Sentences with phrase «election systems looking»

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

Not exact matches

«While this might make Putin look like a tough guy flexing new nuclear muscles ahead of upcoming undemocratic elections in Russia that will coronate him again, the new systems don't change the essential deterrence equation between the US and Russia,» Barry Pavel, a senior vice president and director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council wrote.

Gross» latest investment outlook has the genie Flav offering a look ahead to next week's presidential election, to which Gross declines and shares his frustration with the two - party political system.

The impact of higher oil prices on the country's current account deficit and inflation rate, the Indian banking system's struggles with demonetization, scandals, bad loans and a government looking ahead to next year's general election have all taken a toll on investor sentiment.

I'm looking for educational resources that I can share with others in an effort to engage more citizens in how our election system actually works.

There was a brief time before the last election when it looked like we were finally entering a genuinely three party system.

England could truly start to look like a four - party electoral system today, as much of the country goes to the polls in local elections.

Fair Elections for New York, one of the groups pushing for establishment of a public campaign finance system, is hosting a free screening tonight of «Pricele $ $,» a documentary that looks at the pervasive nature of political cash and its power in shaping policy at the national level.

The report, written by elections experts, academic Prof. Roger Scully and ERS Wales» researcher Dr Owain ap Gareth, the report compares projections of what the results could have looked like under different voting systems and questions the impact of the proposed Boundary Changes.

On AV, I think it is more complicated, as neither you nor I can say we know what the pattern of 1st preferences would be in the first AV General Election, still less do any of us know what the overall candidate and party system look like, and the way in which different candidates and parties might interact over two or three elections.

Only about 20 countries around the world look to the international marketplace to procure electronic systems which will help their elections run smoothly.

The report details what the results in the 2011 Assembly election could have looked like under different voting systems.

But today Fair Elections says those members aren't being included in the hearing, which will likely take a critical look at the New York City public financing system.

It looks instead like the government will use the constitutional reform and governance bill to pave the way for a referendum within two years of the next election, ie in the next parliament, but just on the alternative vote (AV)-- a system that allows preferences but isn't proportional.

In 2007 Baston looked at 256 opinion polls, and at the election results that would have been produced by three electoral systems: first past the post, and two AV scenarios — one in which the Liberal Democrat votes went to the Tories and Labour, and another in which the Lib Dem second preference votes went to Labour.

The company, reports David McCabe of Axios, on Friday announced election advertisers looking to use Google's ad systems would have to prove U.S. residency or citizenship first, effective July 10.

«Simply stated, Mr. Ganim is looking for the same equal opportunity, if he should decide to seek state elected office, to participate in the clean and fair public financing system that has transformed Connecticut's elections for the better.»

«I think what is coming to an end is a political system rooted in a first - past - the - post means of election which looks as if it is creaking at the seams.

Firstly, it looks like the Alternative Vote system which they are proposing for Westminster elections will be rejected in the nationwide referendum.

The plenary is a look at the UK voting system and its results from the election in 2011.

The provision for retirement at 75 in Canada's Constitution Act, 1867 (s. 99 (2) looks prescient, though one can see that with the fixed US election cycle, institutionalizing such a system in the US would be fraught with peril — anyone whose birthyear fell on a presidential election year would be less likely to be appointed than someone in the following year, but for those into the issue, here are the leads: TERM LIMITS FOR THE SUPREME COURT: Life Tenure Reconsidered, WHEN SUPREME COURT JUSTICES REFUSE TO RETIRE: Why We Need More Media Coverage, And A Constitutional Amendment and Politicized Departure from the United States Supreme Court