Sentences with phrase «breaking electoral law»
In October 2008, the Electoral Commission cleared the Conservative Party of breaking electoral law by using an MIC - funded company, Coleshill Campaigning Services (aka Constituency Campaigning Services), as a front to provide millions of pounds of services to Tories fighting marginal seats.
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Ukip leader inadvertently broke electoral law when he failed to declare donation in kind, Electoral Commission rules
The Conservative party will not face an official inquiry into allegations that it broke electoral law by failing to declare News International «s payments to its former head of communications, Andy Coulson, after the elections watchdog concluded that there was insufficient evidence of a breach.
«Whatever the rights and wrongs of maintaining secrecy about financial donations in Northern Ireland, it can not possibly be right to keep secret the details of a regulated entity being found to have broken electoral law and being fined a substantial amount.
Lawyers for Mr Sanni and ex-colleague Christopher Wyllie published a 50 - page legal opinion on Monday which they argued pointed to «a prima facie» case that Vote Leave broke electoral law during the fiercely - contested 2016 poll.
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If you believe that there are examples where a candidate has clearly broken the law, the RPA creates an electoral commission, with the power to enforce election law.
«Unless we apply the break and uphold the rule of law and democratic conventions and practices in all ramifications, our greatest losses, moving forward, will not be economic recession, lack of critical infrastructure, among others, but an irredeemably deteriorated civilian rule where the decisions of the courts, letters and spirit of the law, resolutions of the legislature, electoral choices of Nigerians as expressed through the ballot no longer count.»
Channel 4 News, which conducted an undercover investigation into the consultancy firm, reports that it may have broken US electoral law, which prohibits co-ordination between an official election campaign and outside groups, or «Super PACs».