Sentences with phrase «out of the election process»

«While I wish so many voters hadn't been taken out of the election process, I'm glad to see calls for a more friendly election system,» Clouston said.

Not exact matches

Here are some moderators from recent elections (including the current one) who have faced intense blowback from across the political spectrum, often managing to knock the candidates themselves out of the headlines in the process.

Collins pointed out that a big part of UK (and indeed US) election law relates to «declaration of spent», before making the conjoined point that if someone is «hiding that spend» — i.e. by placing dark ads that only the recipient sees, and which can be taken offline immediately after the campaign — it smells like a major risk to the democratic process.

His stock response to the committee's concerns about divisive political ads was that Facebook believes «radical transparency» is the fix — also dropping one tidbit of extra news on that front in his written testimony by saying Facebook will roll out an authentication process for political advertisers in the UK in time for the local elections in May 2019.

Radio stations in Metro Vancouver had documented ongoing rifts developing between B.C. Liberal insider Satnam Johal and the B.C. Liberal leadership as the election approached, primarily due to reports that Johal was kept out of the nomination process in at least one constituency.

@user4012 about 2), the final election day is just the end of a lengthy electoral process; if voters are better educated and use that education all through the process a demagogue should be stopped earlier in the process (so, for a party supporter it would not be end as [My demagogue] vs [candidate from other party], because [My demagogue] would have been voted out in the primaries; in these primaries such a voter would have the option to vote for other candidates more ideologically acceptable).

Yet fellow Gambians, change of the better is common place in decision making processes in pursuit of good governance,» Jammeh said, as he maintains that the only way out to resolve the current political impasse is to organize fresh elections.

Three this occurs before the budget passes and the elections happen after the budget passes, meaning the IDC just gets themselves locked out of the budget process and Felder becomes king maker in the budget process.

Sabine Tyldesley, Political Consultant at Dods Monitoring sets out the impact of the German elections on the Brexit process.

The former Liberal Democrats leader Paddy Ashdown told the BBC the Lib Dems wanted to see debates «anchored as part of the established process of the British democratic right at an election» - and would take part even if the first debate turned out to be a farce.

But, because Acting Attorney General Barbara Underwood has entered the Assembly's process — and she is a tremendously qualified candidate who could serve out the remainder of this term free of any political considerations — I have decided to support her bid to fill the vacancy between now and the election.»

Voters in the 62nd Assembly District who are also voting in either of the presidential primaries must fill out two separate ballots and submit them to separate scanning machines, a process the Board of Elections is confident it can undertake.

According to him, the training and recruitment of ad - hoc staff for the conduct of the elections faced hitches in some states, pointing out that some of the Resident Electoral Commissioners and Electoral Officers allowed persons with vested interests to hijack the process of recruitment and training of ad - hoc staff.

If there's one takeaway from this election, it is that we need real campaign finance reform in this country, and we need to elect leaders who have dedicated themselves to getting corporate money out of our electoral process.»

The outcome of the election is a clear vote of confidence in the sterling leadership provided by Alassane Ouattara, who, over the last four years, has transformed a war - ravaged country into a rare African bright spot, the stand - out performer in the Region, and has accelerated the process of national reconciliation.

However, the Commission wishes to point out in clear terms that it is not possible for sensitive materials meant for the Anambra State Governorship election to be delivered to a hotel room because there are laid down processes of delivery of sensitive election materials, which involve strict monitoring of the process by party agents, election observers, security agencies and the media.

It will provide you with an understanding of key security procedures required to ensure safety of election officials on election duties and equip you with skill sets that would enable you balance the imperative of securing the electoral process with the need to allow voters unfettered opportunity to come out and cast their votes without fear or intimidation as a result of the presence of security personnel.»

He also said his campaign staff had been locked out of the recount process, but a spokeswoman for the Board of Elections, Valerie Vazquez, disputed that assertion, saying that the process «has and will continue to be transparent.»

«He warns that troublemakers and persons not directly connected with the smooth conduct of the election should stay out of the electoral process as the tough security arrangements in place will leave no room for any untoward behaviour, while any person, no matter his or her status, who attempts to test the will of the Police and other security agents during the exercise will be isolated, apprehended and brought to deserved justice».

According to Charly Boy, the group considers it worrisome that the country has repeatedly failed to convince millions of Nigerians, through relevant reforms, to trust the electoral process which results in the steady decline in voters» turn - out since 2003 general elections.

He said: «Election Management Bodies in our sub-regions and beyond have deployed technology in one way or another to improve on the processes, administration and outcome of elections, ranging from training and capacity - building for electoral officials, promotion of inclusivity in the electoral process (youths, women, PWDs, IDPs and out - of - country / diaspora voters), the biometric registration of voters, delineation of electoral constituencies, geo - referencing of existing as well as the creation of new polling units, establishment of robust electronic databases, accreditation of voters during elections, actual voting and the speedy and more accurate collation / transmission of results.

The Board of Elections received, processed and sent out absentee ballots to each of the Plaintiffs for the primary election thus determining the application complete and proper.

«At the federal level, I will recommend it as well because with the card reader and the electronic voting machine, the era of rigging elections is almost over and I think that is when people will have confidence in the process and will come out en masse to vote for their leaders.

Besides Newell and Gigi Li, candidates in September will likely include: Yuh - Line Niou, who ran on the Working Families Party line in the April special election; Jenifer Rajkumar, a district leader and attorney; local businessman Don Lee; Lower East Side resident Christopher Marte.; and John Bal, a contender who dropped out of the special election citing a rigged process to select Silver's successor.

In the cases, just this last couple of elections, where stem cell politics, for example, has been played out in the electoral process, stem cell research is [has] done better than the winning candidates for offices; and I think, apart from that, I think that we do have a serious problem in general education of the sciences and that accounts for the reluctance of a large segment of the population to accept the principles of evolution and think that there is still a debate about it, which there isn't — and that's a problem we need to solve, — but I still think there is an incredible constituency for science in this country.

One of the ongoing challenges in American politics is appealing to younger demographics - not simply through elections and voter turn - out but engaging young people with the political process.

Sometimes watching the U.S. election process play out can be about as confusing as watching season two of True Detective.

Climate change seemed to have slipped out of the public awareness a little bit, and it wasn't helped at all during the election process, because nobody was talking about it much then, either.»

Early on the prospects for this appeared unlikely due to the Election Commission's refusal to permit international observers access to monitor the process, save a handful of observers from ASEAN member states, who par for the course declared that the elections were carried out in a free and fair manner without any notable irregularities.

Be sure to check out the Election Process tab, which features a video series that highlights the many facets of winning the presidency.

As The Heritage Foundation's labor economics expert James Sherk points out, just 1 percent of current teachers in the largest school districts in Florida were on the job in 1975 when the first and only union election process took place.

We have avoided that sort of politicization of the voting process in Canada, where elections are not, as a rule, occasions to call out battalions of lawyers.

As Blair stated, there is a «tremendous yearning now for this process to reach its proper completion» and «there is no point in having elections to the NIA unless it is for the purpose of forming a power - sharing executive out of it on or by March 26».

There's no prescribed process, but administrators such as Buckler would map out a transition process, getting ready for the election of a new board and then mentoring the board.