Before 2011, the public had no view of the murky world of independent election expenditures — where attack ads masquerade as issue ads. (timesunion.com)
Yakubu, who decried the huge outlay on personnel cost during elections, said that 86 percent of election expenditure was mapped out for payment of election allowances to personnel. (nigeriapoliticsonline.com)
The work has already led to an Electoral Commission probe into the hotel bills and advertising bills that the Tories failed to declare as election expenditure. (totalpolitics.com)