Sentences with phrase «to run elections»

The total cost of running elections in all closed primary states is $ 300 million.

Presidential candidates will run election campaigns in the months leading up to that time.

Electronic voting is expected to cut the cost of running elections by around a third.

Although turnout was high, the 2012 national election was special, both in marking 10 years since independence and the country's first nationally run election.

We've been struck by the level of outrage from our supporters about how poorly run these elections have been, and about the posts of police and crime commissioners themselves.

I have also run elections successfully in various levels.

The proposed reforms come after growing criticism of the way the state runs elections and lackluster voter turnout.

The British Election Study is one of the longest running election studies in the world giving a detailed picture of how British democracy functions.

The BES is one of the longest running election studies world - wide and the longest running social science survey in the UK.

Critics also noted that recently the Journal News did a feature critical of the Westchester County GOP chairman for running an elections mailings company and bringing in millions in revenue over the last decade - plus.

«He can drive his agenda and put his bill out there and make every Democrat in Congress who is running state their position on that bill and I would run this election as a referendum on guns because I believe the American people get it,» said Cuomo.

Before the Cambridge imbroglio, there were Russian agents running election - related propaganda campaigns through targeted ads and fake political events.

The party, in turn, hired Haggerty to run an Election Day voter protection operation, but later maintained he had never delivered that service, instead stealing some $ 750,000 worth of the billionaire mayor's money and using it to purchase the Queens home in which he grew up.

This is not to take away from the practically errorless campaign Cuomo ran this election cycle.

«What happened in Kogi is totally unacceptable; no court will accept that; there is no way somebody will run election without a running mate; it will not stand; PDP will retake Kogi State».

Cahill, who also wants the county to take over the cost of running elections from municipalities, has said that he expects the Assembly to convene in September to take up the request, but only Gov. Andrew Cuomo has the authority to call the legislature into a special session.

Moreover, NPV guarantees that states with well - thought - out election laws and well - run election systems are held hostage to those without.

This decision is nevertheless a long way from running an election on the Internet, where a number of other factors are in play: eligibility to vote, secrecy of vote, independence of vote, correctness of tabulation, and others.

Stop letting the media run the election.

«It is not possible that the SC will tell the EC what to do because I know the EC in its own way is discharging its duties as an institution, and so it is better to allow the Supreme Court to run the elections if it feels the EC is inefficient.

He said: «I'd like to thank the councils that have been working through the day to count the vote, the combined authority and the Greater Manchester Police who have run this election so smoothly.

We will then gather the findings into a report evaluating the way in which the UK runs elections, with clear implications for the strength of its democracy.

For years, the body charged with running elections, maintaining the electoral rolls, educating and registering voters has been criticized for its functional inefficiencies, hiring practices, mistakes, and structure.

When actual votes were taken into account, the Conservatives were «the party of leave» at the 2017 election, according to Ed Fieldhouse and Chris Prosser from Manchester university, which jointly runs the election study.

Democrats feel quite embattled and therefore will vote for whatever corporate candidate runs every election, kind of unthinkingly.»

We're not going to run elections based on anyone's record, it's going to be based on the future» he noted.

«We don't think there should be a cabal of just Democrats and Republicans running the elections for all 20 million New Yorkers,» he said.

As a grassroots activist who organized for Bernie Sanders in four different states — and have since joined NYPAN and the Democratic Socialists of America — I've heard from hundreds of Americans who are fed up with way the country runs its elections.

Labour sources yesterday insisted Mr Murray was not running the Election campaign but said had been brought in as a «grown up» given his experience of running Britain's biggest union.

Social Impact Games Run an election campaign: Games include Power Politics3, Frontrunner, The Political Machine, and President Forever.

That's in part why Congress asked the companies to retain all data relevant to their investigation beyond the 11 month requirement of media organizations that run election ads.

Special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed by the Justice Department to run the election probe and has been scrutinizing connections between Cambridge Analytica and Trump's Republican campaign.

«This is where the bully pulpit comes in and he can drive his agenda and put his bill out there and make every Democrat in Congress who is running state their position on that bill and I would run this election as a referendum on guns because I believe the American people get it.

Before the Cambridge imbroglio, there were Russian agents running election - related propaganda campaigns through targeted ads and fake political events.

Yesterday, the «individual» in question — John Haggerty — was indicted for allegedly bilking Mayor Bloomberg out of $ 1.1 million that he gave to the Independence Party to be passed on the Queens GOP operative to run an Election Day poll - watching operation.

Grayson has now confirmed his intention to run this election cycle, according to Orlando Rising.

«You overlay that with the lousy system of running elections in general — which is, voter registration laws are cumbersome, we have a closed primary system, getting on the ballot is difficult — and as a result New York has anemic voter turnout, one of the worst in the country.»

The British Election Study (BES) is one of the longest running election studies world - wide and the longest running social science survey in the UK.

There was no independent public body to regulate referendums within the United Kingdom until the Labour government led by Tony Blair in 2000 set out a framework for the running of all future referendums when the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 or PPERA was passed, creating and giving the Electoral Commission responsibility for running all elections and such future referendums.

The British Election Study international Advisory Board includes scholars with considerable experience in running election studies and represents scholars with expertise in Welsh and Scottish politics in the UK.

«Those who expressed negative views stated that running elections in this country was the sovereign and exclusive responsibility of the states, and they did not want federal intrusion, a federal takeover, or federal regulation of that process.»

In this case, SCL's mandate was to ascertain the scale of vote - buying behavior — a longstanding issue in the southeast Asian country — that had inflated the cost of running an election campaign to around $ 1 billion, according to the company's estimates.

They run elections.

He spent five years with communications group WPP, where he ran election campaigns across the world.

Deputy General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho says the Supreme Court should be allowed to run elections in the country.

Is this how we run our elections?»