Sentences with phrase «of voting irregularities»

«I am deeply troubled by the volume and consistency of voting irregularities, both in public reports and direct complaints to my office's voter hotline, which received more than 1,000 complaints in the course of the day yesterday,» Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a statement.

«Some supporters have urged me to press for a hand recount of the ballots because of voting irregularities, but I ran to stick up for Westchester taxpayers and I can not ask them to pay that bill,» Cohen said.

It was part of a series of fierce battles punctuated by allegations of voting irregularities that have raised the spectre of a concerted attempt to seize control of Toronto condo boards and their multimillion dollar budgets.

Not exact matches

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.

Angle has alleged voting irregularities before: she quit a 2011 special elections for the US House, calling the process a «mockery» of voting rights.

Although the INEC Returning Officer, Prof Emmanuel Kucha, declared that the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Abubakar Audu, was ahead of his rival, Governor Idris Wada, with a total of 41,353, the commission must declare it inconclusive because the number of votes is lower than the entire number of votes that were cancelled in the areas where irregularities were noticed.

Considering the fact that NDC communicators would go to any length to extol President Mahama for «graciously conceding even in the face of some irregularities they identified with voting», the party is positioning him to be the most popular person in the NDC and he would likely be until the party's next presidential primary in 2018, making it difficult for other presidential hopefuls in the party to overtake him.

The chief elections clerk in Brooklyn has been suspended after officials at the city and state level were flooded with complaints of irregularities in Tuesday's primary voting.

The vote came after a two - month political drama that began when the Supreme Court overturned the victory of President Uhuru Kenyatta in August 8elections due to «irregularities».

On 1 March, the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) unveiled a 78 - point report regarding irregularities and suppression of «No» campaigners, with Deputy Leader Öztürk Yılmaz claiming that those who were campaigning for a «No» vote faced fear and state coercion.

«Florida to monitor Broward election chief after judge finds «unlawful» ballot destruction in Wasserman Schultz race «via Marc Caputo of POLITICO — The elections supervisor in Florida's second-most populous county broke state and federal law by unlawfully destroying ballots cast in U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz «s 2016 Democratic primary, a judge ruled Friday in a case brought by the congresswoman's challenger who wanted to check for voting irregularities.

This is as a result of anomalies and other irregularities identified during the voting process in the affected constituencies on Saturday.

The state Attorney General's office is opening an investigation into voting irregularities after receiving over 1,000 complaints from New Yorkers in the wake of Tuesday's botched presidential primary.

Ling - Cohan's nomination came as a welcome vindication after her narrow rejection, in a 12 - 10 vote, by an independent screening panel fraught with irregularities — a panel that tried to reverse itself, with 16 of its members sending a letter to the county Democratic leader, Assemblymember Keith Wright, stating that she «merits continuation in office.»

Faced with our two legislative leaders in Albany sentenced to prison for corruption and voting irregularities that denied the right to vote to numerous qualified New Yorkers, a coalition of community, labor, faith, and advocacy organizations has put forward a plan to resolve the crisis of democracy in New York State.

After a count of the 548 absentee ballots, of which only two were thrown out for irregularities, the vote shifted against charter change.

Despite initial reports of irregularities, including voters» names missing from the register, voting continued.

President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner in an August vote, which was annulled because of «irregularities».

As the polls were counted late into the night, the National Electoral Council finally announced that Maduro had won a narrow victory over Capriles, 50.6 % to 49.1 %, a result which the opposition coalition, the Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD), steadfastly refused to accept, citing widespread irregularities while demanding a full recount of the vote.

The U.S. Department of Labor has asked a federal court to order a new election of officers for the Washington Teachers Union, alleging that irregularities marred the vote that gave the District of Columbia union its first elected officials since an embezzlement scandal toppled its leaders in 2002.

The African Union observer mission proclaimed the contest was conducted in a free and fair manner, while other international missions from the EU, the Carter Center, and the African Great Lakes Initiative noted relative improvements over 2007, but also stated that the poll produced numerous irregularities such as technological issues with electronic voting equipment and a lack of transparency in the tallying of the votes.

1) press ignoring the Downing Street memo 2) media using retired generals, who have conflicts of interest with the Pentagon and defense contractors, as military analysts 3) holding fake FEMA press conferences with fake reporters 4) planting fake reporters at Whitehouse press conferences to ask friendly questions (Jeff Gannon) 5) Whitehouse secretly paying columnists outrageous sums to write favorable stories 6) Pentagon writing fake stories in Iraqi newspapers 7) political hacks rewriting the findings of scientific reports 8) putting journalists in jail for reporting wrongdoing 9) press basically ignoring the Justice Dept. Scandal even though it's worse than Watergate 10) the press basically ignoring voting irregularities 11) press ignoring Gov. Siegelman scandal 12) the Whitehouse using Newspeak when announcing legislation (ie.

(A good example yesterday here in Canada, where a federal election took place, was the #PollWatch hashtag that followed reports of voting difficulties or irregularities at polling stations across the country.)

Receiving a first - of - its - kind order from the Ohio State Employment Relations board deeming a contract accepted due to irregularities in how a vote was conducted

This, combined with the many * voting irregularities * that are coming to light, should be more than enough reason to appeal this decision and keep it in limbo until all concerns of all P members are absolutely and completely addressed, or until it is abandoned (whichever comes first).

It will also handle strata corporation and tenancy issues relating to non-payment of monthly strata fees or fines; unfair actions by the strata corporation or by people owning more than half of the strata lots in a complex; uneven, arbitrary or non-enforcement of strata bylaws; issues of financial responsibility for repairs and the choice of bids for services; irregularities in the conduct of meetings, voting, minutes or other matters; interpretation of the legislation, regulations or bylaws; and issues regarding the common property.

Rumford, right, narrowly lost the general election and contested the results in the wake of numerous voting irregularities.