Sentences with phrase «of vote rigging»

During primary elections earlier this year, held to decide the candidates for each party, seven people were killed as rival groups accused each other of vote rigging.

More than 20,000 names have been removed from the register for postal votes in the wards at the centre of a vote rigging scandal in 2004.

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.

As allegations of vote rigging surrounded «the worst violence since Kenya gained independence», [iii] particular international support has been given to Kenya's electoral commission.

Not exact matches

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.

From 1929 to 2000, the Institutional Revolutionary Party has been hurt by rumors of vote - rigging and widespread corruption.

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.

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.

A democratic mandate brought Putin into office, though there were accusations of vote - rigging.

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..

«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.

5) Did Dr Bawumia peddle falsehood at the Supreme Court in 2012 about electoral fraud, padding of votes, rigging and when he was pushed for evidence, his response was that «You and I were not there»?

He said claims of vote - rigging were also rife and this could have swayed the end result.

He said the ballot paper to be used in the voting is «fraudulent» to the extent that «the leaders of the House are prepared to even rig the poll.»

If Simon can get in with the right DC people, if his entourage of one (Chris Addison) can sleep with the right intern (Anna Chlumsky), and if they can both stop the prime minister's chief spin - doctor Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi) rigging the vote at the UN, they can halt the war.

The AV vote has been «rigged» to boost the chances of a «yes» vote, according to a former Cabinet secretary.

The initial casus belli — vote - rigging in Falkirk — has proved to be a less clearcut case of machine politics than first imagined.

What appeared to be a spat between Labour and Unite over vote - rigging has turned into a public argument over party funding and a redefinition of the relationship with the unions.

«This was my epiphany — for all of the work we were doing to encourage folks to vote, it didn't make a lick of difference if the game was rigged from the very beginning,» she said of the experience.

Ed Miliband tells BBC Scotland that he has no «regrets» over the way the Labour Party handled claims of vote - rigging in Falkirk.

People in England will say their voting system has been changed by votes north of the border, and that the entire referendum has been rigged so that it is held on a date when turnout would be higher in Scotland.»

More than 1,000 people were killed in months of bloodshed following the 2007 election after Odinga — defeated by then - President Mwai Kibaki — claimed the vote was rigged.

He alleged that three months to the 2012 general elections, his network of intelligence picked information that the NDC was going to rig the election and that time not through the snatching of ballot boxes but by means of IT processes and that the Castle had already secured 10 percent of the votes.

According to him, the NDC was currently plotting with the EC, to rig the 2016 elections, hence the reason why the NDC has claimed it would pull an audacious 1 million votes in the Ashanti Region, the stronghold of the NPP.

At the Democratic County Committee State Senate nomination convention on March 10, 2017, his opponents accused him and his supporter Keith Wright of using «voter suppression» tactics to ensure his victory as the nominated candidate (re: New York Observer, March 10, 2017, «Harlem Candidates Accuse Democratic Machine of Rigging Contest for State Senate Seat»), which would in theory ensure his victory in the May 23rd 2017 NYS Senate election in Central Harlem's heavily Democratic voting district.

Republican leaders and election officials from both parties Sought to combat Trump's claims, amid signs that his rigged election contention is eroding confidence in the vote and setting off talk of rebellion among his supporters.

Donald Trump's talk of a rigged election and calls for supporters to turn out in droves to monitor polling sites has stirred increasing fears of intimidation of minorities inside polling places, where their qualifications to vote could be challenged, or outside, where they would face illegal electioneering.

For the purpose of this response, «rig» means to intentionally affect the outcome of the election to such a degree as to enable the final outcome to be different than the outcome resulting solely from the «accurate and official» vote tally.

Prior to this election, «rigging an election» usually meant interfering with the vote itself, for example stuffing ballot boxes, miscounting votes, obstructing voter registration, that kind of thing.

He appealed for calm and said any complaints of vote - rigging should be dealt with by the courts after the new president is expected to be sworn in on Wednesday.

The 2011 parliamentary vote was followed by anti-government street protests across Russia, sparked by what was widely perceived to have been large - scale electoral fraud: a rigged election in favour of United Russia.

The Labour Party is coming under pressure to publish an internal report that cleared the Unite union of trying to rig the vote for an election candidate in Falkirk.

Unite general secretary Len McCluskey has said he is delighted the union has been «vindicated» over allegations of vote - rigging over the selection of a parliamentary candidate for Falkirk.

Unite was accused of vote - rigging in the Falkirk pre-selection, leading to further claims that McCluskey (and in turn Miliband himself) were elected with the help of «phantom» members.

Past elections have been marred by violence and allegations of vote - rigging.

The Unite official at the centre of allegations of vote - rigging over the selection of a Labour parliamentary candidate in Falkirk resigned from his position at the Grangemouth power plant after a witch - hunt against trade unionists, Len McCluskey has said.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has alleged that the Electoral Commission (EC) wants to use the «suspicious» proxy voting agenda to rig the December general election in favour of President John Mahama and his National Democratic Congress (NDC).

That election was so badly rigged for «Andy» Uba, that he got more votes than the number of registered voters in Anambra state!

The ruthless vote - rigging contraption that used to arrogantly describe itself as Africa's largest political party, has dissembled so rapidly, soon after it was thrown out of power last year.

Ed Miliband has defended his handling of the Falkirk vote - rigging row, insisting there is no need for Labour to reopen its inquiry amid claims that evidence from a key witness was withdrawn without her consent.

APC's National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi said: «With rrevelations of how money - for - votes and systematic rigging was brazenly perpetuated during the National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, the All Progressives Congress is mindful of the popular axiom, «A leopard can not change its spot.»»

I will happily vote the republican line in protest of a rigged game.

The Member of Parliament for Tema East Constituency, Daniel Kwatei Titus - Glover says he has uncovered a scheme by the Electoral Commission (EC) to rig the special voting exercise in his constituency for his opponent, the National Democratic Congress (NDC's) Kempis Papa Nii Ofosu - Ware tomorrow [Thursday].

He added, «The problem of rigging is due to voter apathy — if 74 million people on Nigeria's voters register come out to vote, do you think anybody can rig?

In a release issued by the Chairman of the Publicity Committee of the Organisation, Mr Kolawole Olabisi, «the boast of the APC which had been sedentary in its approach to canvassing for votes in the State is that they would rig this election even if only one vote is cast for them.

LENOIR, (Dec. 26)-- Two of the major Republican presidential hopefuls are learning what third party and independent candidates have known for years, that ballot access laws in most states are rigged against offering voters any real choices in primaries and on election day, said Jordon Greene, president of Free the Vote North Carolina in a statement issued today.

The review sets out far - reaching changes to the union - party relationship partly prompted by the now abandoned allegations of vote - rigging in Falkirk.

Readers of this blog may think they understand the reasons for electoral reform — but all we tend to have different reasons — so what hope that the disaffected would «see the light» and (i) vote for a «rigged» coalition and (ii) vote yes in another referendum for AV?

Smith, who was arrested in April 2013 by the FBI and accused of attempting to rig last year's mayoral election, captured 18.9 percent of the vote.

It comes as the bitter battle to be Britain's next Prime Minister has been beset by accusations of backstabbing and vote - rigging.