Sentences with phrase «electoral officers»

As «sponsors,» these individuals might wish to remain anonymous, but would still be required to disclose their name and contact information to the chief electoral officer.

That is why we are here to let you know that we are ready to contribute to your success as a Commission, either by monitoring or as electoral officers.

The state REC, Baritor Kpagih, had while announcing the cancellation said there were reports that the poll in the area was «substantially» marred by violence, ballot box snatching and hostage taking of electoral officers.

The AEC needs to supply enough people at small booths to conduct a booth including toilet, meals, supervision, chief electoral officer in booth.

In 2015, attempts by the Chairperson to stop district electoral officers from inserting ghost names on the list of officials recruited for the 2015 district level elections, to enable them appropriate the allowances for the officials resulted in the Chairperson being reported to the BNI for investigation.

INEC had earlier announced the suspension of 23 electoral officers who were indicted by the Joint Police / DSS report on the Rivers rerun election on March 9, 2017.

The NDC alleged that Dr Bawumia induced two electoral officers at Kperiga Presby JHS «A» polling station in the Walewale constituency in the Northern Region with a sum of Ghc10, 000, for him to be verified in his home.

A staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Yisa Olanrewaju Adedoyin, has pleaded guilty to receiving the sum of N70, 050,000.00 (Seventy Million, Fifty Thousand Naira) from the N23billion alleged Diezani Allison - Madueke bribe meant to compromise electoral officers before the 2015 general election.

A staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Christian Nwosu has pleaded guilty to receiving N30million as bribe from the N23billion alleged Diezani bribe meant to compromise electoral officers before the 2015 general election.

Response 11: The petitioners would have to show the basis for the perception that the district electoral officers transferred were pro-NPP.

It would be helpful for the petitioners, if they exist, to show what action was taken and should have been taken against district electoral officers performing key functions and showing party biases as they allege.

She said electoral officers would distribute the materials to the Presiding Officers in the various councils who would deploy them to the various polling units.

She added that the commission had started distribution of non-sensitive electoral materials to electoral officers across the 20 local governments and 37 development areas.

According to Soyebi, the commission took the decision to suspend the affected electoral officers, because the Directorate of Public Prosecution was investigating them for prosecution.

He said the rules provide that where electoral officers willfully engage in electoral malpractice, punitive sanctions may apply against them.

The Rivers state government has described as false, the claims by the Police that it has recovered the sum of 111 million Naira from electoral officers allegedly bribed by the government to manipulate the Rivers rerun election.

You man polling booths with police, thugs and you pay electoral officers.

Chief electoral officer Ezra Chiloba told reporters the systems were not compromised at any point.

Bumper stickers, sandwich boards, pamphlets and handmade window signs expressing views on potential political issues in British Columbia do not require their creators or holders to register with British Columbia's chief electoral officer under that province's Election Act, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled today; however, «sponsors» of election advertising are required to register, no matter how little they may have spent on the advertising.

Individuals... can express their own views without registering» with B.C.'s chief electoral officer during an elections campaign.

«Reports on the election conducted in Southern Ijaw LGA on December 6, 2015, revealed that the election was substantially marred by violence, ballot snatching and hostage taking of electoral officers.

«The chief electoral officer in B.C. has always said that [the requirements of] this Act applies to anyone expressing personal views,» Latimer told Legal Feeds; «the lower courts agreed.

Polling agents as well as electoral officers, she added, will be made to swear an oath before a magistrate prior to the elections.

The voter can then send the ballot and the certificate to the Chief electoral Officer by any means before the close of the polls.

On June 30, the last day the old provincial sales tax remained in effect, a coalition fronted by former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm presented a petition of 557,383 valid signatures to the province's chief electoral officer, which forces a bill abolishing the HST to be either voted on in the legislature or put to a referendum.

Alberta's chief electoral officer is currently investigating.

INEC also released the guidelines for the conduct of primaries by political parties, submission of names and addresses of party agents to electoral officer, last day for submission of forms CF001, CF002 and nomination forms at INEC Headquarters; last day for publication of forms CF001 and nominated candidates.

June 22th was fixed as last day for publication of forms CF001 and nominated candidates while June 30th has been fixed as day for submission of names and addresses of party agents to electoral officer.

• Some members of the NPP will again disguise themselves to attack and beat NPP polling agents with the connivance of some electoral officers.

«In the same vein, Ms. Mary Tunkuyo, Mr Agona Isaac, Mr Ademola Toba, NYSC members that served as electoral officers were physically assaulted and sustained serious injuries, yet they stood their grounds and discharged their responsibilities.

«After the voting, both candidates had 19 votes, making it a split, so the electoral officer decided that the house should take a breather for an hour and return to vote for the second time, but this declaration of the votes by the electoral officer did not go down well with the youth who had gathered at the back of the church building.»

«The electoral officers and materials were of great importance to me, to provide necessary security for them, and that was what I did.

«Yes, I have been getting calls all along on this rumour but I am not bothered because anyone should know that the security of the electoral officers was my responsibility.

The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), which made the claims against Dr. Bawumia, alleged that he induced two electoral officers in Walewale in the Upper West Region, with a sum of GHc 10, 000, to bring verification materials to his residence to verify him.

Peden, the chief electoral officer, said that while the same rules don't apply to early voting, the Electoral Commission does ask for parties and candidates to exercise restraint around voting places.

«I told the electoral officers not to go there because there were reports of shooting and assaulting of people with machetes, although no death was recorded,» he said

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He also commended the electoral officers and the people of Lagos state for the peace and calm experienced so far.

Security agents immediately gave protection to the electoral officer as he compiled the overall result.

At Adanyi and Bur polling units, there was neither a voter not an electoral officer, as at 1.40 pm when NAN visited.

The private legal practitioner also commented on a request by Raila Odinga that the electoral officers who presided over the flawed elections by imprisoned.

At some units, NAN found that the electoral officers were already seated but had not commenced accreditation as the materials were still being awaited from the Benue State Independent Electoral Commission.

Adding that irregularities were also witnessed in Northern Taraba, particularly in Lau and Yoro, where Manzo comes from, Abubakar insisted that thousands of troops deployed to some areas as well as electoral officers were heavily compromised.

«While the governor of Kogi State currently enjoys immunity from prosecution, the commission approved the summary dismissal of two employees for acts of misconduct and the immediate and compulsory retirement of an electoral officer for acts of gross misconduct.»

Our correspondents who went round some polling units in Adikpo, Kwande and other local governments, found voters loitering around the polling units while waiting for electoral officers and materials as at 1.50 pm.

«In the run - up to the election, there were complaints about the late training of presiding officers and electoral officers, and its beginning to show.

In some stations, you find that the electoral officers are very confident and they know what they are doing, but in other stations, they were a bit on unsure what to do.

Another Assembly member, John Kubi, told Valentina Ofori - Afriyie on Class FM's 505 programme that: «They (thugs) entered just after the last person voted and the electoral officer was about to open the ballot box.

According to Okoro, there are some cases of misconduct on the part of some electoral officers, who were compromised in the line of duty