, I would simply visit the nearest election office and I would vote for a candidate. After that, I would simply fly back.</p>
<p>You have no personal identification cards. You would hear on the spot, that my first language is not English and not Spanish, but it has no legal consequences, and anyways a lot of your visitors has the some problem.</p>
<p>So, what avoids me to vote for your next president? If I would be there, what would happen?</p>
<p><sub>And what would happen if I make a secret video from the whole process and put it to the youtube?</sub></p>
<sub>
In lesser democratic countries, which are regularly threatened by sanctions/bombardments by your government, this is working so:
<ol>
<li>Only citizens are allowed to vote. There are exceptions. For example, in the EU, also the citizens of other EU countries can vote in local elections. But these are rare.</li>
<li>Everybody who can vote, is registered already before the election.</li>
<li>All the vote happens on paper, which is given to the voter right before the vote. Such things like "electronic voting", "voting without an ID card", or "voting in mail without personal presence" is unthinkable. Here are some exceptions, like for persons with disabilities, but these are all strictly controlled and require a reason.</li>
<li>The voter votes with a pen, where no one can see, how is he voting.</li>
<li>The voter puts the vote in a closed envelope, and puts the envelope in a closed box.</li>
<li>All the - opposing interested - parties have a delegate in all election places.</li>
<li>They watch the voters, the box, and also each other. They have the instruction, who to call if they see any problematic.</li>
<li>To vote, the voters has to show his/her official ID card, with that he/she can vote only in the place of the election where he/she lives. It is registered, who has voted (but it is impossible to register or even to know, for who).</li>
<li>After the vote, the place of the election closes, and the delegates open the box, and they count the votes on the spot. All the delegates count all the votes, meanwhile they watch also each other. If any suspicious happens, they still have the alarm phone line.</li>
<li>After the counting happened, they create a document of the election record <em>for that voting place</em>, and they also report their local results to the voting central. <em>The election results for all voting places is public.</em></li>
<li>Everybody goes home. The delegates are going typically in a local pub to drink and watch the results.</li>
</ol>
</sub>
 | united states election democracy | 0 |
60,269 | Has Biden's campaign, or the Democratic Party, publicly voiced their opinion on granting some sort of immunity to Trump? | <p>As a foreign spectator it seems likely to me that Trump won't leave the White House voluntarily. Losing his immunity appears to be a driving factor in why he is clinging to the position of power he currently holds.</p>
<p>That said, I wondered why Trump hasn't been offered immunity, or something amounting to a pardon of the pending litigation against him, in exchange for conceding that Biden won.</p>
<p><strong>Q:</strong> Has Biden's campaign or any Democrats <em><strong>so far</strong> voiced publicly</em> if they would be willing to consider something <em>like</em> this?</p>
<p>Note: the emphasis in "something <em>like</em> this" is meant to stress that I don't care as much about what kind of legal device would be used. I only care about the effect it would have.</p>
<hr />
<p>Note: I've seen the idea floated that Trump could pardon himself before leaving office and losing immunity. That's how the above question came to be.</p>
<p>Reasoning of why Biden or the Democrats may consider it (this was asked in the comments a few times): commentators in the media have tirelessly pointed out, not only since this last election, that the peaceful transition of power and a timely concession by whoever loses is important to avoid damaging the democratic process. Given that importance it would seem to me that, perhaps, <em>any</em> options avoiding damage to the democratic may be on the table.</p>
 | united states donald trump presidential election democratic party joe biden | 1 |
60,271 | What's the largest territory where all power within the jurisdiction belongs to a single elected official? | <p>I'm looking for the largest territory (by population) which satisfies the following criteria:</p>
<ol>
<li>A single person has all the decision making power in their hands, constrained only by whatever powers are delegated to said territory from a higher level of government. I.e. a mayor of a city that doesn't have a city council or where the mayor can completely ignore the city council if they so desire.</li>
<li>Said person is elected democratically (directly or indirectly) in an election where the majority of the territory's residents can participate. So positions such as Saudi Arabia's King are excluded.</li>
<li>The powers of said person can be executed <em>de facto</em>, not <em>de jure</em>. So the British Queen wouldn't count even if it was an elected position, as she doesn't exercise any of her powers directly these days.</li>
<li>If no such notable positions exist these days, historical positions from within the past 100 years would count too.</li>
</ol>
<p>Largest example that I'm aware of is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartow_County,_Georgia" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Bartow County, Georgia</a>, with a population of 107,738:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>It has a sole commissioner government, and is the largest county by population of the few remaining in Georgia with a sole commissioner.</p>
</blockquote>
 | democracy dictatorship | 0 |
60,272 | Did Armenian forces leave Kalbajar region by 15 November, as specified in peace treaty? | <p>According to news outlets, the <a href="https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/azerbaijan-armenia-peace-deal-could-be-the-diplomatic-breakthrough-the-region-needs/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">peace treaty</a> between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Upper Karabakh requires Armenian forces to vacate previously occupied regions of Azerbaijan that are adjacent to the Upper Karabakh but are not part of it.</p>
<p>In particular, the Kalbajar region has to be cleared by 15 November 2020.</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PP9H2.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PP9H2l.png" alt="Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal map" /></a><br />
<sub>Source: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54324772" rel="nofollow noreferrer">BBC</a>.</sub></p>
<p>It is 17 November already, and I don't see announcements about the fulfillment of the first milestone declared in the long-awaited peace treaty. Assuming that the war was going on for merely 30 years, I feel that any delay could trigger further escalation by radical factions of both sides of the conflict.</p>
<p>Has Armenia met the deadline by withdrawing from the Kalbajar region on time?</p>
 | armed conflict peace treaty azerbaijan armenia | 1 |
60,278 | A word that means rule by the vocal minority? | <p>If plutocracy is rule by the wealthy, and meritocracy is rule by individual ability or achievement, then what's a word that means rule by the vocal minority? Extrovert-ocracy?</p>
<p>An example I'm thinking of is a lively city council or homeowners association meeting where leaders take action based on what they <em>perceive</em> to be the general consensus, when in reality the silent majority were just too afraid to speak up. Maybe a fitting word in this particular case would be <em>(edit: not geritocracy)</em> "gerontocracy" because the older population tends to be over-represented in these types of meetings, but I'm looking for a more general-case word.</p>
 | terminology form of government | 0 |
60,281 | What happened in the 2010 election in the Philippines which cause Smartmatic to sue Dominion Voting systems? | <p>After listening to Sydney Powell on Lou Dobbs for the umpteenth time, I decided to do some fact checking of my own. She was talking about smartmatic, which is a company that makes election software, but not necessarily voting machines any more (I'm a little unclear on that, I looked at the breakdown per state on voting machines and Dominion appears to be #2, but smartmatic is not on the list, so I don't really know what they do). In any event, I stumbled upon a page that was deleted from their site, but still remains in Google search cache</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"This lawsuit is necessary because of Dominion's persistent refusal to deliver technology that Smartmatic legally licensed," said David Melville, General Counsel of Smartmatic. "We intend to recover the costs of rectifying a basic Dominion software error that nearly affected the 2010 Philippine elections, which we went to great lengths and expense to correct in keeping with our commitment to maintain the highest standards of election integrity and transparency."</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PhaAzJr1e-UJ:https://www.smartmatic.com/media/article/smartmatic-international-sues-dominion-voting-systems-for-licensing-breach-and-improper-business-practices/+&cd=15&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PhaAzJr1e-UJ:https://www.smartmatic.com/media/article/smartmatic-international-sues-dominion-voting-systems-for-licensing-breach-and-improper-business-practices/+&cd=15&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p>So what was the nature of the error in Dominion software in the 2010 Philippine election and how did Dominion and Smartmatic interoperate back then? Also, if anyone knows how this lawsuit ended, that would be interesting too, says it was filed in the <em>Delaware Court of Chancery</em> and this is the <a href="https://courtconnect.courts.delaware.gov/public/ck_public_qry_doct.cp_dktrpt_frames?backto=P&case_id=7844&begin_date=&end_date=" rel="nofollow noreferrer">link to the court case</a>, the proceedings are in lexisnexis.</p>
 | election philippines | 0 |
60,286 | Is it common for Commonwealth legislation to share the same name? | <p>I'm nonplussed that two Acts of UK Parliament share same name! I think this was deliberate? Parliamentary draftsmen or Counsel or Law Commissioner, UK Parliament couldn't have all overlooked the same name!</p>
<p>Why not name the 1984 Act differently to distinguish from 1957 Act? The 1984 Act can be named more specifically like Occupiers' Liability for Trepassers Act 1984?</p>
<p>Why doesn't 1984 Act just repeal 1957 Act, and copy and paste with modifications 1957 Act in the 1984 Act? Then no need for 1957 Act.</p>
<p>My nonplus is broader than just these two Acts. In the main, do Commonwealth primary and secondary legislation regularly share the same name? What are pros and cons? This book is for UK law students, but the author's American and is now Associate Prof. at Sydney University.</p>
<blockquote>
<p> Your lecturers and textbook will help you identify those sections
of the statute that are particularly important, so you will, of course,
focus on those aspects in your studies. When you read cases discussing
a piece of legislation, be sure you know which statute or
portions of the statute are at issue; it usually doesn’t help you, for
example, <strong>to cite a case discussing the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957
when the question is directing you to an analysis of the Occupiers’
Liability Act 1984</strong>. You must pay particular attention to the precise
language of a statute, even more so than in a judicial opinion. While
judicial opinions can and do use terms of art, language is especially
important in statutory analysis because Parliament has spent a great
deal of time debating the language of the statute. Therefore, avoid
paraphrasing statutes and instead use the exact terms in your notes
as well as in your essays and examination papers (though see the caution
against lengthy quotations in chapter four).</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Stacie Strong. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/s-i-strong-50b82832/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">B.A. English literature (UC Davis 1986), MPW (USC 1990), J.D. (Duke 1994), PhD Law (Cambridge 2002), DPhil (Oxford 2003)</a>. <em>How to Write Law Essays & Exams</em> 5th Edition (2018), p 11.</p>
 | legislation | 1 |
60,287 | What's the difference between state legislator and congress member? | <p>I was <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/the_direction_of_america_is_in_the_hands_of_state_legislators_.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">reading this article</a>.
As a non-US citizen, I wonder what does <strong>State Legislators</strong> mean.</p>
<p>I know that US political system is bicameral: senate and congress.
This extends from the federal level to the state level.</p>
<p>So my question is whether the term 'state-legislator' equivalent to congress member at <em>state</em> level?</p>
 | constitution government form of government state legislatures | 1 |
60,295 | Can US legitimately stop being a democracy if president will not concede? | <p>After watching this video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWRhLW7Y8w" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWRhLW7Y8w</a>, I was surprised that US Constitution effectively does not protect country from stop being democratic. Will actions described in video (for example, using US Army to hold the power) be lawful and constitutional?</p>
 | president presidential election constitution democracy | 0 |
60,307 | Which provision in the American constitution explicitly provides for change of power to occur? | <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWRhLW7Y8w" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWRhLW7Y8w</a></p>
<p>In the Ted Talk above, Lawyer and political commentator Van Jones talks about how a customary concession speech is the only safeguard of the US Democracy and avoids violence, arson, strife, bloodshed and riots.</p>
<p>Is it true that a concession speech by the "losing" candidate is the only necessary thing upon which a change of power hinges?</p>
<p>Which aspects of the constitution regulate the change of power following an election?</p>
 | united states | 0 |
60,310 | How may Myanmar modify the constitution and keep off the military from politics? | <p>In January 2019, the National League for Democracy pushed for constitutional reform, but was unsuccessful because any changes required 75% approval in the legislature, and 25% of seats are reserved for the military.</p>
<p>Details: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Myanmar_general_election" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Myanmar_general_election</a></p>
<p>Miss Suu Kyi's party has won 79.5% seats in the bicameral legislature. 396/498 = 79.5%</p>
<p>Details: <a href="https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/aung-san-suu-kyi-nld-win-second-landslide-election-myanmar" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/aung-san-suu-kyi-nld-win-second-landslide-election-myanmar</a></p>
<ol>
<li><p>Does it mean they can change the constitution now? (79.5% > 75%)</p>
</li>
<li><p>Or, does it mean they still can't change it? As 25% is reserved for military. So, 79.5% of 75% = 59.625%. Is 100% of the 75% necessary to change the constitution?</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>Which is correct : 1 or 2?</p>
 | constitution myanmar | 1 |
60,313 | Is there an operating political system in which an election can be invalidated because of a too little participation? | <p>I don't know enough about the many election systems throughout the world, but what I often see is that the abstention rate is at best an indicator (of something), if it's taken into account at all.</p>
<p>I know sometimes decisions made by parliament (and perhaps other legislative bodies) are subject to a minimal participation (i.e., abstention) rate to be considered valid and it is my I understanding that it is to keep the vote representative (i.e., enough of "the people" are represented to consider the decision fair and binding).</p>
<p>Therefore, wouldn't it be normal that the same principle applies to a public vote?</p>
<p><strong>My question is:</strong> Have any countries implemented rules to invalidate a major election in the case of too little participation (a high abstention rate)?</p>
<hr>
<p><strong>Edit:</strong> Now that I have two answers, I realize how badly I asked my question, because I will have a hard time choosing which answer to accept if several are perfectly valid... Not sure how I could fix that.</p>
 | voting systems voter turnout electoral system | 0 |
60,318 | Who will be Georgia's senators from January 3rd 2021 until the results of the January 5th runoff elections are known? | <p>The 20th amendment to the constitution of the USA states</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January</p>
</blockquote>
<p>But Georgia is having their Senate run-off election on 5 January.</p>
<p>Does this mean that Georgia has no representation in the Senate from noon on 3 January until the election results are made official? Will the Democrat party have a majority in the Senate for a few days and – if so – are they able to take advantage of it?</p>
 | united states constitution senate | 1 |
60,329 | Do Republicans and Democrats intentionally nominate long-shot candidates for races which they're extremely unlikely to win? | <p>As an example, in my own state of Washington, the Republican party nominated <a href="https://www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/2020/10/05/culp-atypical-gop-candidate-washington-governor/3630230001/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Loren Culp</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Culp has been married for 43 years and has two grown children. He was
raised in Jefferson County. He dropped out of high school and later
got a GED.</p>
<p>He ran a construction business in the Olympia area for 20 years, then
at the age of 49 decided he wanted to go into law enforcement. Culp
attended the state police academy and was hired in Republic, a town of
about 1,000 people located 300 miles east of Seattle.</p>
<p>He held various positions in the police department before rising to
chief. But a series of budget cuts in Republic mean he is the only
policeman in town.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Someone who dropped out of high school is a widely unusual candidate for Governor and it seems like the Republican party simply didn't bother getting someone with better credentials to participate in the primary. Is this a common occurrence in heavily Democrat/Republican states? While Culp's odds were certainly very low in this election, surely one could expect the Republican party to still try and find the best possible candidate for the job?</p>
 | united states election | 1 |
60,333 | What is the largest election to use non-secret ballots? | <p>All the elections I'm aware of use secret ballots, meaning that no one knows which candidate a different person has voted for. But surely there must be elections somewhere where that's not the case and each vote is public ("<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_ballot_system" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Open ballot system</a>")? If so, what's the largest election to use non-secret ballots?</p>
 | election ballot | 1 |
60,337 | Why does the new US president have to wait a few days to take the oath? | <p>Recently, an election took place in the Indian state, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Bihar_Legislative_Assembly_election" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Bihar</a>. Where JD(U), in alliance with NDA won their elections. Nitish Kumar took his oath as CM within 2 days of the results. Why is it different in the US presidential election?</p>
 | united states india | 0 |
60,340 | Why does McConnell voting against the Fed nominee allow him to advance it again later? | <p>Article's discussing Judy Shelton's nomination say something like:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The procedural vote ultimately failed 47 to 50, with Mr. McConnell changing his vote from agreeing to advance the nomination to opposing it so he could revive it before the end of the lame-duck session. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/business/economy/judy-shelton-fed-vote.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">NYT</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Why does McConnell voting it down mean he could advance it? It implies if he had voted "yay" he could not advance it again.</p>
 | united states congress | 0 |
60,341 | Who is the oldest parliamentarian (legislator) on record? | <p>In the US, there are at least three parliamentarians (two Senators and one in the House of Representatives) <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54982359" rel="noreferrer">who are 87 years old</a>. Are there even older people who serve or served in such positions elsewhere in the world? What is the age record for parliamentarian?</p>
 | demographics legislature | 0 |
60,345 | If the justifications for informed consent are questionable, then why would it be a legal requirement? | <p>The article <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/informed-consent/#StaReq" rel="nofollow noreferrer" title="Informed Consent (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)">Informed Consent (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)</a> lists some main arguments for informed consent. They are: "protection", "autonomy", "prevention of abusive conduct", "trust", "self-ownership", "non-domination", and "personal integrity". The article goes on to present counterarguments for it, and it seems to me that the justifications for informed consent are largely challenged, if not foundered. (A summary of this article is available in <a href="https://lyminhnhat.com/2020/is-informed-consent-really-justified/?utm_source=SE%20%C2%BB%20Politics&utm_medium=Is%20informed%20consent%20really%20justified%3F&utm_campaign=Perspectives" rel="nofollow noreferrer">my website</a>).</p>
<p>Anyway, the article seems to conclude that informed consent is not a natural right, but just a legal right. Here is the explanation:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>One reason to take non-naturalistic approaches to the status of informed consent seriously is that not all natural rights are legally enforceable. Therefore, a moral informed consent right that is legally enforceable (as that right is usually taken to be in at least some institutional settings) may stand in need of additional moral justification, even if a natural right has been established. That additional, inescapable moral justification may then turn out to justify informed consent regulations even absent natural informed consent rights, say as trust-building measures. In particular, recall that many bioethicists ground informed consent in duties to treat rational, autonomous persons respectfully. Some such duties are clearly non-enforceable. For example, the moral duty not to lie to persons in breach of their autonomous decision-making is seldom legitimately enforceable. It is not the business of third parties to prevent me from disrespectfully and immorally lying to my friends. Thus, additional justification would be needed, beyond simple appeal to respect for autonomy, in order to establish an enforceable informed consent requirement. That inescapable additional moral justification may turn out, if successful, to justify informed consent regulations and the surrounding ethos in full. It may do so even if the project of grounding informed consent in autonomy, and all other attempts to justify natural informed consent rights, founder.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>However, I don't understand this much, besides a vague understanding that there is an inescapable additional justification that makes informed consent a legal requirement. Can you help me explain (or re-explain) why that inescapable additional justification exists?</p>
<p>Note that this justification cannot be one of the above arguments, because they are challenged already.</p>
<p><sub>Meta: <a href="https://politics.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4679/16430">Why is the question about informed consent downvoted?</a></sub></p>
 | law human rights | 1 |
60,350 | Could Michigan Republicans have given the electoral college votes to Trump? | <p>According to the news, for a brief period, Wayne county board of canvassers had a 2-2 tie over whether to certify the election results.</p>
<p>What would have been the effect (next steps) had the tie not been resolved locally?</p>
<p>Could any of those steps have resulted in Michigan's electoral votes going to Trump?</p>
 | united states presidential election | 0 |
60,352 | Did the Republican shift among Hispanic voters come entirely from Florida and the Rio Grande Valley? | <p>In 2016, exit polls showed Clinton getting 70% of the two-party Latino vote but Biden only got 67%. I looked at the exit polls for Florida and the data for the RGV and found that the vote share for Donald Trump among Latinos in those two areas were 35% and 27%, respectively in 2016. Then, they increased to 47% and 40%, respectively. (I decreased the RGV by 2 percentage point because of non-Hispanic white voters favoring GOP more.)</p>
<p>This looks like it is possible, but I am not sure.</p>
 | united states voting demographics | 0 |
60,355 | What is the mechanism to invalidate a (US) election result? | <p>Inspired by this tweet:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>In Detroit, there are FAR MORE VOTES THAN PEOPLE. Nothing can be done
to cure that giant scam. I win Michigan! -@realdonaldtrump</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Let us, for the sake of argument, assume the following claims from the tweet are true:</p>
<ul>
<li>"there are FAR MORE VOTES THAN PEOPLE" (i.e. there are invalid votes)</li>
<li>"Nothing can be done to cure that giant scam." (invalid votes cannot be identified and removed from the count)</li>
<li>Trump would have won Michigan except for Detroit. (implied in the tweet)</li>
</ul>
<p>What would be likely to happen if these three points could be proven in court?</p>
 | united states presidential election us state laws | 0 |
60,359 | Estimated bounds for margin of error in US election results? | <p>When one sets out to measure a thing, one expects various sorts of errors to occur in the measurement.... depending on context one might have: errors with the measuring instrument, errors due to limitations of the instrument user, standard sampling errors, etc. etc.</p>
<p>Weirdly, I can't seem to find estimates of errors for US elections at any level. County, State, National. For an election the size of the US presidential election (>150M sample points) there's almost surely >1 data recording error. However, there's almost surely <150M data recording errors. Does anyone attempt to estimate the margin of error in election results? If not, why not? If so, are these compiled somewhere for easy viewing?</p>
 | united states election statistics | 1 |
60,363 | Who gets a state's Electoral College votes if no one gets a majority of the popular vote? | <p>The question is pretty much in the title. Let's say in state X, there are 3 candidates: A, B, and C. A wins 49% of the popular vote, B wins 49% of the popular vote, and C wins 2% of the popular vote. Clearly, no one has won a majority.</p>
<p>Who gets the electoral college votes in this case? Does it change if there is a clear plurality, but not majority, winner (ie, A wins 40%, B wins 30%, C wins 30%)?</p>
<p>I would imagine this varies state by state (and DC), but can't seem to find anything.</p>
 | united states electoral college | 1 |
60,367 | How did Arizona get so close to upsetting Arnon Mishkin's "t-stat of 4" statement defending his decision team's call? | <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/wvkXx.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/wvkXx.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
<p>On November 3rd, Arnon Mishkin, a statistician and director of the Fox News decision team, called Arizona for Biden with ~25% of votes still uncounted. When called upon to defend his decision, he <a href="https://twitter.com/skbaer/status/1323867043523776512" rel="nofollow noreferrer">explained on air to the Fox News desk</a> that Trump would not be able to recover Biden's 7-point lead. He says,</p>
<blockquote>
<p>It has been in the category that we call 'knowable but not callable' for about an hour. Um, we finally called it right now, ... [...]</p>
</blockquote>
<p>and a little later adds,</p>
<blockquote>
<p>This is a call that's sitting in our statistical models at sort of, at a t-stat of 4 or more in all the different ways [...] That means we're 4 standard deviations from being wrong [...]</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I forgot about it since, but coming back to check out Arizona's results, I was pretty surprised to see what a comeback Trump did make (courtesy of New York Times' election tracker):</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/qp2hT.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/qp2hT.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
<p>So I'm not sure if...</p>
<ol>
<li><p>I'm misinterpreting the statement or statistics, <em>i.e.</em> it's <em>not surprising at all</em>, even mostly <em>expected</em> that this is how it would go, or</p>
</li>
<li><p>some unprecedented factor came into view regarding the last ~25% of uncounted votes (at the time of the call), or</p>
</li>
<li><p>this truly was a freak occurrence: the 0.01% tail of universes actually happened during one of the most controversial elections of modern day, and Trump regained nearly <em>all</em> of Biden's 7-point lead, which again Mishkin was not only so confident as to call it for Arizona with ~25% of votes still uncounted, but before any other network and on <em>Fox</em> at that.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>I'm not at all disputing the election results by the way. It's because I am following experts that I want to know what I'm not getting.</p>
<hr />
<p><sup>This is an edited question, so post-emptively responding to the "doesn't matter, it's within range" line of argument: Yes, I do understand that Mishkin wasn't saying it was <em>impossible</em>. But if I were on the test flight of a wholly new aircraft and it nearly crashed, but the pilot tells me it was "within range" of their models, I'd still ask, <em>"Hey um, guys? Is there something you wanna tell me?"</em> Because at that point you have to wonder, what's more likely? On the virgin voyage of this totally new thing, you just had a stroke of bad luck—about 4 standard deviations off-center? Or that something unexpected happened? (I'm appealing to a Bayesian mode of thought here.) (Also, in an interview the next day, Mishkin tells a story of how they came up with a brand new model using phone calls and Internet surveys, particular targeting early voters, to try to get a better estimation regarding mail-in ballots.)</sup></p>
 | united states election donald trump statistics joe biden | 0 |
60,370 | What, if anything, has been done to account for mail-in votes in 2020 exit poll data? | <p>Traditionally, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_poll" rel="nofollow noreferrer">exit polls</a> are done by physically presenting a subset voters with an anonymous survey as they exit the polling place. In normal years, this provides a fairly good picture of the electorate and their demographics. In the 2020 election, however, the large increase in mail-in voting complicates this picture. Exit polls could accurately describe in-person, election-day voters, but we know that the population who voted by mail is significantly different from the population that voted in person (for example, in PA Trump won among election day voters, while Biden won among mail-in voters by more than a 2:1 margin).</p>
<p>For the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/exit-polls-president.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">exit poll data that's been released</a>, has anything been done to account for the mail-in voter population? Or is this data only an accurate description of the in-person, election-day voter population?</p>
 | united states presidential election polling statistics exit polls | 1 |
60,374 | What happens if the GSA refuses to recognize Biden even after the Electoral College vote? | <p>I'd like to know what legal actions, if any, can be taken supposing that after December the 14th (when the Electoral College meet and vote for Biden) the General Services Administration, instructed by Trump, keeps refusing to recognize Biden and his transition team.</p>
<p>I expect some of you would say <em>"that's illegal"</em>, but this is not my question (and, after all, <em>"being illegal"</em> doesn't mean <em>"they won't do that"</em>). My question is: what can be actually done in such scenario? Please, for this scenario, assume Mitch McConnell (i.e., the senate) will fully support Trump.</p>
 | united states presidential election electoral college political transitions | 1 |
60,376 | When should a politician be referred to by their most senior held position, as opposed to strictly their current one? | <p>Sometimes current/former politicians are referred to by their <strong>most senior held</strong> (previous or current) title, rather than <em>strictly</em> their <em>current</em> title.</p>
<p>For example, in a 2016 Presidential debate, Hillary Clinton was referred to as 'secretary', even though her role of secretary of state ceased 3 years' prior in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Secretaries_of_State_of_the_United_States" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Feb 2013</a>.</p>
<p>Another example is Barack Obama's current <a href="https://medium.com/@barackobama" rel="nofollow noreferrer">medium profile</a> stating 'President'.</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/uMZDo.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/uMZDo.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
<p>When does the convention of referring to a politician by their most senior held title (rather than strictly their <em>current</em> title only) apply? Is it a uniquely American thing, or is it standard practice in politics everywhere? It contrasts somewhat to some other professions like medicine or finance, where referring to oneself by a previous position can be viewed as inaccurate (e.g. as a doctor or financial planner respectively, if one does not <strong>currently</strong> hold the said position).</p>
 | united states terminology | 0 |
60,379 | Writings advising elected politicians on how to make hard choices | <p>While not always seen in this light, members of congressional or parliamentary bodies are regularly faced with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg%27s_stages_of_moral_development" rel="nofollow noreferrer">moral choices</a> when deciding how to vote in situations where the answers to questions like the following may point to diametrically opposed courses of action.</p>
<ol>
<li>What's best for my country?</li>
<li>What's best for those whom I represent?</li>
<li>Whats best for those who voted and/or may vote for me?</li>
<li>How to best hold on to this incredibly powerful microphone which is so personally rewarding to use?</li>
<li>How best to pay for my kids' education in expensive schools, several houses and cars, etc...</li>
</ol>
<p>Are there scholarly works (books, monographs, memoirs) by those who study this conundrum or have faced it personally that provide guidance to others who may face it?</p>
 | congress parliament political theory reference request political science | 0 |
60,388 | Are there any legal consequences for lying to/misleading the president of the US? | <p>Recently, I've read an <a href="https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/11/outgoing-syria-envoy-admits-hiding-us-troop-numbers-praises-trumps-mideast-record/170012/" rel="noreferrer">article</a> on DefenceOne - an interview with James Jeffrey, US ambassador on Syria.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>“We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,” Jeffrey said in an interview. The actual number of troops in northeast Syria is “a lot more than” the roughly two hundred troops Trump initially agreed to leave there in 2019.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Is there any legal consequences for misleading president with false repots, or it is allowed?</p>
 | united states president donald trump government | 1 |
60,391 | Political or legal reason why US jurisdictions don't update their lethal injection protocols? | <p>Most states in the US that administer the death penalty, as well as the federal government, use lethal injection as their method of execution. In almost all of these jurisdictions, the method used is the successive administration of three drugs in specified doses. This particular legally prescribed procedure has been criticized for not having originally been based on careful science, for using outmoded drugs, and for <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1876417/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">possibly causing extreme suffering</a> in some cases at the end of the condemned person's life. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1896208/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">It would be trivial</a> to develop better and more modern procedures that would be immune to this legal vulnerability, and, for instance, Missouri has attempted to do this by switching to the modern anaesthetic propofol. I'm not a doctor, but it seems obvious to me that this should be scientifically easy to do, since, e.g., opioid addicts die peacefully of overdoses all the time, and veterinarians don't seem to have any problems carrying out euthanasia on someone's beloved terrier in a painless way.</p>
<p>Why, then, is this battle still being fought? In states where the state government and the majority of voters favor the death penalty, it would seem to be in their interest to redo the protocols. They could then accomplish their goal, to carry out executions, without having to deal with legal challenges based on the theory that the method was cruel and unusual under the constitution. It would also seem to be politically expedient for them because it would eliminate one of the moral arguments used by their opponents. And there are some people who believe the death penalty is moral, but that it's immoral to do it in a way that causes unnecessary suffering. For these people, it would seem ethically necessary to support a change in the protocols.</p>
<p>Is the inertia because the poorer protocol has already survived legal challenges, while the new one would still have to? Is it because they're afraid that this would be seen as an admission that they'd been using a bad procedure in the past? Is it just not the kind of legislative project that appeals to lawmakers politically? Is it because they might have difficulties obtaining drugs like propofol from suppliers who don't want to sell them for this purpose? But it seems that there are <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/05/15/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-federal-death-penalty" rel="nofollow noreferrer">severe difficulties</a> in obtaining supplies of the currently prescribed drug cocktail as well.</p>
 | united states ethics science death penalty | 0 |
60,393 | Can members of the Wayne County Canvassing Board rescind their votes? | <p>A couple days ago, all four members of the Board of Canvassers of Wayne County, Michigan voted to certify the results of the 2020 Presidential Election. Now the two Republican members of the committee have issued signed affidavits saying they want to rescind their votes to certify.</p>
<p>My question is, do they have the ability to rescind their votes to certify, or is it too late at this point?</p>
 | united states election presidential election us state laws | 1 |
60,394 | Presidency and houses majority different - USA | <p>Between 1955-57, the POTUS was Mr. Dwight Eisenhower who belonged to the Republican Party. But, at the same time, the majority of both the senate and House of Rep. belonged to the Democrats.
How difficult was it to sign a bill for the President when both the houses will vote against the president? Does he need to invoke executive power to pass any bill?</p>
 | senate republican party democratic party house of representatives majority | 1 |
60,396 | What happens if there's a veto on the European Union budget? | <p>Recently Hungary and Poland vetoed (or formally just threaten to use a veto) on the EU budget (see for example <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/16/eu-hungary-veto-budget-viktor-orban" rel="noreferrer">here</a>). What happens in 2021 if there's no accepted budget? The referred article mentions that "projects financed by the bloc’s seven-year budget will go without funds", but elsewhere (Facebook comments, sorry) I read that the budget from previous years will stay in power. Also the EU budget contains more than "projects", for example income from the member states, salaries of the employees at the EU headquarters, etc...</p>
 | european union budget veto | 1 |
60,403 | Are there prior occasions on which vote certification was successfully rescinded in a US election? | <p><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/19/politics/gop-michigan-results-trump/index.html" rel="noreferrer">According to CNN</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers want to "rescind" their votes to certify the presidential results from the county, the largest in Michigan and home to the city of Detroit, even though the board has already certified the results.</p>
<p>They both sent sworn affidavits to the county's attorney disavowing their previous votes to certify. But given that the deadline for county certification has already passed, it is unclear what legal remedy or legitimate argument these two Republican officials can make to formally rescind their votes and undo the certification.</p>
<p>Republican Chair Monica Palmer and Republican board member William Hartmann had initially voted against certification during their Tuesday night meeting, leaving the board in a 2-2 deadlock. After hours of public pressure and complaints that they were brazenly disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of voters from the majority-Black city of Detroit, the Republicans changed their votes and the certification passed unanimously.</p>
<p>Democratic Vice Chair Jonathan Kinloch said on Thursday that the county certification date of November 17 is a definitive deadline and that board members' votes cannot be changed after the fact.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The CNN story doesn't mention any historical precedents of vote certification being rescinded (or even attempted) before in a US election. So, did it happen, i.e. were there prior cases when board members tried to rescind their certification votes, and was this successful?</p>
 | united states voting | 0 |
60,404 | Is there a way for the EU except for Hungary and Poland to use Pandemic Relief Funds without approval coming from Hungary and Poland? | <p>According to npr.org, the EU has <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/11/17/935775895/hungary-and-poland-block-eu-budget-with-pandemic-relief-funds-for-hard-hit-natio" rel="nofollow noreferrer">a hard time passing the EU Budget which contains the pandemic relief funds for hard-hit nations</a>.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The European Union's landmark stimulus plan to assist member states
whose economies have been battered by the COVID-19 pandemic is now in
crisis after Hungary and Poland blocked passage of the 2021-2027 EU
budget.</p>
<p>The two Eastern European countries say they're vetoing the budget and
coronavirus recovery plan over language in the measure that would dole
out EU funds to member states on condition that they uphold the bloc's
rule-of-law standards.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Since financial aid to ease the pain of the economical effects of COVID-19 pandemic seems urgent, I am wondering if there is any mechanism to circumvent Hungary and Poland. Basically, to have all the countries except Hungary and Poland (sort of EU-25) approve a slightly smaller budget where Hungary and Poland do not contribute and also do not benefit from.</p>
<p>I imagine the alternative of the currently discussed agreement is significantly complicated, but it would be strange to be no other way.</p>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> Is there a way for the EU except for Hungary and Poland to use Pandemic Relief Funds without approval coming from Hungary and Poland?</p>
 | european union economy covid 19 virus | 1 |
60,405 | Where can I find detailed information on the votes that were tallied in the 2020 election? | <p>I need a comprehensive dataset showing when individual votes were cast and for whom across the USA in the 2020 general election. I can find totals on the county websites and presidential candidate totals by county, but what I need at a minimum is a dataset that includes the <strong>timelines</strong> of all updates from each precinct during the vote-counting process. That is, what were the actual numbers of votes for each candidate reported by each precinct, and when were they reported? I think it is likely that many journalistic sites had access to this info but I have not found it publicly available anywhere. (It should be made public.) If possible I need a dataset that includes anonymized voter IDs and the complete ballot contents, (including rejected ballots and why they were rejected, e.g., whether a signature match succeeded or failed), and very importantly, <strong>their source</strong> (mail-in, drop-off, or voted in person). Timestamped data would be greatly preferred, including if possible, the marked time of receipt and the time each ballot was tabulated.</p>
<p>The icing on the cake would be to find historic voter counts and ballot details (and if possible, correlated IDs) for past elections for comparison.</p>
<p>Anyone know of a public dataset I can obtain that fits any substantial part of this description?</p>
 | election voting data sources election fraud ballot | 1 |
60,406 | Is the Wayne County canvassers refusing to certify unprecedented in the US? | <p>In Wayne County MI two Republican canvassers objected to certifying results, deadlocking the certification. They backpedaled and then tried to backpedal again to the initial position of "Don't certify". This appears to be for partisan means, especially considering Michigan's margin for both Biden and Peters was provided by Wayne County alone.</p>
<p><em>Has there ever been an election certification denied or held up (in the US) for what seems to be partisan reasons? Note: they deny that this is partisan and cite irregularities in vote tallies which can happen and are usually historically from human error.</em></p>
 | united states election | 0 |
60,412 | Does each ballot have a unique number? | <p>In today's press conference, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8LiGZhK-bg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Link see at 46min 45 sec</a>, Sidney Powell, attorney for Trump challenging the voting results in several states made the following statement"</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"We have evidence of different numbers of ballots being injected into the system, <strong>the same identical unique six digit number</strong> multiple times, in at least two different states that we've analyzed so far." (emphasis added)</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Question: Is she saying that each <em>ballot</em> is imprinted with a unique six digit number?</p>
<p>Followup: If so, is that unique number traceable to a specific voter?</p>
<p>EDITED TO ADD: Powell's statement's seem to either a conspiracy theory or a counfounding of disparate facts, please disregard her statements. (added by original poster)</p>
 | united states voting | 0 |
60,420 | Have there been any riots due to the 2020 US presidential election results? | <p>(Note: I'm from the UK so whilst we get some news about America our news cycle isn't dominated by their affairs)</p>
<p>So, in 2020 there was the US elections, Biden won, but Trump is refusing to concede and is basically alleging there was massive voter fraud to prevent his win.</p>
<p>If you look at it from the perspective of a big Trump supporter, it looked like Trump might squeak out a win then suddenly there are a bunch of votes for Biden (aka postal votes) and then Biden wins comfortably, and the person you support alleges that there was massive voter fraud/irregularities and that's why he lost.</p>
<p>From their perspective it seems a compelling argument (though it is said to be wrong), Trump still has a lot of supporters and his base seem to be pretty devoted to him, plus they tend to be the people who are heavily armed and generally like to cause trouble.</p>
<p>Meanwhile throughout 2020, even during the whole pandemic situation, it seems that the USA has become a "riot friendly" country, the deaths of George Floyd and others at the hands of police officers have sparked massive protests across the country which in quite a few cases have turned into riots, with business being looted, property being damaged and further violence and deaths amongst those protesting.</p>
<p>I feel that the potent mix of Diehard Trump fans(with guns, who also generally don't seem to care about the COVID 19 pandemic) + Trump constantly claiming mass voter fraud, would result in violent protests and riots across the country amongst his fans.</p>
<p>Have there been any riots in the US attributed to the recent election results?</p>
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60,423 | How often do Cabinet members go back to being in Congress? | <p>When a US President selects cabinet members and other appointees, they often get pulled from current members of Congress. If the person is particularly effective in Congress, then you have to debate whether it's better to leave them in their current seat or to assign them to the cabinet and leave their seat open for a new, less experienced congressperson, potentially from the other party if they're from a moderate district. Given that cabinet positions are limited to the President's max of two 4-year term, and congressional seats don't have term limits, you are essentially removing someone effective from Congress permanently. Yes, they are still definitely allowed to run again, but if someone from their same party has replaced them, it wouldn't look great to run against them in the primary to get the seat back.</p>
<p>Have there ever been cases of cabinet members going back to run for Congress again once their term is over? If so, how often does this happen?</p>
 | united states congress cabinet | 1 |
60,425 | How many electoral votes were voting more Republican than the national average in 2020 as of data right now? | <p>Biden is leading in the popular vote by 3.8 percentage points. I am wondering about this topic of states that lean one way relative to the nation. It appears that this is helpful because it shows Electoral College advantage and bias. A preliminary analysis shows NH and MN both losing that status.</p>
<p>I asked an <a href="https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/56532/did-2016-set-a-record-for-the-number-of-electoral-votes-in-jurisdictions-voting">earlier question</a> about 2016 about if 320 electoral votes (that was 2016's total) this set a record. And while it set a modern record, this record was broken in 1968 and was also roughly equaled in 1940.</p>

 | united states electoral college | 1 |
60,429 | Is any government considering taxing remote work more than "regular" work? | <p><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/12/deutsche-bank-proposes-a-5percent-tax-for-remote-workers-post-pandemic.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Deutsche Bank proposed a 5% tax for remote work</a> as remote workers enjoy several benefits such as more safety (e.g. from COVID), reduced costs due to less traveling and less socializing.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>A research team at Deutsche Bank proposed that people pay a 5% tax for
the “privilege” of working from home, if they continue to do so after
the pandemic, as <strong>this could subsidize income lost by lower-earners due
to the coronavirus crisis</strong>.</p>
<p>Working from home meant that many people were saving on everyday costs
such as travel, lunch, clothes and cleaning, as well as possibly
spending less on socializing. However, the report also said it meant
remote workers were “contributing less to the infrastructure of the
economy whilst still receiving its benefits.”</p>
</blockquote>
<p>This sounds similar to a <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/solidarity-tax" rel="nofollow noreferrer">solidarity tax</a>, as remote workers become solitary with those who cannot work remotely.</p>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> Is any government considering taxing remote work more than "regular" work?</p>
 | economy taxes | 0 |
60,430 | Why can't Biden just reverse Mnuchin's revocation of unused part of $455B, and defunding of the Federal Reserve's lending facilities? | <p>Just edit this title if I didn't word it correctly.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Why wouldn't Biden's renewal "imply a return to the status quo ante"? What does "seed funding from Congress" mean?</p>
</li>
<li><p>Why can't Biden ask Congress to re approve "the unused portion of a $454bn account approved by Congress during the market meltdown in March"? Is the article implying that Conngress refuse because Biden's a Democrat?</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-strips-us-fed-emergency-132252537.html" rel="noreferrer">Trump strips US Fed of emergency credit powers in latest scorched-earth move</a>. I quote just the salient paragraphs. This post will be too long if I quote more.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The incoming Biden Administration will be able to renew the Fed’s Article 13 powers in late January but that does not imply a return to the status quo ante. The key lending facilities in question are anchored in seed funding from Congress.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>The US Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin, has told the Fed that he will not roll over five of its nine Great Depression powers under the Article 13 (3) of the Federal Reserve Act. There will be a suspension of its lending facilities for companies, local governments, and ‘Main Street’ loans at the end of the year.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>The Treasury also instructed Fed Chairman Jay Powell to return the unused portion of a $454bn account approved by Congress during the market meltdown in March.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>This seed money gave the Fed $4.5 trillion extra lending power under a policy of 10:1 leverage and had an electrifying effect on market confidence – avoiding the errors made in 2008.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>Roughly $250bn remains and could be amplified into a real lending bazooka under Joe Biden if Congress blocks his reflation plan. It has therefore become a high stakes bone of contention.</p>
</blockquote>
 | united states joe biden federal reserve | 1 |
60,433 | Has Biden or his staff/selectees discussed plans of how to handle the physical White House and Secret Service, re: COVID? | <p>By this, I don't mean how the President-Elect plans to handle COVID, big-picture, but rather how he and his staff are planning on dealing with the actual physical White House, the West Wing and the Oval Office, in light of news reports of President Trump and various staff members and his Secret Service detail having, or having had confirmed cases of COVID.</p>
<p>It might be easy to suggest emptying the White House and sanitizing the whole thing, but there are many relatively priceless and irreplaceable items in it as well as that someone has to always be there. Plus the fact that it's not all <em>that</em> big a building, underground rooms not-withstanding. I'm curious to the details of that part of the transition.</p>
 | united states president covid 19 virus joe biden | 1 |
60,434 | Did Democrats win the House in 2018 because of high Democratic turnout? | <p>In 2018, it was noted that turnout was exceptionally high for a US midterm election. The number of Democratic votes cast in 2018 was up 70% against 2014, which had exceptionally low turnout.</p>
<p>It is said that Republicans have a turnout advantage in midterms, particularly when a Democrat is president. That was on full display in 2010 and 2014. But was the win, or at least the magnitude, driven by high Democratic turnout alone?</p>
<p>Is there objective evidence that the Democrats won the House specifically due to exceptionally high Democratic turnout?</p>
 | united states house of representatives voter turnout | 0 |
60,443 | How normal is it to have a ministry for a specific disability? | <p><a href="https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/about/people-in-parliament/members-search/list-all-shadow-parl-secs/details/22/52" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Bernie Finn MP</a> is Shadow Assistant Minister for Autism. There is no (Assistant) Minister for Autism in the Victorian Government, nor is there a (Shadow) Minister for Depression, Spina Bifida, Neurosis, Cerebral Palsy, etc.</p>
<p>The Victorian Labor Government has a Minister for <strong>Disability</strong>, Ageing and Carers and a Minister for <strong>Mental Health</strong>. The Liberal Opposition has a <em>Shadow</em> Minister for Carers and <strong>Disability</strong> and a <em>Shadow</em> Minister for <strong>Mental Health</strong>. Why wouldn't autism already be covered by those?</p>
<p>How normal is it to have a ministry for a specific disability/mental illness? Which other Governments around the world have similar ministries?</p>
 | policy history australia | 0 |
60,444 | What has been the approximate incidence of top-bottom election fraud in the US 2020 election, ie. irregularities? | <p>The cases of voter intimidation and voter fraud seem to be <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/11/voter-fraud-used-to-be-rampant-now-an-anomaly/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">rare</a>. So if I were to study voter fraud of a scale large enough to overturn the election, I would investigate whether some counties show irregularities inexplicable by a social change that perhaps don't show the same geographical trends as other counties. Has there been any analysis that would try to calculate the probability of such frauds in the 2020 US presidential elections?</p>
 | united states presidential election voting reference request election fraud | 0 |
60,447 | Trump's lawyer, Sidney Powell, is making some pretty extraordinary claims of electoral fraud. What is her reputation in the legal community? | <p>Trump's lawyer, Sidney Powell, is making some pretty wild claims about <a href="https://youtu.be/fT-udMDpCtU?t=2301" rel="nofollow noreferrer">alleging massive electoral fraud</a> in the 2020 election. What she's alleging would be (if true) the biggest scandal since the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Commission_(United_States)#Election_of_1876" rel="nofollow noreferrer">1876 election</a>, which saw thousands of ballots thrown out in the states of Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina and came close to sparking a second civil war. There are some <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18632787/6/19/wood-v-raffensperger/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">sworn</a> <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.283580/gov.uscourts.gand.283580.7.1_2.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">affidavits</a> alleging impropriety, but she's claiming that most of the evidence will be "presented at trial" so isn't available yet.</p>
<p>Given the current lack of evidence, the only way for me to evaluate these claims is to determine her <strong>credibility</strong>. Strictly as a lawyer in pre-Trump cases, <strong>what is her record for making allegations that were then subsequently proven or failed to be proven in a court of law?</strong> A good answer will include such things as a Win/Loss record, professional sanctions, accolades, high profile cases and the like.</p>
 | united states donald trump presidential election election fraud | 0 |
60,450 | How far out of balance are Wayne County's absentee counting boards? | <p><a href="https://www.migop.org/migop_demands_audit_of_wayne_county_election_results" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Michigan's GOP is calling for an audit in the 2020 election</a> because "70% of the Detroit absentee counting boards were out of balance". Do we know how far out of balance they were? I mean, there's a big difference between being 5 votes off and 5000 votes off.</p>
 | united states presidential election | 0 |
60,452 | Are there other US presidential elections in which the majority of supporters of the losing side said the election was stolen from them? | <p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-fraud-insight/why-republican-voters-say-theres-no-way-in-hell-trump-lost-idUSKBN2801D4" rel="noreferrer">According to Reuters</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>About half of Republicans polled by Reuters/Ipsos said Trump “rightfully won” the election but had it stolen from him in systemic fraud favoring Biden, according to a survey conducted between Nov. 13 and 17. Just 29% of Republicans said Biden rightfully won. Other polls since the election have reported that an even higher proportion - up to 80% - of Republicans trust Trump’s baseless fraud narrative.
[...]
In Reuters interviews with 50 Trump voters, all said they believed the election was rigged or in some way illegitimate. Of those, 20 said they would consider accepting Biden as their president, but only in light of proof that the election was conducted fairly.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>(The <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll/half-of-republicans-say-biden-won-because-of-a-rigged-election-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN27Y1AJ" rel="noreferrer">exact number</a> in the Reuters/Ipsos poll was 52% of Republicans who said Trump "rightfully won"; the margin of error was 5%.)</p>
<p>A few other polls have shown an even higher number, depending how the question was phrased, e.g. WaPo <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/11/more-than-8-in-10-trump-voters-think-bidens-win-is-not-legitimate/" rel="noreferrer">cited</a> a YouGov <a href="https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/9j7sr0my95/econTabReport.pdf" rel="noreferrer">poll</a> and headlined:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>More than 8 in 10 Trump voters think Biden’s win is not legitimate</p>
</blockquote>
<p>(I think that's referring to the question on p. 97. Even by "Party ID", the same poll found that 82% of Republicans said that "Biden did NOT legitimately win the election".)</p>
<p>A Rassmusen poll <a href="https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2020/61_think_trump_should_concede_to_biden" rel="noreferrer">found</a> that:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Sixty-one percent (61%) of Republicans say it’s Very Likely the Democrats stole the election.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>So, given that some other elections (after the [in]famous 1876 one) were also fairly controversial, namely in 2000 but also the one <a href="https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/42084/was-jfks-1960-election-win-due-to-fraud">of 1960</a>, was a [near] majority on the losing side claiming that the election was stolen or illegitimately won by the other side in the aftermath of such other controversial US presidential elections?</p>
 | united states presidential election public opinion | 0 |
60,455 | Is it possible for someone to win the presidency due to faithless electors? | <p>Suppose a presidential candidate wins over 270 pledged electors. If several of these pledged electors become faithless and cast their vote for the losing candidate, will the presidency actually go to the candidate with less than 270 pledged electors?</p>
 | united states electoral college faithless elector | 0 |
60,459 | Is there some legal basis for POTUS having to "clear" subordinates for certain therapies? | <p>Ben Carson, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, was <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/11/20/937170338/ben-carson-says-he-was-desperately-ill-with-the-coronavirus" rel="nofollow noreferrer">quoted</a> saying that:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"President Trump was following my condition and cleared me for the monoclonal antibody therapy that he had previously received, which I am convinced saved my life," Carson wrote. He said he is now "out of the woods."</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Is there some legal basis for POTUS having to "clear" subordinates for a certain therapy, such as the monoclonal antibody therapy (for Covid-19)?</p>
 | united states healthcare executive | 1 |
60,466 | Which sources of CO2 emissions are currently considered for The European Union Emissions Trading System? | <p><a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2020/649352/EPRS_BRI(2020)649352_EN.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">This article</a> describes the Carbon emissions pricing used in the European Union. This is part of the European Union Emissions Trading System (ETS) which <a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/117/16/8804" rel="nofollow noreferrer">provided good results despite low prices</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>(..) the EU ETS, which <strong>initially regulated roughly 50% of EU carbon
emissions from mainly energy production and large industrial
polluters</strong>, saved more than 1 billion tons of CO2 between 2008 and
2016.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I am trying to find out the list of all economical sectors that are part of the ETS (e.g. <a href="https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Transportation, Electricity, Agriculture</a>).</p>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> Which sources of CO2 emissions are currently considered for The European Union Emissions Trading System?</p>
 | european union environmental policy | 1 |
60,468 | Has Pakistan's Federal Ministry for Human Rights condemned the treatment of Muslims in China? | <p>In the latest <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-security-pakistan/france-demands-pakistan-rectifies-macron-nazi-jibe-idUSKBN2820BD" rel="nofollow noreferrer">round</a> of verbal slaps between France and Muslim countries:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>France’s foreign ministry has demanded Pakistan authorities withdraw comments made by one of its ministers that President Emmanuel Macon was treating Muslims like Nazis had treated Jews in World War 2.</p>
<p>The comments posted on Twitter by Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari on Saturday came as part of a clash between Pakistan and France over the publication of images of the Prophet Mohammad by a French magazine. The images have sparked anger and protests in the Muslim world, especially in Pakistan.</p>
<p>“Macron is doing to Muslims what the Nazis did to the Jews - Muslim children will get ID numbers (other children won’t) just as Jews were forced to wear the yellow star on their clothing for identification,” Mazari said in a tweet linking to an online article. [...]</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I'm curious if in comparison, has Pakistan, in particular its Federal Ministry for Human Rights, condemned China's treatment of Muslims and in what terms?</p>
<p>The latter was condemned by 39, mostly Western countries <a href="https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/voa-news-china/un-39-countries-condemn-chinas-abuses-uighurs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">at the UN</a>. Some 50 other countries including Iran, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela and Cuba backed a counter-declaration calling China's "re-education" camps for Muslims a legitimate tool in combating terrorism. It's unclear to me if Pakistan sided with either of these declarations.</p>
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/COHtnbKYq5A?t=55" rel="nofollow noreferrer">According</a> to the Indian WION TV station (which I'm not sure how reliable it is with regard to claims about Pakistan or China), China has protested to the Pakistani government the way its treatment of Muslims has been portrayed... by the Pakistani English-speaking media, even though, according to the same source the Pakistani government itself has been "silent" on the matter, according to WION. I could not immediately find confirmation of these claims in Western media.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/pakistan-gives-a-pass-to-chinas-oppression-of-muslims-11570142866" rel="nofollow noreferrer">did publish and opinion piece</a> on a 2019 speech of Pakistan's PM to the UN, noting the absence of any criticism toward China:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s foreign-policy agenda carries a contradiction at its heart. Mr. Khan seeks to project himself as a global defender of Islam, but he won’t utter a peep about one of the most egregious persecutions of Muslims: China’s repression of Xinjiang’s Uighurs and its project to Sinicize Islam.</p>
<p>In New York last week, Mr. Khan laid out his vision in a rambling 50-minute address to the United Nations General Assembly. He defended the right of Muslim women in the West to don the hijab. “A woman can take off her clothes in [some] countries, but she can’t put on more clothes,” he said. He declared that “there is no such thing as radical Islam,” only “one Islam and that is the Islam we follow of Prophet Muhammad.”</p>
<p>The prime minister blamed the rise of “Islamophobia” on some “people in the West who deliberately provoked this,” in part by writing novels such as Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses.” He warned that “marginalizing Muslim communities” in Europe “leads to radicalization.” He asked the West to treat the prophet “with sensitivity” akin to how it approaches the Holocaust.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>In that speech and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-pakistan-kashmir-india-united-nations-general-assembly-7e16c04554ab9ba1efbc7cf71dc5d98b" rel="nofollow noreferrer">also in a 2020 speech</a> Khan also lambasted India for its treatment of Muslims "calling India a state sponsor of hatred and prejudice against Islam", according to AP, which also noted that</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Despite Khan’s outcry at the treatment of Muslims worldwide, Pakistan has not criticized China’s assault on its Muslim minority Uighur population.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>But that still leaves the possibility that Pakistan's other governmental institutions may have said something about the situation in China. The question is: did they, in particular the Federal Ministry for Human Rights, say anything about the situation of Muslims in China?</p>
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60,469 | Who can vote in Tibet elections and where would it take place? | <p>The Tibet government in exile is about to have their elections soon. Tibetans staying around the world would go to India (correct? or can they vote in their countries too?) and would vote for their top political leader (Sikyong in Tibetan) and members of the Exile Tibetan Parliament. It seems it might not be legally allowed for the people staying at Tibet, but is it allowed in theory? So, my two questions are- is the voting center only in India and who are eligible to vote? Let's say there might be other non-Tibetan people who fled from Tibet or are staying in Tibet.</p>
 | voting tibet | 1 |
60,475 | What does it mean to do a recount *after* a US state has certified its election results? | <p>In Georgia, the state government must "certify" the election results before the parties can <a href="https://apnews.com/article/georgia-certify-election-joe-biden-ea8f867d740f3d7d42d0a55c1aef9e69" rel="noreferrer">request a recount</a>.</p>
<p>What does it mean to recount after certification is complete, and why is that materially different from recounting before (were the laws to allow a recount before)? All of the sources I have found so far talk about the laws requiring certification before recounting, but I haven't found anything as to why that order of operations was put in place.</p>
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60,484 | Why was/is Wayne County Michigan so consistent in support for Democratic presidential candidates? | <p>There is a county in Michigan called Wayne County. It holds Detroit. It has consistently given Democrats majorities of its vote since 1932.</p>
<p>Why has this county been voting Democrat for so long? Was it the union support? Was it that Detroit (or Wayne County) came up with the concept of being strong partisans on a mass scale before anyone else?</p>
<p>I think it is ideological. But that doesn't make much sense because ideology and party weren't so linked until the 80s or 90s or so. I say so because from 1896 to 1928, Republicans won the county, or at least got more votes than the Democrat. The wins from 1904 to 1924 were huge. This was following the explosion of people moving there for jobs in the then new automobile industry.</p>
<p><em>Why did Wayne County support Democrats for so long, even during Republican landslides like 1972?</em></p>

 | united states voting | 1 |
60,488 | What could Trump hope to gain from a *second* Georgia "recount"? | <p><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/22/trump-campaign-asks-for-another-georgia-recount.html" rel="noreferrer">Trump campaign asks for another Georgia recount</a></p>
<p>I understand that <a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2020/1113/Votes-are-being-audited-in-Georgia-but-don-t-call-it-a-recount" rel="noreferrer">Georgia law required an audit</a>, and that it <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-13/georgia-ballot-audit-recount-biden-trump-2020-election" rel="noreferrer">although they counted all votes again it was not a recount</a>.</p>
<p>Given that</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Campaign-requested recounts involve rescanning paper ballots, which would not address Trump’s call to “include signature matching.” The statewide audit did not verify signatures because once outer envelope signatures are verified before votes are originally tallied, they are separated from the ballots inside to maintain voter secrecy.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>What does Trump hope to gain? Is it as simple as hoping to gain time and then "something something something" electoral college?</p>
<p>I realize that this is sounding opinion based, which is a big no-no on most S.E sites, so, could someone please give a concrete example of how this could profit the soon to be ex-president?</p>
<p>Given that the votes for president have already been (re)counted by hand once (after having been counted by machine) ...</p>
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60,490 | What does it mean when something is said to be "owned by taxpayers"? | <p>There are <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22owned+by+taxpayers%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8" rel="noreferrer">470,000 results on Google Search</a> for "owned by taxpayers". Some excerpts:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>RBS remains 62% owned by taxpayers after a 45 billion pound bailout in the 2008 financial crisis.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>(<a href="https://de.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-budget-rbs/uk-taxpayers-forecast-to-make-32-1-billion-loss-on-rbs-privatisation-idUKKBN20Y260" rel="noreferrer">Reuters</a>)</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Maternity hospital 'will be owned by taxpayers'.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>(<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/maternity-hospital-will-be-owned-by-taxpayers-mrk2xb28g" rel="noreferrer">The Times</a>)</p>
<blockquote>
<p>In 2015, 85% of Greece’s debt will be owned by European taxpayers.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>(<a href="https://www.elenapanaritis.com/in-2015-85-of-greeces-debt-will-be-owned-by-european-taxpayers/" rel="noreferrer">Elena Panaritis</a>)</p>
<p>I can understand how something can be the property of a government, but how does "owned by taxpayers" work? How does this ownership model make a distinction between citizens who pay taxes vs. those who don't (maybe they are dependent without their own income, or operate primarily in the informal economy)? Does it mean that citizens who pay more taxes own a larger share than those who pay less taxes?</p>
 | government taxes debt bailout | 1 |
60,494 | Are there significant demographic differences between Washington County, Arkansas which explain why this specific county picked Sanders? | <p>Joe Biden won every county in the 2020 Arkansas Democratic primary except Washington County, which Bernie Sanders won.</p>
<p>I find this weird and was trying to understand why this would happen.</p>
<p>I'm not asking for opinion-based answers, I'm just wondering whether Washington County is demographically different from the rest of the State, in a way which explain it being an outlier. Is it Whiter? Does it have a large city? Etc.</p>
<p>From what I can see, it seems like a pretty standard Arkansas county, home to Fayetteville.</p>
 | united states democratic party | 1 |
60,500 | What countries are on the United States' "most favored nations" list? | <p>A recent <a href="https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-medication-prescription-drug-costs-medicare-prescription-drugs-e171198402445755b920842ded293b59" rel="nofollow noreferrer">executive order</a> says that Medicare will pay the lowest price paid among a group of other economically advanced countries. These countries are called "the most favored nations".</p>
<p>What nations are on this list?</p>
 | united states executive order health insurance | 1 |
60,508 | (How) did Trump's administration rebut the accusation that lowering drug prices via regulations is tantamount to socialism? | <p>In an amusing perhaps reversal of the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/business/socialist-biden-trump.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">usual rhetoric</a> from ads in the 2020 elections, Trump found himself being accused of advancing some kind of socialism, at least if AP's <a href="https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-medication-prescription-drug-costs-medicare-prescription-drugs-e171198402445755b920842ded293b59" rel="nofollow noreferrer">summary</a> of the rhetoric surrounding the new regulations on drug prices is correct:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Trump administration issued regulations Friday that could lower the prices Americans pay for many prescription drugs. [...] rules, long in the making, would: Tie what Medicare pays for medications administered in a doctor’s office to the lowest price paid among a group of other economically advanced countries. That’s called the “most favored nations” approach. It is adamantly opposed by critics aligned with the pharmaceutical industry who liken it to socialism.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Actually, AP seems to be correct, a KHN <a href="https://khn.org/news/a-conservative-group-paints-trumps-drug-pricing-experiment-as-socialist-is-it/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">story from 2019</a> has more details:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>“The Department of Health and Human Services is considering a plan to adopt socialist price controls from foreign countries.”
-- Americans for Tax Reform televised ad</p>
<p>The Americans for Tax Reform’s ad begins with President Donald Trump saying, “America will never be a socialist country.”</p>
<p>It then quickly pivots to take aim at the administration.</p>
<p>“You’re right, Mr. President,” the ad continues. “But the Department of Health and Human Services is considering a plan to adopt socialist price controls from foreign countries.”</p>
</blockquote>
<p>And KHN says it contacted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Tax_Reform" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Americans for Tax Reform</a> for verification/details:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>We contacted Americans for Tax Reform to find out the basis for this claim. John Kartch, a spokesman, said “price controls themselves are socialist” and argued that they constitute a “fundamental building block of state control of the economy.”</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The KHN story says that "independent experts we spoke to said this characterization, while politically powerful, is misleading", followed by some quotes from the experts they interviewed, but doesn't have any reaction more directly coming from Trump's administration.</p>
<p>In a more <a href="https://www.insidesources.com/push-for-price-controls-relies-on-other-countries-socialist-policies/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">recent story</a> (Oct 2020) on Inside Sources, the accusation is repeated and even linked to a Pelosi initiative; this time the accusation is more specific (last sentence), basically as socialism by linking US prices to "other countries’ socialist schemes":</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Addressing healthcare at the State of the Union Address in February, President Trump drew a bright, and worthy, line in the sand. “We will never let socialism destroy American healthcare,” he said.</p>
<p>[...]</p>
<p>The notion behind government price controls, that politicians can simply bend the laws of supply and demand to their political will, is not new, certainly not in the healthcare industry.</p>
<p>In the current domestic debate, the push for an “international price index” gained momentum last year as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi drafted a Democrat bill.</p>
<p>Given the nature of the proposed regulations, the countries listed on the index will certainly have their own government mandated price ceilings. That means that the U.S. will in effect import other countries’ socialist schemes to prop up our own.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>There are no other viewpoints presented in this latter story.</p>
<p>Almost identically, a Sep 2020 press <a href="https://www.nashuatelegraph.com/opinion/another-viewpoint/2020/09/11/trumps-socialist-attack-on-americans-health-and-medical-innovations-must-be-stopped/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">article</a> originating from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research" rel="nofollow noreferrer">National Center for Public Policy Research</a> says</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Trump recently introduced four new executive orders. The final executive order is a catastrophically irresponsible scheme that threatens to destroy American’s access to drugs and prevent the development of life-saving new medicines.</p>
<p>The executive order uses communist-style government price controls to bind the price of some prescription drugs to the cost of medicines in countries with socialist health care systems.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Even the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_Research_and_Manufacturers_of_America" rel="nofollow noreferrer">quasi-official lobby</a> of the US pharmaceutical industry <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/24/trump-announces-series-of-executive-orders-aimed-at-lowering-drug-costs.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">touched</a> on the word polemic:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>PhRMA President and CEO Stephen J. Ubl said Trump was opening the country up for socialized health care. Ubl called the changes to drug prices “a radical and dangerous policy to set prices based on rates paid in countries that he has labeled as socialist, which will harm patients today and into the future.”</p>
</blockquote>
<p>So, has Trump or his administration offered any specific rebuttals why the measures they envisaged are not (related to) socialism?</p>
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60,510 | Would the Biden administration have control over the size of the inauguration parade? | <p>A typical Presidential inauguration ceremony looks somewhat like this:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/VHsvE.png" alt="enter image description here" /></p>
<p>Obviously having tens of thousands of people in close quarters during a pandemic is not the best idea, but who will get to call the shots on how the ceremony is organized? Could Biden legally veto having a large gathering if he prefers having a small private ceremony instead?</p>
 | united states inauguration | 1 |
60,520 | Controversial Tigray regional election | <p>As I understand it, one of the points of contention in the conflict between the government of Ethiopia and the Tigray region are contested regional elections in September at 2020. These have been declared illegal by the Ethiopian government, as the holding of elections had been prohibited due to COVID-19.</p>
<p>My question is how such a chain of events could unfold. I understand that there are deeper origins to the animosity of which this is a minor and recent part. But, beyond "the parties wanted to annoy each other", what is the political background to the decision to hold these elections?</p>
<p><strong>For example</strong>, did the Tigrayan election authorities go into the election knowing that elections had been prohibited? Were the elections already scheduled for September (for example by constitution) in advance of the prohibition of elections? Did the politics of Tigray enter into the decision to prohibit elections (ostensibly due to COVID-19)? Did internal events within Tigray or Ethiopia make the holding of the regional election politically irresistible?</p>
 | election contested election ethiopia | 1 |
60,524 | What were the 2020 Presidential Results in TX-15 specifically? | <p>I am interested in the 2020 presidential election by congressional district. I am particularly interested in the 15th district of Texas. This is a South Texas district where the Democrat won by 3 points in 2020.</p>
<p>This interest is because I found that the shift in South Texas someone asked about didn't carry over as much to the House races. In Hidalgo County, House Democrats received 62% of the two-party vote as opposed to Biden's 60%.</p>
<p>I am wondering that if the vote were a straight ticket vote (president perfectly mirrors House), would Vincente Gonzalez, the Democratic incumbent, have narrowly lost his seat?</p>
<p>Note: I ask because Gonzalez won by 3 points, and the countywide (Hidalgo) difference was 4 points between Biden and House Dems. So it's not clear with that data</p>
<p>So, I am basically asking: <strong>Did Trump win Texas's 15th district?</strong></p>
 | united states election statistics texas | 0 |
60,532 | Do we have a political term for the situation when a weak country milks from two stronger countries which are enemies of each other? | <p>Do we have a political term for the situation when a weak country milks from two country which are enemies of each other?</p>
<p>My research includes, studying about debt-trap, and other questions here. So I am thinking if there any terms SIMILAR to "debt-trap" (they aren't same, I know) for this case.</p>
<p>My history is weak and I don't know about any historical examples. I can construct an imaginary example from observations and I might be wrong to make such conclusions. Still I am including it as part of my research.</p>
<p>Research and possible conclusion:</p>
<p>See the map below.</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8gyUA.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8gyUA.jpg" alt="IBC" /></a></p>
<p>China funds Bangladaesh extensively. Recently turned Capitalist India too does it.</p>
<p>Details and clarity:</p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh%E2%80%93China_relations" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh–China_relations</a></p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh%E2%80%93India_relations#Development_cooperation" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh%E2%80%93India_relations#Development_cooperation</a></p>
<p>The String of Pearls is a geopolitical theory on potential Chinese intentions in the Indian Ocean region (IOR). The sea lines run through several major maritime choke points such as the Strait of Mandeb, the Strait of Malacca, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Lombok Strait as well as other strategic maritime centres in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the Maldives, and Somalia.</p>
<p>Details and clarity: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_of_Pearls_(Indian_Ocean)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_of_Pearls_(Indian_Ocean)</a></p>
<p>Now, say, Pakistan decides to sell their islands to China, it would not trouble the Indians. Because they are already enemies so are maybe prepared for such a situation.</p>
<p>Details and clarity: <a href="https://newscomworld.com/2020/10/06/pakistan-selling-bhundar-bundal-and-dingi-islands-in-occupied-sindh-to-china/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://newscomworld.com/2020/10/06/pakistan-selling-bhundar-bundal-and-dingi-islands-in-occupied-sindh-to-china/</a></p>
<p>It would be a problem when this imaginary situation occurs:</p>
<p>Bangladaesh needs to develop their coast or port. India wouldn't want to invest because they have to feed their billion people first (They aren't completely Capitalist. They have some socialist policy as well). China is willing to do it under the condition that they may use the port as a naval base. India wouldn't have any way but to invest to keep off the Chinese.</p>
<p>Winner: Bangladaesh!</p>
<p>Losser: China</p>
<p>Bigger Losser: India</p>
<p>Myanmar could be the example too to some extent. My research used Bangladaesh as the example.</p>
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60,538 | How does the UK manage to transition leadership so quickly compared to the USA? | <p>I appreciate that the USA has a larger population and more layers to it system of governance, but I don't understand how the UK can transition between governments practically overnight and the USA takes two months. The UK might not be the flawless in its execution of the transition but they managed to maintain a reasonable continuation of government, but spending 5% of a term with a lame duck president seems very damaging to a country. So just how does the UK manage to transition leadership so quickly compared to the USA? Why are there so many appointments to fill compared to the UK?</p>
<p>(I appreciate that other countries, especially in the EU, waste large amounts of time <em>trying to form governments</em> but it's the <em>transition</em> time that I'm specifically asking about)</p>
<p>(This question is not a duplicate of <a href="https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/57457/do-any-other-countries-take-as-long-as-the-us-to-transfer-government-power-follo">do any other countries take as long as the us to transfer government power</a> that question is asked and answered more broadly, and the answers around Prime Minsters are largely looking at countries which have a caretaker system in place)</p>
 | united states united kingdom election political transitions | 1 |
60,541 | Choosing US House delegation by winner-take-all statewide vote? | <p>I was thinking about a method to choose House delegations. The party with the most votes gets its slate/list of candidates put in. These candidates are voted on in a districtwide primary popular vote. The party winning the statewide popular vote for the House, gets its slate of candidates sent to the House of Representatives.</p>
<p><em>Do the Constitution and applicable federal laws allow states to elect representatives in this manner?</em></p>
<p>This could be used as an alternative to gerrymandering in a large safe state for either party such as Tennessee or New York.</p>
<p>Extra: When Maryland tried to gerrymander their maps, they might have wanted this because MD is a safely blue state. They avoided the 8-0 (all D) map because though it would probably work, it wasn't as safe.</p>
 | united states house of representatives | 1 |
60,547 | Are Members of Scottish and Welsh Parliaments called "Honourable"? | <p>Members of Parliament in the House of Commons are referred to as "Honourable" or "Right Honourable".</p>
<p><a href="https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/44433/honourable-versus-right-honourable-members" title="Honourable vs Right Honourable">I understand why some members are Honourable and others Right Honourable.</a></p>
<p>Does the title "Honourable" or any other such title(s) apply to the members of Scottish Parliament and/or the Welsh Assembly?</p>
 | united kingdom parliament scotland wales | 1 |
60,549 | Why did the FvD board opt for suspending former leader Baudet, rather than letting him run in a board approved leadership election? | <p>Over the past few days, the Dutch party Forum voor Democratie (FvD) has been in the news a lot. <a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry_Baudet" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Thierry Baudet's Dutch Wikipedia page</a> describes the events of the past few days as follows:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Op 23 november 2020 gaf Baudet aan niet langer meer te willen fungeren als lijsttrekker voor FvD bij de komende Tweede Kamerverkiezingen in 2021 en stelde het partijleiderschap ter beschikking. Hij gaf aan wel in de Tweede Kamer te blijven tot aan de verkiezingen. Eventueel wilde hij nog wel lijstduwer worden bij de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen. Op 25 november 2020 kwam Baudet terug op zijn voornemen geen lijsttrekker voor FvD meer te willen zijn. Hij wil zich verkiesbaar stellen voor het lijsttrekkerschap en riep lijsttrekkersverkiezingen uit, zonder medeweten van het partijbestuur, die de verkiezingen daarop illegitiem noemde daar ze niet berusten op een bestuursbesluit en eiste het vertrek van Baudet.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Translated by me:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>On 23 November 2020, Baudet indicated that he longer wanted to act as lead candidate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijsttrekker" rel="nofollow noreferrer">or <em>list puller</em></a> for FvD for the Dutch parliamentary election in 2021. He resigned as party leader. He indicated that he will complete his term in parliament. Possibly, he wanted to act as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijstduwer" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em>list pusher</em></a> for the 2021 parliamentary election.</p>
<p>On 25 November 2020, Baudet retracted his intention to not be the lead candidate for FvD. He wants to run for lead candidate and called an election, without consulting the party board. The party board then called the election for lead candidate illegitimate because it's not based on a board decision. The board then called for Baudet to leave the party.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://nos.nl/artikel/2358034-chaos-bij-forum-baudet-zet-leiderschapsverkiezing-door-meerderheid-bestuur-wil-hem-royeren.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Calling for Baudet's suspension from the party</a> seems odd to me because Baudet resigned the leadership of his own will. While he may not be in a position to call a leadership election, suspending seems like an overreaction.</p>
<p>I wonder if the board (or individual board members) has explained why they opt for suspension, rather than letting Baudet run in an election that they do approve of. After all, it seems that the party needs a leader for the next election.</p>
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60,555 | Does liberalism support the idea of small government or it's just an interpretation of it? | <p>In Latin America, liberalism is associated with the idea of free market, small government and less taxes. On the other side, I continuosly see in United States democratic party politicians being called liberals, for supporting increasing government care in social issues, several times proposing creation of taxes or increase of them to do so. Is this a valid interpretation of liberalism, or in United States are using a distorted version of the term, and these ideas are instead progressivism or socialism?</p>
<p>Does liberalism support the idea of small government, or it's just an interpretation of it?</p>
 | united states liberalism | 1 |
60,559 | Why were there only 531 electoral votes in the US Presidential Election 2016? | <p>I just read <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_Electoral_College_margin" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this Wikipedia article</a>.</p>
<p>It says Trump won with a 304 to 227 for electoral votes.</p>
<p>That's 304 + 227 = 531 votes.</p>
<p>But the total number should be 538. Where did the 7 votes go?</p>
 | united states presidential election electoral college | 1 |
60,561 | Does the Constitution/Bill of Rights allow for temporary restrictions in case of emergencies? | <p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-court/u-s-supreme-court-backs-religious-groups-over-new-york-virus-curbs-idUSKBN2860CK" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-court/u-s-supreme-court-backs-religious-groups-over-new-york-virus-curbs-idUSKBN2860CK</a></p>
<p>NY State sought to limit in person worship to 25 in general, 10 in covid hot spots.</p>
<p>From the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55069040" rel="nofollow noreferrer">BBC's coverage</a></p>
<blockquote>
<p>"even in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten. The restrictions at issue here... strike at the very heart of the First Amendment's guarantee of religious liberty."</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Now, I totally get that limiting worship in normal times is explicitly a no-no by the constitution. I also don't want to debate whether or not this particular limitation on churches is justifiable compared to restrictions on other activities.</p>
<p>My question is solely limited to: is there a mechanism under which temporary suspensions/limitations of certain constitutional guarantees can be put in place in case of national emergencies? Whether or not they should be applied <em>in this particular case</em>, is another question, which would likely devolve into opinions.</p>
<p>I don't really see this as a legal question, rather it is a question about the politically-decided operational framework under which US law gets administered.</p>
<p>Edit: To be clear <strong>temporary</strong> is a key point in my question. Normal, established permanent limitations on any of the rights - "You can't shout fire in a crowded theatre without a reason" - are out of scope.</p>
<p>I'm asking about mechanisms that allow adjusting/limiting/suspending normally constitutionally-protected rights, that can be put in place, <em>on a time-limited basis, whether regionally or nationally, on the basis of an emergency</em>.</p>
<p>And, just to be clear, also waaay short of the nuclear option of "declaring martial law".</p>
 | united states constitution bill of rights | 1 |
60,563 | Has Russia considered accepting migrants that want to reach Europe? | <p><a href="https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/insights/27852/russia-needs-immigrants-but-lacks-a-coherent-immigration-policy" rel="nofollow noreferrer">This article</a> argues that Russia, like many other countries, faces a population decline that must be tackled sooner or later:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The shrinking of Russia’s population overall, and especially the
working-age population, is inevitable. According to the median
forecast provided by the Russian Federal State Statistics Service, the
population is expected to decrease by 2.5 million people by 2035, a
roughly 1.7 percent drop. The active working-age population will
likely see an even steeper decline of 3.1 million people.</p>
<p>(..)</p>
<p><strong>For Russia, immigration is not a matter of choice. It is a matter of
necessity, in order to sustain the population</strong>.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Considering that <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/turkey-will-not-stop-refugees-who-want-to-go-to-europe/a-52568981" rel="nofollow noreferrer">there are still many migrants aiming for Europe</a>, has Russia considered accepting a fraction of them?</p>
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60,565 | Has Trump ever explained how he won the allegedly rigged 2016 elections? | <p>As Trump keeps alleging fraud in the 2020 elections, I'm wondering if he has ever explained how he won the 2016 elections in spite of alleged fraud. He said then too that <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37673797" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the elections were rigged</a>, but he won anyway, and I'm unaware of any evidence that the 2016 elections actually were rigged (at least, if they were, the fraudsters were terrible since they failed by a quite substantial margin).</p>
 | united states donald trump presidential election election fraud | 1 |
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