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Candidates can only start their election campaigns after the close of nomination up to the eve of Polling Day. They can conduct house-to-house visits, distribute pamphlets, put up posters and banners and hold elections rallies. Candidates may ... be given air-time by the television stations. Each candidate can spend up to $600,000 or an amount equal to 30 cents per elector on the registers, whichever is the greater.
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While the requirement of free and fair election is easily observable, the requirement of an informed electorate is difficult to achieve. Only a small part of the electorate will be able to know the candidates on a personal level and ... the information of the electorate will be incomplete. The electorate has to rely on third party information and official programs of the respective candidates. The latter is especially unreliable, since there is only a moral but no legislative obligations to keep them in modern democracies. The party with the most immediate interest in having structural biases is the government conducting the election. One possible result is the 'show' elections described below.
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CHICAGO, Jan 30, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME Group (NYSE, Nasdaq: CME) today announced its slate of candidates for election to serve on the company's Board of Directors. CME Group shareholders will vote for directors at the company's annual meeting to be held Wednesday, May 7, 2008. Read more
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The DISH Decision 2008 election portal is revolutionary on several fronts. It brings interactivity and clarity to DISH Network customers in this complex election landscape, while ... offering candidates and advertisers the ability to target viewers by placing tailored messages around specific issues, topics and geographies. In a year with political advertising approaching $3 billion, advanced advertising techniques proven on the Internet are in high demand on TV. BIAP is delivering targeted, localized and hence highly relevant political content and advertising across the unprecedented volume of the 13.695 million national DISH Network footprint -- a powerful, and until now elusive, combination on TV.
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Nickelodeon's campaign includes three Kids Pick the President television specials created and produced by the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Nick News with Linda Ellerbee, and a special online election website http://www.nick.com/kpp/. The website features explanations of the election process, photographs and information about each candidate and their issues, as well as a calendar of the major election events.
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CHICAGO, Feb 02, 2006 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: CME) announced that it has approved the slate of candidates for election to serve on the company's Board of Directors. Read more
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