Sentences with phrase «through election laws»

This right is provided to teachers through election laws.

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Observers say a legal challenge to the proposals is inevitable and warn that, because the changes will require «hybrid» legislation, it could prove difficult for the government to force the law through parliament before the 2015 general election.

The SNP's Crawley was mid-way through a law degree and would have gone into the profession should she not have stood at the election.

A letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo this signed by the women of color in the state Assembly urged him to push for the adoption of early voting and the closure of the loophole in election law that allows for unlimited donations through a web of limited liability companies.

According to political scientist Larry Diamond, democracy consists of four key elements: (a) A political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections; (b) The active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life; (c) Protection of the human rights of all citizens, and (d) A rule of law, in which the laws and procedures apply equally to all citizens

Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards, the man best known for running (through an odd twist of fate / NYS Election Law) as Carl Paladino's No. 2 in 2010, is now trying to change Albany from the outside, urging his local Legislature to reject the «sham» 2 percent property tax cap champhioned by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Many of the measures were listed on Cuomo's 2018 State of the State agenda, including closing a loophole in election law that allows for unlimited political donations through a network of limited liabilities companies, as well as early voting.

The next general election is not due until 2020 under current laws, but could be staged within months if the next Conservative leader decides to seek a mandate through a national vote.

In addition to the search for police corruption, federal investigators are also combing through de Blasio's political fundraising activities for violations of election law.

Unlike the mainstream left, they do not seek to gain power through traditional channels - winning elections and passing bills into law.

The letter comes as elections commissioners on Thursday are due to considering the so - called loophole in the campaign finance law that has allowed individual donors to contribute well above the legal maximum to candidates and political offices through a web of LLCs.

The state investigation has focused on whether de Blasio or his aides violated state election law by funneling donations to Democratic candidates through upstate county committees during the party's ultimately unsuccessful attempt to control the State Senate.

In addition to direct campaign contributions, campaign finance laws also apply to third - party organizations and nonprofit organizations that seek to influence elections through independent expenditures or issue advocacy.

Comrade Aremu said only INEC has the responsibility to organize a cost effective, transparent, free and fair elections adding that National Assembly could only make laws to strengthen institutions not to run them through what he called «self - serving serial amendments».

Direct promotion of a candidate through a housekeeping account is barred by state election law, but the provision is often loosely interpreted by both parties.

Cuomo has the sole power to call a special election through a proclamation, according to election law attorney Sarah Steiner.

And Gaughran wants to close the loophole in election law that allows unlimited donations through limited liability companies.

Cuomo wants to close a loophole in election law that allows for unlimited contributions through LLCs, as well as a bill to block those convicted of corruption from receiving pension benefits through a constitutional amendment's first passage.

«Every year, hundreds of donors give more money than is allowed by state law that has highest limits of any state capping donation size; scores of candidates fail to disclose large contributions received in the run - up to Election Day; thousands of filings obfuscate the identity of donors or the purpose of expenditures through the inclusion of incomplete or incorrect information; and dozens of incumbent lawmakers spend campaign funds for what reasonable people would unanimously agree are non-campaign reasons,» the report found.

Cuomo has previously called for an end to the so - called loophole in election law that allows unlimited donations through limited liability companies as well as limits to the amount of money state lawmakers can earn outside of public service.

In July, Congress passed, in a near - unanimous vote, a law called the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, which among other things imposes sanctions on Russia for their interference in the 2016 presidential election.

The election law issue at hand is known as «earmarking» — which is also the memo's title — and refers to whether a donation has been passed through one campaign committee to another in a concerted effort to circumvent campaign contribution limits.

Senate Republicans — who are major recipients of campaign dollars that flow through the LLC loophole — have bottled up legislation proposed by Democrats that would stop LLCs from being treated as if they were individual people under election law.

The GOP said that this funding through the federal account — which it viewed as the improper back door — ran afoul of the clean - election laws.

It's one example of how union dollars can enhance campaign accounts far beyond donation limits in New York, through what critics view as gaps in state election law.

Gordon Brown vowed today that he would overcome a daunting timetable to force through a law in the next two months requiring a referendum to be held on changes to the voting system for the Commons after the election.

Erie County Clerk Jacobs advises that the new case types will be accepted through NYSCEF effective October 1, 2013 and includes all case types except Article 78 Proceedings, Matrimonial Actions, Mental Hygiene matters and action based upon Election Law.

A report by Sugarman in 2016 found «willful and flagrant» violations of election law by a group of political operatives known as Team de Blasio in channeling cash through county and state party committees to three ultimately unsuccessful Democratic Senate candidates» campaigns.

School districts, villages and other special election districts can continue to use lever - style voting machines through 2014, under a law signed today by Cuomo.

Two state senators who voted for stricter gun laws earlier this lost their jobs in a recall election and the outcome is reverberating through the country.

He answered state prosecutors» questions on Jan. 25 in a separate probe of whether Team de Blasio broke election law when it funneled money through upstate county committees to help Democrats win the state Senate in 2014.

Judge Cahill ruled that Quigley had through documentation and by testimony in court «manifested an intent, coupled with physical presence without an aura of sham, to demonstrate that his listed address on the designating petitions complies with the requirement of election law.»

The chairman, William Fitzpatrick, also said that the commission, created by Governor Andrew Cuomo to investigate public corruption in Albany and recommend changes to state election and fund - raising law, has found «criminal behavior» through its investigations.

The Conservative Party manifesto for the 2010 general election included a commitment to introduce the idea of «English votes on English laws» and the party had previously explored this issue through a taskforce led by Kenneth Clarke.

In addition, the Board of Elections is governed by state law, and it was not clear how it might be altered through changes to the City Charter.

State law allows the seat to be filled through primaries and the general election this November even though Assembly and state Senate seats are not up until 2010.

Common Cause New York, the good government group, has reported that tens of millions have been funneled to the state Republicans through L.L.C.s since 1996, when the Board of Elections ruled that an L.L.C. was no different under the law than a person.

But there is a major stumbling block in Ganim's way: Under state law, convicted felons can not receive public financing in a political campaign through the Citizens» Election Program.

Money washed through a county committee is not subject to the limits, thanks to an exception in Article 12 - 124 of the state election law.

The top investigator at the state's Board of Elections asked prosecutors in January to investigate whether the mayor's advisers broke the law by channeling campaign contributions to Democratic state Senate candidates through a committee not subject to donation limits, so as to evade them.

Although he's courted progressive adoration through a series of big - ticket achievements like the passage of New York's 2011 marriage equality law, he's also cut taxes for the wealthy and abandoned the liberal push for public financing of elections.

The policy has to work itself through elections and all the rest of the law making process that we have, and even if you are a big, staunch believer in the values of representative democratic government the way we are, the fact is that it is still not always pretty or efficient or as effective as everybody would like.

In fact, the debate in this country over land use has become emblematic of American democracy: a struggle between competing special interest groups to influence common laws and policies through elections.

On the supply side, hate - filled politicians and journalists alike must be held accountable for their choices and their words through the media, the rule of law, and ultimately, elections.

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.

Historically in law firms, she says, people have risen into management not by election but through discussions among partners who are influential.

Author: Rick Hasen is a professor at University of California, Irvine School of Law and the author of the books Remedies Examples & Explanations; The Glannon Guide to Torts: Learning Torts Through Multiple - Choice Questions and Analysis; Election Law: Cases and Materials; and The Supreme Court and Election Law Judging Equality from Baker v. Carr to Bush v. Gore.

Litigation partner Steve Baughman was named Vice President of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Bar Association on March 22, following an election held at the organization's second annual conference in Washington, D.C. Formed through the collaboration and financial support of more than 45 law firms, including Paul, Weiss, the PTAB Bar Association serves as a forum for communications between the PTAB and other stakeholders, and aims to preserve and promote the highest professional and ethical standards among lawyers and stakeholders who appear before the PTAB.

Key chapters and sections cover: • Decision - making, including personal interests, bias and determination, equality and discrimination and elections • The process for making and handling complaints on conduct issues • The challenging of authorities on conduct issues including through judicial review, the Ombudsman and by using Freedom of Information • Offences • The law in Wales

Election Law and Collective Bargaining Attorneys at Spesia & Taylor also have experience navigating the various issues associated with election objections as well as assisting our municipal clients through labor negotiations, including mediation and arbitration of laborElection Law and Collective Bargaining Attorneys at Spesia & Taylor also have experience navigating the various issues associated with election objections as well as assisting our municipal clients through labor negotiations, including mediation and arbitration of laborelection objections as well as assisting our municipal clients through labor negotiations, including mediation and arbitration of labor issues.