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Vote

To make a choice along with other parties asked to make the same choice. In business and finance, voting is most often associated with electing directors and setting company policies at the annual meeting of shareholders. In order to be able to vote under these circumstances, one must hold voting stock. The right to vote gives the holder of voting stock a great deal of control over the company. In democratic forms of government, voters elect politicians, who may promote certain business or financial policies as part of their platform. In turn, bodies of elected politicians often vote on proposed policies or programs.

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People should abstain from voting rather than vote badly.

Review of Jason Brennan's The Ethics of Voting

Sandy King, of Telescope Inc., the Los Angeles company that manages American Idol voting, told the magazine Broadcast and Cable that votes dialed at regular intervals indicate that the votes might have been machine-dialed.

The science of American

Little wonder the idealist in him seeks a totally secure voting machine, a totally fraud-proof electoral process.

Election fraud, American style: the most effective voter suppression tool is the polling booth itself

However, newly aware of the stakes, risks, and intellectual challenges associated with voting equipment, computer scientists and mathematicians specializing in encryption are now avidly taking part in the search for dependable and inviolable voting technology.

Ballot roulette: computer scientists and mathematicians look for better ways to vote

Of course, there's always the old technique of requesting an absentee ballot under an assumed name, which is essentially just repeat voting using the mail.

Saving our elections: America's once proud and trustworthy elections are being undermined, but concerned citizens can take steps to restore the integrity of our electoral process

"Opening up the voting pool to a younger generation may inspire our generation to vote more often, and take part in democracy," he sags.

Lower the voting age?

As You Sow is working to make the process of proxy voting easier for investors through the ProxyInformation.

The power of the proxy: bringing change one vote at a time

Some legislators and elections officials insist that new restrictions on registering to vote or voting are necessary to eliminate "voter fraud." But the real crime is the disenfranchisement of eligible voters brought about by these restrictions.

New barriers to voting: eroding the right to vote

"Women who were adults at that time had been socialized to believe that voting was socially inappropriate for women," says Susan J.

1920: women get the vote: the 19th Amendment was ratified 85 years ago, after decades of campaigning by the women's suffrage movement

The Voting Rights Act is coming up for renewal in 2007.

Bullets to ballots: looking back at Selma, building bridges to a democratic future

Exactly one year ago the Humanist ran a story about the unreliability of electronic voting machines, noting that they are programmed with unsecure software and are inauditable because they leave no paper trail.

Follow nonexistent the paper trail: the technological advances in electronic voting machines rise accountability questions about today's democratic process

Fifty-two percent of the voting shareholders opted in favor of the proposal.

Giving shareholders short shrift: research shows that public companies decline to act on a substantial percentage of shareholder votes. Companies often say they know best, but some critics say they should be more accountable