Sentences with phrase «election in the state vested»

Other elections in the state had started and ended more in the «board room» and than at the polling booths.

He said that the guidelines governing council election in the state vested the power to announce the results of chairmanship election on the commission's chairman.

President Goodluck Jonthan who was in Edo Yesterday ahead of the July 14, 2012 governorship election in the state had promised to ensure a free and...

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«Since my election, Ford, Fiat - Chrysler, General Motors, Sprint, Softbank, Lockheed, Intel, Walmart, and many others, have announced that they will invest billions of dollars in the United States and will create tens of thousands of new American jobs,» Trump said during his first address to a joint session of Congress in February.

The United States has moved from the high of a presidential election to the low of a political sex scandal in one short week.

Even before election - day amendments in both states legalized recreational use in November, they already had thriving medical markets.

In the runup to the gubernatorial election, the editorial board of the Martinsville Bulletin wrote that the newspaper wouldn't be making endorsements in state or local races: «It's not for a lack of interesIn the runup to the gubernatorial election, the editorial board of the Martinsville Bulletin wrote that the newspaper wouldn't be making endorsements in state or local races: «It's not for a lack of interesin state or local races: «It's not for a lack of interest.

Budget cuts not possible - Buswell The state government's economic policy was in tatters last night after Treasurer Troy Buswell conceded he would not achieve the controversial 3 per cent cuts expected to pay for election promises in this year's budget.

Apart from fragile capital positions and weak economic growth, European banks will have to deal with crucial elections in core member states: Germany, France, the Netherlands, and potentially in Italy.

While the renewable industry has gained momentum in recent years, «the battle certainly got tougher» with the election of Trump, said Dan Kammen, an energy expert at the University of California, Berkeley and science envoy for the U.S. State Department.

«Arthur Jones is not a real Republican — he is a Nazi whose disgusting, bigoted views have no place in our nation's discourse,» Tim Schneider, the state party chairman, said in a statement, adding that the party would put «real campaign dollars» into an independent candidate to challenge Jones in the general election.

In addition, aside from regular travel to the blue states where he has residences, New York and New Jersey, Trump travels for events almost exclusively in states that he won in the 2016 electioIn addition, aside from regular travel to the blue states where he has residences, New York and New Jersey, Trump travels for events almost exclusively in states that he won in the 2016 electioin states that he won in the 2016 electioin the 2016 election.

Martin Schulz of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) has stated repeatedly that the party wants to stay in opposition rather than joining another coalition, despite gaining 20.5 percent of the vote in September's election.

Since then, Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has decisively won two state elections and is threatening to win a third next Sunday, in North Rhine - Westphalia — Germany's most populous state, a traditional SPD stronghold.

The Republican presidential nominee held a campaign rally in Ryan's home state of Wisconsin on Monday in which the crowd chanted «Paul Ryan sucks» and Trump railed against what he called «corrupt» media and a «rigged» election system — a frequent accusation the Manhattan billionaire has brought up without evidence.

Premier Colin Barnett has softened his position on the proposed privatisation of Western Power, saying it could be used by Labor as a scare campaign in the state election next year.

Clinton had leads so healthy in Wisconsin, for instance, that she entered Election Day with a 6.5 - point average advantage in the state.

Colin Barnett has moved to sideline water as a political issue as the state heads towards an election in 2013.

Since the weekend allegations that Cambridge Analytica, which worked with Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election team, misused Facebook data, regulators in the United States and Europe have been demanding answers.

Trump vowed at his rally that he would win Washington state, even though the state tends to support Democrats and that party's nominee, Hillary Clinton, leads by large margins in opinion polls ahead of the Nov. 8 election.

In addition, this is an election that Republican candidate Donald Trump has claimed is «rigged,» and where he has urged his followers to go to «certain sections» of states like Pennsylvania and monitor the polls to make sure the elections are not stolen from him.

In the meantime, Canada has been keeping close tabs on the United States» presidential election with a social media campaign, «Tell America It's Great» trending on Twitter a few weeks ago and» #MeanwhileInCanada» trending on election night.

Her campaign has at least 55 offices across the state, a number expected to grow in the final weeks before the election, and has a veteran of the Obama campaign running the show.

Some 14 states have enacted more restrictive voting laws than they had in the 2012 presidential election, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

Colorado has gone for the Democratic nominee in the past three presidential elections and Clinton won the state by five points.

In the days since the presidential election, states across the country have seen increased incidents of racist or anti-Semitic vandalism and violence, many of which have drawn directly on the rhetoric and proposals of President - elect Donald Trump.

Dip in share prices and bond yields, along with the upcoming election has had an impact on the state of the global economy, causing a setback in business travel growth.

White supremacists in the United States have been emboldened by the election of Trump.

«The record levels of households reflect the significantly higher values of all asset classes post-recession,» Spectrem Group president George Walper, Jr., said in a press release, «and the recent record level of the United States markets following the presidential election has added demonstrably to the asset level of most affluent investors.»

The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States has triggered a frenzy of blame and finger - pointing unlike anything we've seen in decades.

If Browder's claims are accurate, then, Russia's interference in the U.S. election may have had as much to do with defending Vladimir Putin's vast personal wealth as with advancing Russian state interests.

President Vladimir Putin has demanded that the United States sends him hard evidence that Russians meddled in its elections, mocking allegations of a conspiracy to elect Trump as mere «yelling and hollering in the United States Congress».

In fact, some have made the argument that the arrival of Amazon could help flip a state from red to blue in future electionIn fact, some have made the argument that the arrival of Amazon could help flip a state from red to blue in future electionin future elections.

Since the U.S. election system operates through a patchwork of different systems in each state, Graff believes it would difficult to pull off a large - scale breach.

In late August, Yahoo broke news that foreign hackers had breached the state Board of Elections websites in Illinois and Arizona, which the FBI's cyber division followed up with an alert to election officials across the nation to increase voting system securitIn late August, Yahoo broke news that foreign hackers had breached the state Board of Elections websites in Illinois and Arizona, which the FBI's cyber division followed up with an alert to election officials across the nation to increase voting system securitin Illinois and Arizona, which the FBI's cyber division followed up with an alert to election officials across the nation to increase voting system security.

Sanders, who has spent the last four days campaigning in Minnesota, is hoping to win the State in the Super Tuesday primary election on March 1st, 2016.

Anxiety over further losses to the AfD, especially at next year's state elections in Bavaria, has stopped Merkel imposing her more liberal world view on her uppity junior partners.

Stock markets in the United States have surged about 5 % since Trump won the presidential election in early November.

She bases this on continuing momentum in the states, and the fact that, «We've never before had an election where each presidential candidate talked about the need for some kind of paid leave.»

How Apps Are Shaping The 2012 Election (EngineYard via Mashable) Here's how the U.S. has used mobile apps, in both sending and consuming information, during the 2012 election season so far: 70 % of the most active iPhone states (New York, California, Illinois) tend to vote Democrat, while 70 % of the most active Android states (Colorado, Arizona, Georgia) tend to vote RepElection (EngineYard via Mashable) Here's how the U.S. has used mobile apps, in both sending and consuming information, during the 2012 election season so far: 70 % of the most active iPhone states (New York, California, Illinois) tend to vote Democrat, while 70 % of the most active Android states (Colorado, Arizona, Georgia) tend to vote Repelection season so far: 70 % of the most active iPhone states (New York, California, Illinois) tend to vote Democrat, while 70 % of the most active Android states (Colorado, Arizona, Georgia) tend to vote Republican.

This decision probably shouldn't have been a surprise, because it basically said that the court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case, upholding the right of corporations to spend money in federal elections, applies to the states as well.

This has meant that in previous presidential elections, exit polling has often wrongly predicted a candidate would win certain states.

The debate will continue until Election Day in November and well beyond, and this year's Top States study has given both sides plenty of ammunition.

The map above shows where far - right parties have made significant gains in state and regional elections in Europe since January 2015.

More than 20 % of Americans waking up the morning after Election Day did so in a state that has legalized recreational cannabis.

Among those who have criticized Putin in the past is 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who questioned whether Russia's 2011 elections were «free, fair, transparent» and called for a «full investigation» of the election's irregularities while she was Secretary of State.

If we consider how increasingly weaponized ad targeting has become, especially since this past summer when Google and Facebook consolidated our browsing histories into their user IDs, and we think about how anybody in the world could target anyone else in the United States with surgical precision by their susceptibilities and propensities, maybe this election was similar to a 9/11 moment, but non-violent and invisible, where we realize that our commercial infrastructure was used against us, and we don't realize it until after the catastrophe?

Some states have also recently seen scanning and probing of their election - related systems, which in most cases originated from servers operated by a Russian company.

That footnote acknowledged that Facebook's findings did not contradict a declassified January 2017 report in which the director of national intelligence concluded Russia had sought to undermine United States election, and Hillary Clinton in particular.

This assessment is based on the decentralized nature of our election system in this country and the number of protections state and local election officials have in place.