Sentences with phrase «ballot snatching»

Justifying the cancellation of Southern Ijaw LGA elections, INEC posited that there were glaring cases of electoral malpractices characterized by ballot snatching, thuggery and violence.

We can not allow the NDC to rig the elections this year, and that is why I am employing the NPP to purchase a burglar proof... We can not entertain ballot snatching this election year.

Still, on the day, the free killing and ballot snatching of 2015 must never be tolerated.

On Rivers» general electoral anarchy: «Shocking cases of cold blooded killings and beheading, obstruction of votes, arson, voter intimidation, ballot snatching, missing result sheets, presenting of fake ballot papers, multiple thumb - printing, campaigning at polling units, compromise of ad - hoc staffs, absence of level playing environment, violence against media personnel and impunity were witnessed in different magnitude across the length and breadth of the state.

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There has reported instances where police officers have stood unconcernhttp: / / ghanapoliticsonline.com as ballot boxes are snatched during elections.

The system is very transparent, difficult to manipulate, so, whoever snatches ballot boxes will not achieve anything.»

Ballot boxes will then be snatched and swapped with already thumb - printed ballot pBallot boxes will then be snatched and swapped with already thumb - printed ballot pballot papers.

• The NPP has recruited «machomen» who will engage in the destruction and burning of electoral materials, EC equipment as well as snatching of ballot boxes in the NDC strongholds.

There were cases of attempted ballot box snatching, allegations of vote buying etc..

In the opinion of CADA, election threats come in different forms and may include intimidation, registering minors and foreigners, multiple registration, etc. during voter registration exercise or targeting of election officials, intimidation or harassment of journalists, incitement to violence in the media or public, protecting, expanding, or delineating turf or «no - go areas», attacks on election rallies or candidates, intimidation of voters to compel them to vote or stay away, physical attacks on election materials such as snatching and destruction of ballot boxes, armed clashes among political parties, violent clashes among groups of rival supporters, vandalism and physical attacks on property of opponents, targeted attacks against specific candidates or political parties, attacks on rivals who have either won in elections or were defeated, violent street protests and efforts by armed police to maintain or restore order, tear gas, firing on protestors, attacks by protestors on property or the police, escalation and perpetuation of ethnic or sectarian violence.

On Election Day, ballot boxes are snatched and stuffed with pre-thumb-printed papers.

«Voter registers, ballot papers, result sheets and Smart Card Readers were brazenly snatched at gun point.»

The Governor drew the attention of the course participants to the indictment of ACP Fakorede as contained on page 66 of INEC Report into Rivers Rerun Elections, wherein he was indicted for electoral fraud, violence and ballot box snatching and abduction of INEC officials.

People are saying this is no big deal and it can be replaced, but let us not forget that there is a phenomenon of snatching, so that if these are unaccounted for and retrieved, some unscrupulous individuals will snatch ballot boxes and swapo them with these missing ones and run away.»

He charged the crowd to do their best and also empower those who have strength to move to the polling stations to ensure that they beat up anyone who dares snatch a ballot box», Mr Boadu was caught on tape as saying.

He alleged that three months to the 2012 general elections, his network of intelligence picked information that the NDC was going to rig the election and that time not through the snatching of ballot boxes but by means of IT processes and that the Castle had already secured 10 percent of the votes.

«The security taskforce main agenda is to send 6 or more taskforces to NPP strong holds, hot spots on election day and that day, we are going to lynch them if they try it, we have also head that the security will be snatching ballot boxes and we want to tell them we [are] going to lynch them if they try it,» he stated.

At the last minute, however, Republican candidate Nicole Malliotakis and independent candidate Bo Dietl attempted to snatch the Reform nomination from Albanese through an «opportunity to ballot,» which had effectively opened up the Reform line to write - in

At the last minute, however, Republican candidate Nicole Malliotakis and independent candidate Bo Dietl attempted to snatch the Reform nomination from Albanese through an «opportunity to ballot,» which had effectively opened up the Reform line to write - in candidates.

Election Petition Tribunal which sat in Katsina after the by - election had on 15th November, nullified the election of Hon. Mansir Aliyu Mashi on the ground that election was marred with irregularities, ranging from ballot box snatching, failure of election to hold in some polling units among others and ordered fresh election in those polling units.

Kidnapping of candidates, snatching of ballot boxes, launching physical attacks on voters, etc are acts capable of marring elections.

According to him, «the soldiers should come to give evidence and explain where and how they were instructed to rig the election, whether they were instructed to thumb print ballot papers or they were instructed to snatch ballot boxes; how many of such ballot papers they thumb - printed and the number of boxes they snatched.»

Some states like Delta, Imo and Oyo had witnessed cases of violence and ballot box snatching during Saturday's APC congresses.

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He said Ghana is too enlightened for some people to engage in ballot box snatching and this must not be tolerated anymore.

He said the phenomenon of election violence including snatching of ballot box must stop and the time is now.

«Video evidence in the public domain proved that the police killed, maimed, snatched result sheets and ballot boxes as they assisted the APC all through the ill - fated rerun elections.

Can the same security agencies that were accused of ballot box snatching and assisting the APC to unleash terror on the people of Rivers State carry out any credible probe?

The APC spokesman said no ballot box was snatched anywhere during the election, saying that the election was peaceful and recorded a large turnout.

According to Oyedepo, the election was characterised by snatching of ballot boxes in many polling booths across the state, stuffing of already thump printed ballot papers into boxes and inadequate ballot papers.