Sentences with phrase «election manipulation in»
«He said he had suffered election manipulation in 2003, 2007 and 2011 and would not like to have any Nigerian go through that again.
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2017, this is in connection with the Russian manipulation of the election and the data that came from Facebook initially, «I ask for forgiveness.
«While I am not aware of evidence that the 2016 voting process itself was subjected to manipulation, and have no reason to doubt the validity of the election results, we know that the DHS and FBI have confirmed two intrusions into voter registration databases in Arizona and Illinois by foreign - based hackers,» Sen. Mark Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote in a letter on Tuesday to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.
The American people deserve answers about social media manipulation in the 2016 election.
The revelations around Cambridge Analytica and its parent company, SCL Elections which boasts of «handling» 100 election campaigns in more than 30 countries across five continents — principally by manipulating Facebook data — are shocking, and we're not going to tolerate such data manipulation any longer.
The increasingly sharp and personal tenor of the requests, many of which sought an appearance by Zuckerberg, raised the odds of a fresh round of potentially contentious hearings — after Facebook defended itself in fall hearings about Russian manipulation of its site connected to the 2016 election.
Using elections for undemocratic purposes is only one example of United States manipulation of democracy in its war against the poor.
Furthermore, many governors disappointed in their role as «locomotives» during the December 2011 election, failing to meet their United Russia vote quotas while being indiscreet in their attempts at electoral manipulation.
When the current coalition government introduced the Fixed - term Parliaments Act in 2011, the case appeared compelling: The Government believes that fixed - term Parliaments will have a positive impact on our country's political system; providing stability, discouraging short - termism, and preventing the manipulation of election dates for political advantage.
When the Act was introduced in 2011, the coalition government justified it by arguing that «fixed - term parliaments will have a positive impact on our country's political system; providing stability, discouraging short - termism, and preventing the manipulation of election dates for political advantage.»
In the current climate, it is not only unlikely that voters, or indeed the other Westminster parties would accept an argument by the Conservatives that it is best if they restore to themselves the exclusive power to call an election, and revert to the short - termism and the manipulation of election dates for partisan advantage that they decried just four years ago.
On the reasons why the party lost the 2016 election, implicitly in agreement with Former President Mahama's assertion that the reasons are multifaceted, he said the electoral college constituted by the party and failure to monitor the process effectively led to malfeasance and manipulation of the process which usurped the power of the genuine supporters of the party which automatically, denied the party the opportunity of going into the election with some genuine supporters on its side.
The Democrats with all the devices available at their outfits could not stop the Russians, Holland is not using the biometric system in its elections because of the infiltrations going on and most western nations have decided to reverse to the old electoral orthodoxies because of the manipulations going on.
Adeyeye warned that the PDP would not accept any manipulation of the result of the election in the state.
He has been been transferred back to the state in preparation for their planned manipulation of the 2019 General Election.
This is true in part, as even the leaders of the US and the EU admit that foreign actors are successfully influencing domestic elections, both through direct monetary contributions (see Marine Le Pen's party and Russia) and indirect manipulation of the public opinion (Russia Today, spreading «fake news»).
Post election day, the integrity of the results in some districts appeared to be compromised by instances of manipulation of the results and other irregularities, which were not remedied by the Central Election Commission (CEC) or the courtselection day, the integrity of the results in some districts appeared to be compromised by instances of manipulation of the results and other irregularities, which were not remedied by the Central Election Commission (CEC) or the courtsElection Commission (CEC) or the courts.»
A successful manipulation of a national election in the United States is much, much more likely to occur via one or more very small, but selectively specific segments of the overall vote (i.e. single district locations possibly involving single or small groups of persons) which, due to the specific circumstances of the election, provide a window of opportunity due to the relative importance of the specific district vote totals; a situation not common to all elections in any case.
The Peoples Democratic Party's candidate for the Kwara Central Senatorial District election in 2015, Alhaji Abdurahman Abdulrazaq, has sued the Independent National Electoral Commission for alleged manipulation of results in the election which was won by his opponent of the All Progressives Congress, Dr. Bukola Saraki.
What they presented was a fraudulent manipulation of the content of the Ghanaian voters» register given to all political parties in the run up to the 2012 elections.
Woolas and his agent, Joe Fitzpatrick, were also responsible for photo manipulation of images in his election addresses.
Omisore had over the weekend accused Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of electoral fraud, claiming that he won the 2014 gubernatorial election, but for manipulation of the process in favour of the incumbent governor.
«Up till today, that Appeal Court judgment of October 10, 2010, that made Fayemi governor is not being cited as authority in any election matter and with Obasanjo's reference to Salamigate as terminology for judicial manipulation, it should be clear to Fayemi himself that he became governor by judicial fraud.
Two months later, investigators released a scathing report in which they describe a glitch in Diebold's optical - scan firmware that enabled a «type of vote manipulation if an adversary can introduce an unofficial memory card into an active terminal» prior to an election.
Raajneeti (Unrated) Political potboiler, set in Bhopal, India, about a fiercely fought election campaign where influence - peddling and corruption are the norms, and where treachery and manipulation are routinely used as weapons.
Party Bias in Union Representation Elections: Testing for Manipulation in the Regression Discontinuity Design When the Running Variable is Discrete
In the short - term then, oil may be facing the perfect storm of bullish technicals, manipulation, sentiment, presidential / election year rhetoric... oh, and maybe even some actual newsflow from Iran and / or Israel.
While everyone is hyperventilating over him and russia, behind the scenes the real damage is being done and the real story of the in - house manipulation US elections for decades is being covered up and ignored.
Prior to the general election, Prime Minister Theresa May outlined her intention to abolish the SFO; which may still be smarting from failing to convict two Barclays traders in April for Libor manipulation.
The American people deserve answers about social media manipulation in the 2016 election.
«Governments in a total of 30 countries deployed some form of manipulation to distort online information, up from 23 the previous year,» Freedom House reports, indicating that there wasn't just manipulation from other countries, as seen with Russia in the US 2016 elections, but from local governments intervening to assure a victory in upcoming elections.
«It's reasonable to believe that sooner or later, we're going to see widespread manipulation of people's decision - making, including in elections, in ways that are more widespread and granular, but even less detectable than today,» he wrote in an email.
The interest in getting more information on how these companies left the doors open for voter manipulation across both sides of the aisle gets to the heart of why Russian election meddling is so troubling: If powerful foreign adversaries are working to sway American voters, it doesn't matter what team you're on.
However, further allegations about the firm's tactics were reported late Monday by British broadcaster Channel 4 which said it secretly taped interviews with senior Cambridge Analytica executives in which they boasted of their ability to sway elections in countries around the world with digital manipulation and traditional political trickery.
The increasingly sharp and personal tenor of the requests, many of which sought an appearance by Zuckerberg, raised the odds of a fresh round of potentially contentious hearings — after Facebook defended itself in fall hearings about Russian manipulation of its site connected to the 2016 election.
«The American people deserve answers about social media manipulation in the 2016 election,» Warner tweeted.
The extent of Cambridge Analytica's work in spreading disinformation during elections across the world is unclear, but Mark Turnbull, the company's managing director, gives a disconcerting account to Channel 4 of supposed manipulation online:
That sentiment was backed by Adam Schiff, the highest - ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, which is already investigating social media manipulation in the run up to the 2016 presidential election.
The company also plans to weed out networks of malicious automation via improvements to its anti-spam technology, and will also «monitor trends and spikes in conversations relating to the 2018 elections for potential manipulation activity.»
Since the elections, lawmakers have adopted a more aggressive approach toward Facebook, Twitter, and Alphabet over everything from potential behavioral manipulation to their role in showing Russian - backed ads during the 2016 elections.
US senator Mark Warner, chair of the Intelligence Committee, has also requested that Zuckerberg and other tech CEOs testify to answer questions about Facebook's role in alleged social manipulation of the US presidential election.
Meanwhile, Mark Warner, the U.S. Senator who is vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, has also requested that Zuckerberg, along with other tech CEOs, testify in order to answer questions about Facebook's role in «social manipulation» in the 2016 election.