Sentences with phrase «state electoral law»

«Stakeholders, especially political parties and candidates are strongly advised to ensure that they follow strictly the election timetable and guidelines being released today and also to ensure that they do not offend the state electoral law.

Not exact matches

It leaves some ends loose (for example, on state nullification of federal laws) and undertreats some areas of current interest (for example, the electoral college).

Duverger's law states that in a first past the post electoral system, the system will end up with a two party system.

Several states have laws that purport to restrict or punish faithless electors for their electoral votes.

Another law also prohibits the formation of coalition outside periods of electoral campaigning, and yet another law states that «organizations should notice four days in advance to local authorities if they plan a demonstration of a party meeting.

Their agenda includes electoral reforms like early voting, a strengthening of the state abortion laws, creation of a single - payer health care system, criminal justice changes like an end to cash bail, passage of the Child Victims Act, enactment of pro-immigration measures like creation of a state DREAM Act and the issuance of drivers» licenses to undocumented immigrants.

Husein, a serving commissioner in the state, and one of the two aspirants that were presented for the screening exercise, was disqualified for his failure to comply with the party's guidelines and electoral law.

«We don't have to go to Albany and deal with that political dysfunction in order to get this electoral reform,» he said, an apparent reference to that fact that many other voting and election laws are dictated by the state.

A source within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state told DAILY POST on Saturday that Husein, who is a serving Commissioner was accused of flouting the electoral law, which stipulates 30 days for anyone who is in a public servant to resign his / her appointment before vying for an elective office.

He stated that perpetrators of electoral violence should be made to face the full weight of the law.

It would be recalled that senator Mudashir Husein, a former lawmaker in the state, was disqualified from the Osun West senatorial seat by a 5 - man screening panel constituted by the APC, due to his failure to comply with certain electoral law and party's guidelines.

These 7 states possess 74 electoral votes — 27 % of the 270 necessary to bring the law into effect.

I don't have any citations for you, but its illegal to bribe state and federal officials, and electoral are defined by a mixture of state and federal laws, so it would almost certainly fall into existing state / federal bribery laws.

State - by - state winner - take - all laws to award electoral college votes were eventually enacted by 48 states AFTER the Founding Fathers wrote the ConstituState - by - state winner - take - all laws to award electoral college votes were eventually enacted by 48 states AFTER the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitustate winner - take - all laws to award electoral college votes were eventually enacted by 48 states AFTER the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.

The exact names, dates, term lengths, term limits, electoral systems, electoral districts, and other details are determined by the individual states» laws.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Ado Ekiti has nullified the election of Mr. Oyetunde Ojo, the ACN candidate and an in - law to the former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on the strength of the suit instituted by the National Reformation Party, NTP, alleging that INEC omitted both the name and logo of the party from the electoral papers

NSW premier Mike Baird's proposed changes to the state's electoral funding laws could cost taxpayers more than $ 10 million extra per electoral cycle.

Advocates for abortion rights, too, criticized Jung's stance on the issue, which in recent years come to the forefront of both Democratic electoral politics and policy in Albany after Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushed for a codification of the Roe v. Wade decision in state law.

State and local laws vary widely, and various campaign finance reforms, as well as other electoral reforms, have been enacted in a variety of states.

The Director - General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brig. Gen. Sule Kazaure, has warned corps members who will be participating in the forthcoming governorship election in Ondo State to shun acts that can violate electoral laws during the election.

OSSIEC had announced its plan to conduct the state councils» polls on Saturday, January 27, 2018 but a human right activist, Barrister Kanmi Ajibola approached the court, urging it to declare as unconstitutional and illegal the electoral law which proposed parliamentary system for the exercise.

Nigerian opposition parties on Friday called for a change in electoral laws to allow municipal polls to be overseen by the national election commission and not «partisan» state authorities.

The opposition party also claimed that the amendment of the state's electoral laws few days to the polls by the Lagos State House of Assembly is illstate's electoral laws few days to the polls by the Lagos State House of Assembly is illState House of Assembly is illegal.

«We know that the system as it's currently structured under our state law literally can not keep up with the reality of our modern democracy,» de Blasio said, bemoaning the state's «arcane» electoral laws kept in place by entrenched lawmakers in Albany.

But — and here we have the best argument possible for increased local autonomy instead of less — because of state law, hammered out in back rooms by powerful union interests, local voters were denied their electoral rights.

Reactionary state laws, unequal and unethical administration of voting procedures, and the unfettered access of corporations to influence electoral outcomes has severely damaged our democracy.

The Greens, the Left Alliance and the Social Democrats have all stated that a climate change law is one of the most important legislative projects of the next electoral period.

Perhaps motivated by the political sensitivity of the matter in certain Member States, once the Court has found jurisdiction to review the French measures, it applies a relatively light - touch review, refraining from a too - intrusive inspection of national electoral law.

It is not through the invocation of a substantive electoral right contained in the Treaties that Member States are restricting that the issue falls within Union law — rather it is an implicit obligation contained in Article 14 (3) TEU as reflected in the 1976 Act that elections be universal and direct; it is a general obligation placed on Member States to ensure the democratic integrity of EP elections that catches electoral law and subjects it to review under the Charter.

In theory this applies only to the organisation of EP elections, however, to the extent that Member States apply the same electoral code to EP elections and national elections, potentially at least a whole range of national measures restricting voting rights could be subject to judicial review under Union law and especially a requirement of proportionality.

«Given the ambivalence of the U.S. Supreme Court's case law on whether the federal constitution provides a remedy for partisan gerrymandering, state constitutions, with their focus on electoral equality and fairness, have the promise and the potential to be an effective means to address excessively partisan redistricting,» Tolson wrote.

Allegations about Cambridge Analytica show «there's something rotten in the state of our democracy» says the Green Party co-leader, who added the UK's electoral law was «woefully inadequate».

It recognises the possibility of a law of a State disqualifying all persons of a particular race from voting at elections and gives any such disqualification relevance for Commonwealth electoral purposes.