Votes are people of Votia who speak the Finno-Ugric Votic language, who until World War II lived in the northern parts of Estonia. Geographical distribution of Finno-Ugric (Finno-Permic in blue, Ugric in green). ... Votic or Votian is the language spoken by the Votes of Ingria. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air, August 9, 1945. ...
As a people, they are practically extinct after Stalinist dispersion to Soviet provinces far away — as punishment for alleged disloyalty and cowardice during the war. Stalinism is a brand of political theory, and the political and economic system implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. ...
External links
Virtual Votia
The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire - The Votes
A vote, or a ballot, is an individual's act of voting, by which he or she express support or preference for a certain motion (e.g.
Though voting is usually recognized as one of the main characteristics of democracy, a country's having an election featuring the populace casting votes does not necessarily mean the country is democratic.
Some people think that whenever votes are recorded in a medium which is invisible to humans, electors lose any possibility to verify how their votes are collected and tallied up to produce the final result, thus they need to have an absolute faith in the accuracy, honesty and security of the whole electoral apparatus.
Eventually in politicalvoting, the ballot came into use, a sophisticated form of which is the voting machine.
While in democraciesvoting is, generally, a voluntary right, in totalitarian systems it is virtually a compulsory duty, and nonvoting may be considered an act of disapproval of government policies.
Voting systems are also in place in which a machine optically scans a paper ballot and tabulates the votes for each office.