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POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (04/04/2012)(readMedia)-- On Wednesday, residents and community leaders from Community Voices Heard (CVH) in Poughkeepsie gathered outside the Dutchess County Office Building on Market St to demand that their elected officials that represent them in Albany pass a Fair Elections system during this year's legislative session.

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (04/03/2012)(readMedia)-- On Wednesday, residents and community leaders from Community Voices Heard (CVH) in Poughkeepsie will demand that their elected officials that represent them in Albany pass a Fair Elections system during this year's legislative session.

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The Special Counsel's office indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies in February for committing federal crimes while trying to sow discord in the U.S political system, including during the 2016 election.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that PropOrNot and the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Research Institute both attribute the flood of so - called fake news, or hoax and misleading headlines, during the 2016 election to an elaborate Russian propaganda campaign aimed at sowing distrust in the American political system and undermining public consensus.

Currently, over half the states have post-election audit systems to verify that the equipment and procedures used during an election were up to snuff before the results are officially certified.

Those systemic problems have dramatically worsened since the presidential election, with Facebook coming under intense fire on multiple fronts: Russian operatives using Facebook to manipulate voter sentiment during the presidential election, Facebook accounts spreading «fake» news, the potential for its advertising system to be used for racist targeting and its slow response to violent or harmful content on the platform.

Russian agents abused the company's systems to target millions of American voters with disinformation during the 2016 election.

This is a bit dated, but Frontline had a piece during the lead - up to the 2008 election on different healthcare systems from other democracies (UK, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and Taiwan).

Those in Cyrenaica clamoring for a return to the decentralized federal system are a minority in their own region, and the sheer outpouring of voters during the recent election shows that the majority of the Libyan people are willing to give the new National Assembly a chance.

Recent stark examples of the absurdity in a «winner - takes - all» system occurred in Florida and New Mexico during the 2000 presidential election when candidate George W. Bush won both states by a fraction of a percentage point, but gained the total number of each state's electoral votes.

During elections, supplementary data flows in daily from the field via mobile tools carried by canvassers or through pipelines transporting information from social media and digital - ad systems.

Obama opted out of taking public funds during the September to November general election period, becoming the first candidate for president to opt out of public financing since the system was created in the 1970s.

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El - Rufa» i on Tuesday said he updated President Muhammadu Buhari on the use of electronic voting system during last Saturday's Local Government elections.

State Sen. - elect Tony Avella (l.) and state Assemblyman Rory Lancman discuss problems with the new voting system during last week's election.

Cuomo announced the proposal during his State of the State Address last month, presenting it as a way to boost voter participation and modernize the election system.

NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer is ready to take a «sledgehammer» to the city's voting system following the disappearance of 126,000 Brooklyn Democrats from election rolls that came to light during last week's primary.

Governor Cuomo pledged during his election campaign that he would work toward reforming the state's campaign finance system, which contains loopholes that permit nearly unlimited amounts of money to be given to candidates.

It's unclear, though, whether there's enough political pressure, especially during an election year, to convince the Republican - controlled Senate to approve the $ 1.25 per hour raise and create a system of automatic future increases tied to other economic changes.

An immediate problem is the proposal's attempt to have the Board of Elections instantaneously set up a matching fund system during the already started 2014 election cycle.

Given the unpopularity of PP and PSOE, the fact that EP elections are often considered of «second - order» and the specificities of the electoral system for European elections in Spain (proportional representation in a large national electoral district of 54 seats with no electoral threshold), one would expect that this election will threaten the stability of the two - party system (or «bipartidismo», as it is called in Spain) that has dominated Spanish politics during the recent democratic era.

National Commissioner and Chairman, Election Observation & Party Monitoring Committee (EOPMC), Prof. Anthonia Okoosi - Simbine (standing), delivering her remarks during the Train the Trainers workshop on Campaign Finance, Monitoring and Tracking for the EPM staff, organised by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), in Owerri, Imo state recently.

New York City's election system is not aligned with the federal election system, which means voters may face more elections during any given year.

During a lengthy interview with The Post, Samuels threatened to run against Cuomo if the governor fails to win approval in the Legislature of a system of publicly financed election campaigns.

The most obvious problem is that the plan lies on the much (and deservedly) maligned's requirement to have the state Board of Elections instantaneously set up a matching fund system during the already started 2014 election cycle.

«The public financing system was designed to ensure equal and fair access for all candidates who seek elected office in New York City by limiting the amount of money candidates can raise and spend during an election cycle.

On Monday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo proposed adding money to the state budget to provide for a statewide early voting system, in which some polling stations would be open during the 12 days before an election.

Then on Friday, his attorneys continued that tack, examining the influence Buffalo Teachers Federation President Philip Rumore has over the school system and pressing one board member on how much union support she received during the last election.

Comptroller Scott Stringer vowed Sunday to «take a sledgehammer» to the city's voting system following the disappearance of 126,000 Brooklyn Democrats from election rolls that came to light during last Tuesday's primary.

The most significant legislation that's been enacted in this area during his tenure created a new enforcement counsel at the state Board of Elections and a temporary public financing system that was enacted so late into the 2014 cycle that nobody participated in it.

With education policy set to play an important part in the May general election campaign, debates around the future direction of the school system will take place against the backdrop of fast - paced reforms made during the coalition's time in office.

Replying to Labour criticism of Conservative plans to recognise marriage in the tax system, Philip Hammond, the shadow work and pensions secretary, told Channel 4 News: «What we have said, and we've clarified that this afternoon just so there shouldn't be any confusion, we are absolutely committed to introducing a recognition of marriage in the tax system during the course of the next parliament, if we win the election.»

[10] During a televised election debate Stephen Harper, while discussing the government's controversial decision to remove certain immigrants and refugee claimants from accessing Canada's health care system made reference to «old stock Canadians» as being in support of the government's position.

As we saw during the 2016 US election, protecting traditional computer systems, which use zeros and ones, from hackers is not a perfect science.

Integrity Voting Systems, the Awards» official election teller, sealed the results until they were announced live during the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.

The tone of articles about the state's accountability system also shifted drastically during the 2002 and 2004 election cycles.

It was a far harder system to crack into than Sarah Palin's Yahoo account that was compromised during the election campaign.

The OzEnrol system itself was in fact taken down during the 2010 election campaign because of the uncertainty about its legal effect, and it has not been recreated since then.

During his tenure with the Attorney General, Mr. Levy was responsible for the investigation and trial of organized crime and corruption matters with statewide and national significance, including investigations into allegations of voter suppression in the 1993 gubernatorial election and the «computer gate» investigation involving the infiltration of the New Jersey Assembly Democratic staff's computer system.

Russian agents abused the company's systems to target millions of American voters with disinformation during the 2016 election.

On June 21, 2017, nearly eight months after election day, in an open hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, NPPD's Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications Jeanette Manfra confirmed for the first time that «election - related systems in 21 states were targeted» by Russian cyber actors during the 2016 election cycle.

Accepting that these steps by themselves won't stop all people trying to game the system, the Facebook CEO said it will, however, make it a lot harder for anyone to do «what the Russians did during the 2016 election and use fake accounts and pages to run ads».

As for preventing future manipulation of the system during a major election year (not just here but around the world):

Last year, the Department of Homeland Security notified election officials in 21 states that their systems had been targeted by hackers during the 2016 election.

Top federal officials have concluded that Russian hackers targeted election systems in 21 states and breached that of at least one, Illinois, during the last election cycle.

Decentralized registry technology will be implemented in the storage system of data obtained via exit - polls during the presidential elections in Russia on 18 March 2018.

Mark Zuckerberg wrote that the steps alone «won't stop all people trying to game the system, But they will make it a lot harder for anyone to do what the Russians did during the 2016 election and use fake accounts and pages to run ads».