Sentences with phrase «for electoral bodies»

For many nominal Catholics may not live a Christian life at all and may be quite uninterested in the Church, but might nevertheless claim their right to vote for electoral bodies precisely in order to work against the interests of the Church.

Not exact matches

I reformed the electoral system by strengthening the electoral body, INEC, making it possible for it to seamlessly conduct the 2011 and 2015 elections.

Any electoral official of a local authority (as defined in section 5 of the Local Electoral Act 2001) may, on payment of the prescribed fee, and in accordance with regulations made under this Act, obtain from the Electoral Commission a computer - compiled list or electronic storage medium containing specified information, for the purpose of conducting an election for any body, where the Electoral Commission is satisfied that --

For years, the body charged with running elections, maintaining the electoral rolls, educating and registering voters has been criticized for its functional inefficiencies, hiring practices, mistakes, and structuFor years, the body charged with running elections, maintaining the electoral rolls, educating and registering voters has been criticized for its functional inefficiencies, hiring practices, mistakes, and structufor its functional inefficiencies, hiring practices, mistakes, and structure.

«It is in a view to bring an end to all these tradition of electoral manipulation that, we of the SPN will continue to canvass for the democratisation of state and national electoral bodies whose members will comprise of the elected representatives of trade unions, youth and professional organisations, trade and artisan associations including the community associations like residents association.

But the spokesman for the INEC Chairman, Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi, said the electoral body was guided by the law and took decisions based on the provisions of that law.

If there are transparency and accountability on the part of the electoral body, I think it will not be fair for the party to take Mr. President as its sole candidate.

The Senate threatened to suspend its plenary if the electoral body failed to meet the deadline, pointing out that the state had remained without representation in the national assembly for a long period.

The electoral management body arrived at that conclusion when it released its investigative report regarding the sacking of two of its officials in July for reportedly verifying Dr. Bawumia at his Walewale residence during the just ended verification exercise.

He called on state governments to make their electoral bodies to work for the benefit of all.

The electoral regulatory body has established a five - member panel of eminent persons to look into the merit and demerit for a new voters» register, but LMVCA feels it is taking forever for the EC to state its official position.

The electoral regulatory body after an IPAC meeting on Tuesday, said the biometric verification will still run, but the manual proof will be done for «people whose particulars appear on the voters register but who may be rejected by the biometric verification devices.»

The party said the charge of GH cents 50,000 fee for presidential nominees and GH cents 10,000 for parliamentary nominees was a capricious and arbitrary use of power by the electoral body.

«We are all aware that the two legal documents guiding INEC in the conduct of elections; the Constitution and the Electoral Act, have provisions for electoral exigencies as well as empower the electoral body to fully take responsibility for any of its actions or inaction without undue interference from any quarters whatsoever.»

Is it not the electoral body that releases timetable for elections?

The encomium from Sunder Katwala, of the Fabian Society for the Alternative Vote in the place of first - past - the post (FPTP) elections for the House of Commons is yet another example, first, of a major party's search to consolidate its electoral position, and secondly, of the weakness of campaigning bodies to oblige the parties to open up an honest debate about the alternatives to FPTP.

Because of some defect in the total registration, the electoral body officially registered 68,833,476 voters for the elections in February 2015.

As the pre-condition for the process to continue INEC, ordered the electoral body to serve the senator with the recall petition and the accompanying documents, including the signatures of the about one - half of the constituents calling for his (Melaye's) recall.

Appeal to the appropriate legislative body to provide for the recall of School Board members through electoral means.

The Spokesman of the group, Mr. Ali Abacha, said in Akure on Thursday that the electoral body and security agencies were fully prepared for the poll, hence there was no need to postpone it.

Mimiko said his camp would have disregarded the Justice Okon Abang's judgment that ordered the national electoral body to recognise Ibrahim but for information given to him that the commission would only act on the last court order on the matter.

Yakubu said there was a need for state electoral bodies to work closely with INEC to ensure that local government elections are free, fair and credible.

Yakubu said while it could not be established if children actually voted in the election, he could confirm that the voter register which INEC gave to the Kano electoral body for undertaking the election was not completely used.

The lawyer dragged the governor, the state lawmakers, OSSIEC, All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and six other political parties to court calling for the immediate stoppage of the council's election and the sacking of all the electoral body members.

He said: «Election Management Bodies in our sub-regions and beyond have deployed technology in one way or another to improve on the processes, administration and outcome of elections, ranging from training and capacity - building for electoral officials, promotion of inclusivity in the electoral process (youths, women, PWDs, IDPs and out - of - country / diaspora voters), the biometric registration of voters, delineation of electoral constituencies, geo - referencing of existing as well as the creation of new polling units, establishment of robust electronic databases, accreditation of voters during elections, actual voting and the speedy and more accurate collation / transmission of results.

«impose a duty on government bodies to provide specified information to registration officers in Wales for the purposes of electoral registration.»

Ojijeogu, who explained that a few number of candidates would sit for the examinations, noted that the electoral body did not consult with the council before fixing the new date.

The electoral body has yet to arrest a single person for flouting the electoral law.

It seems there is no end in sight for the troubles of the Electoral Commission (EC) as it has emerged that the electoral management body auctioned 40 of its vehicles in 2013 to its members of staff.

Today's cool fact of the day is that if you provided with an adequate amount of oxygen, your heart can actually continuously beat outside of your body because it basically has its own system for electoral activation which is kind of cool and kind of creepy.

Whereas certain domestic factors such as a pliant media, electoral body, and judiciary played an instrumental role in all of these recent polls, exogenous factors found in the current international sphere also played an important part in facilitating a favorable result for each of the incumbents.