Sentences with phrase «us electoral process»

The NSA and FBI tell Congress that Russia did not influence electoral process.

His tweet got the instant like from Minister of Information and Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad who had earlier warned the Facebook of taking «stringent action» if any attempt was made by them to influence the electoral process in India.

Every year, the firm's Democracy Index provides a snapshot of global democracy by scoring countries on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture.

Trump frequently calls Mueller's investigation a «witch hunt,» and believes it is motivated not by a desire to make sense of Russia's meddling in the US electoral process, but rather a partisan plot to undermine his presidency.

During the Argentinian electoral process in 2017 hundreds of fake articles were distributed through Facebook.

Some Latin American democracies are also beginning to investigate whether the data harvesting techniques associated with Cambridge Analytica (CA) were used in their electoral processes.

Apart from being named by Alexander Nix in the video leak which blew up the scandal, there isn't much empirical evidence of Cambridge Analytica actually tampering with South American electoral processes.

Campaign finance refers to the rules that govern the use of money in electoral processes such as general elections, by - elections, and referenda.

On Friday, special counsel Robert Mueller's team indicted 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies, accusing them of conspiring to interfere with «US political and electoral processes, including the presidential election of 2016.»

Today, many people wonder whether they should participate in the electoral process at all,...

In an effort to take U.S. and world attention away from the positive assessments of Nicaragua's electoral process, the U.S. manufactured a «MIG» crisis.

Leaders from various opposition political parties told me that the U.S. embassy offered them bribes in an effort to get them to withdraw from Nicaragua's electoral process in 1984.

Nor is the fact that money talks in the electoral process, having a significant influence on who is elected and what they do as elected officials.

Since the deal has resulted in extensive financial inequality, Christian justice counsels us to insulate the electoral process from the distortions that disparities in wealth can introduce.

Having a right to their money, they also have a right to whatever part it may give them in the electoral process.

When money is as unequally available as it is in our society and talks as loudly as it does in our electoral process, it is also small wonder that many see political engagement as an exercise in futility.

To this is added a distrust of the electoral process and a preference for hierarchy or elitism over egalitarianism.

People who express unquestioning confidence in the U.S. democratic system place great faith in the U.S. electoral process and the «free press.»

All over the world we are witnessing social pressure being brought to bear demanding democracy, which is increasingly seen as a methodological requirement which goes far beyond the simple electoral process.

But when the balloting was repeated using fair electoral processes, slavery was voted down six - to - one.

Undoubtedly, there are failings in the electoral process and the president, but we can not treat them as if they are the roots of the problem.

What we need to ask, however, is whether the weaknesses of the electoral process are in fact signs of a more general political failure that has left us unable to support better elections.

I have never seen my frustration with electoral process in my country described so well..

In Dave Eggers's The Circle (a 2013 novel and 2017 movie), set in the near future, an eponymous social media monopoly embodying the worst elements of Apple, Google, and Facebook combined prepares to restructure the American electoral process.

I bet you know more about how our government and political systems and electoral processes work.

«I guess the electoral process is a good one, «he said.

He added: ``... Who is Bawumia to be short - circuiting our electoral process?

We are not suggesting this is the answer, but the prospect of injecting some colour, fun and individualism back into the electoral process has surely got to be a good thing.

Democracy, however, is far richer and broader than just the electoral process.

«The credibility of our electoral process under the current INEC is hugely in doubt.

The former boss for the National Commission for Civic Education also pointed out that all political parties are actively involved in the electoral process, and an extension of the scope to foreign countries should not affect the contributions of the parties.

«The few soldiers that were deployed only helped in maintaining law and order and never interfered with the electoral process.

Ayorinde explained that as the election that would bring on board a new set of public officers for the next four years at the local government level, the restriction of movement will allow the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) and the security agencies to distribute electoral materials in good time and ensure a seamless electoral process.

@user4012 about 2), the final election day is just the end of a lengthy electoral process; if voters are better educated and use that education all through the process a demagogue should be stopped earlier in the process (so, for a party supporter it would not be end as [My demagogue] vs [candidate from other party], because [My demagogue] would have been voted out in the primaries; in these primaries such a voter would have the option to vote for other candidates more ideologically acceptable).

«The fear of somebody coming in and giving an advantage to [Uhuru Kenyatta's] opponent as far as the electoral process is concerned probably would have motivated that unfortunate incident,» he said on PM Express, a current affairs programme on the Joy News channel on Multi TV.

it is imperative that INEC as a public institution run with the approval, and from the funds of the public perform its responsibility of facilitating / regulating the electoral process responsibly as failure may lead to losing public / peoples support and by extension, its existence.

My guess - and it's only a guess - is that such a route may open up if serious and substantial irregularities were uncovered in the electoral process due to directly or indirectly to him.

But beyond electoral processes, it is just as vital to the health of a democracy that ordinary citizens are meaningfully involved in the discourse concerning issues affecting their lives and country.

Election campaigns and access to the electoral process continue to be affected by traditional barriers, security concerns, absence of female voters and female observer groups.Past elections reflect significant obstacles women have faced as candidates, voters as well as election workers.

If a process is meant to improve the integrity of the electoral process, judgments that shoot it down can not advance the cause of our development; it means we have chosen a path of regression to the era where elections are decided by unsavory self - help in bloating the voter register with strange names on the part of politicians.

And the wrong motivations likely lead to desperation and ultimately an attempt to sabotage the electoral process.

Although there has been a concerted effort to make the electoral process seem fairer in Russia since 2012, some commentators have claimed that officials have simply become better at falsifying results.

As I stated:... you can not judge the merits of a proposed electoral change for the House of Commons without considering how such a change interacts with the electoral process for the upper chamber (assuming we ever get one).

This demands that the electoral process be as inclusive and non-partisan as possible for Afghanistan to realize a just and sustainable democracy.

Despite being nominally given the opportunity to choose, the way the Maduro government has set up the electoral process, committed fraud, repressed the opposition and systematically undermined the process of free and fair elections over the past years, all but guarantees authoritarian durability.

Speaking before the declaration, Musalia Mudavadi, co-principal of NASA, said the organization would not be party to the announcement of Kenyatta as President, citing unresolved concerns about the veracity of the electoral process.

However, if a more isolationist or nationalist US president emerges from the 2016 electoral process in America, and European electors give ever higher levels of support for nationalist - oriented parties, then we have little reason to expect partnership on foreign policy issues, and even fewer reasons to expect multilateral responses to global problems.

Mr. Dzakpasu explained that the perception emanates from the low education of voters about the commission and electoral processes.

Consequently, for the first time in our electoral history, political party representatives could monitor the process of printing of carbonized forms that led to higher levels of transparency and the integrity of our electoral process.

In response, the opposition, still represented in the MUD, saw itself forced to boycott the electoral process arguing that it would not legitimize an undemocratic election and the government's uncontrolled hold onto power.