Sentences with phrase «election program established»

Prominent Democrats were on the defensive in both public episodes — one a legislative controversy, the other a trial in Hartford Superior Court — relating to the clean - election program established a decade ago by the Democrat - controlled General Assembly after a corruption scandal sent Republican Gov. John G. Rowland to federal prison.

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Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver formally introduced a bill this week that would create a statewide voluntary public matching funds program in New York, calling on fellow legislators to pass the bill and make New York state «the model for the rest of the nation in establishing and preserving fair elections.»

«I am confident that John Katko will be a successful and dedicated member of this program and that he will continue to work hard to reach the crucial campaign benchmarks that have been established ahead of the 2014 elections,» Walden said in a statement.

The debate over public financing has begun in the state Senate, with the introduction of new legislation by Senator Eric Adams, which would establish a public financing program, create an independent enforcement counsel in the State Board of Elections, lower contribution limits and improve disclosure of independent political spending.

In return for disbanding the commission, lawmakers tweaked the bribery statute, created a new class of public corruption offenses, brought an independent enforcer to the state's Board of Elections and established a pilot program, roundly criticized, for public financing of eElections and established a pilot program, roundly criticized, for public financing of electionselections.

Last year's budget bill, which established the pilot program, required the Board of Elections to write a report assessing the effects of the system.

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.