Sentences with phrase «election commission who»

«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.

According to Trevor Potter, a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission who also appeared on 60 Minutes, the money may very well constitute «a coordinated, illegal, «in - kind» contribution by Cohen for the purpose of influencing the election.»

Not exact matches

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.»

The top diplomat for East Asia, Daniel Russel, is criticizing the election commission's disqualification of dozens of parliamentary candidates, many of them Muslims, and the disenfranchisement of stateless Rohingya, who were allowed to vote in previous elections.

Such is the case for Trump, who filed a letter with the Federal Election Commission establishing his eligibility to run for a second term in 2020 just hours after taking the oath of office.

«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.

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.

Ambassador Jakob Tobing, who — after the fall of Soeharto in 1998 — chaired Indonesia's first democratic election and then for three years chaired the commission that rewrote the constitution into a democratic document.

Bishop Leonidas Polk, the principal founder, a West Point man and the man who helped select Sewanee's location, «by merit of... railway contiguity... [and] mountain air and pure water... beyond the reach of epidemics,» accepted a Confederate commission partly because Union sympathizers burned Sewanee buildings after Lincoln's election.

They were among 15 volunteers who devoted three days to poring over the petitions and comparing them to registration cards at the Election Commission.

But we also think that it's astonishing that nobody has responsibility for the diversity of democracy nationally, and we shall be taking steps to ask government, the Electoral Commission and elections officers to do this, both in terms of providing support for the identification and training of candidates through a Democracy Diversity Fund, and by monitoring who is standing for election in the first place.

This page from the Federal Election Commission lists everyone who has filed the appropriate paperwork to register as a 2016 presidential candidate.

Hillary Clinton is supporting a Democratic congressional candidate's use of campaign funds on child care, writing a letter in support to the Federal Elections Commission that also highlights the number of women who are running for office in the 2018 midterm eElections Commission that also highlights the number of women who are running for office in the 2018 midterm electionselections.

And I'm afraid the idea that in general or other elections the Electoral Commission does enforce even the rules that do exist, let alone that those rules create a level playing field or are even enforceable at all, betrays the fact that those who write such are not actually that closely involved in electoral politics.

In any year in which a triennial general election of members of any local authority must be held under the Local Electoral Act 2001, the Electoral Commission must direct an inquiry to be made concerning the particulars on the roll of every person who --

Dinesh D'Souza, pleaded guilty today to contributing $ 15,000 more than permitted to Wendy Long, R - N.Y., a 2012 federal U.S. Senate candidate in New York who ran against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D - N.Y. Charges of making false statements to the Federal Election Commission were dropped.

Finally, under new Racing, Pari - mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law § 1330 - a, any current gaming licensee who spends more than $ 1,000 supporting or opposing the November referendum on casino gambling must file their expenditure reports with the Gaming Commission as well as with the state Board of Elections.

On Thursday, Deacon filed her paperwork with the Federal Election Commission — joining Syracuse University Professor Eric Kingson who launched his own campaign this summer for the party's nomination.

A constituency candidate at an election who applies for a recount of the votes or a person who files an election petition may, by notice in writing to the Electoral Commission, require the Electoral Commission forthwith to annotate the list attached to the master roll pursuant to section 187 (3):

Roger Dean «RD» Huffstetler, who spent nearly three - quarters of the roughly $ 1.1 million he raised through the first filing quarter, according to the Federal Elections Commission records, suspended his campaign Thursday and announced he is endorsing Democratic primary opponent Leslie Cockburn.

«But it is Mr. Espaillat, a 14 - year Albany veteran, who has been an outspoken voice for the most crucial reform of all — an independent redistricting commission to create fairer elections in the state.

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.»

Schneiderman's opponent in the fall elections is one of those raising questions about whether the attorney general, who was key to the formation of the ethics commission, could have been more involved and done something to stop alleged interference in probes by Cuomo's aides.

A Democrat who's filed a statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission to run in the Centennial State's 6th District, Haney reported $ 1 million in receipts in the 2nd quarter.

• The NPP will engage the services of NPP activists who will pose as NDC supporters and supply food to Electoral Officers on duty and they (NPP) will turn round to accuse the Electoral Commission (EC) of working together with the NDC to rig the elections.

Yakubu, however, expressed the commission's condolences to the families of all those who lost their lives in the violence in the rerun elections in Rivers.

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei, who was the guest speaker at the ceremony held at the Banquet Hall of the State House admonished journalists to be circumspect in their reportage this election year.

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has congratulated the Bayelsa State Governor who also doubles as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the state gubernatorial election, Seriake Dickson for been able won the the support of the people of Bayelsa who stood behind him during the exercise, which was on Monday, declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

The apex court on May 5 2016, asked the Electoral Commission to expunge from the current voters» register the names of all persons who registered and voted in the 2012 elections, with the NHIS card as a proof of identity.

The Electoral Commission (EC) today [Monday], disqualified thirteen persons who were hoping to contest the country's presidential elections in December this year.

One would allow political candidates to use campaign funds to pay for child care, as the Federal Election Commission recently allowed that a mother of two who's running for Congress on Long Island.

Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood has challenged the People's National Convention's (PNC) Abu Ramadan, to furnish the Electoral Commission with names of people who registered with NHIS cards ahead of the 2012 elections, since they claim the EC's figure of 56,000 is spurious.

He told journalists that the death of Mr. Kazeem Alimi, who represented the local government in the Lagos State House of Assembly made it mandatory for the Commission to conduct the by - election.

Mr. McGahn, a longtime Republican campaign finance lawyer in Washington who served on the Federal Election Commission, was the top lawyer on Mr. Trump's campaign.

The Electoral Commission today [Wednesday], officially submitted what is supposed to be the full list of persons who found their way onto the voters» register using the National Health Insurance Scheme card as a proof of Ghanaian citizenship, prior to the 2012 elections.

In a country where there has never been a great deal of difference between parties or voters on European issues, the big question of this first distinct European election is the fate of Juncker, who has been chosen by the European People's Party as its candidate for the presidency of the European Commission — he is not a candidate for the European Parliament election.

In 2014, the governor and legislative leaders — Silver and then - Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who is also on trial for selling his office — agreed to dissolve the commission in exchange for a pilot program of public campaign finance, a new enforcement office at the state's Board of Elections and changes to the bribery statute.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), who has called for a nonpartisan commission to draw congressional and state legislative districts, called the ruling «a tremendous step forward in the fight for free and fair elections.»

The group is run by Liz Kurantowicz, the former state Republican Party official who managed Voters for Good Government, the independent - expenditure group that ran afoul of the State Elections Enforcement Commission last year by paying Foley's pollster, an expense that the commission says Foley's campaign should haveCommission last year by paying Foley's pollster, an expense that the commission says Foley's campaign should havecommission says Foley's campaign should have incurred.

House Rules Chairman Jose Oliva, a Miami Lakes Republican who will take over as House Speaker after the November elections, said in a text Friday he would support allowing the Joint Legislative Budget Commission to redirect surplus funds «only after all counties had spoken on the question.»

He also ran into more controversy recently when the State Elections Enforcement Commission opened an investigation into a complaint by a Bridgeport resident who said he never signed a petition that allowed Ganim to get on the primary ballot.

In light of what appears to be a failure to comply with the requirement of the 2009 Elections Act to register as a donor, openDemocracy reported this donation to the Electoral Commission, who said:

Officials of the Electoral Commission who disclosed this exclusively to TV3 Monday said copies of the register will subsequently be issued to the various political parties contesting the elections.

The Electoral Commission (EC) on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 started giving out nomination forms to interested political parties and candidates who wish to contest in the election.

The party said it is a waste of time, scarce national resources and ridiculous shadow - chasing, the action of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC in declaring one Yahaya Bello, purported to be of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and who did not participate in the overall election, as Kogi state Governor - elect.

However, under legislation passed by the Labour government the Electoral Commission can refer the case to the police, who could launch an investigation under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.

A total of 28, 120 people from seven regions who registered with the National Health Insurance cards ahead of the 2012 elections would be submitted to the Supreme Court by the Electoral Commission today.

Strangely, however, the same police have spared two ladies, who were arrested on Election Day, engaging in multiple voting through the use of Electoral Commission (EC) jackets.

In a panel of seven that was led by Justice Tanko Muhammad, on Thursday affirmed the election of the Peoples Democratic Party's candidate, Governor Seriake Dickson, who was returned as the winner of the poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

«The Electoral Commission and all who are associated with the conduct of the elections have expended tireless effort to bring us to this stage.