Sentences with phrase «election activities which»

Expenditure is «controlled» if it is spending on election activities which «can reasonably be regarded as intended to influence voters to vote for or against political parties or categories of candidates including those parties and categories of candidates who support or do not support particular policies or issues».

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Facebook will hire thousands of people to carry out the two new initiatives, which Zuckerberg says are meant to combat the kind of activity that allowed for Russian interference leading up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

According to the Democrats» memo, the DOJ provided the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court with «contemporaneous evidence» of Russia's interference in the 2016 election; information about «concerning Russian links and outreach to Trump campaign officials,»; Page's history with Russia - linked individuals and entities; and Page's «suspicious activities in 2016,» including those during a trip he took to Moscow in July of that year, during which he met with high - ranking Russian officials.

«Papadopoulos» interaction with Russian agents, coupled with real - time evidence of Russian election interference, provided the Court with a broader context in which to evaluate Russia's clandestine activities and Page's history and alleged contact with Russian officials,» the document said.

Stronger manufacturing activity data from the U.S. Thursday, in the form of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve's regional business survey, allowed investors to add long positions in the greenback, which has fallen more than 1.4 % this week in the wake of President Donald Trump's decision to fire his FBI Director, James Comey, and revelations that his campaign team may have had extensive contacts with Russian officials - despite his repeated denials - in the run up to last year's elections.

Just last week, the Federal Election Commission, which regulates political campaign activity, voted to begin writing rules that detail the kinds of disclaimers they will require on online and mobile political ads to identify sponsors.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

MoveOn.org Political Action is a federal political committee which primarily helps members elect candidates who reflect our values through a variety of activities aimed at influencing the outcome of the next election.

He insisted that MASSOB under Uwazuruike has held several activities in the last two years without being harassed or invited by security agencies and insisted that the Biafra elections which he claimed, would be held soon, won't be an exception.

The MyBO Web site served as the hub for electoral activities, with spokes that reached to an array of platforms, all of which drove conversation back to the Web site in order to engage the people, empower the voices, raise the money and get the boots on the ground needed to win the election.

Threat to elections is defined as any activity, event or actions that are intended to have adverse effect on election staff, facilities or equipment as opposed to security risk, defined as those events or circumstances which exist in the operational environment but are not purposely directed towards election interests.

This summary covers BES activities over the past year as well as activities which fall under a linked study funded under the ESRC Future of UK and Scotland Program «The Scottish Independence Referendum and the British voter: an enhancement to the British Election Study Internet Panel».

According to him, the only objection to his candidacy was a petition submitted to the panel by a group, which indicted him of anti-party activities during gubernatorial election in Ondo State in 2016.

Since 2000, the first full year for which campaign finance activity was maintained in an online database by the state Board of Elections, the only year with a lower total was 2003, when the committees reported an aggregate $ 40.6 million.

Since the election of His Excellency President Akufo - Addo, Ghana has been greeted with massive terrorist activities some of which we shall take time to enumerate for the appreciation of the Ghanaian public.

It aimed to limit spending on campaign activity in the year ahead of a general election and redefined electoral activity as anything which could affect the outcome of an election.

This was in a bid to prevent a breach of the peace, which may result from the activities of Biafran agitators ahead of the upcoming Anambra State governorship election.

«The evidence demonstrates that the de Blasio team coordinated its fundraising activities with and intentionally solicited contributions for these candidates... in order to evade contribution limits and disguise the true names of the contributors, which may violate [two election laws],» she wrote.

The reports, which were filed Friday and cover campaign activity through Oct. 2, show Curran, a second - term legislator from Baldwin, has $ 362,168 available to spend through Election Day on Nov. 7.

Nothing makes this more obvious than the APC ward congresses and Local government elections held last week in which there were accusations of vote buying, harassment, violence, parallel congresses, anti-party activities, and corrupt practices.

«The operational influence and control exercised by Andrew Pallotta and Carl Korn and the capacity in which he serves each entity strongly suggest the activities of the Fund for Great Public Schools constitute «coordination» under NYS election law,» Cox said in the complaint.

Federal law allows leeway for money from a party's «federal account» — which is regulated by the FEC and intended to promote election of federal candidates for Congress — to be spent on «federal election activity» such as «get - out - the - vote» activities on behalf of congressional candidates that also could benefit a candidate for state office.

The Action Democratic Party (ADP) has rejected the timetable and schedule of activities for the 2019 general elections, which was issued by the Independent National Electoral...

By - elections are strange beasts, volatile elections fought with absurdly high levels of party activity yet which elect only a single MP with no immediate impact on who runs the country.

He explained that the Commission had scrupulously implemented all the items listed in the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the Edo governorship election, which it issued March this year.

How else can we account for Zuckerberg's air of outraged innocence when evidence began to appear in 2017 that this was precisely what had happened during the presidential election, and his slow and grudging acceptance of the awful truth which culminated in admissions of the extent to which Cambridge Analytica's activities had undermined the privacy of up to 87 million Facebook users?

KIDS VOTING MISSOURI... Kids Voting USA is a national non-partisan, non-profit program in which students in grades K - 12 study portions of special KVUSA grade specific citizenship activities and then go to special Kids Voting Missouri polls with their parents or other adults on or near Election Day to cast ballots for many of the same candidates and issues as the adult voters.

Because nonprofits like ERN / ERNA do not have to disclose their major donors to the public, even when ERNA is active in supporting electoral activities the public is left in the dark about which hedge funder is actually helping to fund state and local ads and mailers during the election.

And as a 501 (c)(3) organization, Surfrider Foundation has made a 501 (h) election which allows us to participate in lobbying activity that is limited by the financial expenditure on that lobbying (regardless of the overall amount of lobbying that may include volunteer time).

He might have sought to justify the delay between his appointment and the calling of a general election by reference to events such as terrorist activities, the foot and mouth scare and the blue tongue outbreak, which required the immediate attention of the government.

Facebook will hire thousands of people to carry out the two new initiatives, which Zuckerberg says are meant to combat the kind of activity that allowed for Russian interference leading up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

While Facebook said it is still investigating the extent to which the Kremlin exploited its platform around the 2016 U.S. election, it has been more definitive in closer to real time around similar Russian activity in European elections.

The magnitude of the public outcry and the amount of media attention given to the ordeal has been significant even in the context of the scope of the incident which is said to have seen Cambridge Analytica harvest data of some 50 million Facebook users while informing less than one - percent of them of that activity several years back, then leveraging that information to fight an information war during the 2016 presidential election in the United States, an accusation made by a whistleblower that the firm repeatedly denied.

The agreement, a copy of which was obtained by the newspaper El Universal, includes the use of Facebook's tools to measure civic participation, access to real - time data of voting results granted by INE, and the provision of a physical space in the Institute's office where, on election day, the company is expected to perform activities such as posting live videos.

REALTOR ® members are hereby licensed to use the terms REALTOR ® or REALTORS ® in connection with activities in support of specific candidates in specific elections to public office or nomination for election to public office, provided the definition of the term REALTOR ® as a registered collective membership mark which identifies members of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ® and the identification of those conducting such activities as members of a member Board (s) is included on all letterhead and other written campaign literature, in all campaign media aids and on other materials unless not reasonably practical.