Sentences with phrase «election monitors»

The Foreign Office is pointedly waiting for reports from election monitors in Russia before commenting on Vladimir Putin's victory in the presidential elections.

A statement signed by the Force Public relations officer, Acting ACP Olabisi Kolawole noted that «However, persons on essential duties such as Ambulance service providers, INEC officials on - duty, security men, accredited election monitors / observers, accredited journalists, etc are not affected by this order».

Distribution of election materials, accreditation of journalists covering the poll, accreditation of election monitors and observers and all other crucial aspects are being concluded as the election holds on Wednesday.

By Dominic James Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has inaugurated a nine - member Election Monitoring and Support Centre Committee, as part -LSB-...]

In a statement by his Personal Assistant, Harvester Charles, Okonkwo said: «PDP no doubt, witnessed a gale of parallel primary elections in Anambra State but Senator Okonkwo emerged the winner of the only primary election monitored by INEC and which the authentic state executive participated in.

The Nigerian Election Situation Room, a body of Nigerian election monitors in the wake of the suggested postponement, said the decision would compromise the independence of the commission.

This even applies to «well intentioned» initiatives and led several states from threatening to arrest international election monitors if they attempted to monitor elections from the polling place as only legal voters and poll employees are allowed in the polling place itself.

And the Russian election monitoring organization, Golos, produced a «map of violations,» recording reports of electoral infringements, both in Russia and abroad.

Yet, here was the damning verdict of the Independent Election Monitoring Group (IEMG), South - South zone, dated 12 April 2015, and signed by one Esther Achor, Esq..

Kenya election monitors urge losing candidates to accept poll results Read more James Orengo, an opposition leader, said the opposition National Super Alliance (Nasa) had rejected the counting process as a «charade».

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.

Rep. Nydia Velázquez had asked for Federal election monitors after learning that many of the purged voters were Hispanic and live in her 7th Congressional District, which spans sections of Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens.

More than 400 international election monitors deployed across the country to monitor voting, the tallying process and the post-election period.

I commend the good people of Anambra state, INEC, security agencies, media, civil society organisations, elections monitors among others for making the election peaceful.»

It is an indication that INEC can, indeed, deliver a seamless poll that will be conclusive and generally accepted as credible by the majority of the people and even international election monitors who monitored the exercise.

The U.S. invited OAS observers to try to persuade other member states to accept election monitors.

Yakubu said, «Given the high stakes of conducting elections in developing countries, electoral commissions must understandably be worried about the twin issues of communication and security especially in situations where data reside with and is directly transmitted to the tallying centres through offshore vendors rather than exclusively controlled within national boundaries by election monitoring bodies.

Election monitors state that voter turnout for this election was unusually strong.

The principal objectives of the organisation are to raise the awareness of human rights and its various abuses, on the one hand and to create a vibrant democratic system through election monitoring on the other.

The Police however, stressed that persons on essential duties such as Ambulance service providers, officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission on - duty, security men, accredited election monitors / observers and accredited journalists among others were not affected by the order.

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has inaugurated a nine - member Election Monitoring and Support Centre Committee, as part of preparations towards the 2019 General Elections.

This was contained in a statement issued by the group, a platform of more than 70 Nigerian civil society organisations working on good governance issues, including: Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre, PLAC, CLEEN Foundation, Action Aid Nigeria, Centre for Democracy and Development, Enough is Enough, WANGONET, JDPC, Election Monitor, YIAGA, CISLAC, Nigerian Women Trust Fund, Stakeholders Democracy Network, Proactive Gender Initiative and several other CSOs.

In regard to the international community, election monitoring is a signalling game.

Hochul also served as an election monitor in Azerbaijan, and was reimbursed for her expenses while there.

This is why as we approach the 2019 elections, I agree with Intersociety that civil society organisations working this area should not restrict their interventions to election monitoring.

«However, persons on essential duties such as ambulance service providers, INEC officials on - duty, security men, accredited election monitors / observers, accredited journalists, etc are not affected by this order.

Describing the electoral process as very impressive, he said the report emerging from the Election Monitoring System Operating Room at the commission's Abuja headquarters was positive.

Members of the Election Monitoring and Support Centre Committee in a group photograph with the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu (4th from left, front row) and National Commissioner, Prof. Okechukwu Ibeanu (3rd from left) after their inauguration on 28th February.

Since joining JAMS, Judge Roberts has been appointed as a discovery master by federal and state courts to supervise discovery and review privileged documents in complex commercial, patent, and product liability cases, as an election monitor for unions under court supervision, as a consultant to monitor a four - year consent decree in an EEOC pattern and practice case against a major restaurant chain, and as a trustee for a 36 - story commercial retail and office building on Fifth Avenue