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ELECTORAL bodies in West and Southern African countries have made a passionate plea to the private sector to contribute to the funding of elections because of the increasing cost of organising them, which they say government alone can no longer shoulder.

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, said after approving the appointments said «We hope they contribute and continue to sustain free and credible elections in Nigeria by ensuring that the practices of the national electoral body in this country meet global standards.»

19.10: These results below have not been confirmed by the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC), the electoral body in charge of the election, and at such results here can change at any time.

The coalition hinged their decision on the alleged violation of the Constitution and Electoral Act by the state electoral body in the process leading to the polls.

Not exact matches

For many nominal Catholics may not live a Christian life at all and may be quite uninterested in the Church, but might nevertheless claim their right to vote for electoral bodies precisely in order to work against the interests of the Church.

This question leads to another, namely which among all those who give their religion as R. C. should cooperate in appointing the electoral bodies.

Convening such a body would provide a space to debate how best to address systematic political inequality, whether through thorough - going electoral reform including PR and compulsory voting, the radical overhaul of the democratic aberration that is the Lords, or in reforming party funding, all of which the report supports.

Any electoral official of a local authority (as defined in section 5 of the Local Electoral Act 2001) may, on payment of the prescribed fee, and in accordance with regulations made under this Act, obtain from the Electoral Commission a computer - compiled list or electronic storage medium containing specified information, for the purpose of conducting an election for any body, where the Electoral Commission is satisfied that --

The electoral approach: The electoral body often make some advertising, promoting the use of vote, specially in young democracies.

«It is in a view to bring an end to all these tradition of electoral manipulation that, we of the SPN will continue to canvass for the democratisation of state and national electoral bodies whose members will comprise of the elected representatives of trade unions, youth and professional organisations, trade and artisan associations including the community associations like residents association.

Saraki, according to a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Sanni Onogu, gave the charge when the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, who is also the President of ECONEC, led other members of the sub-regional electoral body on a visit to the leadership of the Senate in Abuja.

According to an IEC spokesman, President Hamid Karzai and General David Petraeus, the commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, reviewed the proposed list of polling stations on Saturday, which led to the electoral body removing an additional 100 stations that the security forces had said were safe.

He said, «It depends on the transparency in the electoral body.

The Senate threatened to suspend its plenary if the electoral body failed to meet the deadline, pointing out that the state had remained without representation in the national assembly for a long period.

The electoral management body arrived at that conclusion when it released its investigative report regarding the sacking of two of its officials in July for reportedly verifying Dr. Bawumia at his Walewale residence during the just ended verification exercise.

The mischief embarked upon by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to discredit the Electoral Commission (EC), has backfired in the party's stronghold of Ashanti Region, with many people disenfranchised from voting in the 2016 Presidential and Parliamentary elections by the Supreme Court decision in the Abu Ramadan and Evans Nimako case, against the electoral body.

«The first lesson from the 2015 general elections is that a strong and professional electoral management body with a strong leadership is indispensable in ensuring credible elections in Nigeria,» Barrister Okoye noted.

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted a late - night ex-parte order targeted at persuading the Chairman of the Nigerian electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega to...

«We are all aware that the two legal documents guiding INEC in the conduct of elections; the Constitution and the Electoral Act, have provisions for electoral exigencies as well as empower the electoral body to fully take responsibility for any of its actions or inaction without undue interference from any quarters whatsoever.»

Second preferences could be crucial as few expect any one candidate to secure a winning majority on first preferences in an electoral college split into three between MPs / MEPs, party members and members of affiliated bodies like the trade unions.

The employees have accused Mrs. Osei of corruption, breaching public procurement regulations and disregarding administrative procedures in her management of the electoral body.

They noted that «never in the history of Local Government Elections in Enugu has there been a commission that leaves its door open to the political parties», adding that the electoral body was «accessible to the political parties and much more they were receptive to superior arguments».

The encomium from Sunder Katwala, of the Fabian Society for the Alternative Vote in the place of first - past - the post (FPTP) elections for the House of Commons is yet another example, first, of a major party's search to consolidate its electoral position, and secondly, of the weakness of campaigning bodies to oblige the parties to open up an honest debate about the alternatives to FPTP.

At a pre-election press conference in an Accra Tuesday, Chairperson of the Commission, Mrs. Charlotte Osei outlined some rules and measures rolled out by the electoral body to ensure a free, fair and credible elections.

Worse still, the questionable participation of officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as observers of the so - called primaries, has brought to the fore concerns of Nigerians about the seeming absence of institutional memory in Nigeria's electoral body.

Because of some defect in the total registration, the electoral body officially registered 68,833,476 voters for the elections in February 2015.

The mayor said his main focus will be on expanding pre-kindergarten to 3 - year - olds, along with increasing investments in affordable housing, putting body cameras on patrol officers citywide and tackling electoral reform.

Yakubu said, «Given the high stakes of conducting elections in developing countries, electoral commissions must understandably be worried about the twin issues of communication and security especially in situations where data reside with and is directly transmitted to the tallying centres through offshore vendors rather than exclusively controlled within national boundaries by election monitoring bodies.

The electoral body said in a tweet, «It has come to the attention of the Independent National Electoral Commission that some persons, especially on social media have started publishing result of the Edo governorship election, such result should be disregarded as only INEC or its designated officials can do so.»

The Spokesman of the group, Mr. Ali Abacha, said in Akure on Thursday that the electoral body and security agencies were fully prepared for the poll, hence there was no need to postpone it.

Yakubu said while it could not be established if children actually voted in the election, he could confirm that the voter register which INEC gave to the Kano electoral body for undertaking the election was not completely used.

«Therefore, we are not in support of the change in the sequence because it can only cause unnecessary spending by the electoral body, despite the economic issues in the country.

Yakubu said the electoral body will continue to work with the State Independent Electoral Commissions (SIECs) to ensure continuous improvements in the quality of all elections conducted in Nigeria.

He said: «Election Management Bodies in our sub-regions and beyond have deployed technology in one way or another to improve on the processes, administration and outcome of elections, ranging from training and capacity - building for electoral officials, promotion of inclusivity in the electoral process (youths, women, PWDs, IDPs and out - of - country / diaspora voters), the biometric registration of voters, delineation of electoral constituencies, geo - referencing of existing as well as the creation of new polling units, establishment of robust electronic databases, accreditation of voters during elections, actual voting and the speedy and more accurate collation / transmission of results.

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NAN recalls that, fire on Saturday razed the two - storey building of Kaduna state electoral body, few weeks before the local government election in the state.

She said, «Election management bodies face the formidable challenge of ensuring that stakeholders have trust in the electoral process.

It seems there is no end in sight for the troubles of the Electoral Commission (EC) as it has emerged that the electoral management body auctioned 40 of its vehicles in 2013 to its members of staff.

Lamont also won majorities in two groups of Labour's three - tier electoral college system, securing the support of parliamentarians and affiliated bodies such as trade unions.

The report was that the electoral body had been on top of some minor hitches in the distribution of materials in some isolated polling units, about two or three and the issue had been resolved and the process was progressing smoothly.»

Voting took place between 17 November and 10 December using the three - tier electoral college system, which gives parliamentarians, individual members, and affiliated bodies such as trade unions an equal say in the outcome.

Whereas certain domestic factors such as a pliant media, electoral body, and judiciary played an instrumental role in all of these recent polls, exogenous factors found in the current international sphere also played an important part in facilitating a favorable result for each of the incumbents.

As an independent and impartial statutory body, part of the VEC's role is to run education programs to ensure that young people in Victoria understand the electoral process.

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