Sentences with phrase «election systems across»

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.

Not exact matches

In late August, Yahoo broke news that foreign hackers had breached the state Board of Elections websites in Illinois and Arizona, which the FBI's cyber division followed up with an alert to election officials across the nation to increase voting system security.

«Once again, New York's archaic voter registration system has highlighted dramatic shortcomings in the administration of elections across the state,» the New York Public Interest Research Group said in a statement, calling for automatic voter registration and same - day voter registration.

In preparation for the launch of the Fair Elections for New York campaign, a series of events in Albany and across the state are being held to call attention to state legislators» reliance on out - of - district campaign contributions — further evidence of the need for a state public campaign finance system that relies on small donors and local money.

That this House notes the improved security of ballots in Northern Ireland following implementation of the Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 which has also resulted in increased levels of voter registration; further notes the successful prosecutions for electoral fraud in Slough, Peterborough and Birmingham; further notes the 2007 Council of Europe investigation into electoral fraud in the UK and the recent report entitled Purity of Elections in the UK: Causes for Concern, published by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd which highlights how vulnerable the electoral system is to electoral fraud; and calls on the Government to improve electoral security across the rest of the UK.

Fair Elections for New York, the coalition of groups pushing for a public matching system for political campaigns, today announced it will begin three - week long effort of rallies and other public events across the state to push the issue.

However STV is not a PR system and the degree of proportionality depends on how votes for the different parties are distributed across the country, and other variables such as the size of the multimember constituencies and the numbers of parties competing in the election.

Yet we know from past European elections using the List PR system that a considerable amount of votes are dispersed across these unfamiliar options.

«Once again, New York's archaic voter registration system has highlighted dramatic shortcomings in the administration of elections across the state,» Horner said.

In the wake of years of inaction by the elected officials in the region and continuing unemployment and disinvestment in Poughkeepsie, a growing movement has been building in the Hudson Valley and across the state in support of Fair Elections so that New Yorkers can have a democractic system that elects officials that will be responsive to the needs of all communities.

Common Cause joins with over 30 organizations from across the state in urging the legislature to include funding for early voting in the final budget and bring New York's antiquated system of elections into the 21st century,» said Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause / NY.

A 2012 paper in the Election Law Journal called the city's matching funds system a model for municipalities across the country.

After all, the questionable campaigns and elections that transpired in Cambodia and Zimbabwe are merely two among many that have generated considerable controversy this year, with 2013 shaping up to be a banner year for competitive authoritarian systems across the world.

Citizen identification and elections: Several countries across the world rely on biometry software and system to identify its citizen and also for conducting the national activities such as elections, allotment of driving license and issuance of passports and many others.

Others halfway across the globe are also having their elections, so as part of the «celebration», the team from American website, BuzzFeed News, decided to conduct an experiment to give their voting system a little test.

Others halfway across the globe are also having their elections, so as part of the «celebration», the team from American website, BuzzFeed News, decided to conduct an experiment to give their voting system a little test — with a cat.

Third: In Canada we have some 300 long - running Local Governments which replace their members using systems other than the kind of «elections» defined under the various Municipal Acts or equivalent across the country.

The system was launched as a pilot last year, as a way for Facebook to challenge accusations that it allowed misleading or downright incorrect stories to proliferate across the site and influence the 2016 US presidential election among other things.

• Cultivated an extraordinary level of company loyalty, achieving a 10 + year tenure amongst 70 % of employees • Introduced a safety system that monitors equipment dynamically to prevent damage to utility lines • Decreased maintenance costs by 55 % by employing preventative maintenance activities on monthly basis • Reined in a colossal project that required complete replacement of landscaping in 7 parks across the city in the limited time of 3 months • Reduced equipment repairing and maintenance cost by 50 % by setting up an in - house maintenance unit • Filled 85 potholes within the city in record time of 2 weeks, following election preparations • Trained 52 newly hired maintenance workers in routine light and heavy labor work, pertinent to construction work and maintenance • Utilized extensive knowledge and skill of maintenance logistics to significantly improve work team's efficiency by 49 %