Posts Tagged Elections 2017
The Makeup of This Year’s Voter Turnout Could Determine Election
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on November 2, 2017
Credit: AP Photo / Alexander F. Yuan
Voters are headed to the polls this month to vote for three statewide races and every member of the House of Delegates. But the electorate this year will not look like the one that turned out last year for the presidential election. Michael Pope takes this look at odd-year voters.
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From NPR News- PHOTOS: It's Hard To Grow Up — And Grow Old — In Honduras August 19, 2018Photographer Tomas Ayuso captures the plight of Honduran youth struggling to survive in a violent country — and thinking about fleeing to stay alive.
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- PHOTOS: It's Hard To Grow Up — And Grow Old — In Honduras August 19, 2018
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- Brexit vote campaign gets £1m from Superdry co-founder August 18, 2018Multi-millionaire tycoon says he donated because "we have a genuine chance to turn this around".
- Backstreet Boys fans hurt in Oklahoma storm August 19, 2018At least 14 people were taken to hospital after a metal structure at a concert in Oklahoma fell.
- The first humanist lead chaplain in the NHS August 18, 2018Lindsay van Dijk is the first humanist lead chaplain in the NHS.
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