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she took the decision to take donald trump off the ballot in maine. secretary cech bellows, very good to have you on bbc news. good evening to you. i want to start with your decision to disqualify the former president from the primary ballot in maine because as he decided he engaged in insurrection. what made that decision? what convinced you he is ineligible? good evening and thank you for having me. it is really important for your viewers to understand the maine law process. every state is different. under the united states constitution, elections are held and it different voting rights are different ballot access laws. under maine law, if a candidate qualifies for the ballot, any registered maine voter may bring a challenge. that is what happened here. i qualified trump for the ballot and there were three challenges brought. by citizens of maine, and a couple cases, two former democratic state senators. that requires me under maine election law to hold an administrative he
joining me live is secretary bellows2. good to have you and good evening to you. i want to start with your decision to disqualify the former president from the primary ballot in maine because as he decided he engaged in insurrection. what made that decision? what convinced you he is ineligible? good evening and thank you for having me. it is really important for your viewers to understand the main law process. every state is different. underthe process. every state is different. under the united states constitution, elections are held and it different voting rights are different ballot access laws. under main law, if a candidate qualifies for the ballot, any registered main voter may bring a challenge. that is what happened here. i qualified trumpet for the ballot and there were three challenges brought. by citizens of maine floors and a couple cases, to former that it is democratic state senator. that requires me under maine election law to hold an administrative hearing to
a very rare occurrence. and it s got me wondering, why do you think that there are so few women at the top in both the sciences and the social sciences? professor katalin kariko, you re the first hungarian woman to win a nobel prize. what do you think? well, you know, what i think is that when whenever our career is moving forward, that s the time, the child bearing age. and many of the women decide to have family. and it is difficult for, you know, advancing their research, for example. and that might be one reason that they give up. ..on the fact that it s women when they have children. yes, they give up their dreams because they want to have children. but i have a daughter and anne has two sons. so that, you know, we can show here that they can do both. all right. moungi bawendi, you re one of the chemist laureates. what s your take on this? it seems to me that when we look at the nobel laureates, for instance, it s about research that was done decades ago. and what we hav
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