Sentences with phrase «pro-obama election machine»

And if you're truly worried that our election machines could get hacked, then you should encourage your state government to implement post-election audits for the future.

«I struggle to make an activist party, a party that is involved in building a movement, and not just an election machine.

The Ukip election machine was today found wanting when former leader Nigel Farage spoke live from...

The Ukip election machine was today found wanting when former leader Nigel Farage spoke live from the campaign trail in Sleaford and North Hykeham — and party operatives managed to misspell the name of the constituency.

There were further changes to the Conservatives» election machine today, when Oliver Letwin was reportedly dropped as the prime minister's policy boss, to be replaced by Jo Johnson, Boris Johnson's brother.

I ask him if it's true what they say about the brutal efficiency of the SNP by - election machine, which is sold as some insanely robust targeting mechanism.

And once the general election result was declared void (November 5th), the by - election machine which ensured victory in Crewe & Nantwich and Norwich North should have been cranked into action.

We need the best possible election machine in place as soon as possible.

Election machines are not on the internet for exactly that reason.

There is no evidence at all that Clinton's election machine had the same ability.

Cambridge Analytica was contracted to the Trump campaign and provided an entirely new weapon for the election machine.

Theresa May under pressure to shake up party election machine, and advisers are seeking ideas to appeal to younger voters

Peeling off significant sections of Akan voters enables the NDC to construct an identity - based coalition that is at once nationally representative in appearance and formidable as an election machine.

Because of this, attackers could theoretically intercept unofficial results as they're transmitted on election night — or, worse, use the modem connections to reach back into election machines at either end and install malware or alter election software and official results.

Cambridge Analytica was contracted to the Trump campaign and provided an entirely new weapon for the election machine.

There is no evidence at all that Clinton's election machine had the same ability.

Not exact matches

«And that was without any pummeling by the Republican attack machine that would have savaged him in a general election.»

Earlier this week, Georgia Representative Hank Johnson introduced two bills that he believes will help improve voting security a few years down the road: the Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act, which, if passed, would classify voting systems as critical infrastructure to be protected by the Department of Homeland Security; and the Election Integrity Act, which will map out a planned response for voting system failures and control the types of voting machines states are allowed to buy.

Like the voting machine companies, Internet voting services — mostly purveying their software in private or corporate elections — largely resist subjecting their work to public trial.

Vote - by - mail is one way many of the concerns with voting machines or election day cyber strikes could be largely contained.

States ensure that voting machines are not connected to the Internet, and there are numerous checks and balances as well as extensive oversight at multiple levels built into our election process.

Voting machines have long been under fire for their potential vulnerabilities, but they represent just one tiny aspect of the cyber threat matrix surrounding election day.

When people think about a cyber attack on election day they are most likely to think of hacking into voting machines and changing the results of an election.

In Edmonton - Centre the real contest to watch is not to defeat door - knocking / hand - shaking / baby - kissing election - machine Conservative MP Laurie Hawn.

What's next: Facebook, already dealing with a backlash over fake news stories and Russian meddling in the election, has another PR crisis on its hands centered on its advertising machine, which brought in $ 39.9 billion in revenue in 2017.

Promoting such policies for the Labour machine was Momentum, a grassroots campaigning network which arose from the 2015 general election.

even though votes were misdirected all over the map with EVS non-paper trail machines, the numbers were so overwhelming Obama was able to overcome the routine election fraud.

Forty - four of the 57 county boards of elections outside NYC reported voting machine problems on primary day.

NYC Councilman Eric Ulrich has seized on this morning's NY Post report of a top Queens GOP official's suspension by the NYC Board of Elections after being caught soliciting a «finder's fee» from a voting machine contractor to continue his on - again / off - again war with the borough's Republican chairman, Phil Ragusa.

California did try voting machines, and they are still an option (every precinct has a voting machine, and you can request to use it, but paper ballots are the default), and it works somewhat similarly, in that the election officers give voters a card that activates the voting machine, and the type of ballot is recorded on that card.

The 2008 local elections and the 2009 European elections followed in due course; by 2010 the machine was well - oiled enough that in the final week before polling day it was a case of getting rid of surplus leaflets rather than rushing to target specific areas.

«Finally, the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mamoud is hereby commended for achieving a significant improvement in the overall conduct of the election especially as it affects the effective use of the Card - Reader machine,» the report reads.»

(It was attached to Sen. Marty Golden's bill allowing NYC to return to the old lever machines for the upcoming citywide elections).

«While my heart beckons me forward, my head tells me my continued presence on the Conservative line would simply lead to the election of Andrew Cuomo, and the continuation of an entrenched political machine,» Lazio said.

Attracting the largest army of supporters ever seen in a modern American election is one thing, but even more impressive is that the Obama campaign managed to put them to work — as online recruiters, as cash machines, but also as organizers, block - walkers and pro-Obama voices in their own communities.

@JeffLambert We still use (at least in many jurisdictions) actually people watching the boxes / machines as part of the security procedures for elections, so having the polls open for several days would exacerbate the problem of finding enough people to staff the security measures.

Ademusire stated that the Commission would adopt simultaneous accreditation and voting system for the election with the use of newly developed card reader machines.

The election guru is hammering out the kinks in the Tory machine, but his involvement comes at a price.

As news coverage switched to the turnout battle in the last weeks of the elections, many stories discussed the Republicans» voter - mobilization machine and the Democrats» efforts to match it.

Part Four of a six - part series Attracting the largest army of supporters ever seen in a modern American election is one thing, but even more impressive is that the Obama campaign managed to put them to work — as online recruiters, as cash machines, but also as organizers, block - walkers and...

Firstly, encourage the creation of a very serious review into what went wrong for the party at the last election so that mistakes in the message and machine can be dealt with; secondly, encourage the party to create a policy platform ruthlessly focused on generating popularity across the country to raise the party's standing in the polls; and thirdly, secure enough political support that they can ideally walk into Downing Street uncontested.

«Due to serious concerns over the rollout of new electronic voting machines in several counties within the district, the local financial burden of holding a special election so close to the regular election cycle, as well as the possible disenfranchisement of overseas military voters who would not be able to participate, I will call for a Special Election to be held on November 2, 2010election so close to the regular election cycle, as well as the possible disenfranchisement of overseas military voters who would not be able to participate, I will call for a Special Election to be held on November 2, 2010election cycle, as well as the possible disenfranchisement of overseas military voters who would not be able to participate, I will call for a Special Election to be held on November 2, 2010Election to be held on November 2, 2010.»

Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said the most recent presidential election should serve as a «wake - up call» about the importance of voting and access to polling machines.

With 100 percent of machine votes counted, Anna Throne - Holst, the former Southampton Town supervisor, maintained a razor - thin lead over David Calone in Tuesday's Democratic primary election to represent New York's First Congressional District, and the race will come down to absentee ballots.

In 2013, NPR's Allan Greenblatt listed a few: It's effectively a one - party state, with the Democrats so dominant that there is no political competition and machine politics set the agenda; the elections are expensive, making candidates reliant on donors; many key decisions, such as the shape of the state budget, are made in backroom deals between a few power players; the local media is so focused on national events that it ignores what's happening in the state (especially upstate); and there's no anti-corruption movement to challenge the existing culture.

Nor do I understand how an alliance of Labour parliamentarians with the Liberal Democrats (that well - known election - winning machine), as Ewing suggests, will deliver victory.

Local political parties get all of their funds from donations, although the mechanics of primary elections (voting machines, space rental, ballot counting staff) are often publicly funded.

It's hard to believe that the makers of optical scanners (a) didn't anticipate the possibility of double voting and (b) couldn't write a simple software patch (even now before the election) to reject forms with double votes when the voter feeds it into the machine.

A win by Gonzalez would help re-establish the WFP in Albany and also solidify its standing in NYC as a vehicle for reform against the well - established so - called Democratic «machines» in the outer boroughs — particularly Brooklyn and, in the case of the 2009 NYC Council elections, in which the WFP teamed up with HTC and 1199 against party - backed candidates, Queens.

At this age and time, the NDP insists «our voters register is not only compromised but also outmoded when there has been a global switch from this anachronism to electronic voting machines (EVMs) with the only requirement of a single definitive voter identity», citing India which has since 1998 been switching to electronic voters machine and perfected it in its 2014 general elections with what they described as «highly unprecedented efficiency.»