Sentences with phrase «electoral rules which»

Now, a string of emails released under Freedom of Information laws to WhatDoTheyKnow and seen by openDemocracy demonstrate the full scale of the loophole in Britain's electoral rules which allowed Grimes and Vote Leave to spend this extraordinary sum — and the worrying implications it has for British democracy.

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The legislation and court rulings to which it led effected sweeping changes in the structures of education, employment, and electoral politics.

By contrast, the unit rule (by which states award all their electoral votes to the plurality winner in the state) that 48 states employ under the electoral college encourages third parties, especially regional candidates like Strom Thurmond in 1948 or George Wallace in 1968.

A source within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state told DAILY POST on Saturday that Husein, who is a serving Commissioner was accused of flouting the electoral law, which stipulates 30 days for anyone who is in a public servant to resign his / her appointment before vying for an elective office.

Whether legislating for a five - year fixed - term parliament, or changing the voting registration system, or redrawing the electoral map, this is a government which has not stopped to think twice before meddling with the rules of the game.

«The SDP as well as many Nigerians were aware that the PDP had a fundraising event prior to the election where billions of naira was donated,» insisting that the PDP, which had ruled Nigeria for 16 years was capable of funding their part of the electoral alliance.

Corruption attacks the foundation of democratic institutions by distorting electoral processes, perverting the rule of law, causing human rights abuses and creating bureaucratic quagmires leading to public sector corruption which in turn drives private sector corruption.

«Secondly, the manner in which elections are conducted by the state independent electoral commissions where the ruling party in state wins all positions is worrisome.

The rows is the latest twist in the ongoing saga which has seen Brexit campaigners accused of flouting electoral rules in the EU referendum campaign.

• A declaration that the said Section 78 (7)(ii) of the electoral Act 2011 as amended be expunged as same offends Section 40 of the 2011 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended which is a light to other laws, Acts, Rules and Regulations.

In any event, this being a hypothetical ballot, I feel no obligation to abide by the academy's list of official submissions or its long - standing one - film - per - country rule, which is almost as outmoded as the electoral college.