Sentences with phrase «best elections experts»

Eleanor Randolph, a member of the New York Times» editorial board, profiles Zephyr Teachout's spunky bid to challenge New York governor Andrew Cuomo, asking «if she is such a trifle, then why has he hired one of the best elections experts in the state to pore over her records and find ways to get her off the ballot?»

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While that may play well to some of the more extreme members of the Republican party in the primaries, political experts don't see such talk surviving in a general election campaign.

Oh, and it may well be illegal, elections experts told the Daily Beast.

Since 1991, all candidates of parliamentary or presidential elections, as well as candidates for the Assembly of Experts, have to be qualified by the Guardian Council in order to run in the election.

@Stuart White: The Cabinet Office rule - book (draft of chapter 6, approved by the House of Commons Select Committee on Justice and drawn up in consultation, I understand, with the party leaders and with constitutional experts) lays it down that after an election the incumbent prime minister has a duty, as well as a right, to remain in office until there's clear and incontrovertible evidence that someone else is definitely in a position to command majority support in the house of commons.

The expert comments as well as gossip about the next general elections is growing louder by the day.

For Democrats, 2018 is shaping up to be a good election year — especially for those in New York state — with experts predicting better campaign fundraising for Democrats over Republicans.

BBC polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice added: «It is thus far from clear that the party has secured a marked revival in its overall performance this year, and its projected share is certainly well down on the 25 % or so of the vote that was routine for the party in local elections held before the formation of the coalition in 2010.»

Experts and good - government groups say the state should audit more ballots after an election to look for discrepancies.

During their stay in Ghana, the observers will participate in briefings on the Ghanaian political and electoral processes from Ghanaian experts, political leaders, election administrators, representatives of civil society, as well as NDI staff.

The 2017 election rewrote the rules, and though the opinion polls did well in tracking the Corbyn rise and the stagnant Tory vote, the experts largely missed the increasing popularity of Corbyn though by the time Paul Mason wrote in the FT on June 3rd that «the UK is not a left wing country, but it is a fair one that has had enough of austerity» — he captured something of the shifts taking place, and the shifts are not all to Labour.

It's partly because the topic is highly relevant to my forthcoming Letters to a Young Education Reformer, partly because of the well - deserved attention to Don Hirsch's new book Why Knowledge Matters, partly because expert predictions about everything from the consequences of Brexit to our current election have been so off, and partly because deference to (a vaguely conceived) «expertise» offers a fault line to so many of our current debates.

Before last year's midterms, an overwhelming majority of education experts polled by the consulting firm Whiteboard Advisors said replacing No Child Left Behind would have to wait until well after the 2016 elections — if it ever happened at all.

In the wake of Donald Trump's unexpected election to the presidency, climate experts are scrambling to recalculate whether the world has any chance of reaching the goals of the Paris climate accord if the president - elect makes good on his threat to withdraw from the deal.

One could also criticize the Harper government for its «war on science,» so eloquently described in Chris Turner's book of that name, or its egregiously misnamed and misconceived «Fair Elections Act,» which has been denounced by a roster of distinguished political scientists, or its cancellation of perhaps the best census in the world, again denounced by the experts, or the gutting of environmental legislation and the Department of the Environment.

Chicago Election Board spokesman Jim Allen said a well - known security expert who scours the Internet found names and other data from almost two million Chicago voters and called the authorities.

In the wake of the election of Trump and the UK decision to leave the European Union, Poelina said there is also a challenge for academics and experts to better communicate science in a language that is understood by ordinary people.