Sentences with phrase «election system»

Critics say the state's election system makes it difficult, if not impossible, for even the most qualified candidates to win without large sums of money and vast political connections.

What you are arguing for, then, is not a different election system, but a different governmental system.

Some groups say publicly - funded election systems will help get more women in the legislature.

The German election system is such that the final proportion of parliamentary seats must match the country wide proportions of party - preference votes.

With what election system would you replace the electoral college?

If anything continues to be unclear or if I made a mistake, please let me know (the Swiss elections system is quite complicated and unusual).

The German election system is overly complicated, involving three levels (national, the states and the election districts).

Public meeting with federal and state elected officials to discuss issues important to low - income residents of the Hudson Valley, including affordable housing, youth issues, raising the minimum wage, immigration reform, safety net programs, job creation, instituting a Fair Elections system in the state, as well as the federal and state budget.

From 1993 to 1999 he was president and CEO of Sequoia Pacific Systems in Visalia, California, a leading developer and seller of election systems used by jurisdictions around the world.

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (02/15/2013)(readMedia)-- Community Voices Heard and a number of allied organizations will host a public meeting in Poughkeepsie with federal and state elected officials to discuss issues important to low - income residents of the Hudson Valley, including affordable housing, youth issues, raising the minimum wage, immigration reform, safety net programs, job creation, instituting a Fair Elections system in the state, as well as the federal and state budget.

Now that the potential vulnerability of U.S. election systems is widely known, Russia may not be the only adversary looking to poke holes in U.S. systems.

In a press conference today, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence presented its urgent recommendations for protecting election systems as the U.S. moves toward midterm elections later this year

In a rebuke to President Donald Trump's administration, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday said the state won't comply with the federal review of state election systems when it comes to revealing New York's voter rolls.

Convocation has been criticized as being too cozy, and the current election system doesn't help by encouraging voting shortcuts.»

Plaintiffs challenging the at - large election system for school - board members in the Del Valle (Tex.) Independent School District last week rejected a settlement offer from the school board and plan to proceed with a lawsuit filed in a state court last month.

Gov. Cuomo noted that in addition to evidence that the Russians interfered with the 2016 Presidential elections, the feds believe the Kremlin tried targeting election systems in 21 states.

WASHINGTON The former head of a federal agency helping U.S. states protect election systems from hackers has been hired for a similar role within the Trump administration after being passed up for reappointment by Republican Speaker Paul Ryan and the White House.

In the paper, co-authors George Deltas and Mattias Polborn studied the trade - offs between voter coordination and candidate quality under different primary election systems.

Election security leader to be replaced: «The head of a federal agency who has helped U.S. states protect election systems from possible cyber attacks by Russia or others is being removed from his post by Republican House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and the White House,» Reuters reports.

In the fourth round of the mayoral elections in 2016, using the Supplementary Vote election system which requires candidates to gain a majority of eligible votes, Labour's Sadiq Khan won 58 % support in the run - off stage to convincingly beat the Tory candidate, Zac Goldsmith.

The request comes on the heels of emerging details around Russia's successful attempts to hack election systems in many states.

If the US election system suffers from computational SCID, then it's likely the first instance noticed isn't the actual first instance, and probably not the last, more so if left undiagnosed.

Jeremy Corbyn has just competed under the most democratic election system that Labour has ever held and has won the biggest ever mandate of a leader.

Although IndependentVoting teaches that partisan election systems produce bad government, they have also been generally supportive of New York city Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the nation's highest - ranked elected official who is a registered independent.

Then in February of last year, source code from Diebold Election Systems turned up on a Diebold Web site, unprotected by any passwords.

North Carolina: retention election system advances out of Senate committee, but limited to Supreme Court

Increased use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system security, according to an op - ed published last week in The...

Homeland Security reportedly considered declaring election systems as «critical infrastructure,» which would have given the federal agency the authority to protect the systems.

In either scenario, experts say, attackers could also potentially use an IMSI - catcher or subverted telecom router to hack back into election systems and alter software to affect election outcomes.

Moreover, NPV guarantees that states with well - thought - out election laws and well - run election systems are held hostage to those without.

The New York election system needs a colossal reform that would solidify our democratic process.

The idealistic and politically inexperienced pair set out against a corrupt government, civil unrest, and a fixed election system to change the course of Haitian history.

The plan would create a «doing business» database similar to what's in place in the New York City elections system.

The US election system doesn't account for a change in power because election fraud was discovered.

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (04/03/2012)(readMedia)-- On Wednesday, residents and community leaders from Community Voices Heard (CVH) in Poughkeepsie will demand that their elected officials that represent them in Albany pass a Fair Elections system during this year's legislative session.

SB 2238 Requires the judiciary, office of elections, and campaign spending commission to study appropriate methods of implementing a judicial election system in the State and submit a written report, including proposed legislation, to the legislature.

The voter data was then downloaded by cyber risk analyst Chris Vickery who determined Election Systems & Software (ES&S) controlled the data.

He said the results put UKIP in a «very strong position» in the run - up to the next general election, but acknowledged that «when it comes to a general election we do have a problem, which is the first - past - the - post election system».

Alaska Elections Division Director Josie Bahnke said computers in Russia were scanning election systems looking for vulnerabilities.

And all states must fortify election systems.

In this analysis, entitled «The Graham - Klobuchar Amendment Can Secure Election Infrastructure: It's Time for Real Election Cybersecurity Reformation» ICIT provides the first analysis of this important amendment which provides states with the crucial funding necessary to modernize and secure election systems.

The upshot is that Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure may need to be included on the list of critical infrastructure targets, which includes utilities, transportation systems, financial markets and most recently election systems.

Since the U.S. election system operates through a patchwork of different systems in each state, Graff believes it would difficult to pull off a large - scale breach.

But the extent of Russia's infiltration in election systems across the country last year remains unclear, and congressional investigators apparently are trying to find out more about what the Russians accessed and why.

The United States government has reclassified the national election system as «critical infrastructure.»

The peculiarities of the Norwegian election system generate 6 — 8 parties and make it extremely difficult for a single party to gain an absolute majority.