Sentences with phrase «election monitors who»

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.

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But we also think that it's astonishing that nobody has responsibility for the diversity of democracy nationally, and we shall be taking steps to ask government, the Electoral Commission and elections officers to do this, both in terms of providing support for the identification and training of candidates through a Democracy Diversity Fund, and by monitoring who is standing for election in the first place.

According to Sen. Diane Savino, a former labor leader who was monitoring the AFSCME election at the union's convention in Boston via BlackBerry while the Senate was in the final throes of its last day in Albany (for now, at least), Donohue received 648 votes to Lee Saunders» 652.

John Mahama, who is leading an ECOWAS Observer Mission to monitor the election in that country, told the media that although there were few hitches and late start of voting in some polling centers, the process has been «so far so good.»

David Nir, an attorney who now heads the left - leaning Daily Kos Elections blog that closely monitors redistricting developments across the country, said he expected the three - judge panel would adopt the proposed map wholesale.

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.

Jonathan, who is in Liberia to monitor the presidential election in the country, however, prayed for the quick recovery of Yusuf.

Our correspondent who monitored the election in Makurdi, Guma and Gwer local government areas of the state report low turnout and the late arrival of voting materials in some polling units.

Correspondents, who monitored the elections, report that the protests were more pronounced in Benue Central Senatorial District, with Buruku and Gboko Local Government Areas worst hit.

«Florida to monitor Broward election chief after judge finds «unlawful» ballot destruction in Wasserman Schultz race «via Marc Caputo of POLITICO — The elections supervisor in Florida's second-most populous county broke state and federal law by unlawfully destroying ballots cast in U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz «s 2016 Democratic primary, a judge ruled Friday in a case brought by the congresswoman's challenger who wanted to check for voting irregularities.

From the brilliant pronouncements above, why should INEC get itself involved in monitoring an illegal primary election for the APC purportedly held on January 19, 2016, or any other party other than those candidates who participated in the annuled election excluding the PDP and its candidate, Ekwunife, whose participation as an unqualified candidate led to the cancellation?

Comptroller Scott Stringer, who also opened an audit of the New York City BOE, said the office would be monitoring the presidential elections as part of its audit.

Igini who made the revelation Wednesday while answering questions on a local radio program monitored in Uyo said,» less than seven million people have so far been registered for forth coming general elections».

He argued that while monitoring the election, «we heard that people were doing multiple voting in some places» adding that in Awhiam, there were people «who were given four to six ballot papers [and] the Police were there but did nothing.»

Dogo, however, thanked the security agencies, party faithful, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, who were on the ground to monitor the elections in all the centres of the state.

The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Aisha Alhassan, who monitored the election had on Saturday hailed the conduct of the election, describing it as the most peaceful and best election ever conducted by INEC.

Early on the prospects for this appeared unlikely due to the Election Commission's refusal to permit international observers access to monitor the process, save a handful of observers from ASEAN member states, who par for the course declared that the elections were carried out in a free and fair manner without any notable irregularities.

Election Day Employment for Lawyers — Election Day, and possibly the days thereafter will bring employment (some of it pro bono) for the armies of lawyers who'll be involved in monitoring the polls or representing one candidate or another in post-election challenges (Bloomberg).

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook's team of content reviewers focused mainly on violence and pornography, making it «incredibly easy» for Russian trolls to fly under the radar with their fake news, according to a former Facebook content monitor who worked at the social network for eight months in the lead - up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.