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Prof. Francis Ezeonu, the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Imo State, said elections in areas where ballot boxes were seized or where voting was marred by any violence would be voided.

Otumfuo says elections in the country have over the years been characterized by chaos because police, who are mandated to maintain peace and order failed to apply sanctions against perpetrators of such violation.

He said the election in which President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga both claimed victory was rejected by a section of Kenya after Odinga alleged that the election was electronically rigged.

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The president said it was a «terrible mistake» for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from Mueller's investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Michael Haas said Homeland Security told 21 states that «Russian government cyber actors» targeted their state voter registration systems in 2016.

Officials have said they believe Moscow had hacked into Democrats» computers in a bid to help Trump's election bid.

«Since my election, Ford, Fiat - Chrysler, General Motors, Sprint, Softbank, Lockheed, Intel, Walmart, and many others, have announced that they will invest billions of dollars in the United States and will create tens of thousands of new American jobs,» Trump said during his first address to a joint session of Congress in February.

«Twitter is the most direct way to engage with the candidates and issues of this election and to participate in the live, public conversation around its key events,» said Adam Sharp, Twitter's head of news, government, and elections, in a statement.

May 2 (Reuters)- Cambridge Analytica, the firm embroiled in a controversy over its handling of Facebook Inc user data, and its British parent SCL Elections Ltd, are shutting down immediately after suffering a sharp drop in business, the company said on Wednesday.

Trump said last week that he was unaware of any payment by Cohen to Clifford just before the presidential election in 2016.

Comey also says it made him feel «mildly nauseous» to think his actions in October might have influenced the election outcome.

«I think the presidential [election] sucked a lot of the air out of the room,» CEO Matt Mahan said Wednesday in a conference room at Brigade's San Francisco office.

According to Fox News, the «Shark Tank» star on Sunday said that while he would not be interested in running for president himself in the 2016 election, he'd be interested in serving as running mate for either Clinton or Trump.

A CNN report citing multiple sources said that Flynn's concern could shape the way he responds to Mueller's probe, which seeks to determine whether President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia to tilt the 2016 election in Trump's favor.

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, who hosted the event, said G7 ministers expressed deep concern about the «despicable» nerve agent attack in Britain and Russia's efforts to destabilize democracies by meddling in elections.

«We didn't know what to expect when we looked at the data after the election,» Low said in an interview.

«All of these bans took place before the 2016 election and in fact, all but 8 of them took place back in 2015,» Huffman said.

Over one - third of respondents (34.98 %) said they would «give up the right to vote in all elections for life» just to secure an extra 10 % in pay, while 9 % said they would «give up their child's or future child's right to vote» for the rest of their lives.

The FBI is investigating whether Donald Trump's associates coordinated with Russian officials in an effort to sway the 2016 presidential election, Director James Comey said Monday in an extraordinary public confirmation of a probe the president has refused to acknowledge, dismissed as fake news and blamed on Democrats.

«Of the 282 accounts with non-zero karma, more than half (145) were banned prior to the start of this investigation through our routine Trust & Safety practices» said Huffman in the announcement, referring to an internal investigation that began last month, in response to «recent reports about the integrity of Reddit» regarding the scope of Russian election influence on various social media platforms, according to a previous announcement.

Sugar said: «If [politicians] lie, which results in massive decisions like leaving the European Union, or gaining votes in a general election, then this should be a criminal offence as it would be in a public company if I lied to my shareholders.»

U.S. officials said the Trump administration is expected to announce new sanctions on Venezuela's oil sector in response to Sunday's election of a constitutional super-body that Washington has condemned.

«Things happened on our platform that shouldn't have happened,» she said in reference to the events leading up to the election.

«It's not so bad in a general election because you have got five years to sort it out and the lies and promises will blow back in people's faces,» Sugar said.

CBS chairman Les Moonves famously said earlier this year that Trump had been «damn good» for his network, while CNN reportedly earned an additional $ 100 million in digital ad revenues this year, thanks to interest in election coverage.

If you work in the media, or are even tangentially interested in it, you've probably seen the New York Times «interview with White House strategist Steve Bannon, who attacked the mainstream press for its cluelessness during the recent election while saying that reporters should feel humiliated and irrelevant.

In an interview with Axios's Mike Allen on Thursday, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said the social network owes America an apology for its role in enabling Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential electioIn an interview with Axios's Mike Allen on Thursday, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said the social network owes America an apology for its role in enabling Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential electioin enabling Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential electioin the 2016 presidential election.

Cambridge Analytica, the firm embroiled in a controversy over its handling of Facebook Inc user data, and its British parent SCL Elections Ltd, are shutting down immediately after suffering a sharp drop in business, the company said on Wednesday.

In first promise of the official 2015 federal election campaign, Stephen Harper said the Conservatives would increase the apprenticeship job creation tax credit to $ 2,500 from $ 2,000 and expand the program to include a third and fourth year of training.

InTrade — the go - to platform during the 2012 election — shut down in 2013 after the CFTC said certain activity constituted «off - exchange options trading» that it banned.

In late 2017, Dimon reinvigorated such rumors after saying that Democrats have no chance in the 2020 elections unless they find «a strong centrist, pro-business, pro-free enterprise candidate.&raquIn late 2017, Dimon reinvigorated such rumors after saying that Democrats have no chance in the 2020 elections unless they find «a strong centrist, pro-business, pro-free enterprise candidate.&raquin the 2020 elections unless they find «a strong centrist, pro-business, pro-free enterprise candidate.»

She participated in an online campaign to support regime change during the 2015 Israeli election and said she was dismayed at Netanyahu's re-election.

Gillibrand is often deemed a contender for the presidential election in 2020, although she said last year she is ruling out the possibility and focusing on her Senate reelection campaign.

After the election, he said, «Okay, I'm introducing you to the concept of the weekend,» because I hadn't had one in so long.»

Election - meddling is «not something we want on Twitter,» the San Francisco - based social network said in an unsigned statement.

In a recent interview with The Guardian, Shania Twain, noted country singer and pop culture icon, said she would have voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential electioIn a recent interview with The Guardian, Shania Twain, noted country singer and pop culture icon, said she would have voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential electioin the 2016 US presidential election.

Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said the protest was just whining by parties that lost an election in 2015 after eight years in government.

'' (The ongoing standoff between the euro zone and Greece) also increases the chances of snap elections in Greece as after overplaying his hand and facing increasing difficulties in concluding the review, Tsipras may be tempted to cut his losses by calling early elections before Syriza (the ruling party) loses more support for adopting unpopular measures,» Piccoli said.

He's clearly decided that at least until the upper house election (in July), he is going to focus on the economy,» said Gerry Curtis, a Columbia University political science professor who has watched some two dozen Japanese prime ministers come and go during his career.

«The mask has finally slipped,» John McDonnell, a lawmaker who would be finance minister if Labour win the election, said in a statement.

It's still unclear what (if any) relationship the site and Assange's leaks had with Russia, which the US intelligence community says was behind hacking in the election.

However, 72 percent are opposed to exiting the euro to return to the franc,» Citi said in its French 2017 elections: Who will gain momentum in the final stretch?

In years following a presidential election, the Dow Jones industrial average has been up 11 times with an average gain of 0.7 percent, the almanac said, citing 17 years.

«Our goal is not to change the result of the election,» Stein said in an opinion piece released Thursday.

President - elect Trump exulted in his surprise victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton, mocking critics who said before the election that polls showed he had no path to the White House.

«First of all, we think it unlikely that the Dutch, French, German or (possible) Italian elections will deliver more extreme, populist governments,» Credit Suisse analysts said in the note.

«Unfriending someone entirely may feel a bit too harsh,» she says, but if people in your social circles are regularly posting negative content (especially during election season), you could get a much - needed mental break by engaging with them less frequently.

Catalans vote Sunday in regional parliamentary elections that the breakaway camp hopes will give them a mandate to put their region on a path toward independence — a goal the Madrid central government says would be illegal.

In Europe, the frontrunner to the French presidential election, Emmanuel Macron, said that there should be an international military intervention against the Syrian regime if it is proved that it is using chemical weapons.

Xavier Garcia Albiol, leader of Rajoy's PP in Catalonia, has said of the 21 December elections: «The choice is simple: do you want businesses and jobs or roadblocks in the name of independence?»