Sentences with phrase «election financing»

Hungarian elites have rarely been truly self - reliant in terms of election finances or intellectual ammunition, but competent at employing external means to their own ends.

In many parts of the country they have virtually no riding associations (they have nominated just 115 candidates) but put up virtual candidates to scoop the federal election financing money.

Municipal Affairs Minister Deron Bilous should follow calls from Calgary's Naheed Nenshi and Edmonton's Don Iveson and Michael Janz to reform municipal election finance laws.

Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton, D - Ithaca: Yes «In my first few weeks of office, I signed onto the Assembly Public Election Financing bill as one of the most important reforms we could enact to help get the corrupting influence of big money out of our elections.

A group of whistleblowers on Monday questioned the integrity of Britain's vote to leave the European Union, presenting 50 pages of documents that they say prove the official Brexit campaign group violated election finance rules on the way to winning...

And ironically, it was former Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien who is responsible for it, having introduced much - needed election financing reforms in his last term that dramatically restricted corporate and union donations.

Wylie's testimony came a day after Wylie and two other former insiders presented 50 pages of documents that they said proved Vote Leave violated election finance rules during the referendum campaign.

Is there a single non-Conservative in Canada who doubts that Conservatives have played fast and loose with election financing laws and illegal voter suppression tactics (for example, by using misleading robocalls) and that it was not just isolated individuals acting without authority?

Aside from oil pipelines, the NDP - Green agreement commits to holding a referendum on proportional representation in fall 2018 (though it is not clear what form of proportional representation will be proposed) and reforming BC's wild - west election finance laws (banning corporate and union donations, placing limits on individual donations, and limiting party loans to banks and financial institutions).

The two main organizations calling for a ConCon, the Committee for a Constitutional Convention and NY People's Convention PAC, have raised a combined total of $ 229,506.05 as of July, according to the Board of Elections finance reports.

McKay announced a couple of years ago, following Golisano apparently circumventing state election finance laws in 2008 to dump $ 4.4 million in state legislative elections, that he was putting Steve Pigeon, Golisano's point person from Buffalo, in charge of upstate endorsements for the Independence Party.

Media giant Bloomberg gave $ 361,675 to the campaign fighting to keep Britain in the European Union, according to a watchdog that regulates election financing.

«We are disappointed to see that some parties have not returned their accounts to us within the deadline,» said Lisa Klein, director of party and election finance at the Commission.

Almost 10 months after Schneiderman's special grand jury indicted him on bribery and extortion charges, Pigeon now faces more trouble stemming from what the state calls a scheme to avoid election finance limits.

Valesky is optimistic that in the coming weeks, negotiations on all sides will lead to a significant election finance reform by the time the term ends in June.

The Registry of Election Finance voted to fine Williamson Strong a total of 5K for failure to register as a PAC and failure to file campaign expenditures.

According to the latest available election financing data, in the last five years Inhofe has received just over $ 3.4 million in donations from 20 industry sectors - almost $ 1 million (29 %) is from the Energy / Natural Resources Sector and their respective PACS.

A decision that, according to the protesters, changed the rules for election financing and, gave personhood to corporations, allowing unlimited corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in election campaigns.

We have also played a key role in various cases arising from the 2010 municipal election in the City of Toronto, including election financing issues and an application to invalidate the election of municipal councilor.

«Transparency in election campaign management and election financing plays a key role in ensuring the legitimacy of democratic elections».

That's exactly what happened this week in Hartford with public election financing.

Sweeping changes to federal election financing laws, which President Bush signed into law in late March, play to REALTORS ®» strength and legislative goals, says Richard Crosby, GRI, 2002 chair of the REALTORS ® Political Action Committee.

With talk of the AUMA and AAMDC merging and increasing pressure on the NDP to reform municipal election finance laws, Anderson's role at the cabinet table could become more important in 2018.

LONDON (AP)- A group of whistleblowers on Monday questioned the integrity of Britain's vote to leave the European Union, presenting 50 pages of documents that they say prove the official Brexit campaign group violated election finance rules on the way to winning the 2016 referendum.

Canadians like to believe that election financing was all cleaned up with the banning of corporate and union donations more than a decade ago at the federal level.

This election is noteworthy as the first to be conducted under a vastly reformed regime of campaign finance that took effect in January 2017, with the coming into force of The Election Finances Statute Law Amendment Act, 2016.

A special select Ethics and Accountability Committee chaired by Edmonton - Mill Woods MLA Christina Gray is set to review the Election Act, the Election Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act, the Conflicts of Interest Act, and the Public Interest Disclosure (Whistleblower Protection) Act.

As mandated by the Elections Finances Act all parties are required to submit their annual financial contribution statements by March 31 of each calendar year.

Ms. Gray is also Minister Responsible for Democratic Renewal, a role that coincides with her position as chairperson of the Select Special Ethics and Accountability Committee, which is reviewing the Election Act, the Election Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act, the Conflicts of Interest Act, and the Public Interest Disclosure (Whistleblower Protection) Act.

The Katz clause — changing the Elections Financing Act to prevent massive vote - buying donations

The PC Party clause — fixing the Elections Financing legislation to ensure that the Chief Electoral Officer is able to investigate allegedly improper donations without being barred by artificially short timelines.

Swann sought input from the Chief Electoral Officer on some aspects he incorporated into Bill 214, such as: the definition of a PAC, anti-collusion provisions between PACs and the political entities they support, standardizing the election finance and disclosure rules to include PACs, and banning corporation, union, and out - of - province donations.

The private members» bill would amend the Election Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act to create a legal definition for PACs, require PACs to be registered with Elections Alberta and subject them to the same financial disclosure and contribution rules as other political entities.

The best lesson for both British parties to draw from Mr. Obama is the one Brooks noted when Obama abandoned his pledge to take public election financing: that as well as being an inspiring speechmaker he's also «a tough - minded Chicago pol (person of Polish descent) who would throw you under the truck for votes».

The GOP has been affected much more than the Democratic Party by the change in the election finance laws, allowing Super PACs to spend arbitrarily large amounts of advertising money to support their preferred candidates.

«In 2011 we will continue to focus on ensuring the fundamentals of the UK's regulatory regime for party and election finance - transparency, controls on donations and spending, and enforcement - are as robust as they can be.»

The Board of Election's $ 15 million salary budget, Maragos said, would be cut nearly in half, with the savings used to fund public election financing.

The Governor should be calling call for full public campaign financing and an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to permit effective public regulation of election financing.

Tickets are purchased within the permitted limits described in the Election Finances Act.

Our election finance laws have always been designed to keep amateurs out — something Stephen Harper went to court to overturn when he ran the National Citizens Coalition.