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Reuters
3 days ago
- Politics
- Reuters
South Korea's liberal presidential candidate Lee has 49.3% of votes
SEOUL, June 4 (Reuters) - With 99.2% of votes counted in South Korea's snap presidential election, liberal candidate Lee Jae-myung has 49.3% of votes, according to National Election Commission data on Wednesday.
Yahoo
30-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Announcement of change in the total number of votes in AB SKF
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, May 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Due to a conversion of shares from Series A to Series B in accordance with AB SKF's Articles of Association, the Company confirms the following. As per 30 May 2025 there are a total of 455,351,068 shares in AB SKF, out of which 28,930,824 shares are of Series A and 426,420,244 shares are of Series B. The number of votes in the Company amounts to 71,572,848.4. AB SKF does not hold any own shares. Aktiebolaget SKF (publ) Information in this press release contains information that AB SKF is obliged to make public pursuant to the Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication on 30 May 2025 at 08:00 CEST. For further information, please contact: Press Relations: Karin Markhede, +46 (0)70 758 87 30; Investor Relations: Sophie Arnius, +46 31-337 8072; +46 705 908 072; This information was brought to you by Cision The following files are available for download: 20250530 Announcement of change in the total number of votes in AB SKF SKF bearing View original content:
ABC News
13-05-2025
- Politics
- ABC News
AEC investigates after missing ballot papers found at election worker's home
Almost 2,000 ballot papers went missing on election night and were later recovered from the Sydney home of a temporary Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) worker, the ABC can reveal. While the AEC said the incident did not affect the result in the seat of Barton because the votes had already been counted, it has not explained how the ballots ended up at the worker's home and has launched an investigation. Live results: Find out what's happening in your seat as counting continues The AEC confirmed the worker collected a secure container holding 1,866 House of Representatives votes from a polling booth in the Sydney suburb of Hurstville after polls closed on May 3, but failed to deliver it to the commission's central counting centre. "Ballot papers were securely packaged in the presence of scrutineers with an authorised transport officer collecting two ballot paper transport containers for delivery to a central counting centre to await further processing," an AEC spokesperson said in a statement. "The staff member responsible erroneously returned one less container than was expected." Officials at the AEC only noticed the container was missing when they began a routine recount of votes in the electorate last week. "The AEC's tracking processes for ballot paper transport containers identified that one of the two transport containers for the Hurstville polling place was not returned to the central counting centre on election night as it should have been," the spokesperson said. The AEC recovered the container early last week. Want even more? Here's where you can find all our 2025 federal election coverage Catch the latest interviews and in-depth coverage on ABC iview and ABC Listen "This issue relates to a single transport container that remained sealed and intact and has not affected the election," the AEC said. "The uniquely coded security seals were not broken, and the AEC's purpose-built ballot paper transport container was intact. "All ballot papers are accounted for. "The AEC takes ballot paper handling extremely seriously." Labor's Ash Ambihaipahar won the seat, beating Liberal Fiona Douskou with more than 60 per cent of the two-party-preferred vote. The AEC was not able to provide details about where in the worker's home the container was found. "It was obtained from the individual's home where it was collected by permanent AEC staff," the spokesperson said. "The only specific detail I have regarding the collection is that it was obtained during a conversation outside the staff member's house, following identification of the custody of the container." No system is 100 per cent secure, but the Signal app can be used to protect your identity by using end-to-end encryption. Please read the terms and conditions of the app to work out if it is the best method of communication for you. The commission has launched an investigation into the matter but declined to say whether it had referred the incident to law enforcement agencies. University of Sydney electoral law expert Anne Twomey described the incident as a "serious matter". "Although it had no effect upon the outcome of the election in this case, it could have resulted in the election being held void in that seat if the ballots had been destroyed," Professor Twomey said. "While concerning, this case does remind us that there are many layers of protection built into the electoral system to ensure it is secure. "The system ensured there was accountability, although it seems likely there was some kind of failure to identify immediately that the container had not been delivered to the counting centre." In 2013, the AEC was forced to re-run Western Australia's senate election after 1,370 ballots went missing in what a parliamentary inquiry described as the "greatest failure in the history of the Australian Electoral Commission". Professor Twomey said the latest incident was likely to prompt a fresh inquiry into the commission's transportation of ballot papers. "The AEC will no doubt investigate this matter thoroughly and learn from the failure," she said.
The Sun
08-05-2025
- General
- The Sun
New Pope elected as white smoke rises from Conclave's ritual chimney after secret meeting for 133 cardinals
What is the smoke? The smoke the flows through the chimney revealing the Conclave's decision is from the votes burning in a stove. Any notes which are also made during the voting process are also burned in the stove. In previous times, wet straw was added to the stove to create the smoke's white colour - but it wasn't always reliable. In 1958, white smoke appeared to come from the chimney twice during the day creating confusion. Cartridges were then added to the stove to strengthen the colour of the smoke, but that didn't always work either with smoke in a 1978 vote starting out white but turning black. Now, an electronic unit resembling a stove sits next to the stove which burns the votes with white or black cartridges being placed in there and a Cardinal pressing a button to set them off. The two stoves share the single chimney. Smoke is thought to have been used to announce the winner since the 1823 election of Pope Leo XII. The ballots are burned after two rounds of voting if a new Pope isn't elected.
