Jul 12, 2021
Brazil’s election is 15 months away, but President Jair Bolsonaro warns almost daily of cheating, chicanery and hacking.
With his popularity plummeting amid a criminal investigation over vaccine purchases, Bolsonaro has mimicked former President Donald Trump by laying groundwork to dispute a defeat. The far-right president and his congressional allies are pushing a bill in congress, which can go to a committee vote as early as this week, requiring the nation’s 470,000 voting machines to generate a paper record of each ballot. Otherwise, Bolsonaro says, hidden actors could manipulate the results.
Electoral authorities warn that changing a 21-year-old electronic system that experts call accurate and efficient could make citizens distrust their own democracy and introduce opportunities for real fraud.
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Underrepresented in Chinese CP, Women Encouraged to Fulfill “Traditional Roles” – China, Middle-earth
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The party under Xi Jinping then stepped up its duty as “wives and mothers” to face demographic challenges
On July 1, as Xi Jinping spoke in Tiananmen Square to a carefully chosen audience on the centenary of the Chinese Communist Party, the state television camera circled the guests of honor seated near from the pulpit. The most attentive may have noticed an under-represented category: women.
It is not a coincidence. The latest population census, released in May by China’s National Bureau of Statistics, showed that women make up 48.76 percent of the population, or about 688.44 million of that country’s 1.4 billion people. Asian. The representation of women in the Communist Party is, however, significantly lower. Data compiled in 2019 shows that only 27.9% of members are women – and that number tends to be lower as the position grows.