Sentences with phrase «election machine which»

And once the general election result was declared void (November 5th), the by - election machine which ensured victory in Crewe & Nantwich and Norwich North should have been cranked into action.

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Earlier this week, Georgia Representative Hank Johnson introduced two bills that he believes will help improve voting security a few years down the road: the Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act, which, if passed, would classify voting systems as critical infrastructure to be protected by the Department of Homeland Security; and the Election Integrity Act, which will map out a planned response for voting system failures and control the types of voting machines states are allowed to buy.

What's next: Facebook, already dealing with a backlash over fake news stories and Russian meddling in the election, has another PR crisis on its hands centered on its advertising machine, which brought in $ 39.9 billion in revenue in 2017.

Promoting such policies for the Labour machine was Momentum, a grassroots campaigning network which arose from the 2015 general election.

A win by Gonzalez would help re-establish the WFP in Albany and also solidify its standing in NYC as a vehicle for reform against the well - established so - called Democratic «machines» in the outer boroughs — particularly Brooklyn and, in the case of the 2009 NYC Council elections, in which the WFP teamed up with HTC and 1199 against party - backed candidates, Queens.

At this age and time, the NDP insists «our voters register is not only compromised but also outmoded when there has been a global switch from this anachronism to electronic voting machines (EVMs) with the only requirement of a single definitive voter identity», citing India which has since 1998 been switching to electronic voters machine and perfected it in its 2014 general elections with what they described as «highly unprecedented efficiency.»

Progressivism, a populist reform movement in the early twentieth century, espoused by Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and grounded in Protestant moralism, which sought to make government both more responsive to the plight of the people, for instance using Constitutional amendments to deal with social problems like alcoholism and using government force to quash monopolies, and at the same time more representative of the will of the electorate, for instance instituting more democracy like the direct election of Senators and ending the corruption of Machine politics in the cities.

U.S. intelligence agencies said in a report in January that the television station, which broadcasts on cable in the United States, is «Russia's state - run propaganda machine» and that it contributed to the Kremlin's campaign to interfere with last year's presidential election in favor of Republican Party candidate Donald Trump.

Elections officials also will count any emergency ballots — cast when a machine breaks down — and affidavit ballots, which generally are cast when there are questions about a voter's registration or address.

I ask him if it's true what they say about the brutal efficiency of the SNP by - election machine, which is sold as some insanely robust targeting mechanism.

Since the announcement of the special election, the deck was stacked against any possible candidate outside the local political machine, one which Silver still controls.

Lhota was one of a host of voters who had trouble with the old lever machines — which were resurrected for fear the new touch - screen voting machines would be too unstable for the primary — as problems popped up across the city, election monitors said.

«This actually is going to allow for the PMD stick — the flash card which has the actual tally from the actual machine — to be transported to their local precincts, where there will be a bipartisan team of election officials waiting at the precinct to download the information,» said Polanco, who said that members agreed to a «more liberal» reading of state law to allow the change.

For many voters, the new machines can be confusing — which is why Liz Benjamin caught up with Robert Donovan, who is the co-chair of the New York State Democratic Laywers Council, and John Conklin, a spokesman for NYS Board of Elections, to get a tutorial on how they work — and some of the problems you might face using them on election day.

At the Democratic County Committee State Senate nomination convention on March 10, 2017, his opponents accused him and his supporter Keith Wright of using «voter suppression» tactics to ensure his victory as the nominated candidate (re: New York Observer, March 10, 2017, «Harlem Candidates Accuse Democratic Machine of Rigging Contest for State Senate Seat»), which would in theory ensure his victory in the May 23rd 2017 NYS Senate election in Central Harlem's heavily Democratic voting district.

City Board of Elections Valerie Vasquez said an audit still needs to occur of the voting machines and absentee ballots must be counted, which could take weeks.

It took the BOE several years to choose a replacement for the old lever machines, which had to be re-used one election because of confusion over the new machines.

The issue, according to Altschuler's camp, appeared tied to the use of the new electronic voting machines, which are being used throughout the state for the first time and which have been criticized for problems both in the September primary and in the general election.

Given the libertarian coup d'etat that Mr Clegg carried out in ditching the official LibDem manifesto and writing whole swathes of the Orange Book into the Coalition Agreement which his own party had previously massively rejected, Nick Clegg can not be really very surprised that the rasberry he got in the local elections and AV vote is going to be reflected within Westminster machine as well.

«That is why I have stated continually that as the National Organizer of the NPP, I will make sure that the NPP will be turned into an election winning machine, which will win every presidential election to the benefit of Ghanaians», he said.

Judie Gorenstein, the vice president for voter services for the league's Huntington branch, told the county legislature in 2006 that the county would need only 514 optical scanners, which would cost about $ 3 million, while it would need 1,500 touch screen machines, at a cost of around $ 14 million, to handle its election general process.

The phase - out of lever - style voting machines was mandated by the 2002 Help America Vote Act, which was spearheaded by the Bush administration in an attempt to streamline voting after the ballot - counting fracas in Florida following the 2000 presidential election.

In 2006, County Executive Steve Levy sued the New York State Board of Elections, which was charged with implementing the federal mandate, citing the lever machines» reliability and the cost of replacing 1,500 machines.

Election officials also expect more absentee ballots, which take longer to count, cast by voters distrustful of the new machines.

In the election day tally for a one - year seat on the Thurman town board, Kathy Templeton received 311 votes which absentee ballots increased to 328, in contrast to 249 machine votes for town board incumbent Gail Seaman, which increased to 276 with the absentees.

Elections officials in the five - county district began a recanvass of voting machines on Tuesday, which yielded no changes after a review in Albany and Schenectady counties.

The Albany County Board of Elections, which ran the original Albany High referendum in November, provided voting machines and wound up fielding calls from concerned voters all day.

In a follow - up study, the researchers were able to examine the word associations of a group of 324 participants and, by using machine - learning algorithms, predict their political leanings and what party they belonged to, as well as which candidate they were likely to vote for in the presidential elections.

Bhuva's team cites the case of the 2003 local election in Schaerbeek, Belgium, in which an SEU in an electronic voting machine gave one candidate 4,096 additional votes.

Bucholz recalls a 2004 American case he was involved in in which internal e-mails from the archive of an electronic voting machine company were leaked during an election year and posted online.

Part One: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures», the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology provides a detailed analysis of the risks that voting machines and the digital age have introduced into our democratic process which have the potential to impact the integrity of election results.

The report accused RT News, which is funded by the Russian government, of being a «state - run propaganda machine,» which contributed to Kremlin - directed efforts to influence the 2016 election, occasionally by spreading «fake news» about then - candidate Hillary Clinton.

The bill, which senators have hinted at for several months, would push federal agencies to share election security information with state and local officials, establish voluntary cybersecurity guidelines for election systems, and create a federal bug bounty program for voting machines and other election infrastructure.