Sentences with phrase «so election officials»

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A longer election period has the effect of allowing political parties to spend more on their campaigns — the spending maximum is pro-rated, so that as the official election period grows, the spending limit rises proportionally.

Not so democratic, at least if your notion of democracy includes being able to hold elected officials accountable between elections.

This reflected the political significance of the possibility that an official recession would be confirmed by the numbers, right smack in the middle of an election campaign — all the more so -LSB-...]

The official attendance was a smidgeon under 60,000 — a number so fanciful it could have come from a General Election manifesto.

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

It's interesting that Crowley chose to register this committee (although she's hardly the only district leader to do so), because there's some question as to whether party official elections will take place at all this year, thanks to the chaos caused by redistricting.

I am linking a resource that shows what election precinct officials and poll watchers, which can be anyone, are allowed to do, on what grounds, and the evidentiary and process standards for so doing.

According to here, if you want to become an election official, the conditions include that you must not have been convicted of a felony, so I think that means that these two individuals can no longer serve on an election board in Cuyahoga County.

Politico New York confirms that in the final stretch of the election none of New York's six statewide elected officials will speak out publicly in favor of a state constitutional convention and the only one who once did so, Governor Cuomo, has long since stopped doing so for compelling political reasons.

To get the nomination, you need 25 percent of the vote to get on the ballot, I think 40 percent to get the official designee or nominee of the party, so you want someone that would have the intention to continue to run and then that person would be on the ballot in September in the primary formally, and then in November in the general election,» Smikle explained.

If we refuse to jail him, Ghanaians will vote against us in the [elections] next four years and so we need to get corrupt officials like him away from the country,» Mr Agyapong added.

There was a bit of an anomaly in 1917 when the Conservatives and some Liberals came together to form the Unionist Party (which was essentially an election about conscription), but the Unionist coalition was gone by the next election in 1921 (technically, the Conservatives came third in that election, but they were still named the Official Opposition due to the leader of the second - place party declining Official Opposition status — and so the largely two - party state continued).

So, all election riggers, be they politicians, INEC officials, thugs or security personnel, should be prosecuted.

With Fair Elections reform, elected officials who spend time raising small - dollar contributions from their constituents will receive matching funds so that the playing field is leveled.

@janh I think the idea is that the second ballet wouldn't actually have a vote on it, but the election officials would record receiving it, so the person who cast it could have some indication whether their real ballot (which was part of the same batch) was actually counted.

So far, top NDC officials including Alban Bagbin and Joshua Alabi have registered their interest to contesting the general elections as they currently scout for support within the party.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- There were strident calls Wednesday for the heads of the politicians busted in the corruption probe to fix the 2013 New York City mayoral election, including demands for the immediate resignation of the two elected officials part of the so - called «gang of six.»

County election officials said a final count on the absentee and provisional ballots could take until Nov. 17 or so.

Both officials cited the 27th District's continuing recovery from Hurricane Harvey as the reason for suspending certain state election laws so Abbott could schedule the election as soon as possible.

An official internal inquiry into why the Lib Dems did so badly in this year's local elections has pointed the finger at advertising campaigns such as one which portrayed the politician as «Cleggzilla», trampling over public services.

UPDATE: State Board of Elections spokesman Tom Connolly told me officials are «well aware» of the April 1 deadline, but so far have no proposal to provide to the DOJ.

Rice, who has argued that she's better situated that at least two of her opponents — Sen. Eric Schneiderman and Assemblyman Richard Brodsky — to go after corruption in Albany because she's an «outsider», has called for amending the Executive Law so the AG doesn't need gubernatorial approval to investigate state officials and also a change in the Election Law to empower the office to crack down on violations.

Labour are so convinced that the referendum could trigger a meltdown of the coalition that officials have been put on alert to ensure the party is ready in the event of an emergency general election as early as this year.

The electoral body said in a tweet, «It has come to the attention of the Independent National Electoral Commission that some persons, especially on social media have started publishing result of the Edo governorship election, such result should be disregarded as only INEC or its designated officials can do so.»

First the facts: According to Nevada elections officials, 65 percent of everyone who will vote in this election has already done so, either by early voting or mail - in ballot.

In the wake of years of inaction by the elected officials in the region and continuing unemployment and disinvestment in Poughkeepsie, a growing movement has been building in the Hudson Valley and across the state in support of Fair Elections so that New Yorkers can have a democractic system that elects officials that will be responsive to the needs of all communities.

«It's time to close these corporate tax loopholes and pass publicly financed Fair Elections so that our elected officials don't allow CEO campaign contributors to get away with these sweetheart deals ever again.

While the reality is not so straightforward, by making election information easily available in a one - stop - shop location, rather than hidden away in spreadsheets, pdfs and other documents spread across dozens of official websites, this has the potential to bring local democracy closer to people.

In a speech that was equal parts wish list, progressive victory lap and ominous critique of the federal landscape, the governor issued an ambitious list of 30 - or - so proposals, including implementing a uniform sexual harassment policy for state and local officials, tightening up efforts to combat election meddling, ending homelessness and expanding access to food at school to combat child hunger.

If the petitions are upheld, officials in both camps said, it appears that state election law allows Mr. Mahony's campaign to pick someone to take his place in the primary — a rule so obscure that even election lawyers were unaware of it until this morning.

It is not so much that Corbyn can not form the a Labour Party governemnt after the General Election - it is that it is unlikely even to remain as the Official Opposition!

So say city and state officials, who are offering assistance to voters who encounter issues at the polls this Election Day...

Malloy administration officials are so excited about the notion of a budget surplus that they are talking about proposing a targeted election year tax cut to win over middle - class voters even though the state faces a projected $ 3.2 billion combined deficit over the three fiscal years following this year's election.

So far 175,683 ballots have been counted in the city election, but another roughly 40,000 need to be processed, an official at the city clerk's office said.

Surprisingly, Cox does not now work for a voting machine company now (she is President of Young Harris College in Georgia), as so many other election officials do so immediately upon leaving office — the most recent being PA's Sec.

If that's so, his prolific posts are a victory for Russia's information war — that admirers of the Kremlin spread what American officials consider to be Russian disinformation on election hacking, Syria, Ukraine and more.

In many cases, judicial positions require election or appointment by a political official, so it's essential to have a resume that can impress influential decision - makers.

We also encourage community engagement and help educate voters so they will understand how elections and elected officials can jeopardize or enable the provision of health care at Planned Parenthood health centers

With the disparate provincial legislatures being responsible for standards within our industry, it makes one wonder how it is that transitory elected officials (who often come and go as the case may be from election to election) with short - term agendas (aimed at the next election) are the people who set standards for a business environment so critical to the long - term economic well - being of our national society.