Sentences with phrase «voter registration systems in»

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.

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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 state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

Despite introducing a more flexible electoral registration system, Labour failed to stem the collapse in the numbers of voters who are missing from registers.

«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.

On the other hand, a new system for voter registration brought in this time round is bad for Labour.

The controversy over voter registration is undermining confidence in the system.

Blair Horner, Executive Director of NYPIRG, said, «New York ranks consistently as one of the nation's worst states in terms of voter participation, driven by our archaic voter registration and election administration systems.

As New York surveyed the damage, there came calls for state lawmakers to change the state's «archaic voter registration system» to address potential further disenfranchisement in the democratic process for some citizens.

The constitution minister was under pressure over voter registration, with fears that there could be a 20 % decrease in the number of registered voters as a result of the transition from the current system.

Beyond potentially undermining voters» faith in our electoral system, these claims distract from a very real issue: New York's voter registration system is badly in need of modernization.

«It was the governor who unilaterally put into place New York's first online voter registration system and has repeatedly advanced additional voting reforms,» Rich Azzopardi, the governor's senior deputy communications director, said in an email.

«Governor Cuomo is the first in the last two decades to really understand that, putting forward the funding for two key projects, allowing online voter registration through the DMV... and funding the upcoming update of the campaign finance disclosure system.

As the deadline to register to vote in New York state's presidential primary nears, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday an unprecedented surge in voter registration through the state's online voter registration system.

That this House notes the improved security of ballots in Northern Ireland following implementation of the Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 which has also resulted in increased levels of voter registration; further notes the successful prosecutions for electoral fraud in Slough, Peterborough and Birmingham; further notes the 2007 Council of Europe investigation into electoral fraud in the UK and the recent report entitled Purity of Elections in the UK: Causes for Concern, published by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd which highlights how vulnerable the electoral system is to electoral fraud; and calls on the Government to improve electoral security across the rest of the UK.

In other words, the people already under - represented among voters for many reasons, including the lack of an automatic electoral registration system.

«Once again, New York's archaic voter registration system has highlighted dramatic shortcomings in the administration of elections across the state,» Horner said.

The new system replaced the vast majority of paper forms and is designed to help centralize the digital transmission of voter registration applications, as well as minimize errors in the system.

Modernizing Voting in New York to Increase Participation in the Democratic System - «[A] llow early voting, and adopt both automatic voter registration and same day voter registration.»

In addition, the governor directed the city and state university systems to investigate their own campus voter registration efforts in an effort to boost student voter registration numberIn addition, the governor directed the city and state university systems to investigate their own campus voter registration efforts in an effort to boost student voter registration numberin an effort to boost student voter registration numbers.

State law requires the two systems to provide voter registration forms to students at the beginning of each new school year, as well as in January in presidential years.

«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.»

Cuomo also is creating a new voter registration task force made up of members of his administration to oversee the effort, including ways to create «secure» online voting registration systems in different state agencies, similar to the ones already used by the Department of Motor Vehicles.

In addition, Cuomo is directing the city and state university systems to investigate their own campus voter registration efforts in an effort to boost student voter registration numberIn addition, Cuomo is directing the city and state university systems to investigate their own campus voter registration efforts in an effort to boost student voter registration numberin an effort to boost student voter registration numbers.

I.T. Voting Technology Project published its findings, targeting three main problem areas in system: voting equipment, voter registration and absentee ballots.