Regiments' group in election move
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A regiments' campaign group is to target nine marginal Labour seats at the General Election.
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British government announced on Thursday the details to restructure the country&#39;s army forces, saying that the changes would make it more flexible and specialized.
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The British army considered setting up a regiment for British Sikhs but dropped the idea because it did not want to segregate them from other soldiers, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
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Ministers are set to face a rough ride in the Commons over the shake-up of Scotland's infantry regiments.
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The reduction involves Army soldiers and Marines whose tours were extended last month to bolster security ahead of the elections.
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A US rights group expresses concern at the move to deploy the army before elections in Bangladesh.
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Friday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports on a controversial decision by Missouri's Secretary of State: the state of Missouri will be allowing soldiers stationed overseas to cast ballots via e-mail. Their absentee ballots will be scanned and converted to PDF files, which will be emailed to the Defense Department, printed out, and then faxed to Missouri.  I'm in favor of helping soldiers vote; this is a democracy, everyone should be able to vote. Yet I'm deeply skeptical of this proposal, for two reasons:  The plan depends on e-mailed ballots being printed out and faxed by the Defense Department but does not provide any safeguards against soldiers being sanctioned for how they have voted;  The transmission method is inherently technically insecure
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Local authority leaders are to call for council elections to be held on a different day from the Holyrood vote.
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Around 100-thousand armed security personnel, including 27-thousand foreign troops from a US-led coalition and NATO, have been deployed to protect more than 10 million registered voters.
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The final phase of the British Army's restructuring is due to take place with the merger of three historic regiments.
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American forces in Iraq will be expanded by about 12,000 troops to provide better security as the Jan. 30 elections approach, military officials said today.
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The Holyrood election campaign moves up a gear as Scotland's smaller parties finalise their manifestos.
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Tony Blair is said to be seriously considering plans to save most of Scotland's infantry regiments.
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Hard-line Catholic and Protestant parties have won the bulk of seats decided so far in the election for a new legislative assembly in Northern Ireland, a vote designed to clear the way for creation of a new power-sharing local executive that can pull support from across the sectarian divide.
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Civilians and soldiers living abroad face an unwieldy system of absentee balloting that could prevent their votes from being counted.
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Staff members of a group helping Iraqis register to vote in their homeland's upcoming elections were told to leave their offices because village officials were concerned about security.
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Union flag-bedecked Land Rovers of the Black Watch regiment stand ready for deployment. Photograph: Warrant Officer Giles Penfound/PA.