Sentences with phrase «party election law cases»

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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.

The action of the executive committee, which was elected in 2014, «undermines the election results of the 2016 primary election, and is inconsistent with case law limiting the authority of the 2014 executive committee» between the primary and the party convention.

Given the «apparent ambiguities» presented by the case, Vance also called on the legislature in Albany to «clarify the Election Law to prevent workarounds that might undermine the purpose of contribution limits,» and to prohibit third parties from «orchestrating the flow of contributions.»

Another party in the case, former Niagara County Republican leader Henry Wojtaszek, has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor election law violation.

That law states that in such instances, a majority of the party's statewide candidates from the previous election (in this case there are four) must back one of the rule sets.

According to relevant Elections Law, in case of vacancy, if for example, one of the elected Members of the Parliament were appointed as Attorney General of the Republic, the next in line was of the same party in the electoral district and is automatically «elected» as a Member of the House of Representatives.