Sentences with phrase «by election officials»

With foreclosures on the rise again, the question shouldn't be if a voter facing foreclosure can vote but where that voter can cast their ballot, and that question should be clearly answered by election officials» says Robert Brandon, president of the Fair Elections Legal Network.

Instead, a seperate group, known as Vote Leave, was formally chosen by election officials to lead the referendum.

Candidates typically collect far more signatures than required because some end up being disqualified by election officials or challenged by opponents.

The form must then be received by election officials at least 20 days before the election.

For the first time, the said Forms would be polling station specific and would, therefore, not require the exercise of discretion during distribution by Election Officials.

Counties used this time to count any absentee ballots or provisional ballots not yet counted, to reconcile the number of signatures on the roster of registered voters with the number of ballots recorded on the ballot statement, to count any valid write - in votes, to reproduce any damaged ballots, if necessary, and to conduct a hand count of the ballots cast in 1 % of the precincts, chosen at random by the elections official.

The 22 affidavit ballots are for voters whose names were not on lists at polling places and whose eligibility was verified afterward by elections officials.

Not exact matches

The Michigan courts appeared unlikely to rule immediately, with one asking for a response from state elections officials by Tuesday.

Trump's claims that voter fraud affected the election have repeatedly been shot down by fact - checkers and voting officials.

Agora was accredited as an international observer by Sierra Leone's National Electoral Commission (NEC), which provides the official election count.

The CIA concluded last month that hackers directed by high - level Russian officials worked to interfere in the 2016 US presidential election to help Trump win.

The long - suffering public official first drew Democrats» ire when he investigated party nominee Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign, then caused Republicans great irritation after the election by investigating the possibility of Trump campaign collusion with Russia.

By the time it received Steele's dossier in September 2016, the FBI had already been investigating Russia's election meddling for two months and had begun looking into possible ties between Trump campaign officials — like Page — and Russian actors.

The Department of Homeland Security's communications with state election officials were «impeded by state officials» mistrust of federal government overreach coupled with an unprecedented level of Russian cyber intrusions.»

Cobb has been the lead lawyer representing Trump in an investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and possible collusion with Russians by Trump campaign officials.»

It was the latest affirmation by a former top US official about Russia's US - election interference.

In August and September, Johnson and other security officials, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, became «increasingly convinced» that Russia had perpetrated the election process by hacking the DNC and other political figures.

This reflected the political significance of the possibility that an official recession would be confirmed by the numbers, right smack in the middle of an election campaign — all the more so -LSB-...]

Because the Steele dossier — a private intelligence report compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele — included a claim that Cohen met with a Russian official in Prague to talk about Russia's interference and advocacy for Trump in the 2016 election.

The company has been lambasted by public officials and others for spreading false stories, and for allowing Russian - linked groups to use its platform to potentially sway voters during the 2016 election.

State election officials are baffled by a Bloomberg report alleging that Russian hackers compromised the voting systems in 39 states, adding that cybersecurity firms were engaging in scare tactics to win state and local contracts to protect election systems.

A White House official has dismissed the story as «old, recycled reports, which were published and strongly denied prior to the election,» while Cohen released a statement signed by «Stormy Daniels» denying an affair and calling reports of a payment «completely false.»

Freedom of Information requests filed by the New Democrat Official Opposition have revealed that the Christy Clark Liberal government reduced youth addiction treatment spaces by 25 percent after promising in the 2013 election to build more spaces.

While it looked as if the NDP might form the official opposition in that election, over the course of the election Notley chipped away at Jim Prentice's campaign, gaining momentum through a positive and hopeful campaign that contrasted to the uninspiring institutional campaign presented by the PCs.

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

Also missing from the 2002 election are former secretary - general Michel Zen - Ruffiman, whose dossier on corruption threatened to bring Blatter down, and Farra Ado, then - president of the Somali Football Federation, who claimed to have been offered $ 100,000 by officials working for Blatter's re-election.

NYC Councilman Eric Ulrich has seized on this morning's NY Post report of a top Queens GOP official's suspension by the NYC Board of Elections after being caught soliciting a «finder's fee» from a voting machine contractor to continue his on - again / off - again war with the borough's Republican chairman, Phil Ragusa.

The torture and murder last week of a top election official and the deportation of two foreign Odinga advisers have fuelled wild online conspiracy theories and «fake news» items consumed voraciously by Kenya's tech - savvy population.

Betty Ann Canizio - Aqil, a Board of Elections chief clerk in Brooklyn, is expected to be suspended after a vote by the board's commissioners — the second BOE official to be suspended over New York's primary day snafu that led many voters to be turned away at the polls.

The Newark by - election faces a greater risk of a legal challenge because of «inadequately performing Electoral Commission officials», a local council chief has said.

You may request a vote - by - mail ballot on the form provided by your County Elections Official.

Erie County Board of Elections officials confirmed the investigation began with a complaint about critical mailers funded by the PAC.

It is the expectation of Bayelsans that this time around election materials will get to the various units across the council area as against the botched December exercise where materials and electoral officials were hijacked by political thugs.

It seems to me that what most people typically mean when they say «Trump colluded with Russia to win the election» is, quite simply, that Trump, or his campaign, knowingly met with some key people from Russia (who either were government officials, or had connections to government officials) and received help from these Russians in order to help Trump's campaign, and this particular «help» from the Russians was illicitly obtained by them in the first place (e.g. through hacking).

In 2015, attempts by the Chairperson to stop district electoral officers from inserting ghost names on the list of officials recruited for the 2015 district level elections, to enable them appropriate the allowances for the officials resulted in the Chairperson being reported to the BNI for investigation.

However, many warn that the economy is running too hot — around 25 % actual inflation per year (although the non-credible, official rate put out by the government's statistics bureau is less than half that amount, another point of criticism) and some expect there to be a possibly disruptive correction (a «hard landing») sometime following the election.

It's interesting that Crowley chose to register this committee (although she's hardly the only district leader to do so), because there's some question as to whether party official elections will take place at all this year, thanks to the chaos caused by redistricting.

Likewise, the new media team's online fundraising section actually had more staff than the official campaign finance arm by election day!

People in hi - vis jackets shuffle paper Facebook Twitter Pinterest Election officials from the EU and African Union gather to follow counting by members of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission in Nairobi.

Other examples from observers and social media included ballot boxes being stuffed with extra ballots in multiple regions; an election official assaulting an observer; CCTV cameras obscured by flags or nets from watching ballot boxes; discrepancies in ballot numbers; last - minute voter registration changes likely designed to boost turnout; and a huge pro-Putin sign in one polling station.

However, this year's campaign was marred by hundreds of violent incidents, including the murder of a high - profile election official.

«The issues raised by our intelligence services regarding potential interference by Russian State officials in the past Presidential Election are deeply troubling.

If you did not include this information when you registered, send a photocopy of some personal identification with your Vote - by - Mail Application or to your county elections official before the election.

Onondaga County is among four New York counties that used voting software provided by a U.S. company targeted in a cyber-attack by Russia before the 2016 presidential election, election officials said.

Officials from the Board of Elections have said we can expect a final vote count by the end of the week.

As in the national election, the Greens» recent membership surge didn't really translate into hard results, though they will be encouraged by seven gains in Labour - dominated Bristol, bringing them within touching distance of official opposition.

«When we allow for the editorials in New York City to tell our story, when we allow for columnists and other individuals and elected officials who honestly are doing a disservice to their community by not understanding election law,... [to be] going out there and blasting the hardworking men and women at the Board of Elections, we think it's appalling,» he argued.

On 5 May 2016, a spokesperson for Burnham confirmed that he had been approached by party officials in Greater Manchester, asking him to consider resigning from the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn in order to run in the upcoming mayoral election in 2017.

The motion contains an affidavit by Town of Oyster Bay Republican Councilman Joseph Muscarella where he states that following the November, 2016 election, he and his brother, Thomas Muscarella, met at a Mineola restaurant with former Nassau Democratic Party official and now State Supreme Court Justice Robert McDonald, to congratulate him on being elected to a judgeship.

This week, I've been joined by a group of 20 international MPs and electoral officials — from countries ranging from Rwanda to Jamaica to India to Ghana, among others — who are in the UK to observe the conduct and electoral practices of the general election.