Sentences with phrase «federal election process»

Not exact matches

«Those who expressed negative views stated that running elections in this country was the sovereign and exclusive responsibility of the states, and they did not want federal intrusion, a federal takeover, or federal regulation of that process.»

«This is a frivolous and blatant, politically - motivated complaint that makes a mockery of the Federal Election Commission process,» the Tillis campaign said in a statement, adding it «never employed foreign workers or improperly coordinated with outside groups.»

A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment Friday against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities accused of violating US laws to interfere with US elections and political processes.

Only a handful of Alberta's elected Senators have actually been appointed to the upper chamber, as the election process exists outside of the Constitution and can be ignored by the federal government.

A federal judge ruled last year that New York's traditional date for the primary, the second Tuesday of September, occurs too late for military absentee ballots to be processed before the general election.

The Trump campaign paid the firm a total of $ 5.9 million, according to Federal Election Commission data processed by the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics.

The main federal investigation, which covers fund - raising by Mr. de Blasio and his staff since his 2013 election campaign, is examining whether donors were promised or received favorable municipal treatment in exchange for their contributions.The nonprofit is in the process of closing down, the mayor said last month, explaining that its work advocating universal prekindergarten and affordable housing was finished.

«The process which resulted in the massive disruption that made it impossible for elections to be conducted in a substantial part of the Federal and State Constituencies in the LGA.

On top of being an election year, district lines for state and federal offices must be finalized in the beginning of the year — a process that will surely face court challenges.

«The Commission is charged with studying the integrity of the registration and voting processes used in federal elections,» Heastie wrote to the board in July.

The chances of a European consensus on the subject of transnational lists is, however, considered unlikely, especially in view of the process of government formation in Germany following the 2017 federal election.

A foreign national shall not direct, dictate, control, or directly or indirectly participate in the decision making process of any person, such as a corporation, labor organization, political committee, or poltiical organization with regard to such person's Federal or non-Federal election - related activities, such as decisions concerning the making of contributions, donations, expenditures, or disbursements in connection with elections for any Federal, State, or local office or decisions concerning the administration of a political committee.

A government ethics watchdog Tuesday filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission after audio from a secretly recorded conversation implied the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee tipped the scales in favor of their preferred candidate, and may have violated campaign finance laws in the process.

«At the federal level, I will recommend it as well because with the card reader and the electronic voting machine, the era of rigging elections is almost over and I think that is when people will have confidence in the process and will come out en masse to vote for their leaders.

With Election Day approaching, classrooms will be filled with lessons on the presidency, the federal government, and the election Election Day approaching, classrooms will be filled with lessons on the presidency, the federal government, and the election election process.

The particular anecdotes I have heard about political influence on the federal grant making process go in the other direction, where people are told that they should not pubish findings supporting large climate sensitvity, at least until after some election.

«The particular anecdotes I have heard about political influence on the federal grant making process go in the other direction, where people are told that they should pubish findings supporting large climate sensitvity, at least until after some election.»

Instead, lawmakers chose to let Tennesseans weigh in on the issue in 2014, when voters will be asked whether a modified federal process — gubernatorial appointment, legislative confirmation, and retention elections — should be used to select appellate judges.

Attorneys in Perkins Coie's Political Law practice will provide insight and guidance on legal developments involving campaign finance, lobbying, the Federal Election Commission, and other topics of interest to those active in the political process.»

They also made the environmental law rollbacks an election issue in 2015 and led the Prime Minister to direct his cabinet ministers to undertake the review of four major federal environmental laws, processes and bodies: the Fisheries Act, Navigation Protection Act, environmental assessment processes and the National Energy Board.

During the last election campaign, the federal NDP said it would not allow Trans Mountain to go forward based on the Harper government's truncated and inadequate approval process.

Since the recent federal election there has been much discussion (and as my colleague Eugene Kung notes, an abundance of open letters) about the Liberal party's election promise to «review Canada's environmental assessment (EA) processes and introduce new, fair processes» for reviewing projects (or re-reviewing them, as in the case of major proposals like the controversial Kinder Morgan and Energy East oil sands pipeline and tankers projects).

«As the complaint outlines in detail, publicly available data and numerous published reports make abundantly clear that numerous employees of the companies violated the federal law prohibition on foreign nationals «directly or indirectly» participat [ing] in the decision - making process of any... political committee in connection with US elections,» the release said on Monday.

Maybe if we all concentrate with Facebook to address this issue of the Russians meddling with our election process, we can conveniently forget the real (and much more alarming) issue of undue influence in our Federal Government by Big Money Interests like the MIC.

[206] This consultation process was suspended due to the 2010 federal election.