Sentences with phrase «electoral laws do»

Despite the huge numbers of Ghanaians abroad, Ghana's electoral laws do not allow citizens in the diaspora to vote.

We'll never know how much the parties spent, or where, because the current electoral laws don't require this reporting.

Not exact matches

A loophole in electoral law in the United Kingdom means that although anyone donating even small sums of money to a political party has to declare this as a matter of public record, those loaning money at commercial rates of interest did not have to make a public declaration.

Commenting on how the New Patriotic Party has gone about with the electoral commission's Steering Committee, he said that it doesn't matter who will be appointed — rather, what matters is the electoral commission's steadfastness in working with the laws of the country.

Laws also fails to answer the question implicitly posed throughout as he reels off Liberal Democrat achievements in government — what could the party have done differently to avoid such a humiliating electoral rout in 2015?

«We don't have to go to Albany and deal with that political dysfunction in order to get this electoral reform,» he said, an apparent reference to that fact that many other voting and election laws are dictated by the state.

Most importantly, it established the Electoral Commission as the body with oversight of all matters electoral, including party finance, electoral law and (key here) anything to do with referendums.

According to her 29 March 2007 interview with the «Huddersfield Examiner» newspaper, she was doing the party's books, merchandising & electoral law work with little help, and had grown fed up with the lack of leadership accountability.

«The provisions of the constitution and the electoral act are clear to the effect that with the unfortunate death of Prince Abubakar Audu before the conclusion of the election, and the fact that the laws do not permit the replacement of candidates once the balloting has commenced, the APC crashed out of the race, leaving the PDP candidate, Governor Idris Wada as the clear winner, having garnered 204,877 votes to top all other contestants since, Prince Ababakar, the hitherto leading contestant died with his votes.

The Commission therefore «wishes to advice political leaders to familiarize themselves with the electoral laws and regulations to enable them to insist on the right things being done at all times».

«If the Commission believes that the privacy protections granted by the IRS undermine accountability in the electoral process, then it should lobby Congress to make changes, but the Commission's charge does not pertain to reevaluation of those federal laws and policies,» the filing says.

I don't have any citations for you, but its illegal to bribe state and federal officials, and electoral are defined by a mixture of state and federal laws, so it would almost certainly fall into existing state / federal bribery laws.

He explained that all concerned authorities must wade in to ensure that the ruling part, APC does not violate the electoral laws like the previous election.

«Stakeholders, especially political parties and candidates are strongly advised to ensure that they follow strictly the election timetable and guidelines being released today and also to ensure that they do not offend the state electoral law.

Even though we are required by law to accept the result of the December 7, 2016 polls, it is regrettable to note that the President elect (Akuffo - Addo) is to me a mistake of the Majority because he does not represent the will of the people, bearing in mind the electoral fraud and hacking in to the Electoral Commission's transmission data base.

Under Northern Irish electoral law, the source of this dark money has remained secret but we do know that money came through the Constitutional Research Council, a shadowy group chaired by Richard Cook, a former vice chairman of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.

A group of good governance advocates under the aegis of «Our Mumu Don Do» movement led by ace musician, Charles Oputa popularly known as Charly Boy, on Tuesday, stormed the office of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to engage with him over what it described as «observable lacuna» in the Nigeria's electoral laws.

Despite not relying on an individual right to find that the electoral law falls within the scope of Union law, the Court does find for the first time that Union citizens do enjoy a specific and autonomous right to vote in European Parliamentary elections contained in Article 39 CFR.

Prior to law school, Sacha spent four years doing community organizing and electoral politics in Seattle and Los Angeles.

The law does not assume or presume any single type of electoral system, even if this is what has worked for us — for now.