Sentences with phrase «election law does»

New York's Election Law does not specifically regulate political donations contributed by this new form of business entity.

Election law does not regulate how candidates use staff members or for what purpose, Conklin said.

Election law doesn't require state parties and committees to divulge their donors as frequently as the state's lobbying laws, which are done on a quarterly basis.

New York election law doesn't require Paterson to call for a special election to fill Massa's seat, even though voters in the upstate district would be without a representative for 10 months.

New York election law does not allow voters to change their party affiliation and vote as a member of a new party in the same year.

State election laws do not ban use of corporate political contributions for use in fundraising

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Which means that for now, at least, the choice remains with companies like Facebook whether to voluntarily comply with the spirit of American election law, or leave it up to users themselves to do so.

But that wasn't all that depressed Clinton's vote: Hansen said a far lower number of provisional ballots than typical for a presidential election played a role, as did a recent strict voter - ID law that was in effect for its first presidential election in the state.

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.

Since his election, Trump has not publicly addressed transgender issues, though he did ease some concerns among gays and lesbians by saying that he considered same - sex marriage to be settled law.

While Ohio's law does not mention emails or other electronic means of communication, its intent is clear: Employers should not make threats about layoffs based on the election of a particular candidate in any shape or form, says Quesenberry.

Trump did not elaborate on how exactly he thought the election would be rigged, though he did make mention of his displeasure that a federal court had struck down a North Carolina voter ID law that the court said was specifically aimed at disenfranchising black voters.

Macron's campaign was hacked shortly before the presidential election last year, but, thanks to France's election - silence law, it didn't have anywhere near the impact of the hack of the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 election in the U.S..

It's also possible that Harper, himself, could pull the plug on his minority administration at some point before the next fixed election date — just as he did in September — although such a move would make an utter mockery of Harper's own, now - tarnished, fixed - election law.

Trump and Giuliani maintain the payments didn't violate campaign finance law, but the law prohibits loaning candidates money during a campaign if the purpose is to impact the outcome of the election.

«The Honest Ads Act would extend the McCain - Feingold law «electioneering communication» provisions — i.e., TV / radio ads that name a candidate within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of a general election but do not expressly advocate the candidate's election or defeat — to certain online ads,» Ryan said.

This election does create an opportunity for the biggest tax law changes since 1986.

«Proving intent beyond a reasonable doubt is a really tough thing to do,» said Richard Hasen, an expert on election law at the University of California - Irvine.

Under provincial elections law, he does not need to resign his federal seat until he is a registered candidate in a provincial election.

And the province can do much more to clean up provincial election laws, something that a new all - party committee will be tasked to do soon (and they should consider adopting some of the amendments made by Wildrose MLAs during recent debates in the Legislature).

If you have law without the graceful covenant, you are caught in an empty legalism; but if you have the graceful covenant, the sense of election, without the content of the law, you will never endure, for that would be cheap grace, and the Bible does not know cheap grace.

These pastors and their flocks must live pretty well - to - do lives if this one thing on its own is their top priority in the election, and not the economy, education, the law, and the US's place in the world.

There was a reason why the founding fathers put kept religion out of our government and now it seems we are being asked to» pick the Christian» in this next years election — we are not picking the leader of a church here people, we picking someone to be the most influential, most powerful person on the earth... do we want someone who has our best interests at heart or someone who will time and again try to change the US laws to reflect his own personal beliefs?

Not only does it pick up our actual memories of public testimony, election, and governance by law, but it draws us toward the perfection of our governance, helping us judge our present efforts.

The Mirror doesn't report accurate news, just look at the BS they was spinning during the elections and how they ignored the law in phone hacking scandal... They have zero morals and do not deserve your time.

Boehm said Donahue's selection had nothing to do with the fact that her husband, Dan, worked on Mayor Dan McLaughlin's election campaign two years ago and her brother - in - law David Donahue was hired last year as the village's legislative liaison, a newly created position designed to foster communication between the village and state and federal lawmakers.

The piece notes the possibility of a leadership election, but what other things could I do in practice and within the law, were I able to find enough like - minded people to join me in that effort?

But most states do count the votes of the recently deceased, according to the bi-partisan National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), an NGO that tracks US state election laws.

A NYPIRG report found that candidates, political committees and their contributors broke the law more than 103,805 times between between January 2011 and January 2013, while the state Board of Elections did little more than send warning letters to offenders.

Mr Freddy Blay, who has been accusing the EC and the ruling NDC of planning to rig the impending elections told Ultimate FM that «I can not guarantee what will happen, the party can not guarantee, we the executives, we who are at the top, the Presidential candidate can not guarantee, if the ordinary people get angry, God forbid if they decide that they won't agree to what is happening, and some people take the law into their own hands, what can we do?

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

In the recent blowup over the unverifiable allegation by a White House spokesman that GCHQ was spying on Trump before the election at the behest of the previous administration, the GCHQ issued a rare statement claiming that because of Five Eyes agreement (which dates to the 1970s) they do not participate in circumventing the laws of other participating nations.

A Daily News review of the 25 Moreland Act Commission members found that five of them didn't follow state election law when filing their own campaign finance disclosure forms.

Cuomo did take an off - topic question from The Buffalo News» Bob McCarthy and rejected Rick Lazio's accusations that he failed to pursue Election Law violations by Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr.'s counsel, Steve Pigeon, as «silly.»

«When you do see election fraud, it invariably involves election officials taking steps to change election results or it involves absentee ballots which voter ID laws can't prevent,» he said.

New York's statue, signed into law in 1998 by Gov. George Pataki, was meant to codify what villages were doing unofficially, state Board of Elections spokesman John Conklin said.

But for all his actions as the state's chief law enforcement officer, Cuomo did have a little problem with telling the truth about his election box support for Mayor Bloomberg.

«The 6th District and America need to stop big corporate money from privatizing our democracy, which means public funding for public elections as we have in NYC and a DISCLOSE act so anonymous money from billionaires doesn't buy our government,» said Green, who is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance law.

Lerner added that the Moreland Commission clearly established that the Board of Elections does not see itself as having the responsibility or the capability to enforce the campaign finance electElections does not see itself as having the responsibility or the capability to enforce the campaign finance electionselections law.

«I don't know her well enough in terms of her background, but to the extent you can understand the state's tax system, it would seem those are important values to have in tackling the election law.»

Unlike the mainstream left, they do not seek to gain power through traditional channels - winning elections and passing bills into law.

«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.

The Division of Election Law Enforcement will continue to work together with its law enforcement partners, including the Attorney General, to assure New Yorkers that violations of the public trust do not go unpunished.&raqLaw Enforcement will continue to work together with its law enforcement partners, including the Attorney General, to assure New Yorkers that violations of the public trust do not go unpunished.&raqlaw enforcement partners, including the Attorney General, to assure New Yorkers that violations of the public trust do not go unpunished.»

«From my perspective and I can't tell you that I'm an expert on the election law, the request by the federal commission does not involve an election.»

Reese did acknowledge his connection to a number of Democrats recently charged with violating election law, including operative Steve Pigeon, who he called an «acquaintance.»

Rice's office told Crain's that the ad placements did not violate election laws because they did not include the words «Congress» or «House of Representatives» — only Rice's name.

Cuomo's Moreland Act Commission heard testimony from Board of Elections officials this fall, where they admitted to essentially doing nothing when it comes to enforcing the hundreds of alleged violations of campaign finance laws.

But, she said, if people really do want to change the laws, they have to call their legislators — not the board of elections.

Party committees have a much easier time receiving donations under election law than regular committees: They can receive up to $ 109,600 per donor, and unlimited amounts as long as the money doesn't go toward explicitly telling somebody to vote for or against a candidate.