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New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair used the club's stage in 2013 to reveal the party's energy platform for the most recent federal election; MGM Resorts CEO Jim Murren pitched a Toronto casino from it that same year; Governor General David Johnston announced his new innovation awards program there last summer.

Some of these include using artificial intelligence tools to automatically identify propaganda efforts similar to those allegedly carried out by Russia - linked groups in upcoming world elections, and boosting its security and content review team to 20,000 by the end of the year.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was offered $ 60 million by Congress from Defense Department funds last year to fight Russian election interference efforts — but after Tillerson waited for seven months trying to decide whether he wanted to spend it or not, the offer was withdrawn, and none of the money was used, according to The New York Times.

Premier Colin Barnett has softened his position on the proposed privatisation of Western Power, saying it could be used by Labor as a scare campaign in the state election next year.

He used to be former prime minister Gordon Brown's fixer in Fife, and backed Corbyn in his leadership election last year, breaking from Dugdale's opposition to the Labour leader.

The two that drew the biggest criticism last year: an unprecedented press conference in which he chastised Clinton for using a private server but ultimately cleared her of criminal wrongdoing; and a letter to Congress announcing that he was effectively reopening the case 11 days before the election.

Facebook is facing its worst privacy scandal in years following allegations that Cambridge Analytica, a Trump - affiliated data mining firm, used ill - gotten data from millions of users through an app to try to influence elections.

If Sanders, now 74, retires from politics at the end of his current Senate term two years from now, without having won the presidential election, he will be able to collect an annual pension of $ 71,340, MONEY calculated using the current Congressional pension formula.

«Part of the reasons active measures have worked in the US election is because the commander - in - chief has used Russian active measures at times against his opponents,» Watts said, pointing to Manafort and Trump's citations of fake - news stories pushed out by Russian - linked entities last year.

Earlier this year Mueller charged 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies in a plot to interfere in the 2016 presidential election through a social media propaganda effort that included online ad purchases using U.S. aliases and politicking on U.S. soil.

He's said in the past that the company is in better shape this year than it was in the 2016 U.S. presidential election when Facebook said to be used by Moscow to sow discord among Americans.

But reporting on Cambridge Analytica's use of Facebook data to influence elections for specific campaigns dates back for years — including details about how the data was being collected.

With Facebook facing a wave of public backlash over how it has handled user data over the years — a backlash that was kicked off two weeks ago with the revelation that data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica had worked on targeted election campaigns using personal and private Facebook data — the company today announced a new set of changes to help users find and change their privacy settings, as well as download and delete whatever data has been collected through Facebook's network of social media services.

The NDP ran in last year's election saying it would use «every tool in the toolbox» to stop the pipeline.

Hogg, who has been accepted to the University of California at Irvine, also said that he was «90 percent sure» that he would delay enrolling in college until fall 2019 and use the gap year to focus on this year's midterm elections.

Last year, the Ethics Commissioner found that Jim Prentice's hand - picked and unelected Minister of Education used his office for «blatant political opportunism,» awarding modular classrooms to help his election campaign - and Jim Prentice remained silent.

In their 43 years in government, it has been common for the PCs to table a provincial budget in February or March and then immediately drop the Writ of election in order to use the budget as their de-facto campaign platform.

Facebook also came under scrutiny last year after the revelation that Russians had used the site in its attempts to affect the 2016 election.

As part of that investigation, the House and Senate intelligence committees pressed Facebook, Twitter and Google last year to provide information about how Kremlin - linked individuals and companies used the U.S. platforms to try to influence the election and sow discord among Americans.

But it has been a tough year for Facebook in the U.S., and most of the company has been grappling with the fact that Facebook's service was used by Russian actors to try and sway the 2016 presidential election.

There we go again, shut up this hypocritical rightwingers.Only at election time do rear their ugly heads up to be seen and heard.It's time to unleash the CRACKKIN, the monster that the IRS people use on unruly religious groups, exemption is like a death sentence to these groups.Most of these religious leaders are wolves in sheeps clothing, selling their political poison to anyone in their flocks.They push the envelope on the seperation of church and state issue, seeing how far they can go.Pastors and ministers would never speak politics like this years ago, that was taaboo.Now people like Robertson, Graham, and the rest, flaunt their ideaology both religious and political at every event.They don't care about the legal consequences, they have LAWYERS, perishioners pay for that.

Television certainly offers the potential for social and political impact by religious broadcasters who seek to use it in that way, and yet, the example set by broadcasters in the 1980 election year left much to be desired in the eyes of many Christian leaders and adherents.

To be mikes advocate in this game and what they will use is that this happened 12 years ago, the payment came in 2016 during an election which is what they will use as a motivator for paying her.

The tax increase will cost the owner of a $ 150,000 home $ 116 a year, but officials said before the election they would use the money only to purchase the Hoffman farm.

This discussion will look at how candidates and interest groups in in the U.S. are using Facebook advertising, Twitter, Google Ads, mobile phones, location - based services and older technologies like email and blogs to raise money, mobilize support and get voters to the polls in an important election year, with an emphasis on practical results and the implications for future political campaigns around the world.

Skip ahead five years: Howard Dean uses blogs, organizes meet - ups and raises a shit - ton of money online, only to be eclipsed by John Kerry's general election web / email fundraising juggernaut.

The reason I bring it up is because I think NYPIRG may have done a report / survey of state websites around 2002ish questioning the Governor's use of state resources to promote himself during an election year.

Those of us in the online advocacy community often talk about using this tool and that tool to help mold opinions or win votes, but what I wrote after last year's mid-term election still stands: the most important effect of the Internet on politics comes from the unfathomable volume of information now available and the speed with which it can spread.

She'd have repeated the feat in May this year were it not for the complicated voting system used for Holyrood elections, which in turn allowed the Yes vote to splinter a little in favour of the Greens.

The card reader is to complement and confirm the integrity of the voter register and that is why the unusual moonlight figures of the past years are disappearing and, if those against the use of the card reader succeed through the court, that would be a major setback and total reversal of the reformative mileage we have covered as a country on election matters, a significant progress that has resulted in other African countries calling on Nigeria's INEC for assistance.

However, Senate GOP lawmakers were not concerned the minimum wage issue would be used against them in an election - year campaign, he said.

Few weeks after the security services scuttle covert moves by the NPP to use foreign «mercenaries» in the training of the party's security in weapon handling, the NPP's acting Chairman, Freddie Blay has openly threatened that the party will cause mayhem if it loses this year's election.

With the Roberts Supreme Court already apparently reconsidering past precedents with an eye toward treating corporate and union donations as free speech, a federal appeals court has now ruled on behalf of Emily's List that nonprofits can use functionally unbounded «soft money» to finance their election - year activities.

But year after year, election after election, Labour try to use it to divide us.

The Labour leader used his speech to the final autumn conference before next year's general election to outline his plan to create an NHS «time to care» fund.

After years of neglect and a winter of heating failures, NYCHA is finally getting attention from politicians, who are simultaneously promising a fix and using the crisis to blame and bludgeon their rivals in an election year.

With five chapters covering the essential online tools and tactics that state - and local - level campaigns can use to find supporters, raise money and turn out voters in next year's elections, the PDF / e-book provides a straightforward guide to leveraging both new and old online tools to win in 2010.

Russia is already meddling in the midterm elections this year, the top American intelligence officials said, warning that Moscow is using a digital strategy to worsen the country's political and social divisions.

The AP scrutinized the outcomes of all 435 U.S. House races and about 4,700 state House and Assembly seats up for election last year using a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage.

«Over the past five years, the city has provided the Board of Elections with more than $ 77 million to make the transition to the new machines, and that doesn't include the $ 85 million in federal funds used to purchase the new machines.»

Like World Cups, we got used to general elections coming round every four years, apart from 1992 - 97 and now, 2010 - 2015, under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act.

Both candidates said the county should consider a midyear budget, similar to one used by the state, that would remove election year politics from the calendar and allow the next executive to craft his or her own budget, rather than inherit their predecessor's plan.

For more than 30 years, New York City charged a reasonable, minuscule income tax — 0.45 % — on approximately 800,000 suburban workers who make daily use of our city's roads, subways, police and other services.Over the strenuous objections of then - mayor Rudy Giuliani, Silver strong - armed his own Democratic members and ended up making an alliance with Republican members to kill the tax — not for any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special election.

Senate Republicans sent the party «over $ 350,000» before that year's election, most of which was quickly used by the Independence Party to run television ads and mailers targeting Democrats.

The party is most proud of the significant victory by Yuh - Line Niou, a 33 - year - old Taiwan - born Assembly staffer who — as a WFP candidate — lost the April special election for the Lower Manhattan seat that used to belong to former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

All three will be planning to use Twitter heavily in the run up to the general election next year to connect with voters and galvanise volunteers.

But the defeat of Mandelson by Livingstone in last year's NEC election, support for Livingstone for London mayor and black members» use of OMOV to try to select black candidates for inner city parliamentary seats showed that the individual membership can not be totally controlled by the leadership.

He said moving forward as a nation, and with 25 years without any military interference, the people and the Government of Ghana must glorify the Lord and use the lessons learnt to guide the present and the future, especially during elections.

Ahead of last year's elections, state Senate Republicans boosted many of their candidates with financial support from a campaign fund that was barred under state law from being used to promote individual candidates, according to a court filing by the state Board of Elections» independent enforcemenelections, state Senate Republicans boosted many of their candidates with financial support from a campaign fund that was barred under state law from being used to promote individual candidates, according to a court filing by the state Board of Elections» independent enforcemenElections» independent enforcement office.

This offends the very regulation we are using to conduct this year's elections.»