Sentences with phrase «of election rigging»

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In 2014 — seven years after the suspected Russian hack — engineers at the University of Michigan studied Estonia's online - voting system and concluded that determined hackers — such as Russian operatives — could feasibly penetrate it, creating fake votes or altering the totals in order to rig elections «quite possibly without a trace,» they wrote in their report.

The Republican presidential nominee held a campaign rally in Ryan's home state of Wisconsin on Monday in which the crowd chanted «Paul Ryan sucks» and Trump railed against what he called «corrupt» media and a «rigged» election system — a frequent accusation the Manhattan billionaire has brought up without evidence.

In addition, this is an election that Republican candidate Donald Trump has claimed is «rigged,» and where he has urged his followers to go to «certain sections» of states like Pennsylvania and monitor the polls to make sure the elections are not stolen from him.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Saturday doubled down on claims about a «rigged election,» firing off a few early - morning tweets in which he accused the press and the Hillary Clinton campaign of trying to «poison the minds of the American Voter.»

New allegations of sexual misconduct rocked Donald Trump's campaign Friday as the candidate denounced his accusers, blasted news organizations that have reported the claims and said it all shows «the whole election is being rigged.»

With its ability to influence opinions, social media does remarkable harm by playing a role in the rigging of elections and public debate.

Trump did not elaborate on how exactly he thought the election would be rigged, though he did make mention of his displeasure that a federal court had struck down a North Carolina voter ID law that the court said was specifically aimed at disenfranchising black voters.

The GOP nominee has repeatedly asserted his belief that the debate, and the entire election process, is «rigged» in favor of Clinton, whom he refers to as «Crooked Hillary.»

Republicans have lost the popular vote in five of the last six Presidential elections, and lost the popular vote for Confess, although they have the House because the districts are rigged.

Indeed, just months after that speech, millions of Iranians took to the streets to protest rigged elections and political repression, begging for help from Obama's «open hand.»

In fact, the only people who have displayed any ability to run the country better are Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich — neither of whom have a snowball's chance of even being the candidate, much less winning a rigged election.

The South African nation has long suffered under President Robert Mugabe, who has been accused of rigging elections, wrecking the economy, and attempting to control churches.

Since 1806 Mexico has suffered military intervention at least ten times by U.S. troops, and if there are no interventions in the offing now, perhaps it is largely because the U.S. has been shoring up the rule of one party, which wins rigged elections and then fails to challenge U.S. investment and business practices that increase human suffering for campesinos and urban poor there.

Polls opened at 8 a.m. Friday in Iran as Iranians cast ballots in the first parliamentary elections since the 2009 vote that sparked riots and accusations of rigging.

Among other tactics, they rigged an election in order to claim the existence of a pro-slave majority in the territory.

The ANC has welcomed ZANU - PF delegations to South Africa, and the South African government has certified every one of Mugabe's obviously rigged elections.

I realise these are only small examples but they are indicators of how the country is run from top to bottom, bribes are paid, elections are rigged and general corruption rules.

When they're not doping their athletes systematically for the olympics or paying off FIFA for the right to host the WC or taking over (and, in the case of Hearts, ruining) British football clubs, they are busy rigging elections at home and abroad, fomenting civil war in the Middle East, annexing parts of other countries, sponsoring terrorism, and shooting people who try to stand up to them.

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The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Bernard Antwi Bosiako, popularly known as Chairman Wuntumi, has disclosed that the New Patriotic Party NPP, is poised and have advanced plans to rig the upcoming general elections.

Here's a fascinating use of a crowdsourcing technology called Ushahidi, originally developed to track election violence in Kenya: as the Times reports, a group called the Louisiana Bucket Brigade is employing the distributed reporting tool to let local citizens help track the fallout from the rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Before the 2016 election, Mr Martin Amidu levelled so many allegations against former President Mahama, the NDC and the Chairperson of the electoral commission including planned vote rigging, corruption etc..

If Oni who lost election and fraudulently rigged same could be accepted, why is Fayemi's gentlemanly loss of 2014 election a big deal?

With 29 years in the industry, Bell is a veteran of tough assignments, such as when he flew in to lead Fleishman - Hillard's support for the Zimbabwe opposition in their campaign to expose the Mugabe regime's election rigging last year.

According to the National Organizer of the party, Kofi Adams, who spoke to GhanaPoliticsOnline.Com ruling party does not have any intention whatsoever to rig the elections but rather it is the NPP that is scheming to do so.

Calls by the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for a new electoral roll and validation of voters prior to the November 7 elections are a diversion by the party to aid it rig the poll, Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress has said.

note: reprinted above] shows the spike in mentions of a «rigged» election in Tweets and stories that also mention Trump.

Since then, he has won a series of controversial elections that critics claim he rigged, including one in 2008 which he lost to now Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, sparking political violence that human rights groups say claimed over 200 lives.

Nana Akufo - Addo and his lackeys sensing another excruciating defeat in the upcoming November elections have resorted to the beatings of war drums, preparing the minds of their supporters to arm them to resist what they say are «plots by Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Madam Charlotte Osei to rig the impending election for sitting President John Mahama.»

Large - scale protests followed the last federal parliamentary elections on Dec. 4, 2011, after widespread reports of electoral fraud and rigged elections.

He also said; «if indeed Nana Addo (the party's running mate) wins according to the pink sheets and Charlotte Osei dares to rig the elections by twisting our arms in favour of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), we will not allow it to happen in Ghana.»

«What we in NDC do is always talk to people to canvass for their votes rather than plan to rig the election... the people of this country have said that they want a party that's progressive and have the young at heart and also, do what's right», he stated.

Mr Freddy Blay, who has been accusing the EC and the ruling NDC of planning to rig the impending elections told Ultimate FM that «I can not guarantee what will happen, the party can not guarantee, we the executives, we who are at the top, the Presidential candidate can not guarantee, if the ordinary people get angry, God forbid if they decide that they won't agree to what is happening, and some people take the law into their own hands, what can we do?

``... As I said time without number during the 2016 elections, she was appointed by a corrupt Government precisely because of her incompetence that made her susceptible for use for an election rigging agenda.

Anyone who knows the NPP well knows that with all the noise it wants to rig the election... that is what everyone in the NDC should beware of.

Our analytics partners at Zignal Labs saw more mentions of a «rigged election» this weekend than in the rest of October combined.

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Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has raised alarm over plot by ruling All Progressives Congress to use students of Federal University Oye - Ekiti to rig July 14 Ekiti Governorship Election.

He urged all men of good conscience to stand up to fight against dictatorship, election rigging and the plot to subvert democracy in Nigeria, noting that 2019 general elections is close by and Ekiti as well as Osun elections are prelude to what to expect in 2019.

In the days following the end of the DNC, Trump has picked a fight with that aforementioned «Gold Star» Muslim - American family; he has called on the state of Russia to «hack» into the Clinton campaign's email server; he has put into question America's resolve to affirm its treaty obligations to its NATO allies; he has first refused, and then under pressure accepted, to endorse the highest - ranking official of his own party, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan; and he has even begun to state that the election results this November may «be rigged.»

Odinga's claims of rigging after defeat in the 2007 elections prompted rioting and retaliation by security forces, which tipped the country into its worst crisis for decades.

And when GOP voters rejected their party's nominee in favor of an outsider, they took a striking stand against cross endorsements, races rigged by party bosses, and backroom deals for Election Day patronage spoils.

Given the closeness of the contest and the high stakes involved for participants, there is a possibility that the practice of ethnic hate speech, the rigging of ballot boxes and the organisation of intimidating practices results in large - scale violence, as witnessed in the previous election.

He recently described the Electoral Commission Chair Charlotte Osei, as an incompetent Chairperson appointed by the former NDC administration, alleging that the appointment of EC chair was an attempt by the NDC to rig the 2016 general elections.

Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and a coterie of other Democratic pols called Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump a «two - bit racial arsonist» who's making a «desperate» claim that the presidential election next month will be rigged to save his flailing campaign.

• The NPP will engage the services of NPP activists who will pose as NDC supporters and supply food to Electoral Officers on duty and they (NPP) will turn round to accuse the Electoral Commission (EC) of working together with the NDC to rig the elections.

Mujuru is believed to be planning to form a new party to contest the next elections, but given ZANU - PF's record of vote rigging analysts say the real battle for power lies within the ruling party itself.

The report accused Nana Akufo Addo of provoking unrest and inventing claims of a rigged election in order to draw media attention and have firm hold of his party supporters.

The elections are indeed rigged, as the statisticians have proven in the 2016 Primary, but only on the side of the Democrats.

• The NPP will secure fake and already thumb - printed ballot papers, thumb - printed in the name of the NDC and scatter them all over to portray to Ghanaians that the NDC had brought in already thumb printed ballot papers to rig the elections.