Sentences with phrase «state election systems»

In a rebuke to President Donald Trump's administration, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday said the state won't comply with the federal review of state election systems when it comes to revealing New York's voter rolls.

Or perhaps the Russians obtained information about voters (e.g. by hacking the state election system) that the campaign then used.

The campaign for Democrat Andrew Cuomo did not respond to multiple queries and the campaign for Republican Rob Astorino declined to comment on whether the state election system is fair.

Not exact matches

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.

The bloc is holding key elections in several member states at a time when rising support for anti-euro and anti-European parties threatens the current political system.

The Republican presidential nominee held a campaign rally in Ryan's home state of Wisconsin on Monday in which the crowd chanted «Paul Ryan sucks» and Trump railed against what he called «corrupt» media and a «rigged» election system — a frequent accusation the Manhattan billionaire has brought up without evidence.

Leading up to the election, questions were raised about the security of state computer systems that protect voting data.

Since the U.S. election system operates through a patchwork of different systems in each state, Graff believes it would difficult to pull off a large - scale breach.

The report also gave details about a two - year - old warning from the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, a bipartisan organization, that described the state of America's aging voting system as an «impending crisis.»

In late August, Yahoo broke news that foreign hackers had breached the state Board of Elections websites in Illinois and Arizona, which the FBI's cyber division followed up with an alert to election officials across the nation to increase voting system security.

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.

«They realized they could get access to the voting registration systems, which can have an impact on state elections and primaries.

Currently, over half the states have post-election audit systems to verify that the equipment and procedures used during an election were up to snuff before the results are officially certified.

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 top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence panel told USA TODAY that Russian attacks on election systems were broader and targeted more states than those detailed in an explosive intelligence report leaked to the website The Intercept.

Some states have also recently seen scanning and probing of their election - related systems, which in most cases originated from servers operated by a Russian company.

This assessment is based on the decentralized nature of our election system in this country and the number of protections state and local election officials have in place.

State election officials are baffled by a Bloomberg report alleging that Russian hackers compromised the voting systems in 39 states, adding that cybersecurity firms were engaging in scare tactics to win state and local contracts to protect election sysState election officials are baffled by a Bloomberg report alleging that Russian hackers compromised the voting systems in 39 states, adding that cybersecurity firms were engaging in scare tactics to win state and local contracts to protect election sysstate and local contracts to protect election systems.

And after the election, California, Oklahoma and Nebraska all have broken death penalty systems,» says Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, stating the issue remains much more complex than it appears.

States like California, New York or Texas, which send large Congressional delegations, could easily afford switching to a proportional representation system leaving the personal elections only for Senators.

Recent stark examples of the absurdity in a «winner - takes - all» system occurred in Florida and New Mexico during the 2000 presidential election when candidate George W. Bush won both states by a fraction of a percentage point, but gained the total number of each state's electoral votes.

Because of this, going to such a system simply reduces the impact of a state in an election, and is therefore not in the interest of the state to do.

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

I assume that under the existing system, the focus is on swing states, which contain moderate voters, which means convincing moderate supporters of one candidate to vote for the other candidate instead, or convincing moderate supporters of one candidate to get out and vote for them, or convincing moderate supporters of the opposing candidate to stay at home on election day.

In the United States, there is a «winner takes all» system for federal elections.

It is challenging to identify party gatekeepers in the past elections in the United States, for instance, since it is unclear whether the parties have maintained a centralised record - keeping system.

The US Presidential election uses an «electoral college» system, where each state gets a certain number of «electors» (votes), and those electors cast the official votes for President.

But remember that in many (not all) states, the Republican party uses the same winner - takes - all system which the actual presidential election uses (list of states by republican primary delegation system).

«By treating LLCs as individuals rather than artificial business entities like corporations or partnerships, the Board of Elections created a gaping hole at the heart of our state's legislatively enacted campaign finance system,» said Lawrence Norden, deputy director of the Brennan Center's Democracy Program.

Similarly, this is why some states implement a caucus system for their primary elections, while other states prefer a straight majority vote primary system instead.

Electoral area system does lead to a «winner - take - all» scenario, where a 55 % majority often leads to a total dominance - a visible example is the USA elections; where if 51 % of a state votes for a presidental candidate, then nationally 100 % of that state votes go for him / her.

Point out that the Church and the State are separate for a very good reason so, likewise, amendments to the election system should not be influenced by politicians and media owners.

In Nebraska's nonpartisan state legislature employs a top - two primary system in which the top two vote - getters in the primary face off in the general election.

Bill Mahoney, the research coordinator at NYPIRG, said after reviewing the documents that the Commission appeared to have gotten off to a promising start with an unprecedented review of a system plagued by wildly inconsistent reporting by campaigns and lax oversight by the state Board of Elections.

But because the Golden State has a top - two primary system, we're going to wait until after June 5 to make sure Democrats get a candidate to the general election before re-evaluating the races.

«Once again, New York's archaic voter registration system has highlighted dramatic shortcomings in the administration of elections across the state,» the New York Public Interest Research Group said in a statement, calling for automatic voter registration and same - day voter registration.

«I don't know her well enough in terms of her background, but to the extent you can understand the state's tax system, it would seem those are important values to have in tackling the election law.»

Silver champions fair elections Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Election Law Committee Chairman Michael Cusick have introduced legislation to bring fair elections to New York by reforming the state's antiquated campaign finance laws and creating a public financing system for all state offices, shifting the focus of elections to the substance of the issues and -LSB-...]

Governor Andrew Cuomo has introduced legislation that seeks to enact a system of small donor matching funds for state elections, along with a number of other provisions designed to reduce corruption and special interest influence.

· Public Matching Funds: A voluntary public matching funds and disclosure system should be enacted for state elections, modeled on the system that has been successfully implemented in New York City.

There are those who believe it's time to do away county committee votes for party nominees for state level seats, perhaps by shifting to the New York City system, which requires non-partisan special elections to fill vacancies.

You may want to read that bit of random - seeming trivia one more time — and think about how that weighted system can then affect the election of new state senators and Assembly members.

The State Board of Elections is completely revamping its aging technology, and will deploy a new campaign finance reporting system after the 2016 eElections is completely revamping its aging technology, and will deploy a new campaign finance reporting system after the 2016 electionselections.

ALBANY — Members of the Real Estate Board of New York and their firms gave $ 21.7 million in campaign contributions to state - level elections in the last cycle, accounting for more than 10 percent of the money that entered the campaign finance system.

In Germany, the electoral systems require a party needs 5 % to win any seats in state and federal elections, while every overhang seat is granted.

The actors have endorsed the Fair Elections reform package which includes a system of matching small donations with public funds, as well as lower contribution limits, restrictions on contractors and lobbyists doing business with the state, and greater enforcement and transparency.

The governor, who said there was nothing wrong with the legal system in Nigeria, added that «in recent times, politicians like President Buhari are the ones responsible for the rot in the judiciary because of their desperation to use the courts to foist one party state on Nigerians with conflicting judgments from election tribunals.»

«Only New York State could have this convoluted an election system that we could find ourselves here in this time and place having to make some difficult decisions about what to do next....

At 10 a.m., the Assembly holds a hearing on Protecting the Integrity of New York State's Election Systems, Assembly Hearing Room 1923, 19th Floor, 250 Broadway, Manhattan.

In an editorial on Monday, the Buffalo News criticized the New York State Board of Election's decision to not enforce the state's $ 150,000 aggregate contribution limit, saying it sends a clear message that the system is «broken.&rState Board of Election's decision to not enforce the state's $ 150,000 aggregate contribution limit, saying it sends a clear message that the system is «broken.&rstate's $ 150,000 aggregate contribution limit, saying it sends a clear message that the system is «broken.»