Sentences with phrase «of running elections»

Cahill, who also wants the county to take over the cost of running elections from municipalities, has said that he expects the Assembly to convene in September to take up the request, but only Gov. Andrew Cuomo has the authority to call the legislature into a special session.

«You overlay that with the lousy system of running elections in general — which is, voter registration laws are cumbersome, we have a closed primary system, getting on the ballot is difficult — and as a result New York has anemic voter turnout, one of the worst in the country.»

Electronic voting is expected to cut the cost of running elections by around a third.

In this case, SCL's mandate was to ascertain the scale of vote - buying behavior — a longstanding issue in the southeast Asian country — that had inflated the cost of running an election campaign to around $ 1 billion, according to the company's estimates.

Not exact matches

- The story came to the public in part with the help of the National Enquirer, the same paper that played a prominent role in Hart's downfall in the run - up to the 1988 Presidential election..

But unlike Adams, who died several years before the 1825 election of John Quincy Adams, Bush saw her son run, and win.

The company treated this election's party conventions as practice for the NFL games, running live streams of each as a way to experiment with the format.

«I always said from the election of Barack Obama in his initial election of 2008 and his reelection in 2012 that no other Democrat, unless they were African - American, would ever run up the numbers Barack Obama had.»

Last month's G20 meetings in Paris brought into tighter focus the ambitions of International Monetary Fund chief, and failed 2006 French presidential candidate, Dominique Strauss - Kahn to run in that country's next election as the Socialist party candidate.

Her campaign has at least 55 offices across the state, a number expected to grow in the final weeks before the election, and has a veteran of the Obama campaign running the show.

In the run - up to his election to the firm's top spot, Germany's Manager magazine compared Barton to Barack Obama — the agent of change.

That raises the possibility of court challenges by First Nations, blockades along the pipeline route between Edmonton and Kitimat, B.C., and rallies in major cities during the run - up to a federal election that must be called by October 2015.

Now, in a 37 - page indictment, special counsel Robert Muller has laid bare in excruciating detail the details of one Russian scheme, designed in part to benefit Trump's election run.

Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, described in his opening remarks the process by which the intelligence community concluded in January that «the Russian government pursued a multi-faceted influence campaign in the run - up to the election, including aggressive use of cyber capabilities.»

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.

«Whoever runs next time has to have a very clear idea of where he or she wants to take the country and has to run on those ideas, because the election can not be about personalities, participants sniping.

The tweet, even if it was sent by a staffer, undercuts that image of impartiality and comes at a time when partisan tensions are running high ahead of the presidential election.

Hedge funds run by billionaires Carl Icahn and John Paulson reaped the biggest profits the day Donald Trump was officially declared the winner of the presidential election.

She also supported Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential election, and ran for governor of California in 2010.

«I'm not planning to get involved in many elections now that I don't have to run for office again, but the French election is very important to the future of France and the values that we care so much about.

The Facebook founder told senators the company's delay in identifying Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election is «one of [his] biggest regrets in running the company.»

The company is running a promotion closer to November in which it will encourage users to take their kids along when they hit the polls on Election Day, and post «stories» (Winnie's version of Yelp reviews) about their experiences.

That said, it seems VandeHei may not have been so much urging Zuckerberg to run as he was commenting that the 2016 race is so outside the bounds of typical U.S. presidential elections that almost few twists in the narrative would be surprising at this point.

His London mayoral election campaign, where he was widely accused of running a racist «dog - whistle» campaign against Sadiq Khan, appeared to have hurt his support among left and liberal - leaning voters.

He calls the delay in identifying 2016 election interference one of his biggest regrets in running Facebook.

Following the 2015 election, the Liberal government abandoned pledges to run annual deficits of no more than $ 10 billion and to balance the books in four years.

Koch and many of his top donors refused to support Trump in the run - up to his election, raising questions about both his readiness for the job and his dedication to conservative principles.

Fears of seeming «political» during a presidential election year, sluggish growth in the Eurozone and a slowdown of the Chinese economic juggernaut will also keep Janet Yellen and the rest of the Federal Open Markets Committee from pulling the trigger more often; their vacillation will be one of the year's longest - running (and least loved) dramas.

Italy's fragile economy was also a feature in the run - up to the election with somewhat lackluster growth and an unemployment rate of 11.1 percent dominating the debate.

The ICO has been running an inquiry into data misuse and political advertising in the wake of accusations that social media platforms were used to influence elections.

A third woman, Roxanna Ayers, said Velasquez made inappropriate comments repeatedly when the two ran together on a slate of potential Democratic delegates backing Hillary Clinton in the presidential election.

On a range of questions — such as whether Harper is doing a good job, is representing the «values» of people, and should run again in the 2015 election, the prime minister has support levels among Canadians that exceed 40 per cent.

«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.»

But in the build - up to the election, the 39 - year - old Macron, who ran under the banner of his recently formed En Marche!

Ahead of July's presidential election, public anger at government is running high thanks to high - profile corruption cases, drug gangs, and sluggish growth.

In the summer of 2005, when Corzine was running in the New Jersey gubernatorial election, news first emerged of his relationship with Katz and the money she had received.

With less than 100 days until the May 9 B.C. Election, the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade has released its 2017 Provincial Election Platform, which outlines key issues and priorities of the regional business community and makes a series of recommendations to the parties running to form the next Provincial Government.

The use or abuse of that data by Cambridge Analytica in work that it had done with Donald Trump's campaign for President in 2016 and potentially for other businesses in the run up to the election is at the heart of Donal

U.S. stocks experienced sharp drops in August 2015, when China devalued its currency; in January 2016, as oil prices dropped; in June of 2016, after the «Brexit» vote; and in the run — up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Stronger manufacturing activity data from the U.S. Thursday, in the form of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve's regional business survey, allowed investors to add long positions in the greenback, which has fallen more than 1.4 % this week in the wake of President Donald Trump's decision to fire his FBI Director, James Comey, and revelations that his campaign team may have had extensive contacts with Russian officials - despite his repeated denials - in the run up to last year's elections.

Airbnb found this out recently after dueling in the run - up to a San Francisco election over a ballot initiative that would have cut the supply of short - term rentals, affecting the company's business in its hometown.

In the U.S., women are already responding to the 2016 presidential election by pursuing their own runs for office: since November, more than 4,500 of them have signed up for She Should Run, a new organization that trains women for public life.

While I understand that the NDP must feel intense pressure to capture votes — including from people who have never taken a course from John Smithin — I often wish that the NDP would show a bit more policy leadership on the issue of the deficit and debt. I was particularly disappointed during the 2008 federal election campaign when Mr. Layton stated, unequivocally, that the NDP would not run a deficit in the following year if elected (even though it was clear that Canada was entering a recession).

Even the Australian government (which ran on the last election of cancelling the carbon tax imposed by the previous socialist government; and they won) have just cancelled all government funding of solar and wind power generation.

Ford O'Neil, who oversees about $ 100 billion in bonds for Fidelity Investments, says the sharp run - up in yields since the election of Donald Trump may not be justified.

Based on what Environment Minister Peter Kent recently told CBC's Evan Solomon, the Tories no longer oppose only the broadest form of carbon tax (as proposed Stéphane Dion is his disastrous 2008 election run as Liberal leader), but also the cap - and - trade option, which use to be in the Conservative platform (it's on page 32 here).

Such is the case for Trump, who filed a letter with the Federal Election Commission establishing his eligibility to run for a second term in 2020 just hours after taking the oath of office.

He also said he hoped the company would deliver on its promises of improved returns so «we don't need to run for election next year.»

Playing on the general publics» naivety, the libtards propped up Jughead Trudope and ran with «legalize marijuana» at the forefront of their election platform.Hook, line and sinker the electorate fell for this nonsense.Jughead Trudope doesn't know what «legalize» means.How quickly the fed libtards put that front and centre election platform on the backburner.

For Trump, the dispute runs the risk of blunting the economic benefits of his tax overhaul, which is at the center of congressional Republicans» case for voters to keep them in power in the 2018 elections.