Sentences with phrase «says elections officials»

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

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.

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.

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.

Varadkar has insisted that if the motion is not withdrawn, he will be forced to hold an election before Christmas, a prospect EU officials say would complicate the EU Brexit summit on Dec. 14 - 15.

Administration officials said Flynn had not discussed sanctions that had been imposed on Russia in part over election meddling.

Current and former U.S. officials who spoke to the Times anonymously said they found no evidence that the Trump campaign was working with the Russians on hacking or other efforts to influence the election.

«Let me state this clearly: I have never met with or had any conversations with any Russians or any foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaign or election,» Sessions said on Tuesday.

White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked a top FBI official to dispute media reports that President Donald Trump's campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, a White House official said late Thursday.

«Papadopoulos» interaction with Russian agents, coupled with real - time evidence of Russian election interference, provided the Court with a broader context in which to evaluate Russia's clandestine activities and Page's history and alleged contact with Russian officials,» the document said.

Rather, counterintelligence veterans said following the Nunes memo's release that officials likely included the Papadopoulos information to demonstrate the extent of Russia's election interference.

White House lawyers and other officials studied the option of overriding the ban but did not develop a strong legal position or an effective political sales pitch in an election year, a source familiar with the discussions said.

Spokesman James Davis said the network would spend between $ 300 million and $ 400 million ahead of the 2018 elections, much of it devoted to the organization's nationwide grassroots organization to help educate voters and hold elected officials accountable.

But Peskov said the Kremlin's position, as in the past, is that it categorically rules out that any Russian official could have been involved in hacking related to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Experts had said the unexpected plea agreement was a sign that Flynn was fully cooperating with the special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 US election and whether any Trump campaign associates colluded with Russian officials.

And the fourth was to breach US voting systems in as many as 39 states leading up to the election, in an effort to steal registration data that officials say could be used to target and manipulate voters in future elections.

The NRSC official said that when the committee did use targeted sharing in the Massachusetts special election in June 2013, it showed results, but «we just didn't see the engagement numbers we needed to see to indicate that it was going to be transformative this [past] cycle.»

James Clapper, and the head of the Department of Homeland Security, made a statement saying that the hacks «are intended to interfere with the U.S. election process» and that «based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities.»

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While New Trier and the park district have yet to make a final decision of whether or not to place the referendum requests on the November ballot, officials from both organizations said they are talking to each other and understand the potential challenges of asking voters to support two measures in one election.

The tax increase will cost the owner of a $ 150,000 home $ 116 a year, but officials said before the election they would use the money only to purchase the Hoffman farm.

NEW LENOX — The New Lenox Park District's Sanctuary Golf Course, which became an issue in the April election, is steadily gaining ground financially, park officials said at a press conference Tuesday.

He said, «However at about 6 pm today (yesterday) the commission received official communication from the police and DSS drawing it's attention to the need to postpone the Edo governorship elections.

The Newark by - election faces a greater risk of a legal challenge because of «inadequately performing Electoral Commission officials», a local council chief has said.

«TOWIE — the only way is Ed,» said one gleeful official to me on election night, paying appropriate homage to that gritty fly - on - the - wall docudrama The Only Way Is Essex.

It seems to me that what most people typically mean when they say «Trump colluded with Russia to win the election» is, quite simply, that Trump, or his campaign, knowingly met with some key people from Russia (who either were government officials, or had connections to government officials) and received help from these Russians in order to help Trump's campaign, and this particular «help» from the Russians was illicitly obtained by them in the first place (e.g. through hacking).

Ibrahim Idris, IGP The IGP who spoke at a dialogue session he had with a coalition of Civil Society Organization, CSOs, under the aegis of Situation Room, said he has put necessary manpower and logistics in place to secure electorates, electoral officials, observers and election materials that will be used for the Anambra poll.

The special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 election is interviewing senior intelligence officials as part of a widening probe that now includes an examination of whether President Trump attempted to obstruct justice, officials said.

Elections officials say the ballots were sent to 1,540 registered Democrats (941 have been returned so far).

Former President Barack Obama warned Trump against hiring Michael Flynn to be part of his national security team when Obama met with his successor in the Oval Office two days after the November election, two former Obama administration officials said.

Russia is already meddling in the midterm elections this year, the top American intelligence officials said, warning that Moscow is using a digital strategy to worsen the country's political and social divisions.

Onondaga County is among four New York counties that used voting software provided by a U.S. company targeted in a cyber-attack by Russia before the 2016 presidential election, election officials said.

Officials from the Board of Elections have said we can expect a final vote count by the end of the week.

A top Russian official dismissed the latest round of indictments in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe as «just blabber» while U.S. officials said the charges made it clear the nation meddled in the 2016 presidential election.

«Campaign finance disclosure ensures New Yorkers have confidence that their elected officials are serving them honestly and with transparency,» said New York State Board of Elections Chief Enforcement Counsel Risa Sugarman.

«When you do see election fraud, it invariably involves election officials taking steps to change election results or it involves absentee ballots which voter ID laws can't prevent,» he said.

The county Board of Elections begins mailing out military ballots on Sept. 24, officials said last week.

«New York's elected officials like to know who the voters are who are showing up in an election,» he said — voters who are new to a party may vote too unpredictably for incumbents» tastes.

I was especially surprised — and disappointed — when I heard him recount the story of the union official who said to him after Miliband's election, «Neil, we've got our party back».

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano lost one of his last shots at a minor party ballot line for re-election when a potential stand - in candidate collected too few signatures to run on the Independence Party line, election officials said.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman last week announced he was launching an investigation into the removal of the voters from the rolls, which was city Board of Elections officials now say was done through a clerical error.

LaLota said the count will be suspended Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving and will resume Monday with officials counting ballots cast in the final 28 election districts in Brookhaven.

LaLota said the process could slow as election officials begin an absentee ballot count in the 8th Legislative District, where Legis.

New York City Board of Elections says the official vote totals for the special election, U.S. House 9th district, from September 13, are:

ELIZABETHTOWN — County officials are fuming over what they say is a perversion of the election process by a public official.

DCCC officials said their addition of Perez Williams to the «Red to Blue» program is not an outright endorsement in the primary election, but serves as recognition of her campaign's early accomplishments.

The congressman said they want to see Iran's nuclear facilities, visit with detained Americans, meet with Iranian officials about their recent ballistic missile tests and the Jan. 12 detention of U.S. sailors, and observe Iran's Feb. 26 elections.

State courts said prolonged legal proceedings had left too little time for elections officials to hold the primary on June 28, with other congressional primaries.

Voter fraud in New York is not considered common or widespread, and New York officials at the state Board of Elections say those concerns don't take into consideration the machines voters use to cast their ballot.

«Mnangagwa was elected as president and first secretary of ZANU - PF... and was nominated as the party's presidential candidate for the 2018 general elections,» said a party official at a meeting in Harare.