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African Arguments
March 26, 2018
The commission has also been given additional headaches following last month's local elections in Kano State. In the aftermath of that poll, a video emerged showing young children thumb-printing ballot papers. INEC did not oversee that election, but some claimed it had been responsible for registeringÃÂ ...
Quartz
March 26, 2018
These days, having Facebook and national elections in the same sentence inspires more questions than confidence. Over the past week, as the extent of Cambridge Analytica's data harvest has become clearer, Facebook has faced severe questions over its own data policies. In his first public statementÃÂ ...
Gizmodo
March 26, 2018
Discovered by a security researcher last week, the files confirm that AggregateIQ, a British Columbia-based data firm, developed the technology Cambridge Analytica sold to clients for millions of dollars during the 2016 US presidential election. Hundreds if not thousands of pages of code, as well asÃÂ ...
africanews
March 26, 2018
... held on Monday afternoon in Freetown, the court ordered that the interim injunction refraining the electoral commission from organising the election runoff is vacated. ''The interim injunction that the 1st and 2nd defendants should be refrained from conducting the March 27 presidential elections is vacated.
CNBC
March 25, 2018
Democrats' triumph in a House special election in Pennsylvania gives them hope for big gains in November's midterm elections. But the party still faces a tough path toward winning two other House special elections set for later this year. Democrat Conor Lamb scored a narrow of win in Pennsylvania's 18thÃÂ ...
NPR
March 24, 2018
This week in the Russia investigations: Washington turns its focus to election security. Will it be enough? The Russia imbroglio is so vast that only parts of it come into focus at one time. One day: social media agitation. Next day: potential collusion. But one of the biggest, least appreciated and potentiallyÃÂ ...
The Herald
February 25, 2018
Minister of State for Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs Advocate Martin Dinha has said the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has to preserve peace and prevent conflict ahead of this year's harmonised elections. Speaking at a meeting convened by the NPRC in the provinceÃÂ ...
Telegraph.co.uk
February 25, 2018
Thousands of people around Russia have marched in the memory of slain Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov three weeks before an election that Vladimir Putin is almost sure to win. At least three demonstrators in Moscow and two in St Petersburg were detained. Several cities including Nemtsov's hometownÃÂ ...
Express.co.uk
February 25, 2018
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ABC News
February 25, 2018
In this Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018, photo, an election commission official demonstrates the voting process to journalists in Baghdad. Iraq's Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds have grown more fragmented and divided ahead of the national elections scheduled for May due to deep differences among each group that haveÃÂ ...
ABC News
February 25, 2018
State leaders of both parties worried aloud Sunday about the security of America's election systems against possible cyberattacks ahead of this fall's midterm elections, aware that Russian agents targeted more than 20 states little more a year ago, and the Trump administration has taken a mostly hands-offÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
February 24, 2018
"It is not difficult to win an election when your opponents are not actually on the ballot," says Vladimir Kara-Murza, a leading Russian opposition figure and activist, based in Washington. "Russian authorities have deliberately disenfranchised [opposition leader Alexei Navalny] with a politically motivatedÃÂ ...
Premium Times
February 24, 2018
Barring any last minute decision by the Supreme Court, Sierra Leone will hold presidential, legislative and local government elections on March 7. This will be the fourth elections since the end of the civil war in 2002 and the first since the Ebola epidemic. The incumbent, Ernest Bai Koroma, having servedÃÂ ...
The Tennessean
February 24, 2018
The May 1 local primary Metro election is headlined by Nashville Mayor Megan Barry's referendum on a $5.4 billion mass transit plan. But there are also multiple judicial races at stake as well as open elections for Davidson County public defender, register of deeds and Juvenile Court clerk, all of which areÃÂ ...
Business Insider
February 24, 2018
Congress created the agency in 2002 to assist states in complying with federal election standards. The action raises fresh questions over the degree to which President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans who control Congress are taking steps to protect the security of American elections, and some state officials haveÃÂ ...
MarketWatch
February 24, 2018
Because of Berlusconi's tendency to surprise to the upside in Italian elections, UBS says this coalition looks like the most likely outcome. However, because of the parties' widely different stances, especially on foreign affairs, this alliance may not last long, the Swiss bank points out. A government led by theÃÂ ...
Newsweek
February 24, 2018
Following the opposition's refusal to participate, Maduro on Thursday called for a “mega-election” that could wipe out the opposition-run legislature and allow him to tighten his grip on the country. The announcement spurred a flurry of protests from other politicians. The legislative elections, originallyÃÂ ...
CNBC
February 23, 2018
Italians go to the polls on March 4 in an election that could either help to rebalance the political environment or send shockwaves through the country and beyond. Voting will take place between 7 a.m. (1 a.m. ET) and 11 p.m. local time. The result is not expected to be officially counted until 2 p.m. Monday,ÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 20, 2018
Both parties are closely watching for districts that flip from Republican to Democrat, seeking signs of a rising blue wave leading up to the November midterms (there have been 36 Republican-to-Democratic flips in statehouses since Mr. Trump's election win), but the seats left open over sexual misconductÃÂ ...
NBCNews.com
February 20, 2018
But that isn't stopping them from accepting "dark money" themselves or making it difficult to determine the original underwriter of a political donation, as a recent Southern contest vividly illustrates. Alabama's special U.S. Senate election in December is a case study in the lengths national Democrats, whoÃÂ ...
ProPublica
February 20, 2018
Machine malfunctions are a regular feature of American elections. Even as worries over cybersecurity and election interference loom, many local jurisdictions depend on aging voting equipment based on frequently obsolete and sometimes insecure technology. And the counties and states that fundÃÂ ...
Vox
February 20, 2018
Scott Walker has decided to leave a number of formerly GOP-held seats vacant rather than schedule special elections his party might lose, national Republicans are pushing the panic button on an upcoming special House election in Pennsylvania, and GOP leadership is letting scandal-plagued Rep.
Green Bay Press Gazette
February 20, 2018
20 primary elections in Brown County: Green Bay City Council. District 2: Veronica Corpus-Dax. Thomas J De Wane (Inc.) Tim Lewis. District 6: (Incumbent Joe Moore is not seeking re-election). Paul Boucher. Vanya Koepke ... (Incumbent Mark Wernicke is not running for re-election.) Jeromy J. Delebreau.
ABC News
February 20, 2018
... especially at election time." The report didn't mention Russia. But for months, U.S. and Italian analysts have warned that European elections are prime targets for Russian meddling, with the Italian contest particularly ripe because two key opposition parties — the anti-immigrant, nationalist League and theÃÂ ...
The Tennessean
February 20, 2018
Tennessee's election systems are safe, despite a call from some Democrats for a multi-million paper ballot backup system, a top election official said Tuesday. "I am very confident our election systems are secure," Tennessee Elections Coordinator Mark Goins said by telephone Monday. "Elections are runÃÂ ...
BethesdaMagazine.com
February 20, 2018
The voting to fill the vacancy would occur on the same days as the primary and general elections scheduled in a presidential year—a provision intended by Moon to avoid a stand-alone special election, which critics complain are often held at a high cost to the taxpayer. If a vacancy occurred after the filingÃÂ ...
Vox
February 20, 2018
One of Trump's advisers, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, on television had accused Democrats of “cheating” in elections. “I'm sorry. Dead people generally vote for Democrats rather than Republicans,” he said. The Trump campaign in August 2016 launched a campaign to recruit “election observersÃÂ ...
ABC News
February 18, 2018
Former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff speaks during a campaign rally to launch Lula's presidential candidacy for the upcoming October elections, at the ... Renato Silva 31, a law student who traveled from Sao Paulo to celebrate Carnival, tried to keep his excitement for the election despite the recentÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
February 18, 2018
How one Trump tweet could change the course of California's 2018 elections. John Myers. By John Myers. Feb 18, 2018 | 12:05 AM. | Sacramento. How one Trump tweet could change the course of California's 2018 elections. President Trump enjoys support from 76% of California Republicans. He could help bring GOPÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 18, 2018
Scandalous stories leaked to foreign newspapers to swing an election in Nicaragua. Millions of pamphlets, posters and stickers printed to defeat an incumbent in Serbia. The long arm of Vladimir Putin? No, just a small sample of the United States' history of intervention in foreign elections. On TuesdayÃÂ ...
CNET
February 18, 2018
The world's largest social network, along with Twitter and Google, have been scrutinized in recent months by Congress after US intelligence agencies determined that the Russian government had used these platforms to disseminate false news and advertisements in an attempt to influence US elections inÃÂ ...
NBCNews.com
February 18, 2018
Elections laws, are simply not well suited to the type of behavior that is alleged here — a combination of identity theft and undisclosed money pumped into our online world to sway our ballot box decisions. One area that both Congress and the Federal Election Commission have tried and thus far failed toÃÂ ...
Gizmodo
February 18, 2018
Facebook, which landed itself in the crosshairs after becoming one of the primary venues by which federal prosecutors allege a Kremlin-linked, pro-Donald Trump Russian operation called the Internet Research Agency tried to flood the US with disinformation and propaganda before the 2016 elections,ÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 18, 2018
“The elections in Brazil are a priority for us, and we have been taking a series of steps to make sure our platform gives people a voice, encourages civic engagement and helps strengthen democracy,” a press officer for Facebook said in an emailed statement. “We have made several product improvementsÃÂ ...
The Guardian
February 18, 2018
Donald Trump's national security adviser, HR McMaster, said on Saturday that Russian meddling in the 2016 election is “incontrovertible” and “beyond .... testifying before a Senate panel, warned that Russia is continuing to disrupt the US political system, targeting the upcoming 2018 midterm elections.
The Intercept
February 18, 2018
America's paper ballot states may seem antiquated to some, but our neighbors to the north have used paper ballots for federal elections for their entire history. Thanks to an army of officials at 25,000 election stations, the integrity of Canada's elections is never in doubt. “It's highly decentralized and it'sÃÂ ...
ABC News
February 15, 2018
FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2018 file photo, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez waves as he arrives with his wife Ana Garcia to be sworn in for a second term, at the National Stadium in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. In Febrary 2018, Hernandez called for an investigation by the U.N. into whether the powerfulÃÂ ...
Suwannee Democrat
February 15, 2018
White Springs holds an election every year and this year's election day is April 24 with three seats open. Those positions are currently held by Walter McKenzie, Spencer Lofton and Willie Jefferson. Qualifying to run starts Tuesday and runs until March 20.
The Intercept
February 15, 2018
And he's unsure the Federal Election Commission “disclosure rules and IRS investigations can deal with the issue of foreign money in U.S. election.” The significance of Wanhua contributing dark money to the ACC can be seen in a 2016 Intercept series on foreign influence on U.S. elections. The InterceptÃÂ ...
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
February 15, 2018
"The at-large method of election violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act because it denies Texas's Latino voters an equal opportunity to participate in the political process and elect judges of their choice." For more than a century, judges have been elected to these two courts in statewide elections, butÃÂ ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
February 15, 2018
ALBANY - New York is expected to move the date of its state primary elections this year. A bill passed both the Senate and Assembly this month that would push the date of the primary election for state offices from Tuesday, Sept. 11, to Thursday, Sep. 13. This year, the last day of Rosh Hashanah falls onÃÂ ...
Roll Call
February 15, 2018
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says her interest in gun violence prevention is so great that she prioritizes legislative action on it over one of her top goals — taking back control of the House in the 2018 midterm elections. “I would rather pass gun safety legislation than win the election,” the CaliforniaÃÂ ...
The Hill
February 15, 2018
Top U.S. intelligence agencies will host a briefing for election officials from all 50 states starting Friday on possible election threats from foreign adversaries, amid warnings from officials this week that Russia aims to interfere in the 2018 midterm elections. The classified briefing on Friday and Sunday, hostedÃÂ ...
CNN
February 15, 2018
Russia has called the threat of US sanctions a "direct and obvious attempt" to interfere in its March 18 presidential election. "We do think that this is a direct and obvious attempt to time some sort of action to coincide with our elections in order to influence them," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov toldÃÂ ...
Council on Foreign Relations
February 14, 2018
Italy's elections will shape the country's response to economic stagnation, migration woes, and European integration, with repercussions across the .... Renzi remains the party leader, but some observers say that in the case of an inconclusive election, Gentiloni could be reappointed as a compromiseÃÂ ...
The Diplomat
February 13, 2018
In Punjab's last three major by-elections, a far-right religious group, whose election campaigns have only incited violence against progressive and liberal voices in the country, has emerged as the third largest party in terms of votes. Arguably, in the next general election, the developing contest appears toÃÂ ...
eNCA
February 13, 2018
The threat came a day after the United States, France, Britain and four other UN Security Council members called on Kabila to publicly declare that he will not run for election this year. Washington separately asked Kinshasa to scrap plans to use electronic voting for the first time in elections this year, sayingÃÂ ...
The Intercept
February 13, 2018
Dominion Energy, the utility monopoly in Virginia, suffered a rare loss on the floor of the state House of Delegates late Monday night, when their ability to double-charge ratepayers for infrastructure improvements was stripped out of a controversial bill. The bill, which sailed through the Senate and isÃÂ ...
The Guardian
February 13, 2018
Fourteen international and Egyptian rights groups, including Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists, condemned the forthcoming March presidential elections, accusing the Sisi government of having “trampled over even the minimum requirements for free and fair elections” in hisÃÂ ...
ABC News
February 13, 2018
FILE- In this Oct. 14, 2016, file photo, a technician works to prepare voting machines to be used in the upcoming presidential election, in Philadelphia. Since last July, a bipartisan team at Harvard, including former U.S. Marine and Army cyberwarriors, national security eggheads and Google engineers, hasÃÂ ...
