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The San Gabriel Women’s Foundation is hosting a forum for candidates in the 2024 San Gabriel City Council election Thursday, Oct. 3.

League of Women Voters, Pasadena area, will be moderating the forum, which begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Padillo Room next door to the Mission Playhouse, near Santa Anita Street and Mission Drive.

San Gabriel voters will be asked to vote for no more than two of the following candidates this November: Jorge Herrera Avila, Tony Ding, Jeanne Raya, Carina Rivera and Isela Lopez Bowles.

Organizers welcomed attendees to bring their own questions for the candidates.

The election takes place on Nov. 5.

Several posts on social media claim that the total percentage of votes in the recent Venezuelan election, in which results have been disputed, added up to 109%.

But the graph shown alongside these claims shows several candidates had a combined vote share of 4.6% (adding up to 100%), not 4.6% each. 

Where does the 109% figure come from?

The posts making this claim feature a screenshot of a graph broadcast by Telesur, a state-funded TV network headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela. The graph features five candidates, and adding up the percentages next to their names equals 109%.

However, this calculation assumes the three candidates with 4.6% got a 4.6% vote share each. That…

MONTRÉAL, QUÉBEC–(Marketwired – Jan. 15, 2015) – Cogeco Inc. (“Cogeco”) (CGO.TO) is pleased to announce that each of the nominees as directors for Cogeco listed in the Corporation’s information circular dated November 14, 2014 was elected as director of Cogeco during its annual shareholders’ meeting held on January 14, 2015 in Montréal, Québec (the “Meeting”).

Detailed voting results on the election of directors are as follows:

Nominee	Results		In Favour	% In Favour		Abstention		% Abstention
Louis Audet	Elected		43,565,083	99.95		20,545		0.05
Elisabetta Bigsby	Elected		43,566,308	99.96		19,320		0.04
Pierre L. Comtois	Elected		43,574,317	99.97		11,311		0.03
Paule Doré	Elected		43,580,035	99.99		5,593		0.01
Claude A. Garcia	Elected		43,575,822	99.98		9,806		0.02
Normand Legault	Elected		43,566,100	99.96		19,528		0.04
David McAusland	Elected		Source link Primary election 2024 guide – Yahoo March 12, 2024 Web Shared Hosting News 0 Mar. 12—Deborah Greenawald bustled from table to table, stopping to greet diners Thursday at Co-County Wellness Service’s Good Thyme for Life. Greenawald and her husband, David Lawton, served as hosts at Judy’s on Cherry, one of nine restaurants participating in the five-day event. Each restaurant donated a percentage of its revenue on a designated day. The annual fundraiser is the largest for the nonprofit that provides free services addressing issues of sexual health in Berks and Schuylkill counties, including prevention, screening and treatment education for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. Though the Muhlenberg Township couple supported the event in past years as diners, this was their first as hosts. Greenawald, who recently retired as chair of Alvernia University’s… Source link Photos do not show Imran Khan voting from prison in Pakistan’s 2024 general election February 13, 2024 Web Shared Hosting News 0 Photos claiming to show Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, casting a vote from jail in the country’s recent general election have been circulating online. But the photos actually date from 2018.  Imran Khan was elected as Prime Minister in 2018 but was removed from office following a vote of no confidence in April 2022. He was sentenced to three years in prison in August 2023 on charges of corruption and was disqualified from politics for five years. He has since been handed further jail time.  Several posts share a collage of two images showing Mr Khan appearing to post a vote through a ballot box. One post says: “Imran Khan has cast his vote from Adiala Jail”, a prison near Islamabad where he has reportedly been held since September 2023.  These… Source link Page 1 of 212 »