Sentences with phrase «on voting fraud»

Readers may recall that in May 2015, Mr. Ramirez was arrested on voting fraud charging stemming from his failed bid in the 86th Assembly District in 2014.

The Cabinet Office, which is leading the trial, argues that voter ID had been sought by the Electoral Commission and in a report on voting fraud by Tory MP Eric Pickles, and that voters in Northern Ireland have had to show ID since 2003.

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.

Not exact matches

Trump said on Wednesday that he is terminating the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, created in May to investigate voting fraud allegations.

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.

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.

(And don't get me started on the frauds who pretend to be Christians in order to win votes from naive and gullible people who will vote for anyone who is seen going to church regularly.)

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!!!!!!!

Gregg Phillips, whom Trump has promoted as an authority on voter fraud, was registered to vote in multiple states during the 2016 presidential election, according to the AP.

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-.

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.

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.

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.

The seat was vacant following Roderick Wright's (D) resignation on September 22, 2014, after he was convicted in a perjury and voting fraud case.

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.

If there is confirmed fraud on an online system (for example, more votes than citizens).

As a result, it has proposed the procedure for taking decisions be changed so issues which normally require unanimous agreement, such as terrorism, fraud and the trafficking of people, drugs and arms, be decided merely on a majority vote.

The review on the federal level comes after Trump claimed voter fraud was behind the popular vote victory by Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election and hinted during the campaign the vote itself could be «rigged.»

Asked why he was voting for the legislation, Skelos cited the complete ban on smoking marijuana, as well as protections built into the program to guard against fraud and abuse.

Cuomo has declined to cooperate with a Trump administration - backed effort to review voter fraud during the election, which the president has blamed on his loss of the popular vote.

However, there have been no convictions in the US of any voter for commiting fraud on voting machines.

A state lawmaker from the Bronx is calling on a city Board of Elections official to be fired after he linked voting fraud to minorities.

The allegations of fraud on Wednesday followed the release of election results showing President Uhuru Kenyatta with a wide lead over Mr Odinga after votes from the vast majority of polling stations had been counted.

I deliberately excluded that from my answer for tactical reasons (I didn't want to hurt an extensive answer by downvotes from many P.SE users who vote on pure partisan lines), but there's enough evidence to post a separate answer showing that Trump has a strong basis for claiming there may be fraud - how impactful, if of course impossible to quantify at the moment.

The prime minister has committed «seven mortal sins» that have degraded politics, Sir Alistair continued, including; the cash for honours scandal, his alleged disregard for cabinet government, the «shocking political interferenace» in the fraud investigation of BAE's arms deal in Saudi Arabia, his dismissal of concerns over postal voting, the handling of investigations in ministerial disconduct, an «undue reliance on spin», and «politicising» the civil service.

A federal grand jury voted to indict former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver today on fraud and extortion charges, the allegations at the center of his arrest last month.

The state Board of Elections quietly voted this week to turn over some data on New York's voters to a Trump administration panel looking at whether there was mass voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election.

If you live in Manhattan's 65th State Assembly district (the Financial District, Chinatown, the Lower East Side, Little Italy and Battery Park City), you'll be voting for an assembly member to replace former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who'd held his seat for nearly 40 years before a federal jury found him guilty in November on charges of fraud, extortion and money laundering.

«The leave campaign are trying to perpetrate what I can only describe as a fraud on the British people,» Miliband will say, accusing Vote Leave campaigners of «trying to disguise themselves in Labour clothes».

Cuomo said New York «refuses to perpetuate the myth voter fraud played a role in our election» and is turning down a request to give the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity the names, addresses, birth dates, voting history and last four digits of the Social Security numbers of every registered voter in the state.

«Voters in Africa don't vote on issues but on small favours and nepotism... Elections on the continent have been abused and characterized by fraud but with the social media, which provides freedom of speech,» he said, the citizens can express themselves and share information.

So what will I do when I finally vote in the referendum on May 5th where on the one hand we have the incumbent First Past the Post System which we know at a national level to be unrepresentative and unfair as it returns governments with overwhelming majorities in the House of Commons even though they only have forty per cent of the vote or less, or AV which is not a representative system but more complicated with it's opaque results making it more open to election fraud or the suspicion of.

Online voting safeguards are already sophisticated, and it is hard to imagine anyone organizing massive primary vote fraud on a national scale.

Even if the machines are high quality (and none of the current ones on the market have proven to be that), the inability to manually recount, to audit, and to prevent rigging and the potential for widespread, wholesale fraud are deal breakers for purely electronic voting.

But upon learning of allegations and charges of academic fraud and other abuses at charter schools in Florida that are managed by Newpoint Education Partners — a company that hopes to open two charter schools in Wake and New Hanover counties — the Board indicated Wednesday that they are likely to temporarily put the brakes on allowing that charter management company to do business in North Carolina, a decision that will be determined in a final vote Thursday.

Then Mark Thomas, Dhief Deputy and Director of Elections for the Utah Lieutenant Governor's office, joins us on the phone to talk about vote - by - mail, the importance of mailing your ballot on time to be counted, and how to protect yourself from voter fraud.

We've reported on just how rotten the wind industry is — from top to bottom — and whether it's bribery and fraud; vote rigging scandals; tax fraud; investor fraud or REC fraud — wind weasels set a uniform standard that would make most businessman blush.

The Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act of 2017, signed by President Donald Trump in October, was passed by voice vote in the House and Senate, where dramatic statistics on elder fraud and abuse prompted overwhelming support for the legislation.

Other applications appear to be coming on line as well, including Blockchain - based data security after the Equifax hack, and Blockchain based voting systems like Horizon State, which has created a platform for fraud - free voting through Blockchain for state use.

In an effort to provide a more safe and secure system for voters, Russia's Central Election Commission is planning on implementing a blockchain - based voting system protected against hacking, rigging, and other forms of election fraud.