Sentences with phrase «national election day»

Pidot argued that Congress set a national Election Day to avoid providing any one state with an «undue advantage» or subjecting voters to a «double election.»

These are up to the governor and / or legislature of each state to schedule, and they may choose to share them with the national election day or designate a separate day.

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In the days after the election, Flynn apparently crashed a meeting at Trump Tower in which Christie presented his suggestions for top national security roles in the incoming administration, Politico reported, citing people familiar with the transition.

Ministers will then be sworn in later in the day - almost six months after last September's national election in which both coalition partners lost support to the far - right Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Business owners turned their attention over the past few days squarely toward the Iowa caucuses, the first national contest in the 2016 presidential election.

Damaging national - security leaks about the Russia investigation and the Trump campaign's ties to Russia «increased dramatically» after Election Day.

The charges were announced less than an hour after The Intercept published a top - secret document from the U.S. National Security Agency that described Russian efforts to launch cyber attacks on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and send «spear - phising» emails, or targeted emails that try to trick a recipient into clicking on a malicious link to steal data, to more than 100 local election officials days before the presidential election last November.

The comments from Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, came one day after The Intercept reported on a top - secret National Security Agency document that said hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence agency targeted a company with information on US voting software days before the election.

And according to a top - secret National Security Agency document leaked to the Intercept and published earlier this month, hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence agency targeted a company with information on US voting software days before the election and used the data to launch «voter - registration - themed» cyberattacks on local government officials.

The Wall Street Journal reported just days before the 2016 election that the National Enquirer sat on a story about Trump having an affair with 1998 Playboy Playmate of the Year, Karen McDougal, in 2006.

Every day as this federal election campaign unfolds, it becomes more and more obvious that Mr. Harper is the best choice for prime minister, and another strong, stable, national majority Conservative government is the best choice for Canada.

He has been backed up by the Republican National Committee, which launched a website «Lyin» Comey» last week that makes the case that Democrats should hate the former FBI director because he cost Hillary Clinton the election by reopening an investigation into her emails days before voters went to the polls.

But Rodriguez is closing the Republican National Convention's first day with a prayer Tuesday, helping to give presumptive nominee Mitt Romney entrée to the Latino community, a swing voting bloc that has largely abandoned the Republican Party over immigration policy in recent elections.

IN THE 2008 election Sarah Palin famously stated on national television that regarding the election, that god would do the right thing on Electelection Sarah Palin famously stated on national television that regarding the election, that god would do the right thing on Electelection, that god would do the right thing on ElectionElection Day.

Assistant Agriculture and Water Resources Minister Luke Hartsuyker — stepping in for Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce who is facing a by - election due to his citizenship disqualification — said National Agriculture Day was all about getting much - deserved recognition for the nation's $ 60 billion agriculture sector.

Congress has used the italicized power to define the national presidential voting day as the same one for the general election of Senators & Representatives.

The notice of election reads in part: «consequent upon the provisions of the enabling statues that bye elections to fill the declared vacant seat by the National Assembly be conducted within 30 days upon the declaration.

At the same time, Clinton pointed the finger at both the alleged hacking by Russian - backed agents of emails at the Democratic National Committee as well as the re-opening of the FBI investigation into his wife's use of a private email server weeks before Election Day.

Former President Barack Obama warned Trump against hiring Michael Flynn to be part of his national security team when Obama met with his successor in the Oval Office two days after the November election, two former Obama administration officials said.

My research in 2014 has included a weekly national telephone poll, surveys in over 100 marginal seats, two rounds of my Project Blueprint research on the quest for a Conservative majority, a detailed study of voters» attitudes to Europe, polling - day surveys of voters in the European elections, five by - election polls, and regular updates on the state of the parties.

Labour's ruling National Executive Committee meets in five days time to decide the timetable for the election of its next leader.

As a national Republican wave crested on Election Day, there were several campaigns in both parties that stood out as outstanding operations.

Accra - based Citi FM reports that it has sighted documents that reveal that the former Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah approved the purchase of the vehicles on December 9, 2016, the same day Charlotte Osei, the Electoral Commission chairperson, declared that the National Democratic Congress had lost the elections.

The redistricting of 2012 opened the door for New York Congressman Steve Israel to step into the political consciousness of northeast Queens, but despite conventional wisdom his national job as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) wasn't enough to raise his name recognition, it was a strong grassroots campaign initiative which helped ensure victory on Election Day.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 32 states and the District of Columbia have an early voting system that allows registered voters to cast their votes in person before Election Day.

With three weeks to go before Election Day, the DCCC and the National Republican Congressional Committee have been shifting money away from races that appear less competitive and toward ones that now pop a little brighter on the committees» radars.

Guy Cecil, executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and Rob Collins, executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, will discuss the top Senate contests of 2014 — their first joint appearance after Election Day.

The National Republican Congressional Committee, the GOP - aligned Congressional Leadership Fund, and House Majority PAC (the go - to Democratic group focused on House races) already made initial ad reservations, totaling more than $ 124 million from Labor Day to Election Day.

The council election was held on the same day as the national General Election, when the Labour Party government lost power and the Watford parliamentary constituency was won by the Conservativelection was held on the same day as the national General Election, when the Labour Party government lost power and the Watford parliamentary constituency was won by the ConservativElection, when the Labour Party government lost power and the Watford parliamentary constituency was won by the Conservative Party.

National Commissioner in charge of Election and Party Monitoring (EPM) Prof. Anthonia Okoosi - Simbine made the disclosure at a two - day zonal training workshop on Campaign Finance Tracking / Reporting held in Ilorin, Kwara State recently.

In Luxembourg, European elections have traditionally been held on the same day as national elections.

The two major political parties in Ghana, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP), have intensified their political campaigns with just about 60 days to this year's presidential and parliamentary elections.

We adopted the boldest and most pro-voter platform in history — calling for expanding early voting and vote - by - mail, implementing universal automatic voter registration and same day voter registration, ending partisan and racial gerrymandering, and making Election Day a national holidday voter registration, ending partisan and racial gerrymandering, and making Election Day a national holidDay a national holiday.

Off topic question topics included whether the mayor and his wife have smoked marijuana inside Gracie Mansion, a Daily News call for the mayor to «accept responsibility for inflaming the police», whether the mayor believes he should apologize for comments on the police, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns about current mayoral / police friction as it considers Brooklyn as a site for the 2016 Democratic Convention, whether the mayor supports the recent Cuomo / Christie veto of legislation on the Port Authority, a pending state legislative bill on police disability pensions, the expected special election in the 11th Congressional District, whether the mayor believes there is a police slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction ending.

In its verdict on Wednesday, the tribunal ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a fresh election within 90 days.

Ahead of the 2015 election, David Cameron has pledged a tax lock — a law to be passed in the first 100 days of a new government to prevent income tax, national insurance or VAT increases during the next parliament.

* Democratic National Committee: Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's 50 - state strategy appeared to pay off on Election Day when Democrats won in places few expected them too — Kansas's 2nd District and Arizona's 5th District jump immediately to mind.

(CNN)- Five months after Election Day, the Democratic National Committee has a message for Republican Norm Coleman.

[3] The most recent round of local government elections were held in May 2003, though to this day Eritrea has failed to hold any national elections.

Audu passed on the day the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the election inconclusive.

The appeal tribunal in it's judgement ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct a fresh election in the next 90 days.

The representative of President - elect Nana Akufo - Addo, on the Transition team, Yaw Osafo Marfo, had asked for clarity on alleged fresh recruitments into the public sector, and the awarding of fresh contracts days after the National Democratic Congress government lost the elections.

The election has been largely violence - free and the National Elections Commission expected the same on voting day, NEC spokesman Henry Flomo told AFP.

The National Chairman made the disclosure at a three - day elections stakeholder's workshop for NDC officials held at the Koforidua Capital View Hotel.

Astorino often compares himself to Pataki, who was a little - known state senator way behind in the polls when he surged to an upset victory on Election Day, ousting a national liberal icon, former Gov. Mario Cuomo.

I assumed that it could be instantly traced back to the door of our old Labour - hating friends, the Sun or the Mail - indeed in the five days following Miliband's election there were around 150 references to «Red Ed» in the British national press with the Sun leading the way with 49 mentions and the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday with 23.

We're about to give you a change of address come next election day,» said Kirsten John Foy, the northeast regional director of the National Action Network and a critic of what he sees as the slow pace of reform at the Police Department.

The appellate court has equally ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct fresh election within 60 days.

The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) has expressed similar views, saying the Commission may not be able to furnish the Supreme Court with the full list of persons who registered onto the voters» register with the National Health Insurance Scheme cards (NHIS), as proof of citizenship within six days.

«This mess, created by the board of directors of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, has created worse divisions than Donald Trump's election to the presidency,» said Bronx state Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr..