Hi Carole... a fellow MN food blogger here and equally frustrated
with the election process and results!
In the particular case of the Russian presidential elections in 2018, but also in principle, what can an election observer do if they notice serious problems
with the election process?
The combination of a history and culture of violence in the DRC, together
with an election process featuring an alarming lack of candidates running on platforms of any real political substance, seems to have resulted in an election atmosphere characterized by tactics of coercion, intimidation, and fear.
It is time for a change in governance to restore our basic democratic rights beginning
with an elections process that supports the right to vote and reflects all preferences through proportional representation.
Maybe if we all concentrate with Facebook to address this issue of the Russians meddling
with our election process, we can conveniently forget the real (and much more alarming) issue of undue influence in our Federal Government by Big Money Interests like the MIC.
Not exact matches
Last month, Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russian
election meddling, charged 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities, including the Internet Research Agency,
with «violating US criminal laws in order to interfere
with US
elections and political
processes.»
Among the others: Facebook is strengthening its
process for reviewing ads, increasing the size of its
election - integrity and security teams, and partnering
with election commissions around the world.
In the aftermath of Obama's meeting
with Putin in China, he said the government did not see further tampering of the
election process.
On October 7, 2016, the US intelligence community released a statement publicly accusing Russia, for the first time, of hacking into the Democratic National Committee's email servers and for interfering
with the US
election process.
Obama altered an executive order he issued in April 2015 that allows the US to retaliate against cyberattacks to include those «interfering
with or undermining
election processes or institutions.»
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With the experience fresh in our minds and clear in our rear - view mirror, we must resolve to further strengthen our cybersecurity generally, and the cybersecurity around our political /
election process specifically.»
The possibility of failed
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These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere
with the US
election process.
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«This is a frivolous and blatant, politically - motivated complaint that makes a mockery of the Federal
Election Commission
process,» the Tillis campaign said in a statement, adding it «never employed foreign workers or improperly coordinated
with outside groups.»
James Clapper, and the head of the Department of Homeland Security, made a statement saying that the hacks «are intended to interfere
with the U.S.
election process» and that «based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities.»
Fake news was also a key issue in the 2016 vote,
with special counsel Robert Mueller indicting 13 Russians in February for using bogus social media accounts to interfere in the
election process.
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With a rush of nomination contests being held in advance of a spring provincial
election in Alberta, the member said «the entire
process has gone straight to hell.»
A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment Friday against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities accused of violating US laws to interfere
with US
elections and political
processes.
On Friday, special counsel Robert Mueller's team indicted 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies, accusing them of conspiring to interfere
with «US political and electoral
processes, including the presidential
election of 2016.»
A brokered convention would thus be rendered increasingly unlikely, and a party going into an
election with an evidently weak presidential and vice-presidential team would be powerless to find replacements so late in the
process.
Finally, by making it necessary that
elections be conducted as contests of like against like (female against female, minority against minority, etc.) the system extended vast powers to the nominating
process and enabled those in power to recruit just those board members most likely to agree
with their purposes and keep them in power.
The white government chose, under intense internal and international pressure, to relinquish power, and negotiated
with its former black enemies a
process that led to the
election of a black president, a model constitution, and relatively low casualties, considering the alternatives.
The nominating committee's slate can be challenged by candidates nominated by a petition
process from the members; but the way things normally work — and always, now, for the officers — «
elections» take place
with only one person «competing» for each slot.
If, for example, evil has been defeated from the very outset, and human history has already been secured by God in
election, does this not render history a mere
process by which God can effect the inevitable triumph of his grace,
with human beings little more than the passive beneficiaries of his boundless and irresistible good will and grace?
Coming in
with the third - best odds is legendary player Luis Figo, who ran against Blatter in the last
election before dropping out, saying that the
process was not actually democratic.
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That
process began
with the 2005 leadership
election campaign.
He rejected the path of truth and upheld the primary
election that its
process was characterized
with corruption.
The speaker said negotiations
with the governor on a potential constitutional amendment that would overhaul the redistricting
process in time for the 2022
elections are «not actually taking place» at the moment, adding: «They're in spurts; they start, they stop.
But the most important lesson for those of us on the trailis that the primaries
process itself has been hugely energising for Americans, a country
with even worse turnout than Britain in recent
elections.
But open primaries would just make
elections into such a long and arduous
process where government is seen as this far away and dangerous place, that we could end up
with an American style anti-government culture, which would make ending child poverty and funding public services much harder.
Smooth the
process of becoming head of state
with respect to time, in various ways such as indirect
election by a rolling elected panel.
He rejected the path of truth and upheld the primary
election that its
process was characterized
with corruption,» the aspirants said at their joint press conference.
Yet a transnational template to the contrary was received
with virtually unanimous acclaim across the ideological spectrum right from the beginning of the constitutional and organic legislative revision
process, well before many parties had even been formed, let alone knew anything about their fortunes at the next
elections.
Removing names by due
process, using the quasi-judicial methods outlined in the Public Elections (Registration of Voters) Regulations, 2016 (C.I. 91) and by the Supreme Court, is the democratic, constitutional and civilised way to go; unless we are already fed - up with the Rule of Law and Due Process and are longing and yearning for the return of dictatoria
process, using the quasi-judicial methods outlined in the Public
Elections (Registration of Voters) Regulations, 2016 (C.I. 91) and by the Supreme Court, is the democratic, constitutional and civilised way to go; unless we are already fed - up
with the Rule of Law and Due
Process and are longing and yearning for the return of dictatoria
Process and are longing and yearning for the return of dictatorial rule.
If a
process is meant to improve the integrity of the electoral
process, judgments that shoot it down can not advance the cause of our development; it means we have chosen a path of regression to the era where
elections are decided by unsavory self - help in bloating the voter register
with strange names on the part of politicians.
A blog post by Twitter said its vice president for public policy, Colin Crowell, met
with staff Thursday from two congressional panels investigating Russian interference in the
election process.
The current incongruent decisions by the tribunals must therefore be put to rest
with an unequivocal declaration by the Supreme Court, and it is the prayer of all who want to see credible
elections endure in Nigeria, that the decision of the apex court gives undisputed support for the card reader, an
election tool which was budgeted for, resources allocated and the allocation approved by the National Assembly, this being the universal
process of policy implementation.
The entire
process whiffs of gerrymandering when calculations by the House of Commons library found that at the 2017 general
election the Tories got one seat for every 43,018 votes nationally compared
with Labour's 49,152 per MP or Liberal Democrats» 197,665 and Green's 525,665.
Mr. Boateng who was speaking at a focus group discussion on the «Post 2015 District Level
Elections», organized by the NCCE
with support from the European Union, to refresh the minds of participants on the country's decentralization concept, stressed that the issue was detrimental to the decentralization
process of the country.
For the 2010
elections, Republicans created the Redistricting Majority Project (REDMAP)
with the plan of flipping state legislative chambers to take control of the redistricting
process.
If we want to effect change in the political
process, the right to call an
election should reside
with the electorate, not politicians.
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Elections, Clerk, Comptroller, District Attorney, Legislature, and Sheriff), administers their own separate FOIL
processes with both an internal FOIL Officer and FOIL Appeals Officer.
She said that the Democratic Party is in the
process of developing its comeback strategy after the decimation it suffered on
Election Day and in cycles prior, but argued that the party has to focus on winning back statehouses and start
with grassroots organizing.
Speaking shortly after the
election, Nyako said his faction observed due
process in the conduct of the state congress, adding that the
process was in line
with the APC constitution that ushered in the new executives.
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Election's office is to establish and increase public confidence in the electoral
process by conducting voter registration and
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election standards, integrity, security, accuracy, and fairness.
The English Democrats believe that violence should never undermine the democratic
process of our nation, also
with the newly selected Labour candidate never having received any votes, it was only right that the people of Batley and Spen should have a choice on
election day.
«I hope all candidates and supporters will reject any attempt to prolong this
process, and that we can now proceed
with the
election in a comradely and respectful manner.»