Sentences with phrase «election commission said»

Another round of Continuous Voters Registration ended last Monday while the Independent National Election Commission said many Nigerians are yet to claim their PCV.

Voting was mostly smooth and turnout was high, the election commission said, despite some isolated incidents and delays.

March 14: The Federal Election Commission said it would start writing new disclosure rules for online ads in response to revelations Russian interests bought content on Facebook and other platforms in an attempt to meddle with the 2016 election.

A spokeswoman for the Federal Elections Commission said donors who contribute more than $ 2,700 are either donating more through spouses or are contributing early towards the general election.

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Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Michael Haas said Homeland Security told 21 states that «Russian government cyber actors» targeted their state voter registration systems in 2016.

Trump said on Wednesday that he is terminating the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, created in May to investigate voting fraud allegations.

Shown pictures of some of the people who apparently voted twice, including at Ust - Djeguta's polling station no. 217, Leila Koichuyeva, a member of the election commission there, said: «They could be twins.»

Asked about the discrepancy, the chairwoman of the polling station's election commission, Oksana Mediyeva, said independent monitors had watched the vote and had raised no issues.

Mr. Cohen said that he had given a similar statement to the Federal Election Commission in response to a complaint filed by the government watchdog group Common Cause, which contended that the payment, made through a limited liability company that Mr. Cohen established, was an in - kind contribution to the Trump campaign.

The plan laid out on Friday «is not sufficient,» said Larry Noble, a former general counsel and chief ethics officer for the Federal Election Commission.

In a separate post on Facebook on Monday, Mr. Zuckerberg addressed how the social network was misused by Russians in the 2016 presidential election and said that Facebook would create the commission of researchers to study social media's impact on elections.

New comments by President Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani about a payment to Stormy Daniels place the president at the center of questions about possible campaign - finance violations, two former Federal Election Commission leaders said.

The money, which Mr. Cohen has said came from his own personal funds, is the subject of complaints lodged by the group Common Cause with the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department.

«It actually presents a relatively clean issue for the court,» said Lawrence M. Noble, a former top lawyer at the Federal Election Commission who is now the general counsel for the Campaign Legal Center, a watchdog group.

«This is a frivolous and blatant, politically - motivated complaint that makes a mockery of the Federal Election Commission process,» the Tillis campaign said in a statement, adding it «never employed foreign workers or improperly coordinated with outside groups.»

Cohen said he told the Federal Election Commission the same thing after the nonprofit government accountability group Common Cause filed a complaint alleging that the payment was an illegal «in kind» political contribution.

(For his part, Lewandowski says Trump never told him to give Ailes an exclusive look at the Federal Election Commission filing.

«It's very strong evidence that this was about the election,» said Larry Noble, a former Federal Election Commission lawyer who is now senior director of the non-profit Campaign Legalelection,» said Larry Noble, a former Federal Election Commission lawyer who is now senior director of the non-profit Campaign LegalElection Commission lawyer who is now senior director of the non-profit Campaign Legal Center.

The suit's claim that Trump knew about the payment and that it was aimed at keeping the affair from voters «confirms what we suspected,» said Paul Ryan, a top lawyer with Common Cause, one of the groups that have lodged complaints with the Federal Election Commission about the payoff.

Campaign - finance experts say these cases are tricky to prove, and Washington politics — the Justice Department, the Federal Election Commission and Congress are all controlled by the president's party — seem likely to doom any probe into whether federal laws were violated.

«Certainly, the argument that the government will make is that the $ 130,000 payment from Michael Cohen to Daniels was a loan to the Trump campaign to keep these allegations secret obviously and then Trump paying Cohen back would be a campaign expenditure» — a loan and expenditure that should have been disclosed to the Federal Election Commission, he said.

Dazang said the commission's card readers are in good shape while between today and tomorrow, the card readers are expected to be charged fully to be in optimal use during the election

«It is important to note - particularly during an election period - that no conclusion has been reached and therefore no assumption should be made as to whether a breach of the rules has occurred,» an Electoral Commission spokesperson said.

The court voted 4 - 2 to nullify Kenyatta's election saying they found the electoral commission had performed irregularities and illegalities in adding up the presidential vote.

The commission said all arrangements are top gear to ensure that its processes lead to a free and fair election.

He said, «However at about 6 pm today (yesterday) the commission received official communication from the police and DSS drawing it's attention to the need to postpone the Edo governorship elections.

The Newark by - election faces a greater risk of a legal challenge because of «inadequately performing Electoral Commission officials», a local council chief has said.

As the consultations among the police, state security services and the Independent National Electoral Commission continues over whether to postpone the Saturday election, the INEC has said that its independence can not be compromised.

Nana Akufo - Addo and his lackeys sensing another excruciating defeat in the upcoming November elections have resorted to the beatings of war drums, preparing the minds of their supporters to arm them to resist what they say are «plots by Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Madam Charlotte Osei to rig the impending election for sitting President John Mahama.»

«The commission declares Yoweri Kaguta Museveni the elected President of the Republic of Uganda,» Election Commission chief Badru Kiggundu said as he reacommission declares Yoweri Kaguta Museveni the elected President of the Republic of Uganda,» Election Commission chief Badru Kiggundu said as he reaCommission chief Badru Kiggundu said as he read results.

Instead, the Commission said it «will continue to engage stakeholders to ensure that a clean and credible voters» register is in place for the 2016 general elections through an inclusive and collaborative audit process.»

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it will remain vigilant in collation of results until the announcement of the final result and winner of the Anambra governorship election.

Election commission chief Attahiru Jega said the delay until 28 March was necessary because of a lack of troops available to protect voters.

A single person needs to be placed in charge of supervising general elections, the Electoral Commission's head has said.

While operatives say there is still plenty of time for candidates to jump into the race, the next Federal Election Commission reporting period runs from July 1 through Sept. 30, and Democratic candidates may want to declare soon to raise as much money as possible before the quarter ends as a measure of their viability and popularity heading into the electiElection Commission reporting period runs from July 1 through Sept. 30, and Democratic candidates may want to declare soon to raise as much money as possible before the quarter ends as a measure of their viability and popularity heading into the electionelection year.

Bill Mahoney, the research coordinator at NYPIRG, said after reviewing the documents that the Commission appeared to have gotten off to a promising start with an unprecedented review of a system plagued by wildly inconsistent reporting by campaigns and lax oversight by the state Board of Elections.

... The YouGov poll, commissioned by the Labour Uncut blog, shows that a majority (53 per cent) of current Tory supporters believe their party has got better since the last election, with only 11 per cent saying it has got worse.

The bipartisan poll, which was commissioned by Rock the Vote, found that young adults are paying close attention to the election — about 77 percent of those surveyed said they were either very likely or somewhat likely to vote.

Trump's election integrity commission will make public records requests to obtain voter data from the states that have refused to turn over that information, the commission's vice chair said.

But the former ambassador in a press statement said a committee has been commissioned to establish the cause of NDC's defeat adding that until the Professor Kwesi Botwe Committee finishes its work and submits the report on its findings to the leadership of the party, «no one can factually tell Ghanaians why we lost the election.»

The National Elections Commission (NEC) said on Thursday that with 98.1 % of the run - off vote counted, Mr Weah had won 61.5 % of the vote while Mr Boakai was far behind with 38.5 %.

The National Media Commission says it is concerned about the peace and stability of the country and the role of the media, especially in this election year.

President Mahama said he has restrained himself from getting involved in the argument because as a President, «I'm not supposed to get involved in these things and interfere in the work of the Electoral Commission but I do believe that our Electoral Commission has proved over and over again that it is capable and so let us give it the peace of mind to be able to deliver a credible elections for us.»

This, the President said was an indication that government was committed to resourcing the Commission so that it delivers good elections for the people of Ghana.

Touching on the track record of the EC, President Mahama said: «I believe that we have one of the best Electoral Commissions in Africa, I dare even say in the world and our Electoral Commission has proved over and over again that it is capable to deliver credible, transparent and fair elections.»

In a lawsuit filed todayin the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia, the ALCU says the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity violated federal public access requirements by holding its first meeting in private, without public notice.

Founder of the All People's Congress (APC) Hassan Ayariga says he will sue the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) if it fails to implement its regulation to ban political parties not in good standing from contesting the 2016 elections.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's opponents in the November election race are stepping up accusations over the ethics commission scandal and citing sections of state law that they say might have been broken by the governor's aides.

He said, «I am not willing to put the State Republican Primary Board, the Secretary of State's Office and Division of Elections, the County Election Commissions, the campaign staff, my volunteers, my family and the public through additional weeks of litigation, with uncertainty as to who the nominee will be... A contest would not be the right thing for the Republican Party and the conservative cause in Tennessee.»