Sentences with phrase «electoral fraud»

The regime has also been careful to pay some attention to the claims of electoral fraud in 2011.

A Conservative candidate has hit back at an allegation he committed electoral fraud by giving out free pens.

The parties agree to reduce electoral fraud by speeding up the implementation of individual voter registration.

As for your comments about electoral fraud you're just plain wrong.

Doing so will significantly diminish the likelihood of electoral fraud, which is a huge issue despite the prevalence of electronic voting systems.

I can confirm that South Yorkshire Police is investigation an allegation of electoral fraud in relation to the forthcoming Sheffield City Regional Mayoral elections.

In May 2008, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation reported that there had been forty - two convictions for electoral fraud since 2001.

Polling stations should be made English - language only to prevent electoral fraud, a local Tory politician has demanded.

The project follows a recent report from the Electoral Commission which revealed that the police recorded 481 cases of alleged electoral fraud in the UK last year.

Secondly, what happened about the Labour council candidate who was arrested on electoral fraud allegations?

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of perpetrating massive rigging and other electoral frauds during the...

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of perpetrating massive rigging and other electoral frauds during the Saturday local government elections in the state.

During the last elections, many opposition parties boycotted the presidential and parliamentary election, denouncing massive electoral fraud during the municipal elections and claiming that municipal elections were not free and fair and the next polls unlikely to be so.

While electoral fraud reports are mostly unconfirmed, activists wasted no time uploading videos and reports of vote - rigging on to the internet yesterday.

Castro has already begun to question the legitimacy of the future election, calling Costa Ricans to fight what he already calls to be the biggest electoral fraud.

Mark Harper announces plans for individual voter registration in Great Britain as a way of tackling electoral fraud

The Cabinet Office said the trial for English voters was deemed necessary «after reports of alleged electoral fraud through voter impersonation more than doubled between 2014 and 2016», citing Electoral Commission data.

Three Labour MP's being investigated for possible electoral fraud, not the headlines wanted by the PLP.

Nearly a third of initial votes were rejected because of problems with electoral fraud, stripping incumbent Hamid Karzai of an outright win.

But revelations of widespread electoral fraud stripped Hamid Karzai of an outright majority.

«We are appealing to the National Executive Committee of our great Party to have the elections held at Ningo Prampram Constituency investigated thoroughly, and if the allegations against Samuel Nartey George are proven, annul the results of the elections and punish him severely for perpetuating such electoral fraud in his bid to short change the will of the people of Ningo Prampram Constituency and bring the NDC Party into disrepute.»

«Although the number of electoral fraud cases reported last year is relatively low, we can't be complacent and we believe it is important to continue to raise awareness of the issue.

He added that countering electoral fraud could be a major real world application...

So, why count on them to perpetrate electoral fraud or to perpetuate one's reign?

The Union Election Commission, responding to claims of fiddled voter lists and wax covering the NLD box on the ballot papers, has vowed to investigate and prosecute electoral fraud.

Ghana currently has no electoral laws to handle the situation, and the government communique addressing the voter register admits that «Ghana should emulate the example of Kenya by codifying a set of electoral laws which adequately deter electoral fraud.»

People seeking to access public services are already subject to various similar authentication processes, for example when applying for benefits, and I do not believe such a check, which will help to eliminate electoral fraud, is disproportionate or that it represents an invasion of privacy.

Although proven electoral fraud is relatively rare, we should be concerned about the impact that such cases have on the public's confidence in the electoral system.»

This is however the first time a Cabinet minister has directly blamed electoral fraud for failing to win seats.

There is no evidence that it is widespread in the UK, but where it does happen electoral fraud has the potential to undermine public confidence.

In a discussion of modern electoral fraud, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Monday offered a journalistic admission: She conceded that the 1960 presidential election was «obviously» «stolen» from Richard Nixon.

Though there had been insinuations since Monday of his plan to visit Osun to seek the help of Governor Aregbesola to plead with Buhari to stave off possible backlash of the Ekiti electoral fraud for which some army officers have been indicted.

Schulkin's comments — made at a United Federation of Teachers Christmas party in December 2015 to an undercover operative — were published on Oct. 11 of this year, and became an odd echo to Trump's growing campaign trail fulminations about Democratic conspiracies and rampant electoral fraud.

The anti-crime charity Crimestoppers has teamed up with the Electoral Commission to raise awareness of electoral fraud among voters.

The 2011 parliamentary vote was followed by anti-government street protests across Russia, sparked by what was widely perceived to have been large - scale electoral fraud: a rigged election in favour of United Russia.

«Electoral fraud is a crime and it is our duty to help bring to justice those who are responsible for it but also to help to educate the public, so that voters can recognise electoral fraud and report it if they know it's happening.»

In an email passed by the voter to the Electoral Reform Society (ERS), they wrote: «We have reviewed the evidence presented in your email and we would tend to agree that the presentation of electoral fraud statistics in the letter is misleading.

Once the political class and the generality of the people are vigilant to the extent that they expose electoral fraud, it could be extremely difficult to manipulate the outcome of any given election.

To combat electoral fraud in local government he called for new controls to guarantee the probity of voting in municipal elections.

Unequal constituency sizes, low voter turnout and the recent increase in electoral fraud compound the problem.

Greg Clark, the communities secretary, said investigations into elections were a regular occurrence after Gloucestershire police launched an inquiry into an allegation of electoral fraud relating to the 2015 poll.

Paseda said electoral fraud was so glaring that the opposition party agents refused to sign the result sheets and called for the results to be annulled.

The UNDP report also stated that the «the electoral process in Ghana is faced with a number of challenges such as electoral fraud, violence, bloated register, and intimidation of election officials.»

«I have no record of such incident or other electoral fraud from anywhere in the state, so I can not comment or speak on it,» Okasanmi said.

The Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has underscored the importance of how social media can be used to check electoral fraud on the African continent.

If incumbents in weak democracies foresee a greater risk of losing office, they sometimes employ electoral fraud and pre-electoral violence to maintain power,» he explains.

Though we can hope that the current widespread electoral fraud scandal might shorten Harper's time in the PMO, or at least hamper his most destructive tendencies.

So much electoral fraud.