Sentences with phrase «of voting fraud»

Police said last night that they were investigating two alleged incidents of voting fraud in the contest.

The potential danger of voting fraud is much greater given that it's much easier to defraud an election.

Meanwhile, police have begun investigating two alleged incidents of voting fraud during yesterday's vote.

During the legal process, each side accused the other of vote fraud, and a significant number of absentee ballots were disputed.

Earl Mazo, a reporter for the pro-Nixon New York Herald Tribune, investigated the voting in Chicago and «claimed to have discovered sufficient evidence of vote fraud to prove that the state was stolen for Kennedy.»

Even in a close race, if a candidate this week successfully challenges a state's election results (such as proof of vote fraud), would the U.S. Supreme Court intervene?

And then there's the issue of vote fraud.

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Due to rising concerns about the use of stolen biometric identifiers to commit identity fraud, the vote wasn't even close.

Doing so will significantly diminish the likelihood of electoral fraud, which is a huge issue despite the prevalence of electronic voting systems.

«I think he's stated his concerns of voter fraud and people voting illegally during the campaign.

He should have taken a lesson from London, Ont., mayor, Joe Fontana, who did declare a conflict of interest when his council voted to ask him to leave office in light of fraud charges stemming from his time as a federal cabinet minister.

Moore, whose campaign filed a last - minute «election fraud» complaint on Thursday just before the results were certified just after 2 p.m. EST, claimed that widespread voter fraud had contributed to his more than 20,000 vote loss to Jones, a number that was not significantly altered by the inclusion of military and provisional ballots that were later counted.

During an interview with CNN, Merrill, who voted for Moore, outlined some of the voter fraud claims his office has had to deal with in the weeks that followed Jones's surprise victory and Moore's refusal to concede the race.

I read a terrific study by Richard Charnin, who is a mathematician, a liberal Democrat, an eccentric but brilliant guy, who concludes on the basis of the exit polls and the actual vote on a precinct - by - precinct basis that the swing can not be that wide without widespread voter fraud.

Last year, officials from Moscow's government told local media that they were looking into the technology in a bid to reduce the risk of fraud when people are voting on city management issues.

The voting rights act has been eviscerated and we'll see lots more «voter fraud» laws soon and the likes of Citizens United and dark money PACs will flood the electorate with muck - raking the like of which we have never seen.

The voter ID laws to battle «voting fraud» when a total of.02 % of fraud was found nationwide IS between the lines racism.

Even more sad republicans did not win the election putting them in govt such election win gained came via massive voting fraud / coupled with the corrupt ruling of an supreme court decision / awarding them victory.

But in November 2004, regardless of claims about voter fraud, Bush actually won the popular vote by over 3.5 million ballots, making his regime and his wars ours.

It's a little too late for praying, it's Mrs.Clinton's call to be @ the helm; now, with her hubby Mr.Clinton as VP; and one of you out of all of you, need to tell Romney he's committed fraud, for leaving the Post of so - called gov.that theirs a 2 yr.interval that must be met; the same fo Obama; whom is worst off then Bush Jr.then for none of you to have no Allegiance to be nothing but commander of thieves, since April 4th, 1968 to presently; in the killing of Dr.King Jr.must still go under Oath to all you perjurers; that mustn't go unpunished to the array of charges I have stored up against each of yo on every job, on every public premise; that Obama didn't praywhen he lied to GOD ALMIGHTY in perjury; to have left the seat of sen.to jump to the office; knowing he hadn't a clue what to do; so he got Joe, which is Cheney all over; whom should of been out of public; and he knows that and all the fugitives, even in the Italian led court in DC; that will have to answer to what is -LCB- H.R. 7152 -RCB-; and why they let Olsen for Bush Jr.waste the American's People's time, not to mention all the lives that's been lost; for the tyrannies since 1968 to presently has cost; Vote I, Edward Baltimore; to confirm I; Governor of DC; as of 2/16/12; cause DC; has been a State, already; and all you slaves from State to State; need to snap out of your peonage which is prohibited by Federal Laws; on anybody!!!!!!!

But first, note that the total number of identified voter fraud cases in Kansas since 2000 is 97... out of literally millions of votes cast.

If you lie in order to get representatives» votes (which is obviously something of value), is that not fraud, and if it is, is it not possible for it to be a felony?

In person voter fraud pretty much never happens (though someone was convicted of it yesterday in Dallas (a convict on probation who voted even though she had no franchise)-RRB-.

A 51 - 49 % split would have the winner win by 250 votes, which is more than the 239 known cases of fraud.

It is beyond the extent of this short rant, but the system developed by virtual currencies like Bitcoin would make voting fraud all but impossible.

But while the voting process itself has been described as fair by most international observers, the political campaign and the actual counting of the votes — no doubt the most important part of the democratic election process — has been characterized by the abuse of power, the excessive role of money, extraordinary events such as power cuts in the polling stations, fights between party representatives, accusations of fraud and scandals in denying observers access to polling stations.

President Trump said that voter fraud is widespread and again claimed that «millions and millions» of votes were cast fraudulently — a claim for which no evidence exists.

Liberals often claim that while there may be other forms of voter fraud in the United States, like voter registration fraud, the only kind of voter fraud that a voter ID law can possibly prevent is in - person voter fraud (where someone shows up at a polling station and votes when they're not legally permitted), and that there have been almost no documented cases of someone committing intentional in - person voter fraud in the United States.

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»?

If such a legislature would exist, I would expect this voting pattern to be the result of large - scale election fraud.

The cases Abbott prosecuted represent a small fraction of the total vote in the elections in which the fraud happened.

What Stein is proving here is that in all this talk of hacking — and international governmental interference and voter fraud — there is a way to find out whether the vote totals are accurate: If there is a paper trail, official vote totals can be easily verified in a manual recount.

«Requiring ID at the voting booth seems like a simple step to me to help ensure the security of voting and prevent fraud,» said Gallivan.

As for regulating the «manner» of elections, the Supreme Court has interpreted this to mean «matters like notices, registration, supervision of voting, protection of voters, prevention of fraud and corrupt practices, counting of votes, duties of inspectors and canvassers, and making and publication of election returns.»

Illinois moved its primary date up from the end of March to the beginning of February and in conjunction with denying Michigan's right to vote, the democratic race results were reversed just in time for all the caucus fraud that then ensued in February.

In Oregon you can register to vote with a utility bill, and all voting is by mail so might be expected to be one of the most vulnerable to fraud.

Gillibrand and her Democratic colleagues are still seeking one last GOP vote necessary to pass the 9/11 health care bill, and she is accusing the Republicans of pushing a «pack of lies» about the bill by suggesting it will be a «job killer» and open the door to fraud.

There are statistics which show a very low number of reported voter fraud cases, but at the same time such statistics are useless unless the voting officials are focused on catching immigrants voting illegally.

So a maximal percentage with 100 % fraud is easy to quantify, and you can use other data to estimate what percentage of non-citizens are voting on average and multiply the two to get a fairly decent, highly localized estimate.

Liberia's Supreme Court on Monday put a presidential run - off on hold until the electoral commission can investigate claims of irregularities and alleged fraud in last month's first round of voting.

If the recount reveals systematic error resulting from fraud or an error of the law, the courts can have the vote set aside.

On Wednesday, Opposition candidate Railo Odinga said hackers broke into Kenya's election commission computer systems and database overnight, leading to «massive and extensive» vote fraud that nullified the published victory of President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Four Democratic state senators voted against the payment of $ 27,230.88 to the widow of former Assemblyman Bill Nojay, who faced federal fraud charges at the time of his suicide.

«Ultimately, their smear campaign allowed them to defeat the last Republican who voted for marriage equality and gun safety, replacing him with Senator - elect Panepinto, who was convicted of election fraud a few years ago,» the memo says, referring to a 13 - year - old case.

Reports of alleged electoral fraud through impersonation more than doubled between 2014 and 2016, according to the Electoral Commission, but other campaigners voiced concerns that the scheme would be a barrier to voting.

This month, Sir John Holmes, the chair of the Electoral Commission, said requiring photographic ID was vital if the government was to stamp out postal vote fraud.

Grimm, who was hit with a 20 - count federal indictment on fraud and other charges in April stemming from alleged wrongdoing in his ownership of a Manhattan health restaurant prior to his election to congress, told the audience that it was fair for voters to look at that indictment when deciding whether or not to vote for him.

A federal jury voted Tuesday to convict Joe Percoco, former senior aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on three out of six charges of bribery and honest services fraud, but found two executives accused of bribing him not guilty of most of the charges, and remain deadlocked over the guilt of a third executive, after more than a week of deliberation.

Civil rights groups say law will weaken ability of minorities and youths to vote; governor says it will stop fraud

Political activist John «Rus» Thompson quietly pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on voting fraud charges yesterday afternoon without the full retinue of supporters who attended his earlier court appearance.