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American racial history. Hes authored four books and coauthored one. Tonight he will be speaking on his most recent book this land is their land. Please join me in welcoming him. Good evening and thanks for coming out in the weather. The massachusetts sixstory cosociety is the first place i ever received Research Fellowship and i believe that was way back in 1998. I will never forget, coming here and the first document i looked at when i was here was the missionary journal of john cotton junior. John cotton junior was the son of the legendary minister of boston and has a big shoes to fill he didnt fill them. He wound up a missionary on Marthas Vineyard and eventually he fell out with the proprietor there and ended up in plymouth and got into some shenanigans with his female parishioners and ended up in charlestown south carolina. What i will never forget from this document it was only meant for his own private use. It was filled with a series of questions and answers that he had engage
Phenomenal. And then we had those european elections, and its like its sort of caught the imagination. I would find that i would be on the train and i would find that i would be on the train and i would have my lib dem sticker on from campaigning and random people would come up to me and say, keep going, youre doing well and i knew that other people had that experience. Canvassing at the moment is an absolute joy. The me tell you. If you have never gone knocking on doors before, youve always been a bit worried about it, really, seriously, now is the time to go knocking on doors liberal democrat leader, jo swinson, theyre talking but the fortunes of her party and the local elections. And more recently the european elections. And here shes got another conservative, former conservative, has been sitting as an independent, joining the ranks. You can hear in her tone of voice that optimism, the sensitive liberal democrat are going places. They scraped the bottom of the barrel in their downt
Voting in the president ial election throughout the country will be 9,400 polling stations, they operate from 8 morning to 8 00 pm local time, citizens of the country can vote remotely, the electronic procedure is available in 29 regions, before the start of the main part , remote areas, military units, ship crews, voters abroad in some regions voted early, they have already made their choice over 2 million citizens of the country, margarita semenyuk has all the voting details. Symbolically with the anthem of the Russian Federation , the kamchatka territory is the first to welcome the main political event of the country, elections of the head of state, start of voting, prowess in Central Election Commission via video link. On this wall you can see 192 polling stations at the same time, every 10 seconds there is a rotation, the picture changes on the air, you can see a variety of regions of russia. This procedure will demonstrate the transparency and democracy of the electoral process.
Remote electronic voting will also be used for the first time, this is what the Electoral Commission was told. Video surveillance will be carried out around the clock for the entire time that polling stations are open, where voting is taking place, votes are being counted, right up to the entry of gaselection protocols. We dont have video surveillance. Its installed in pretrial detention centers, hospitals, and in a number of areas, say, in areas outside the Russian Federation, in all others we have either video surveillance, or, in extreme cases, where there is no internet, video recording. Ksenia kolchina will talk about how voting is taking place in vladivostok. Ksenia, greetings, the floor is yours, we are waiting. Hello, anton, we are located at the public observation headquarters and information from all polling stations in primorye flows here, there is a video wall equipped here, on which everything that is broadcast in real time occurs at each site. Now everyone is listening to