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"The youth –and negativity"

One of the advantages of being young is that you can change opinions, or even hold contradictory ones at the same time, and be forgiven for it. That may be why it is difficult to get a read on young voters in the current election campaign. Recent st...
Nov 23, 2012
Politics

"Are young people less likely to vote?"

They bear some of society’s heaviest burdens, yet the Island’s youngest voters are more likely not to participate in elections than other groups. Figures provided by the Parliamentary Registrar, Randy Scott, show that 35 percent of those qualified to...
Nov 22, 2012
Politics

"High number of voters register for election"

Nineteen centenarians plan to be among up the thousands of Bermudians who will cast their votes on December 17. About 94 percent of residents who are qualified to vote have actually registered for the next election. The one-week registration period ...
Nov 20, 2012
Politics

"Voting shows takes to TV"

A new look Parliamentary special news report will air Thursday aimed at helping voters with any queries surrounding the voting process. Focusing on voter awareness, the parliamentary registrars are looking to make sure that everyone is aware of what ...
Nov 20, 2012
Opinion Writer

"Time for fixed term elections"

I support, applaud and empathise with the disenfranchised students lobbying for absentee balloting. This vexing issue of absentee voting has been around at least since I was a student in the UK over 40 years ago when the UBP were in power. It was a t...
Nov 15, 2012
Letters to the Editor

"Unacceptable in a democracy"

November 12, 2012 Dear Sir, It came as a shock this morning to learn that my husband of 64 years is now unable to vote in his own country because the ailments of advanced age (he is 91) mean that he is now totally incapable of going to the polling st...
Nov 14, 2012
Editorials

"Deprived of the vote"

The 2012 general election has its first dispute. Students who still face exams on or after December 17 will be unable to vote and they are not happy about this. This issue has its roots in the 1998 general election, which then-Premier Pamela Gordon ...
Nov 14, 2012
Politics

"Voters have a week to register"

With the general election set for December 17, the Island’s voters have a week left to sign up and settle their details with the Parliamentary Registrar. The Registrar’s Reid Street office is open from today, 10am to 5pm, through next Friday, for wou...
Nov 10, 2012
Politics

"New power will stamp out voting irregularities"

People will be stopped from voting in constituencies where they no longer live under new legislation reforming the election process. The Parliamentary Registrar will be given power to transfer incorrectly registered residents under the Parliamentary ...
Mar 21, 2012
Politics

"Why won’t whites vote for the PLP?"

Racism is the driving force behind the white community’s tendency to vote overwhelmingly for one political party, according to historian and activist Dr Eva Hodgson. It’s just not that simple, says Grant Gibbons, a former United Bermuda Party leader....
Jan 04, 2012
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