Sentences with phrase «spirit of election law»
Schoenberger and Ed Day both said they believed Ryan Karben broke the spirit of election law when he boasted of giving LaCorte $ 25,000 on Day's Facebook page.
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Which means that for now, at least, the choice remains with companies like Facebook whether to voluntarily comply with the spirit of American election law, or leave it up to users themselves to do so.
That the TV prosecutor and one - time senator is «ignoring the letter and spirit» of campaign law by masking an active election bid as an «exploratory» effort and thereby dodging federal reporting requirements.
In any case the spirit of the 27th Amendment to the Constitution ought to prevail here: «No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.»
«We have always been confident that there was no wrongdoing in the way in which the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee operated during the 2014 elections and that we complied fully with both the letter and the spirit of state and federal campaign finance laws,» Connecticut Democratic Party Executive Director Michael Mandell said in a statement.
Mr. Goodman also told the board of elections that the Quiet Skies Coalition's chairwoman, Ms. Cunningham, who is also a member of the town planning board, could be violating the spirit of a state law barring policy makers from managing political committees.
«The SEEC and Gov. Malloy have completely violated the spirit of Connecticut's clean election laws with this back room deal... But for a few hundred thousand dollars all is forgiven by the SEEC and the governor's efforts to kill transparency triumph.»
State and federal prosecutors announced on March 16 that they would not seek charges against the mayor, though Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance wrote to the New York State Board of Elections that the fundraising appears to have violated «the intent and spirit of the laws.»
Mr. Vance, in a letter to the Board of Elections, suggested that the de Blasio team's activities contradicted the «spirit and intent» of the campaign laws.
But prosecutors also said de Blasio and his aides had violated the «intent and spirit» of the election law.