Sentences with phrase «election law after»

Fernando Mateo, founder of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers, came clean about the blatant violation of election law after The Post learned he had personally solicited a donation for Hizzoner and then had Ahlam Jaoui take credit for it.

Some fun facts about me are that I'm obsessed with cats and am going to study election law after I finish my undergraduate studies.

It was a sharp and dramatic rebuke of the Florida court's usurpation of legislative authority in attempting to change election laws after the election.

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Cohen didn't follow Trump to the White House after the election, instead leveraging his influence to include a partnership with a Washington law firm and a senior position with the Republican National Committee's finance team.

Kushner also learned the hard way what investigators can do — in 2004, Kushner pleaded guilty to witness retaliation, tax violations, and Federal Election Commission violations after trying to frame his brother - in - law after he allegedly cooperated with a federal probe into Kushner's business.

Mr. Kushner, 35, the husband of Mr. Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka, and an influential adviser to his father - in - law during the presidential campaign, had been planning to return to his private businesses after Election Day.

Collins pointed out that a big part of UK (and indeed US) election law relates to «declaration of spent», before making the conjoined point that if someone is «hiding that spend» — i.e. by placing dark ads that only the recipient sees, and which can be taken offline immediately after the campaign — it smells like a major risk to the democratic process.

If that were legal, there would be no point in having campaign finance laws: Candidates could accept giant loans, not report them, and pay them back after the election had ended.

VICTORIA — After more than a century of unlimited donations, corporate cronyism and declining public faith in institutions, Big Money was finally banished from B.C. provincial and municipal elections today as bills 3 and 15 officially became law.

If that were legal, there would be no point in having campaign finance laws: Candidates could accept giant loans, not report them, and pay them back after the election.

Mr. Gibson was dismissed from his role after releasing two reports with over 100 recommendations on how to improve Alberta's election laws.

We anticipate an eventual easing of tensions in Spain over Catalonian independence and view a potential populist government following elections in Italy in 2018 as unlikely after recent changes to the electoral laws.

The majority of those laws were passed shortly after a tidal wave of pro-life politician victories in the 2010 mid-term elections.

The news comes after Facebook acknowledged foreign entities linked to Russia paid to promote political messages on the leading social network, potentially violating US election laws.

After suffering setbacks in lower courts, the plaintiffs behind a lawsuit seeking to overturn the so - called «LLC loophole» in election law have filed an appeal in the state Supreme Court's appellate division.

More than thirty years after Abrams» testimony, State Board of Elections Co-Chair Doug Kellner also endorsed the deterrent principle as the reason that so few of New York's voting law proposals have been rejected.

April 16th at midnight is the filing deadline for congressional candidates to deliver their signatures to the local Board of Elections to get onto the June 26th primary ballot, but in an interesting wrinkle in election law, candidates can still substitute in someone else after this date.

«You have four days after the last day to submit your petitions to decline, so in this case, the day is the 16th and you have until the 20th to decline,» election law guru Jerry Goldfeder succinctly explained to The Politicker this afternoon.

The chief enforcement counsel position and the compliance unit were created in the 2014 state budget after the now - defunct Moreland Commission found the board rarely took action on election law violations and complaints.

«Absentee ballots are already in the hands of voters, therefore, the law can not be implemented for the April 7 election,» Schimel said in a statement issued shortly after the Supreme Court's announcement.

After the Phil Woollas case it is now in English Law that if you make false statements during an election campaign you will be thrown out and the election for that seat held again.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Preet for New York attorney general is a political action committee filed with the Federal Election Committee last week, just days after Eric Schneiderman resigned as New York's top law enforcement officer.

The day after the referendum, Cameron raised the issue of «English votes for English laws», with Miliband criticising the move as a simplistic solution to a complex problem, eventually coming out in favour for a constitutional convention to be held after the general election.

Since the morning after the first independence referendum three years ago, the thin - skinned tyrant of English nationalism has treated Scotland with nothing but contempt - English Votes for English Laws, hysterical Tory election posters demonising Scotland's largest party, voting for Brexit, ditching the single market against the express wishes of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and generally behaving like an abusive husband who's hidden the new PIN for the joint bank account.

Asantehene wondered why periods proceeding, during and after general elections since 1992 has been characterized by violence or fear of a possible break - out of violence though there the police service is mandated to maintain law and order.

But the governor is still pushing for changes to the state's hate crimes laws to protect more people after a rise in bias - related incidents after the election of Donald Trump.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. joined the ongoing federal investigation into de Blasio's fundraising tactics last January after the Board of Elections» chief investigative officer sent a «criminal referral» to Vance's office alleging the efforts of the mayor's nonprofit to unseat the Republicans violated campaign finance laws, Vance has said.

Miccio said he and Bernardino and Myles conceded after seeing a number of signatures they had collected thrown out for not meeting the strict guidelines of election law, such as writing a full name in a signature.

The lawsuit goes after Patterson's campaign for allegedly knowingly accepting LLC donations that exceeded limits and were not in the «true name» of donors, which would be a violation of state election law.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2015 State of the State address floated the idea of changing the law to make the voter's party enrollment change take effect three months after the application is received by the local board of elections.

If this bill had been law in 1996, the Reform Party would have attained party status in West Virginia after the November 1996 election.

After assessing a dossier of evidence submitted by the BIJ, the Electoral Commission said it was carrying out a case review, which falls short of a full investigation but could lead to a ruling over whether there had been a breach of election law.

He said, «We are confident that the security agencies will investigate all violations of the nation «s laws before, during and after the last re-run elections in Rivers.»

The investigation launched after the state Board of Elections accused de Blasio and his team, including top aide Emma Wolfe, of purposely violating election law by routing donations to three upstate senate candidates using county committees to avoid donation limits.

Sixth, after the ongoing CVR, which as the law provides will end not later than 60 days to the forthcoming general elections on 16th February 2019 — please note that the law says not later than 60 days, which means that the CVR must end on or before the 60th day to the election — we intend to display not only the provisional register, but the entire Register at all the Registration Areas / Wards across the country.

They also note that a judge, in the 1990s, dismissed an indictment in an election law case after concluding Mr. Adler, the case's special prosecutor, had erred in his conduct.

After a hearing in accordance with Election Law 2 - 116 and these Rules and Regulations, the Committee on Ethics may recommend that the Executive Committee remove any member or officer of the Executive Committee or of the County Committee.

BUT the referendum on September 18 is under UK law (Edinburgh Agreement) and states that Scotland doesn't become a independent country as soon as the election is counted but only after negotiations with the UK - and everyone hopes that everything will be sorted out during those negotiation period.

There is nothing in election law that prevents former elected officials from tapping their campaign cash after they leave office.

NPP's Communications Director, Nana Akomea, says it has a recording disclosing that the NDC would be advancing huge monies to the UPP ahead of the November 7, elections — but Odike says there is no law in Ghana against funding of a political party after denying knowledge of the purported tape in the NPP's possession.

This is because, strict adherence to the law in the transition process will be followed in case there is a change of government after this year's election.

«Preet for New York Attorney General» is a political action committee filed with the Federal Election Committee last week, just days after Eric Schneiderman resigned as New York's top law enforcement officer.

Jared Kushner, Trump's son - in - law and close adviser, sparked ethical concerns after meeting with Chinese businessmen shortly after the election to discuss the business of his family's real estate company.

President Donald Trump's son - in - law Jared Kushner said after meeting with Senate investigators he did not collude with Russian agents during the 2016 election.

However, the IEOM also noted some areas of concern, including some recent amendments to the election law, the inadequate quality of voter lists (VLs), and possible disenfranchisement of voters who crossed the state border after 1 August 2007.

The law firm of Chris McGrath, the Long Island Republican running in the crucial April 19 special election, once represented a firefighter fired by NYC after riding on a Labor Day parade float that reenacted the dragging death of a black man.

As de Blasio railed against the president - to - be in the weeks after November's election, he was also sending chummy messages to Trump's son - in - law, Jared Kushner, and his daughter, Ivanka Trump.

After her hopes to become city comptroller were dashed in the last election, she joined the law firm Greenberg Traurig, where she's on the government relations team.

Gordon Brown vowed today that he would overcome a daunting timetable to force through a law in the next two months requiring a referendum to be held on changes to the voting system for the Commons after the election.

The party said it was at a loss as to which sections of these two relevant laws, INEC and the AGF relied on in arriving at the decision to substitute a dead candidate in an on - going election even after the timelines for such had elapsed under all the rules.