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	The Electoral Reform Society - Campaigns for proportional representation in the UK parliaments and assemblies.
	United Kingdom Election Results - Historical information on UK elective politics.
	Electoral Reform Services - The trading arm of the Electoral Reform Society, with 100 years of conducting ballots and elections, plus market research and membership services.
	Local Authority Byelection Results - Full results from 1996 to now, plus a link for 1995 results.
	Election Maps - Free constituency, county, borough and ward maps for canvassers and other political activists. From the Ordnance Survey.
	The South Molton Declaration - Commits parliamentary candidates of the major parties to laying a Bill before Parliament which confirms our rights as a democratic nation - rights which leading politicians claim we still possess.
	Postal Votes - Details of how to register for a postal vote in advance of any election, with downloadable forms and other information. In conjunction with the Home Office.
	Rolling Registration - Details of the new system whereby the Electoral Register is updated every month. Leaflet and downloadable form.
	d'Hondt PR Calculator - Computes the number of seats from the votes polled in the 1999 European Elections, by distributing the votes according to the d'Hondt formula. Should also work in 2004. It can also estimate results based on opinion poll percentages. Free download.
	Electoral Commission - Established by the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 to register political parties; includes electoral and donation regulations, the party and other registers, and downloadable forms for registering parties and donations.
	Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources - An extensive collection of over 3,200 links to the major political and governmental sites around the world, plus archive of UK elections since 1945, plus a new Election 2001 section. The site is updated almost daily.
	The Candidlist - A List showing probable opinions among parliamentary candidates regarding British adoption of the Euro.
	British General Election Prediction - Predicting the result of the General Election on a seat by seat basis, using information provided by local contacts as well as the opinion polls.
	Association of Electoral Administrators - Organisation representing election professionals. Offers electoral advice for electors, politicians and local authorities.
	Zero Confidence in politicians? Your vote counts! - New political movement aims to become focus of protest votes at UK General Election.
	Positive Abstention - Campaigning to include an 'abstain' choice on UK ballot papers for voters with no positive candidate preference.
	Tactical Voting - Tactical voting advice for each constituency, plus a predictor for election gains into which you can enter your assumptions about the overall swing, and see which seats change hands. [Does not work with Netscape 4]
	Make Votes Count - Campaign to win the referendum on changing the way we elect our Members of Parliament. Details of The Independent Commission on the Voting System, explanation of the proposed system plus how you can get involved.
	General Election Prediction - An attempt to predict the results of the next British election using scientific analysis of opinion polls and electoral geography. Includes detailed predictions of every seat, especially vulnerable ones.

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(Fran�ois VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. -- Anonymous "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Elections Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell Elections "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Elections Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Tilney Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Elections "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. -- Mae West Elections "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. -- Kin Hubbard "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Elections Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken Elections A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken Elections "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Elections "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman Elections Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th Elections "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Elections There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Elections "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Elections We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana Elections It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? -- Holbrook Jackson "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Elections "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other. -- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) 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