Sentences with phrase «with elections officials»

The point is that this is the way school bonds cartel does business, with elections officials often aiding and abetting.

There does not appear to be a specific statutory filing deadline for a party to certify the name of its nominee with elections officials.

In Alabama, candidates running in partisan primaries file with the party, not with elections officials.

During an August conference call with election officials from every state, Johnson reiterated that «we must ensure the security and resilience of election infrastructure,» and offered his agency's assistance.

That experience gave Facebook first - hand insight into how political hacking campaigns are run — experience it can share with election officials.

Correction 1:10 p.m.: Facebook's meeting with election officials will take place at its Washington D.C. office, not its Menlo Park headquarters.

Not exact matches

The FBI is investigating whether Donald Trump's associates coordinated with Russian officials in an effort to sway the 2016 presidential election, Director James Comey said Monday in an extraordinary public confirmation of a probe the president has refused to acknowledge, dismissed as fake news and blamed on Democrats.

All three officials were pursuing separate but related inquiries into Russia's interference in the 2016 election, and whether the Trump campaign had anything to do with it.

Since her father won last year's presidential election, the First Daughter's company has filed trademark requests with U.S. officials for branded lingerie, lounge wear and athletic apparel, Bloomberg reported this week.

The Michigan courts appeared unlikely to rule immediately, with one asking for a response from state elections officials by Tuesday.

Before Trump fired him in early May, Comey oversaw the FBI's investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russian officials to interfere in last year's presidential election.

When he was fired, Comey was overseeing the bureau's investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russian officials to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.

Democrats and some Republicans have questioned the White House's motive and timing for the move since Comey was also investigating whether the Trump campaign had colluded with Russian officials to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Further, with government approval at an all time low and an upcoming election with two of the most disliked candidates in decades, we may simply be no longer able to rely on the actions of our elected officials to regulate social goods.

And when a senior DOJ official called McCabe in August 2016 to express his disapproval with the FBI's continued focus on the Clinton Foundation probe amid the heated election season, McCabe reportedly pushed back.

Sessions has been a target of Trump's ire since he recused himself last March from the FBI's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 US election, following reports that he was not forthcoming during his Senate confirmation hearing about his contacts with Russian officials during the campaign.

Current and former U.S. officials who spoke to the Times anonymously said they found no evidence that the Trump campaign was working with the Russians on hacking or other efforts to influence the election.

Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller in mid-May as special counsel overseeing the the investigation into whether the President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russian officials during the 2016 election, noted that under the special counsel regulations, only the attorney general has the authority to fire such an appointee.

«Let me state this clearly: I have never met with or had any conversations with any Russians or any foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaign or election,» Sessions said on Tuesday.

White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked a top FBI official to dispute media reports that President Donald Trump's campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, a White House official said late Thursday.

In late August, Yahoo broke news that foreign hackers had breached the state Board of Elections websites in Illinois and Arizona, which the FBI's cyber division followed up with an alert to election officials across the nation to increase voting system security.

The Manhattan federal court lawsuit claims that Trump campaign officials conspired with Russian officials and spies to help Trump win the election.

Still, Trump and his advisers have denied contacts with Russian officials during the election.

According to the Democrats» memo, the DOJ provided the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court with «contemporaneous evidence» of Russia's interference in the 2016 election; information about «concerning Russian links and outreach to Trump campaign officials,»; Page's history with Russia - linked individuals and entities; and Page's «suspicious activities in 2016,» including those during a trip he took to Moscow in July of that year, during which he met with high - ranking Russian officials.

«Papadopoulos» interaction with Russian agents, coupled with real - time evidence of Russian election interference, provided the Court with a broader context in which to evaluate Russia's clandestine activities and Page's history and alleged contact with Russian officials,» the document said.

The long - suffering public official first drew Democrats» ire when he investigated party nominee Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign, then caused Republicans great irritation after the election by investigating the possibility of Trump campaign collusion with Russia.

White House lawyers and other officials studied the option of overriding the ban but did not develop a strong legal position or an effective political sales pitch in an election year, a source familiar with the discussions said.

The Department of Homeland Security's communications with state election officials were «impeded by state officials» mistrust of federal government overreach coupled with an unprecedented level of Russian cyber intrusions.»

Cobb has been the lead lawyer representing Trump in an investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and possible collusion with Russians by Trump campaign officials.»

And according to a top - secret National Security Agency document leaked to the Intercept and published earlier this month, hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence agency targeted a company with information on US voting software days before the election and used the data to launch «voter - registration - themed» cyberattacks on local government officials.

His method for studying the validity of elections is to compare exit poll results with official election outcomes.

Experts had said the unexpected plea agreement was a sign that Flynn was fully cooperating with the special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 US election and whether any Trump campaign associates colluded with Russian officials.

Warner asked Kelly «to work closely with state and local election officials to disclose publicly which states were targeted, to ensure that they are fully aware of the threat, and to make certain that their cyber defenses are able to neutralize this danger.

Mueller is investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 election and whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russian officials.

And without an official accounting with the Federal Election Commission, there's no way for the public to know.

Stronger manufacturing activity data from the U.S. Thursday, in the form of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve's regional business survey, allowed investors to add long positions in the greenback, which has fallen more than 1.4 % this week in the wake of President Donald Trump's decision to fire his FBI Director, James Comey, and revelations that his campaign team may have had extensive contacts with Russian officials - despite his repeated denials - in the run up to last year's elections.

The tensions between India, and China and India and Pakistan, are nowhere near the tensions between Russia and the US, especially after US officials have accused the Russian government of meddling in the 2016 US Presidential election, and after DHS has banned the use Kaspersky products on government computers, accusing the Russian AV vendor of working with Russian intelligence to steal classified materials.

To sum up, the six general elections considered here ended with minority governments, and those minorities all enjoyed a relatively small advantage in the number of seats — ranging from two to 22 — over the official Opposition.

According to documents released on Oct. 30, 2017, in an interview conducted as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference, Papadopoulos misrepresented the timing of conversations with an individual known to be substantially connected to Russian government officials, his knowledge of the individual's Russian connections and the nature of his interactions with a female Russian national.

Because the Steele dossier — a private intelligence report compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele — included a claim that Cohen met with a Russian official in Prague to talk about Russia's interference and advocacy for Trump in the 2016 election.

The dossier paints Cohen as a key player in the Russia - Trump relationship, and includes (again, unverified) claims that Cohen met with Russian officials in Prague in August 2016 to discuss how to pay Kremlin - linked hackers for targeting Clinton during the election.

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.»

Politico: «U.S. investigators are focusing on an enduring mystery of the 2016 election: whether Trump campaign officials made the Republican Party platform more friendly to Russia as part of some broader effort to collude with the Kremlin, according to congressional records and people familiar with the probes.

Page, who testified last week before the House Oversight Committee as a part of its ongoing probe into Russian election meddling in 2016, told congressional investigators in testimony revealed Monday that he had asked the former Trump campaign chief and Hope Hicks, now the White House communications director, about his trip to Moscow in 2016 in which he met with Russian officials and discussed the presidential campaign.»

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Meanwhile, with an election expected in early 2012 (regardless of fixed election months), Elections Alberta is warning that at least 300,000 Albertans are still missing from the official voters list.

Richard Painter, a longtime Republican who was chief ethics lawyer for George W. Bush's White House, intends to run for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota this year as a Democrat, according to a filing he made recently with federal elections officials.

Consequently, all public servants, including military, judicial staff, and election officials, will have to comply with the prohibition if it's passed, AFP reported.

I'm very uncomfortable with the official hierarchical church, often very ashamed of it, particularly lately — ashamed not only of the pedophilia scandal, but of the behavior of the American hierarchy during the presidential election.

«Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told special counsel Robert Mueller in a classified August 2, 2017, memo that he should investigate allegations that President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was «colluding with Russian government officials» to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, prosecutors in the Russia probe revealed late Monday night.