Sentences with phrase «of election systems»

«The Department of Homeland Security notified our Secretary of State here that Alabama is one of the 21 states that had been targeting for hacking of election systems,» she said, referring to this year's special election for Georgia's 6th congressional district.

Fellow, ICIT & Drew Spaniel, Researcher, ICIT On September 26, 2016, the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) released an Open Letter to Congress that urged for the informed communication of facts about the security of election systems with the American public.

This assessment is based on the decentralized nature of our election system in this country and the number of protections state and local election officials have in place.

«The bias against smaller parties is one concern arising from this study of our election system in 2011 another is the power handed to party machines in deciding who goes where on the list and so in many cases who gets a seat.

Former president of the Bundestag, Norbert Lammert, has long argued for an overhaul of the election system, and there are many different proposals for how the enlargement effects could be avoided.

The ability of an independent candidate to get on the November ballot as late as July 31, or even later, is one of the advantages of an election system that does not use «top - two open primary» rules.

Excerpt: «The credibility of our election system relies on assuring we have credible votes and voters.

Not exact matches

«While this might make Putin look like a tough guy flexing new nuclear muscles ahead of upcoming undemocratic elections in Russia that will coronate him again, the new systems don't change the essential deterrence equation between the US and Russia,» Barry Pavel, a senior vice president and director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council wrote.

There's no election for leadership of the «liberal world order» — the U.S. - constructed system of laws and values underpinning American prosperity since World War II.

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.

Soros said that, in addition to Democratic victories in elections this year, a goal of his was to reestablish a functioning two - party system to uphold US institutions.

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.

Leading up to the election, questions were raised about the security of state computer systems that protect voting data.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that PropOrNot and the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Research Institute both attribute the flood of so - called fake news, or hoax and misleading headlines, during the 2016 election to an elaborate Russian propaganda campaign aimed at sowing distrust in the American political system and undermining public consensus.

«Virginia has always been an early - warning system for midterm elections — almost always showing us what will happen in the next year if the course of the storm doesn't shift.

The upshot is that Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure may need to be included on the list of critical infrastructure targets, which includes utilities, transportation systems, financial markets and most recently election systems.

A notorious Russian «troll factory» had a $ 1.25 million budget in the run - up to the 2016 presidential election to interfere in the US political system, according to charges filed by the Department of Justice.

Since the U.S. election system operates through a patchwork of different systems in each state, Graff believes it would difficult to pull off a large - scale breach.

The report also gave details about a two - year - old warning from the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, a bipartisan organization, that described the state of America's aging voting system as an «impending crisis.»

In late August, Yahoo broke news that foreign hackers had breached the state Board of Elections websites in Illinois and Arizona, which the FBI's cyber division followed up with an alert to election officials across the nation to increase voting system security.

Earlier this week, Georgia Representative Hank Johnson introduced two bills that he believes will help improve voting security a few years down the road: the Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act, which, if passed, would classify voting systems as critical infrastructure to be protected by the Department of Homeland Security; and the Election Integrity Act, which will map out a planned response for voting system failures and control the types of voting machines states are allowed to buy.

Instead, the ads seemed designed to sow discord and increase partisanship, perhaps revving up the weary - of - the - system sentiments that may have helped Trump with the election.

The special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment in February of the Internet Research Agency, a Russian troll farm that spread disinformation ahead of the election, indicates that Russian actors wanted to «spread distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general.»

But its housing market and banking system have stabilized, says Stephen Peak of Henderson Global Investors, and June election results eased fears that the country might flee the EU in a «Spexit.»

As if to prove this claim, federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau announced that one plank of his election platform will be to realign the tax system to shift wealth away from those nasty one - percenters and down to the middle class.

Chinese policy shifts may cause tectonic effects, but one virtue of their system is their big plans don't switch with each election cycle.

But the extent of Russia's infiltration in election systems across the country last year remains unclear, and congressional investigators apparently are trying to find out more about what the Russians accessed and why.

And, the Government will propose changes to Canada's elections laws to uphold the integrity of our voting system.

Some states have also recently seen scanning and probing of their election - related systems, which in most cases originated from servers operated by a Russian company.

Search traffic also increased between the November 2016 election and the January 2017 inauguration for two additional countries: France, which has the best overall healthcare system in the world, according to the World Health Organization, and Belize, which offers one of the lowest costs of living in the Caribbean.

If a campaign could persuade thousands of voters in those 50 ridings to vote strategically, countering the perverse nature of our electoral system, it could determine the outcome of the election.

In the light of the recent US election, one of the more interesting findings from the Global Opportunity Report 2016 was a lack of trust from North American businesses in the political system to take on the task of pursuing sustainable goals.

While it may feel like a lifetime or two since the last federal election, when Trudeau was promising a very different kind of democratic reform, 19 months isn't a long time to get Canada's electoral system protected from 2019 - style threats to its fairness and integrity.

After the election of Donald Trump as President, one of the cornerstones of the modern global economic system is being questioned.

This contract, which is dated September 15, 2014, is for the: «Design and development of an Engagement Platform System», also referred to as «the Ripon Platform», and described as: «A scalable engagement platform that leverages the strength of SCLs modelling data, providing an actionable toolset and dashboard interface for the target campaigns in the 2014 election cycle.

OTTAWA — Nine million votes were wasted in the 2015 election under Canada's winner - take - all electoral system — that's more than the populations of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces combined, according to a new electoral reform primer outlining why the principle of proportionality must underpin the government's promise to bring in voting reform by the next federal election.

Donald Trump's warning that he might not accept the results of the presidential election exemplifies his approach to everything: Do whatever it takes to win, even if that means undermining the integrity of the entire system.

The Abacus study also asked those who voted in the 2015 Canadian General Election to rank a ballot that included the main political parties and generated data for 11 regions to estimate, with increased precision, the outcome of the Canadian election had it been run under different electoral Election to rank a ballot that included the main political parties and generated data for 11 regions to estimate, with increased precision, the outcome of the Canadian election had it been run under different electoral election had it been run under different electoral systems.

Florida will sign one - year contracts with all 67 county supervisors of elections to improve network monitoring of county voting systems, not the statewide database that keeps track of 13 million Florida voters.

The impact of higher oil prices on the country's current account deficit and inflation rate, the Indian banking system's struggles with demonetization, scandals, bad loans and a government looking ahead to next year's general election have all taken a toll on investor sentiment.

Icahn also called for the company's directors to be elected at the same time, as opposed to the current system, in which board elections are staggered, which means that it would take two years for Icahn to obtain a majority of the board.

Additionally, the election coincided with a provincial referendum on electoral reform, in which the proposed change to a BC - STV system of electing representatives was defeated.

Elections Canada (also known as the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer) is a key agency in the federal government and Canada's democratic system.

Find articles on current and past elections in Canada, as well as on the nature and issues of Canada's electoral and political party systems.

Completely scrap the the funding for private schools, but in the event it's not politically expedient for the government heading into an election, at least consider a reduction in funding levels to financially aid the public system and alleviate some of the pressures they currently are experiencing with class size, lack of teachers and the challenges inherent in providing school lunch programs.

Our parliamentary system of government allows an election to be called whenever the Assembly is dissolved or if the government loses the confidence of the Assembly.

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

Mr. Anglin also filed a complaint with the Calgary Police reporting he'd received an anonymous death threat after refusing to step aside for Mr. Nixon, and accused what the Red Deer Advocate called «a senior Wildrose Party player» of offering him «in essence a bribe» in return for stepping down — a job with the Alberta Electric System Operator, Alberta Energy Regulator or the Alberta Surface Rights Board, presumably on the assumption the party wins the next election.

Russian agents abused the company's systems to target millions of American voters with disinformation during the 2016 election.

He could raise the GST, but the Prime Minister has ruled that out; he could fulfill an election commitment by undertaking a serious simplification of the income tax system, which could yield substantial revenues (about $ 3 to $ 5 billion), but he seems reluctant to do that; or, he could take the easy way out and simply cut his fiscal prudence in half and «miraculously» free up $ 3billion annually for his cabinet colleagues.