Experts have warned for years that state and local election equipment and security practices were dangerously out of date, but state and local election agencies short of cash have often lagged in updating their systems.
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Yet in the local election Lincolnshire swung over to the Tories.
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Kem Monovithya (right) at a local election campaign event in 2014.
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Warner's also held multiple briefings for local election officials on security.
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In Nairobi, water prices are rising due to a local election.
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Officials also said that Russia targeted state and local election systems.
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The state sends proof of registration electronically to local election officials.
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Some local election officials turn to eBay to find spare parts.
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Although small in scope, local election rules can have a significant impact.
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Between the lines: Erdogan made the comments at a local election campaign.
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State and local election officials use these management systems to administer elections.
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One local election that year was even overturned because of widespread corruption.
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Those local election administrators may represent a prime vulnerability for foreign actors.
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What makes you think this will always be a local election issue?
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Local election officials do want at least the preliminary results out there.
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British politicians will be preoccupied by the May 210 local election next week.
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There will be an election within 50 days under Japanese local election rules.
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It offered the company's top-tier products to local election officials for free.
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By delaying this election, our local election officials can assist in that effort.
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But a local election in Tokyo has put Mr. Abe's longevity in doubt.
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The announcement drew criticism as a political gambit to win a local election.
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North Carolina also has a local election board for each of its 100 counties.
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The focus has not yet been on local election laws, but it should be.
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If you have any questions, check in with your state or local election office.
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An alliance of Corsica's two main nationalist parties swept a local election on Dec.
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In a typical local election, fewer than one in five citizens bother to vote.
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Local election results are seen as a harbinger for the presidential election in 2020.
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But not all of the local election officials were on board with the change.
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Residents can still register to vote through Election Day at a local election office.
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You can get it from a local election office or from a political organization.
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Their progressive candidate won the local election, although Mr. Trump carried the same district.
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The move proved controversial and was opposed by many state and local election officials.
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Moscow's effort included targeting state and local election systems not involved in vote tallying.
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One follower won 27 percent of the vote in a local election in Seattle.
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"Citizen Jessica" also finds a pathetic sort of comedy in the fact that Jessica's attempts to push a more favorable tax proposal through a local election is surprisingly easy, thanks to the fact that no one bothers to vote in the local election.
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In Germany, a local election over the weekend added further pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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The problem, of course, is that many local election offices aren't run by security experts.
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Local election results, Dempsey said, don't normally create a pattern for regional or federal elections.
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Local election registration offices will accept such applications up to 11 days before the referendum.
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The Harvard campaign is also working to help local election officials improve their cyber security.
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The appeal also came hours before local election officials in Florida hit a 3 p.m.
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Any qualifying voter can request and cast a mail ballot at their local election office.
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"The election today is as historic as the local election in 1994," Mr. Cakir said.
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Here are 21960 stories from our local election coverage to get you up to speed.
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Jahiruddin, though uneducated, was an adept politician, fresh from winning a hard-fought local election.
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Instead, this local election offers a "master class" in how to win over independent voters.
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Local election officials rejected it because it did not perfectly match his registration information on file.
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On Monday, a judge ordered local election officials to save digital images of ballots, AL.com reports.
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They were directed to a wide range of potential victims who worked for local election offices.
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Romania holds a local election in June and parliamentary polls are expected in November or December.
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The local election results come on top of a month's bad news for the Labour leadership.
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Lankford attributed the delay to concerns from state and local election officials over the bill's language.
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The company mentioned the local election in its statement, without making any further comment on it.
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Mr. Lux said local election officials felt they had received little help from the federal government.
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You should also contact your local election office to make sure your ballot request was received.
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This must be an enduring collaboration that transcends local election cycles and is strengthened over time.
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According to the U.S. intelligence community, Moscow's efforts also included targeting state and local election systems.
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Our commission was successful because its membership drew from the business community and local election officials.
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Our commission was successful because its membership drew from the business community and local election officials.
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Valeyev, the Bashkortostan election commission head, denied any wrongdoing by local election officials in his region.
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You can't possibly compete with local election officials who are determined to push down African American turnout.
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The monitors being deployed this year can't enter polling places without the authorization from local election officials.
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In the vast majority of the thousands of jurisdictions, local election officials have relationships with their constituents.
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"I do not believe there is a correlation between the local election and the referendum," Renzi said.
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Still, the state-mandated deadlines are likely to leave local election officials scrambling to finish up recounts.
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Federal officials have also stepped up information sharing on cyber threats with state and local election officials.
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Most local election officials, who actually run the elections in their localities, are also partisan and elected.
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These efforts are state-led and should continue to be run by state and local election boards.
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His campaign message in March that the local election was a matter of "national survival" largely failed.
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After a rigged local election in 1987, Kashmiris began a secessionist armed uprising with support from Pakistan.
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Indirectly, at least, Brexit appeared to have played a role in shaping the local election results. Mrs.
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Contact your local election office if you don't get a confirmation that your ballot has been received.
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But the swing from pro-Beijing to pro-democracy candidates in this local election upends that narrative.
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Merkel is the personification of the Union's values; she was just bolstered by a local election victory.
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When local elections are not held on the first Tuesday of November with other statewide and national contests, local voters need to learn the date of their local election, find their local election polling place and make a specific trip to the polls just to vote on local contests.
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State officials missed that, but it took local election officials just a few days to identify the mistake.
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The numbers, if we look at a place like San Francisco in a local election, it's much lower.
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As part of Minsk-2, Moscow demands that Ukraine hold a local election in the rebel-held territories.
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A liberal pro-EU candidate toppled Brexit-backing parliamentarian Zac Goldsmith in a local election on Dec. 1.
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Orban could yet lose (Fidesz suffered a surprising local election defeat recently), but that is a long shot.
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Hall recently authored a study that revealed how impactful one single vote can be in a local election.
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Better two-way communication between federal law enforcement and the intelligence community, and state and local election officials.
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In nearly two decades he and his AKP have not lost a local election in Ankara or Istanbul.
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But unlike the specially trained election observers, monitors are not allowed inside unless local election officials invite them.
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His party had already lost a local election in New Delhi last year to a new anticorruption party.
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Attendees' information is collected and shared with local election authorities, which in-turn adds them to voter rolls.
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Rome, The Ecologist party meets Economy Minister and PD candidate in Rome local election Roberto Gualtieri (1200 GMT).
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Local election registrars are really in control of the rolls and have the final say on most purges.
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State and local election officials have repeatedly urged Congress to give them more money to continue their efforts.
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Secretaries of state and state and local election administrators have been scrutinized for hardware, software, and vendor choices.
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Usually, he says, local election campaigns in Poland are short, but Trzaskowski is steeling himself for a grueling race.
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The next ballot box test for PiS will occur this year, with a local election scheduled for the autumn.
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The Balkan country's European Parliament vote will be held in May, while local election will take place in October.
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Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, has proposed legislation to provide $325 million in grants to state and local election systems.
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Turnout was 90 percent in the 2017 local election and 69.61 percent in the previous general election in 2013.
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Earlier this month, 33 states and 11 county or local election agencies had requested the help offered by DHS.
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Local election officials were asked to launch a review for potential removal of those individuals from the voter roll.
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"Just to be clear, nobody's talking about a federal takeover of local election systems or the federal rules," Sen.
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The EAC certifies voting systems and helps state and local election officials make sure elections are accurate and secure.
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Germany elections The party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel got a boost during a local election over the weekend.
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Our relationships with state and local election officials are the best guides to help us effectively fulfill that promise.
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The commission has also used its power to remove local election officials and police chiefs, appointing its own replacements.
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You could imagine it doing duty for civic events, such as a town hall forum or a local election.
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The detentions came around a protest to demand that opposition members be allowed to run in a local election.
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Some might use this data as proof that local election administrators are intent on suppressing turnout in some areas.
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Spokespeople for Detzner and Governor Rick Scott, both Republicans, said the state will advise local election supervisors to comply.
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Turnout for off-year, municipal elections is typically very low, so your vote matters more in a local election.
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Early voting figures are gathered from state and local election authorities, who keep a record of who has voted.
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J.B. Pritzker has said that the election can be conducted safely, and local election boards have backed him up.
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But it's important to point out that elections in the US are administered by state and local election bodies.
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The Department of Homeland Security is working with state and local election officials to protect electoral systems from cyberattacks.
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Or you can crunch numbers, incorporate more hopeful local election results, and envision a blue wave on the horizon.
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That effort is now overseen by a council of 24 state and local election officials and three federal liaisons.
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It is imperative that our nation's intelligence agencies work with state and local election officials to share threat information.
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Various state and local election officials from across the country will also participate in the daylong summit next week.
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In 2010, he had performed respectably in another local election, but this time he finished seventeenth out of nineteen.
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Various state and local election officials from across the country will also participate in the daylong summit in Washington.
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But lawmakers on Capitol Hill have increasingly raised alarm about Russia's efforts to target state and local election systems.
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The lawmaker renounced his New Zealand citizenship in August, and will now contest a local election on December 2.
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On Election Day, DHS and the EI-ISAC will be running a centralized information sharing platform to support state and local election officials The recent appropriation of $380 million in remaining Help America Vote Act funds will help us to enhance our security, update our systems and train our local election officials.
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Beyond Nebraska, Oklahoma and California, local election results refute the idea that Americans are rediscovering their enthusiasm for capital punishment.
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Disclosure requirements vary by state and locality, but your state or local election authority is a good place to start.
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In April, Centrify offered a free eight months' worth of its identity management software to state and local election boards.
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YESTERDAY Theo Bertram, an adviser in Downing Street under New Labour, blogged on the art of spinning local-election results.
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Maimane told Reuters the local election results and Zuma's unpopularity will give the DA the edge in two years time.
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Yates argued that the U.S. needed to harden local election systems and better aid citizens in weeding out fake news.
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However, the designation remains in place and thus state and local election officials have worked to ensure it is effective.
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Ms. Brown said she had called local election officials, who came to the polling place to set the judge straight.
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Once that has happened, local election supervisors have "fairly broad authority for how to handle emergency situations," Mr. Lux said.
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Check with your state or local election office to figure out if you need identification and, if so, what kind.
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Jeff Colyer, said that some local election officials had been provided incorrect information by Mr. Kobach that could suppress votes.
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"We mirrored the national, state and local election process as closely as we could," Kathleen Grigsby, the school's principal, said.
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Saturday's gunman, Luca Traini, stood for the League in a local election last year, but did not receive any votes.
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A tiny fraction, roughly 80, were ultimately deemed ineligible but not before the list was shared with local election authorities.
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But he said the federal government still faces a challenge in gaining the cooperation of state and local election officials.
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In 2015, the last local election, turnout to vote in a new mayor and town council members was 16 percent.
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And the Philadelphia Board of Commissioners says that a 2009 strike lasting through a local election didn't really hurt turnout.
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Two reasons for reassurance: State and local election officials — not the political parties, as in Iowa — will be running this primary.
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The Justice Department recently sent a letter of inquiry to a local election official after lawmakers and activists alleged voter suppression.
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You can check with your local election officials or try this great search-by-state resource from the US Vote Foundation.
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Prior to this week, officials had said little publicly about the extent of Russia's targeting of state and local election systems.
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I urge my federal colleagues to answer the call to improve the way we work with state and local election administrators.
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Looking ahead, the EAC plans to continue serving as an intermediary between state and local election officials and federal government agencies.
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Florida law gives local election officials until the Saturday after an election to submit their first round of unofficial election results.
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The ruling African National Congress (ANC) suffered its worst-ever local election results in August, widening divisions in the ruling party.
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The Tories lost three seats in a May local election in Elmbridge, in Surrey, including one to Liberal Democrat Ashley Tilling.
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A second operation involved computer intrusion by Russian military intelligence of several Democratic-related targets and state and local election boards.
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State and local election officials should not be forced to face these challenges alone, and thanks to the EAC they won't.
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Congress has invested more than $800 million in new funding for state and local election systems over the past two years.
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To date, lawmakers have delivered more than $1 billion for state and local election officials to use as they see fit.
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Meanwhile, Nelson's campaign and the Democratic Executive Committee filed a lawsuit against Detzner, challenging how local election officials evaluate provisional ballots.
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The F.B.I. has long only informed local election officials who run voting systems of breaches and expected them to keep quiet.
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"The Department of Homeland Security stands ready to assist state and local election officials in protecting their systems," the statement read.
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He served as the face of AKP's local election campaigns this year, holding rallies across Turkey in support of the party.
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If the challenge cannot be immediately resolved on site (for example, by verifying that the voter appears on the local election roll), the local election board is then supposed to have the challenged voter cast a "provisional," rather than "regular" ballot — which is usually supposed to be counted once the voter's right to vote is confirmed.
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Efforts to prevent a repeat of 2016 Since 2016, some federal agencies have increased their outreach to state and local election officials.
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Thanks to this administration's leadership, all 13 states and more than 1,400 local election jurisdictions focused on election security like never before.
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The rand was boosted earlier this month following the ANC's lackluster local election result, which revealed a strengthening opposition to Zuma's leadership.
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If you're a Google Now user, the company will now also remind you that it's time to vote in your local election.
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Jackie Burbridge, a co-founder of an Indivisible group in Mr. King's district, called last week's local election results disappointing and surprising.
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" Revell also stressed that "state and local election officials have taken significant steps to ensure the security and integrity of our elections.
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By royal decree, Saudi Arabia granted women the right to participate in a local election (by both voting and running for office).
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DHS offers voluntary cybersecurity help to states, local election boards and private vendors looking to shore up election websites and voter databases.
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You have a few options: Call a state or local election hotline to report any problems you're having with the voting process.
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Morawiecki said there was no need to postpone for the moment, citing a local election that took place in France on Sunday.
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Cover image: Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini (C) attends a local election rally in Cinisello Balsamo, near Milan, Italy, 17 June 2018.
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Citizens who care about our democracy can take a stand, organize, and push for meaningful reforms to state and local election processes.
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"We're trying to provide as much information not only to state and local election officials, but to the voters themselves," Wolf said.
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State and local election officials will have access to this room to share information in real time and communicate any potential issues.
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I didn't vote in every local election, but I am proud of (Schultz's wife) Sheri's and my civic record in this community.
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Erdogan's ruling party suffered some stunning local election losses this year in part due to impatience among Turks over the Syrian refugees.
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We need to take these lessons back to DC, to state capitals, and to local election boards around the country to invoke change.
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If you can't figure any of this out, because you're like me — BAD at websites, especially UGLY ones — CALL YOUR LOCAL ELECTION OFFICE!
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The total, which has been steadily rising in recent weeks, has reached 33 state and 11 county or local election agencies, DHS said.
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At the time, then-Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson acknowledged that the move was unpopular among many state and local election officials.
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Jack Cera (D) introduced the bill this week, arguing that changing the primary date would help alleviate financial pressure on local election officials.
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But when the laws are broad, vague and unpredictable, they place entirely too much unaccountable discretion in the hands of local election officials.
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The only democratic exercise in recent years, a local election in May, had a turnout of 53%, down from 70% a decade earlier.
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In Clay County, Ky., eight local election officials were convicted in 2010 of fooling voters who used "iVotronic" election machines, which resemble A.T.M.s.
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He offered to deliver petitions for a candidate opposing him in a local election, then threw them out so that he could win.
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With all 50 states and nearly 1,000 local election offices as members, it serves as the hub of information sharing for election officials.
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In places like Pittsburgh, notices from local election officials to an alien are so commonplace, they are fill-in-the-name form letters.
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In some districts like Florida 25, the 2016 presidential result was a terrible baseline, and state and local election results were more predictive.
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That's put a huge strain on local election officials, which heavily depend on volunteers, many of them aging retirees, to run smooth elections.
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A big part of the solution is for all state, county and local election officials to inculcate a culture of privacy and security.
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They have already done so in three major metropolitan areas where the A.N.C. failed to get a majority in the last local election.
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The open-source voting-machine software gets its first real-world test today, when it's used in a local election in Fulton, Wisconsin.
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In its first use, total number of donors—which included a staggering number of first time local election donors—greatly exceeded previous elections.
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Among its growing portfolio of responsibilities, NPPD is providing voluntary aid to state and local election officials to guard their systems from cyberattacks.
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In her story on American election security, ProPublica's Kate Rabinowitz revealed that many state and local election officials are suffering a funding crisis.
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But there's also reason for worry: This is a presidential election, and many more voters are coming out than in a local election.
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Erdogan served as the face of AKP's local election campaigns this year, and the elections were widely seen as a referendum on his government.
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It consists of local election officials recalculating election results to determine if there's a difference in the number of votes that each candidate received.
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This year she is trying for the first time to register as a candidate, aiming to improve public awareness of the local-election system.
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Washington (CNN)More states and local election boards have asked the Department of Homeland Security to help with cybersecurity, the department announced Monday night.
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The only proven fraud that exists, infrequent as it is, entails absentee balloting or paying off poll workers, typically to sway a local election.
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MHP leader Devlet Bahceli said his party would not seek an alliance in the 2019 local election, weakening the lira more than 3 percent.
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"The fact that registration activity is particularly high during this period is well-known to state and local election officials," according to the lawsuit.
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The opposition also complains that a state and local election should have been held months ago and that the government is dragging its feet.
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Elections are run, after all, not by the federal government, but by state and local officials spread across more than 1,300 local election jurisdictions.
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Some state and local election officials have expressed strong opposition to applying the designation in the past, arguing that it is a federal overreach.
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"We believe in the good that government can do – locally and nationally," May said at the launch of her Conservative Party's local election campaign.
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As we noted in an earlier piece, any voter can contact their local election offices and officials to inquire about accessibility at polling places.
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" From USPS "we have no information to suggest any ballots were not properly handled and provided to local election officials, per our established process.
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India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has seen its majority squeezed in a local election in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat.
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On Tuesday, according to Democracy Works, more than 40% of the US population has an opportunity to vote in a state or local election.
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The former governor said the Democrats' local election wins will help hone a message that extends beyond the traditional party strongholds in coastal cities.
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Significantly more money is needed, along with incentives for state and local election agencies to identify weak spots, erect firewalls and pursue other precautions.
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Experts from the policy and technology community should work together to consider these and other options to support our state and local election officials.
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" In an August email, Woodhouse told Republican appointees to local election boards that "Republicans can and should make party line changes to early voting.
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Days after the list was announced, local election officials said that many of the people on it were known to be United States citizens.
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They also appear to have tried to take over the computers of more than 100 local election officials in the days before the Nov.
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These political and journalistic no-nos are yes-yeses to the women of The Bold Type, especially in Season 3's local election storyline.
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The DHS is also responsible for sharing threat information with owners and operators of critical infrastructure, which now include state and local election officials.
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The embarrassment was further emphasized by the fact Sunday's local election is the home of Janos Lazar — a close ally of the Hungarian premier.
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The technology was piloted for the first time Tuesday in a local election in Wisconsin — there weren't any glitches, but some voters are wary.
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Undeclared voters can choose either ballot in a primary and switch their party back to undeclared with their local election officials after they've voted.
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"His rallies bring out not just the conservative, deep-red voter who votes in every local election and every school board election," Stepien said.
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The US support comes just days after the pro-democracy movement won 17 of the 18 district councils in a local election on Sunday.
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"I realized then we had a serious problem," Gasaway told CNN, claiming that mistakes by local election administrators could have cost him the race.
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"Our goal is to build an information sharing organization that includes political parties, campaigns, state and local election officials, and tech companies," Stamos told Gizmodo.
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A reconvass consists of local election officials recalculating election results to determine if there's a difference in the number of votes that each candidate received.
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This is particularly pertinent considering the ANC's disappointing local election result in early August, which is contributing to its loss of power in major cities.
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It also allows for a lot of outside parties to verify the process, including representatives from both parties and Homeland Security alongside local election officials.
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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May and her ruling Conservative government appeared on course for a sweeping victory on June 8, early local election results suggested.
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Initially, the department's relationships with state and local election officials were fraught with tension, many fearing that the critical infrastructure designation forecast a federal takeover.
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Meanwhile, local election directors such as Cook County, Illinois' Noah Praetz, have taken it upon themselves to develop election cybersecurity plans, despite no federal backing.
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Because data is collected through local election boards, the project's 85033 numbers are limited, providing only a narrow picture of the nation's early-voting numbers.
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Manfra said the department knew it had to work closer with state and local election boards to figure out their needs following the 2016 election.
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Once they answered a few questions about their potential eligibility as a voter, TurboVote directed them to state and local election boards to officially register.
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It's as if America's most ancient civilian office, the local election clerk, has become saddled with new and alien responsibilities tantamount to a military contractor.
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One thing that needs to be included in the final deal is full funding for early voting, without shifting the cost to local election boards.
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The possibility of Australia moving its embassy first emerged during a high-profile political campaign for a pivotal seat in a local election in October.
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The three largest vendors of voting equipment dominate the industry, and both the companies and their subcontractors that serve local election agencies are largely unregulated.
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Mr. Abe has also recently been dogged by influence-peddling scandals, and his party suffered a resounding defeat in a recent local election in Tokyo.
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Ukraine's government this week agreed to a snap local election in its eastern region, which is controlled by separatist factions, according to The Associated Press.
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Texas prosecutors won prison sentences for four men who moved into a hotel in 2010 to claim residency so they could sway a local election.
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These state and local election results get less attention than Mr. Trump and Mr. Sessions, but they may have a bigger impact on incarceration rates.
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It can then take at least an additional week for state and local election officials to mitigate any vulnerabilities on systems that we may find.
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Krebs also applauded the funding, but noted that "consistency" in funding from the federal government would be most helpful for state and local election officials.
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State and local election officials spread across the country will also be connected to the nerve center, reporting their experiences and any suspicious cyber incidents.
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Illinois Early voting begins on September 29 at the local election authority or a temporary location and moves to permanent polling stations on October 24.
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Two days later, The Intercept published leaked documents that detailed Russian attempts to hack the systems of 100 local election officials and a voting software supplier.
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A local election official also confirmed to NBC News on Wednesday and again on Thursday morning that Tiffany Trump was still registered to vote in Philadelphia.
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If you don't fall into either of the two categories listed above, you will need to apply for an absentee ballot through your local election office.
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The bottom line, if you have any questions about where and how to vote you should not hesitate to reach out to your local election office.
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The market window remains positive after the Italian government passed a local election test in the northern region of Emilia Romagna at the end of January.
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Before a local election in October, some social-media users celebrated as the price of Rafaello sweets was said to have surpassed 50 zloty in Warsaw.
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Instead, he suggested finding a way for voters whose ballots had been rejected because of signature mismatches to address the problem through their local election officials.
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The central bank restarted one-week repo auctions for the first time since it put a pre-local election squeeze on money markets on March 22.
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It is indeed working to expand upon the relationships with state and local election officials and voting machine vendors that emerged from the 2018 midterm elections.
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Sneed told Insider that there is currently early voting for a local election in Charlotte, but projections show that voter turnout is expected to be low.
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" Lucas added that "the federal government can and should also work closely with state and local election officials to deal with foreign and domestic cyber threats.
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Local election chiefs in Kirkuk, Anbar and Salahuddin, Judge Laith Jabr Hamza as well as officials overseas election offices in Turkey and Jordan were all dismissed.
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But the pressure on her increased after disastrous local election results this month, when the Conservatives lost more than 1,300 seats in municipalities around the country.
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National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis said U.S. officials were told Erdogan cited local election season and a speech to parliament for not meeting with Bolton.
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The A.N.C. won only 40 percent of the votes in the district that includes Chantelle — down from 69 percent in the previous local election in 803.
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A good place to start is with state and local election offices, which often provide voter guides — with varying degrees of detail — online or by mail.
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In Arkodia, a village in the northern region of Timbuktu, a local election official was shot to death by extremists during the voting, local officials said.
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FULTON, Wisconsin (CNN Business)When voters in Fulton, Wisconsin, arrived to cast their ballots in a local election Tuesday, the voting process looked a little different.
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To many, the failed local election in February was an ominous portent of what could happen when they head out to vote for their next president.
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A schoolteacher, who was among the first group of signatories of Charter 08, has organized village election monitoring and become an expert on local election laws.
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After a currency crisis, a recession and shock local election losses, invading Syria is bringing him closer to returning at least one million Syrian refugees home.
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A Virginia woman who was fired after flipping off President Trump's motorcade in 2017 turned her political frustrations into action, winning a local election on Tuesday.
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By effectively transforming the local election into a referendum on the country's ruling party, Rajapaksa has positioned himself as the figurehead of growing anti-government movement.
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The Department of State said local election supervisors face obstacles that included damaged polling sites, extended phone service disruptions and large numbers of residents without power.
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State and local election officials need to overcome partisanship and resistance in areas where they can cooperate, and we need to support organizations that foster that.
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Britain's disputed territory of Gibraltar is the biggest sticking point, with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez digging his heels in before a local election in Andalusia.
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The state says it removes names from registration only after local election boards send notices, and if there is no voting activity for the next four years.
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The ANC faced a steep decline in support in the last local election in South Africa in 2016, when it lost some key cities to opposition parties.
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New Hampshire still has some targets that are particularly vulnerable to hacking — the array of websites that local election offices use to report their own unofficial results.
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In Pennsylvania, for example, poll watchers must be formally certified by the local election board and must be registered voters in the county where they are working.
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You can register to vote in person at your state or local election office, at an armed services recruitment center or your local Department of Motor Vehicles.
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The Department of Homeland Security says at least 36 states and 11 local election officials have responded to their offer to help with vulnerability scanning, as well.
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In North Carolina, another battleground state, the Johnson County school board opted to close schools after local election officials warned that turnout would be higher than ever.
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In 1876, in advance of a local election, Republicans in Brooklyn held a barbecue for the locals that involved roasting two oxen for sandwiches for 50,000 people.
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Along with this news, Facebook also announced it's launching local election reminders for the first time, to encourage users to vote in state, county, and municipal elections.
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Tsai announced her intention to run in February this year, after bruising local election losses in 2018 saw her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) hemorrhaging votes island-wide.
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On Monday, The Intercept published a report from classified documents claiming that Russian intelligence hacked hundreds of local election officials just days before the November 2016 election.
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In the run-up to a local election, she goes to a village in the mountains, and her son watches as she tries to work the crowd.
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Turkey's lira weakened against the dollar but was off a low of 6.02, which it reached amid concern over legal challenges to local election results in Istanbul.
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Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, speaking alongside Krebs, encouraged voters in the Nashville area to make sure they get information directly from their local election officials.
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In some places, the discrepancies between the official count and the Reuters tally were small, with local election officials putting it down to the margin of error.
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It's left some Wisconsin voters to decide between exercising their constitutional right to vote and their safety and local election officials searching for poll workers and supplies.
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State and local election officials may provide sample ballots ahead of time so voters know what to expect and poll workers may be able to help, too.
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They can either mail in their ballots, postmarked no later than election day, or drop ballots off in person at their local election office by 8 p.m.
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Your local election office may send you a voter information guide, or you can consult the website for your state's office of elections or secretary of state.
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The May report said hackers sent phishing emails to 122 local election officials just before the November 2016 election in an attempt to break into their systems.
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Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won eight seats, five more than it secured in the last local election in 2015, according to the Election Commission of India.
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Two Republican Party officials then sent emails to local election officials urging them to put in place the court's ruling in ways that would suppress Democratic turnout.
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Were Mr. de Blasio more popular, this might have been one of the rare occasions in which a local election involving an incumbent produced a vibrant turnout.
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Winning over voters' trustElectionGuard underwent its first real-life test Tuesday in Fulton, Wis, where nearly 400 people cast ballots in the 3,200-person town's local election.
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Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowobi In 2010, Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowobi was working as a volunteer in a local election when she says she was asked to register underage voters.
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Concern over voting machine vulnerabilities has grown as a result of Russia's meddling in the U.S. presidential election, which involved targeting state and local election-related systems.
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" Davis added that "forcing states to adopt this as a federal mandate could cause many unforeseen issues for state and local election officials in the implementation process.
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Arizona also found malware on a local election official's computer, but officials say they shut down the state's voter registration database before hackers made their way in.
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Two of his lieutenants were eventually convicted of various illegal activities, including orchestrating a salmonella attack on an Oregon town in order to influence a local election.
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The announcement of the January advisory, which included lists of suspected noncitizen voters sent to local election officials, added kindling to a partisan firestorm over voter fraud.
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Warner on Tuesday sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly asking the agency to disclose more information about hacking attempts on state and local election systems.
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In the past, information sharing between federal and state officials has been hampered by slow processes for obtaining the proper security clearances for state and local election workers.
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If the signatures on the ballots don't match the ones on file, they said, local election canvassing boards toss out the ballots and state officials don't consider them.
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Witness the thugs who were recently deployed outside the home of a Beijing citizen who dared to try to stand in a local election without the party's permission.
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During a local election in Belgium in 2003, a single scrambled bit of information, almost certainly caused by an errant particle, added 4,096 votes to one candidate's tally.
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The deadline to register has passed in most states, but some states still allow you to register with a local election office on the day of the election.
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Highlights: The committee found that the Russian government, beginning in at least 2014 and continuing through at least 2017, directed "extensive activity" targeting state and local election infrastructure.
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Hackers of state and local election databases had "at least one successful attempt to alter voter information" in the 2016 election cycle, current and former officials told TIME.
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On Monday, The Intercept published a report from classified documents claiming that Russian intelligence hacked hundreds of local election officials just days before the November 2016 presidential election.
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Over the last six months, an increasing number of security companies have begun offering their services for free or at a discount to state and local election authorities.
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Instead, local election officials will sort through so-called overvotes and undervotes – ballots on which voters marked either more or fewer than the maximum number of selections allowed.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Nurul Izzah Anwar, an opposition member of the Malaysian Parliament, flew to the island of Borneo on Monday to participate in a local election campaign.
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Both hires need security clearances that enable them to be optimal resources for their federal partners, such as DHS, their EAC colleagues and state and local election officials.
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The Day of Remembrance, once known as the "Day of Hatred", is usually held on May 20 but was brought forward this year due to local election campaigning.
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They said that they did not have specific evidence of such a plan, but state and local election authorities had been warned to be vigilant for hacking attempts.
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In addition, nonpartisan local-election primaries, in which all voters can choose any candidate without regard for party, are being pushed by a citizens movement in South Dakota.
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Instead, local election officials will sort through so-called overvotes and undervotes — ballots on which voters marked either more or fewer than the maximum number of selections allowed.
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But the White House has provided no evidence to back up his assertion, and state and local election officials and experts from both parties have rejected Trump's claim.
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Winner is accused of leaking an NSA report, published by The Intercept on Monday, that detailed Russian attempts to hack a voting software vendor and local election officials.
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On Monday, the North Carolina N.A.A.C.P. filed a federal lawsuit to try to stop state and local election boards from canceling the registrations of thousands of black voters.
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If Mr. Trump had lost the Electoral College while winning the popular vote, an army of Republican lawyers would have descended on the courts and local election officials.
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But if "social distancing" to "flatten the curve" of potential infections is required through November, state and local election officials must consider new strategies to administer the election.
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Concerns over the virus have had an impact on local election officials, who are preparing for the possibility of absent poll workers, creating long lines at voting locations.
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These devices have surged in popularity in recent years, as local election officials scramble to replace their old paperless machines without eliminating the convenience of a touchscreen interface.
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The leaked report accused Russian military hackers of cyberattacks against an American company that sells voter registration-related software and local election officials before last year's presidential election.
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Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security has been offering consultations and resources to local election officials and pushing a slew of defensive technologies and procurements they can adopt.
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The smallest of the challenges, involving about 140 voters in Beaufort County, was brought by a Republican who lost a local election and by three of his associates.
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"It is unlawful for foreign nationals to be spending money in connection with any federal, state or local election, directly or indirectly," Weintraub said in a phone interview.
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State and local election officials have repeatedly begged Congress to give them more funding to address election security concerns, particularly in the lead-up to the 2020 elections.
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Got Your 85033 recently released our Veterans Civic Health Index, which shows that veterans 15 percent higher voting rates in local election compared to their non-veteran counterparts.
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The report detailed Russia's efforts to hack into U.S. voting software suppliers and target local election officials just days before the 2016 presidential election, according to The Intercept.
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Provide feedback: After your voting experience—whether it was positive or negative—make sure to follow up with your local election officials to provide them with your feedback.
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In my own town [of Greenwich, Connecticut], we had a local election in November for city council, and many women who had never run before decided to run.
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That campaign includes targeting a supplier of US voting software, as well as sending spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before Election Day.
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But local election officials generally put polls where they are needed most, in packed places like universities and apartment complexes or locations like nursing homes where access is difficult.
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From the EAC's perspective, we look forward to taking steps that can help serve the sometimes competing needs of the national security community and state and local election officials.
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Erdogan, who suffered stinging local election setbacks this year thanks in part to his handling of the economy, has repeated contrary to monetary theory that tight policy sparks inflation.
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"The local election results are a strong indicator of a swing towards the CNRP which worried the ruling party," said Virak Ou, a human rights activist and economy analyst.
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If the leaks are a Russian operation, the documents would mark the first time the Guccifer 21625 group has attempted to influence a specific local election on this scale.
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In Moscow, more than 22016,000 people were detained on July 27 after an unauthorised protest demanding that members of the opposition be allowed to run in a local election.
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Since then, the department has stood up a special council to engage with state and local election officials on potential threats to their voter registration databases and other systems.
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Sixty-eight percent of respondents said community poll workers and local election officials did a very good job, while 55 percent gave the same marks to state election officials.
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DHS spokesman Scott McConnell said in a statement to The Hill that state and local election officials are sharing more information about the kind of cyberattacks they are experiencing.
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The Virginia woman who was fired after flipping the bird at President Donald Trump's motorcade in 2017 has a new job title after winning a local election on Tuesday.
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Though the state approved much-needed legislation in January allowing New Yorkers to vote up to 10 days before an election, local election boards need funding to the changes.
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The party of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lost control of Turkey's two largest cities, Istanbul and Ankara, according to a complete tally of local election ballots on Tuesday.
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They also emailed local election officials the recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on how to prepare polling places amid the spread of the virus.
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The report described hacks in August against a company that sells software related to voter registration and another, a few days before the election, against 122 local election officials.
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It's hoping to advise local election officials, Election Day volunteers, ground-level campaign door-knockers and even interns in both political parties who national officials are unlikely to reach.
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They included encouraging the federal government to "create effective deterrence" in response to cyber attacks and urging the DHS to expedite security clearances for state and local election officials.
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The landslide victory for the pro-democracy movement in Sunday's local election could force a reckoning between activists and pro-Beijing forces, including the city's embattled leader, Carrie Lam.
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The report seen by Reuters said it saw a high risk that the lira would decline after the local election, recommending clients to go "long" on the U.S. dollar.
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The ANC lost control of major cities last year in its worst local election results since coming to power, partly due to a drop in public support for Zuma.
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It will take bipartisan cooperation among state and local election officials, facilitated by nongovernmental organizations committed to sound principles of election administration, to get us past this dangerous point.
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To have any impact, you'd need a labyrinthine network of local election officials to collude against a candidate and then bamboozle the bipartisan poll watchers tasked with keeping them honest.
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The ruling coalition government of Sirisena's centre-left Sri Lanka Freedom Party and Prime Minister Wickremesinghe's centre-right United National Party suffered defeats in a local election over the weekend.
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Photo: Ethan Miller (Getty)The 2018 midterm elections are well underway, and you know what that means: another opportunity for local election commissions to display widespread incompetence and/or ratfuckery.
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Taiwan on Friday appointed the former chairman of its ruling pro-independence party as premier, after the incumbent resigned along with the entire cabinet, in response to local election defeats.
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Expect, too, much talk of the attorney-general's role overseeing voting rights, even after federal monitoring of state and local election rules has been sharply reduced by the Supreme Court.
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"This council is designed to improve threat information sharing between the federal authorities and the state and local election officials," Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos said in a statement.
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The targets of that effort, the indictment says, included a US company that provides local election offices across the country with software used to verify voters' identities, the indictment said.
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Most of these involve local election boards adding votes to machine tallies to ensure the totals that are recorded on machines match the number of voters on sign-in sheets.
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To learn more about early voting, you can contact your local election officials or try this resource from the U.S. Vote Foundation, which allows you to search by your state.
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A Russian intelligence operation sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials days before the election, which ran through a hack of a U.S. voting software supplier.
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The findings also connect to larger efforts to safeguard US elections, including initiatives to expand oversight of voting machine vendors and efforts to fund state and local election security upgrades.
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"The decision of the High Election Board to annul the local election in Istanbul and order a re-run is in our view not transparent and not comprehensible," Maas said.
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So, what we have here is a ready-made, perpetual excuse whenever one side loses a national or, who knows, maybe even state wide or local election in the future.
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Still, the experience has heightened concerns -- and tensions -- between state officials and DHS over adequately protecting against possible threats, especially when a few votes could swing a small local election.
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But then the local election commissioner reported that, "magically," exactly 100 votes for my opponent had been found at the bottom of a ballot box and added to his tally.
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To make matters worse, Erdogan has overturned the Istanbul local election and has soured Turkish relations with the United States due to his close cooperation with Russia on defense issues.
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"Ladies First," a 40-minute documentary using the local election as the occasion to focus on social and political reform in Saudi Arabia, resulted from my attempts to find out.
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Local election results were slow to be counted in St. Louis County after problems getting ballots at numerous precincts delayed some polls from closing and caused confusion around the region.
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Will Democrats emphasize the politics of personal destruction and make every local election a referendum on Trump or offer a competing policy agenda the way Republicans did 24 years ago?
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In 2013, Takoma Park — a small, progressive enclave in a suburb of Washington, DC — became the first city in the US to lower its local election voting age to 16.
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Investigators opened the money laundering case in August last year after Navalny called for people to demonstrate in central Moscow over the exclusion of opposition candidates from a local election.
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But it did uncover serious problems with the voting process -- including erroneously disqualified ballots and broken machines -- and eventually resulted in convictions and jail time for two local election officials.
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But a survey released by the Brennan Center in March of 121 local election officials in 31 states found that more replacements are still desperately needed before the 2020 election.
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Democrats' personal email accounts were hacked and then leaked to the public in an effort to cause damage during the election, amid concerns Moscow targeted state and local election systems.
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In every level of government, leaders from across the political spectrum should work together to build public trust in local election boards, and provide transparency in the vote counting process.
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If you can't make it out to a polling place prior to Election Day, it's important to still call your local election official and ask them to address these concerns.
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Demonstrators have burned down the headquarters of local election offices, set up blockades, and paraded a mayor barefoot through the streets after cutting her hair and showering her in paint.
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Mr. Sharma, a former ambassador to Israel, is running in a local election for a seat long held by former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull that is now up for grabs.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives and the opposition Labour Party were both punished by English voters in a local election for the deadlock over Brexit, partial results showed on Friday.
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"This assessment is based on the decentralized nature of our election system in this country and the number of protections state and local election officials have in place," the official said.
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Advancing election technology has proven to be an incredibly vexing proposition for all stakeholders — state and local election officials, voting technology vendors, voter integrity advocates and, of course, the voters themselves.
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Federal Election Commission regulations prohibit foreign nationals and foreign governments from making any contributions or donations of money or other things of value in a US federal, state or local election.
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According to the New York Times, local election observers noted some irregularities at polling stations, but international groups didn't believe the problem to be widespread enough to undermine the final outcome.
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"Prior to reaching this determination, my staff and I consulted many state and local election officials; I am aware that many of them are opposed to this designation," Johnson said Friday.
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Project Veritas, a right-wing activist group, broke state laws in a recent video it made accusing Texas poll workers of enabling voter fraud, according to local election officials in Texas.
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Navalny was jailed for 30 days this week for calling for an unauthorized march to protest against the exclusion of several opposition-minded candidates from a local election later this year.
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Romine described this profile as being a "one-stop cybersecurity playbook" that can be used by state and local election officials to prioritize areas of elections where cybersecurity could be improved.
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State and local election officials from nearly every jurisdiction within the United States – from Maui to Meridian, Mississippi to Manhattan – benefit from the EAC's work, as do the voters they serve.
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While counties foot the bill for some elections costs, states are generally responsible for allocating resources to fund voting equipment, ballots, compensation for local election officials, and dissemination of voter information.
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Robert Mueller's latest charges against 12 Russian military officers for hacking the 2016 election shows the importance of state officials ensuring their local election infrastructure is safe for this year's voting.
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The court restored the week of early voting that the law had slashed, but it left it to local election boards to set the number of polling places and voting hours.
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Lowering local election voting age to 16 in major cities, in conjunction with the integration of civics classes in school, has been gaining support as a tenable way to boost turnout.
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As we walked along, I tried to gauge his interest in politics, mumbling something about the upcoming local election and telling him that one of the candidates went to my college.
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The issue was highlighted by an act of violence last month: the shooting of six African migrants by a right-wing sympathizer who ran with the League in a local election.
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Many states have already adopted those changes, but experts who argue for federal assistance say not all local election authorities have the money, personnel or know-how to keep systems updated.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — The president of Taiwan resigned as leader of her party Saturday night after it suffered stunning local election defeats to the opposition Kuomintang, which favors closer ties with China.
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After local election workers spent the day tabulating absentee ballots, Mr. Kemp had 50.3 percent of the vote, and a lead of about 63,000 votes, out of nearly four million cast.
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The project's latest playbook encourages state and local election officials to adopt a "battle staff" command structure with clear responsibilities and standard operating procedures for dealing with minor issues, AP notes.
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Mitchell, speaking in Hong Kong, said citizens had spoken "loudly and clearly" in the local election and that the government must respond to prevent the protests from sliding into an abyss.
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The suit seeks to loosen the restrictions, forcing local election officials to count ballots received within 85033 days after Election Day, as long as they were postmarked before the polling date.
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"No compelling state interest is served by misleading local election authorities and voters into believing a photo ID card is a requirement for voting," Cole County's Senior Judge Richard Callahan said.
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"The election today is as historic as the local election in 1994," Rusen Cakir, a veteran commentator, said on Twitter, referring to the vote that saw Erdoğan elected as Istanbul's mayor.
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"I really would like our prosecutor general's office and the investigative committee to bring the matter to completion in a number of cases," she said, referring to inquiries into local election violations.
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Navalny is currently in jail for violating Russia's tough protest laws after calling for people to demonstrate in central Moscow over the exclusion of opposition candidates from a local election next month.
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"The threat of foreign adversaries remains real and, ultimately, our state and local election officials do not have the resources to thwart a truly determined and sophisticated nation-state actor," Hovland said.
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It's unclear how many ballots were returned this way, because local election officials don't track them, but some have suggested that while both parties "harvested" ballots Democrats were more successful at it.
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After a distributed denial-of-service attack knocked some servers offline during a local election in Tennessee this week, Knox County is working with an outside security contractor to investigate the cause.
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The Turkish lira eased more than 1 percent to 5.6158 per dollar after President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party lost control of the capital Ankara for the first time in a local election.
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AJACCIO, France (Reuters) - Corsican nationalists on Monday demanded the French government enter into negotiations over greater autonomy for the Mediterranean island after they won almost half the votes in a local election.
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At polling station No. 424 in the Mordovia region, in central Russia, a Reuters reporter saw local election chief Svetlana Baulina bringing ballot papers into the building concealed under a red raincoat.
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But on Monday, the local election commission said Tarasenko had won by just over 1 percentage point, with results showing he had received almost every one of the final 20,000 votes counted.
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The sentence comes days ahead of a march the Kremlin critic planned to lead in Moscow to protest at the exclusion of several opposition-minded candidates from a local election in September.
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Here's about all of what we know for sure: According to the leaked NSA report, Russian hackers specifically targeted local election officials in the days leading up to the 2016 election. How?
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan on Friday appointed the former chairman of its ruling pro-independence party as premier, after the incumbent resigned along with the entire cabinet, in response to local election defeats.
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After nearly losing a 2013 election to the opposition, Prime Minister Hun Sen faces a major test in the local election due in June and a general election set for next year.
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In April, Republicans responded to the election of a new Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, by reversing the long-standing rule that gives the governor's party control of state and local election boards.
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He was jailed on Wednesday this week for 30 days for calling for Saturday's unauthorized march to protest against the exclusion of several opposition candidates from a local election later this year.
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New UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson saw his Conservative government's working majority in parliament cut to just one overnight after it lost a local election to the pro-European Union Liberal Democrats.
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"We will continue to work this critical topic as we begin preparing for the 2020 elections across all relevant elements of the federal government and with our state and local election partners."
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Bill Lee (R) has not said whether he will sign it, but the bill is backed by Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R), who said incomplete forms unduly burden local election offices.
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Moscow is in the grip of protests over the exclusion of opposition candidates from a local election and sporadic protests over issues ranging from waste disposal to unwanted construction have flared elsewhere.
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Rideshare Works for Austin spent $9.1 million trying to pass Prop 1, which was roughly six times more than had ever been spent on any local election in Austin for any reason.
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The issue has gained greater attention in the wake of Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, which involved targeting Democrats' personal email accounts as well as state and local election systems.
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For more information, the National Conference of State Legislatures has a detailed briefing on the issue, and state and local election officials and websites should be able to answer any related questions.
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New Delhi (CNN)Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party suffered a dramatic local election defeat in New Delhi over the weekend, with voters in the capital choosing to ignore his divisive platform.
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In all three cases, the challengers had sent mail to the voters' home addresses and reported to local election officials the names of those voters whose mail was returned and marked undeliverable.
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The reversal came a day after the pro-independence head of Catalonia's regional government Quim Torra said he planned to call a snap local election, pending the approval of the region's budget.
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States can access a wide range of less-thorough DHS resources for securing local election systems in the meantime, including regular DHS "cyber-hygiene" scans that can take just weeks to implement.
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Critics, including the state's local election officials, say undetected fraud at the polls is so minuscule that it does not merit re-identifying voters who already proved their identity when they registered.
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When you check your local polling place, note any accessibility challenges and share them with your local election board and town leadership so they can make the necessary adjustments before Election Day.
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Thirty-three states and 11 county and local election agencies have sought help from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to shore up their voting infrastructure against cyberattacks, according to the agency.
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In Tachira state, which saw the most violent scenes during the 2014 protests that resulted in 43 deaths, troops also blocked scores of marchers from reaching the local election board office on Wednesday.
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A burst of activism followed: one march, another march, an anti-violence advocate's push to make the violence a local election issue and a teen girl's plea for shooters to drop their weapons.
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The Department of Homeland Security told Congress this summer that it suspected that 21 states were targeted, but it wasn't until Friday that they told local election officials, according to the Associated Press.
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The company is encouraging state and local election boards to employ its services for basic security measures like multi-factor authentication and user privilege management — two easy steps that could thwart potential attacks.
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The Department of Homeland Security has now reportedly had requests for security assistance from no fewer than 46 states and 35 counties and local election agencies as election officials scramble to prevent damage.
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The ruling coalition government of President Maithripala Sirisena's centre-left Sri Lanka Freedom Party and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's centre-right United National Party suffered defeats in a local election over the weekend.
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Investigators opened the money laundering case in August after Navalny called for people to demonstrate in central Moscow over the exclusion of opposition candidates from a local election that took place last month.
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The Turkish lira eased more than 1 percent to 5.6158 per dollar after President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party lost control of the capital Ankara for the first time in a local election.
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Washington (CNN)More than five dozen state and local election offices requested help from the Department of Homeland Security to protect their election systems from cyberattacks, according to DHS documents obtained by CNN.
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Divisions within the African National Congress have widened since the ruling party suffered its worst-ever local election results last month, with analysts blaming the rifts on a conflict between Zuma and Gordhan.
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But it says Russian military intelligence attacked a U.S. voting software company and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials at the end of October or beginning of November.
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Cambodia has invited international observers to monitor the July vote, but local election watchdogs, including the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (COMFREL) urged international observers to think twice before accepting.
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It's regrettable that President Erdogan is showing no sign of urgency in addressing the currency crisis and is in fact adding to political uncertainty by forcing a rerun of the Istanbul local election.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress wants the national budget "re-prioritized" to focus on tackling poverty, unemployment and inequality following local election defeats this month, the party said on Sunday.
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COLOMBO, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan shares ended steady on Monday in thin trade amid political uncertainty after both parties in the ruling coalition suffered defeats in a local election earlier this month.
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Erdogan had accused the opposition of supporting "terrorism" and labeled the local election a "matter of survival" for Turkey during his campaign, which was held amid growing disenchantment among voters over economic woes.
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The information contained in these records is then shared with local election authorities, which in turn maintain permanent voter rolls that are constantly updated based on information provided by the larger civil registry.
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The president inserted himself directly into the local election process, handpicking a longtime ally, Binali Yildirim, to run for mayor of Istanbul and choosing a former minister to run for mayor of Ankara.
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In an effort to better handle refugees, Germany opened its first screening centers last week in Bavaria, the home state of Mr. Seehofer, where his party faces a tough local election in October.
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The federal government can strategize all it wants, but until money gets into the hands of local election officials, the most immediate needs, like securing databases and updating voting machines, can't be met.
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A special session in December stripped the governor of most power to appoint state employees and university trustees, choose a cabinet without legislative approval and install majorities on state and local election boards.
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Vox grabbed attention last year when it became the first far-right party in Spain in more than four decades to score an electoral victory, winning seats in a local election in Andalusia.
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Since January, officials at the agency have grappled with how to work with state and local election officials to share information on imminent threats and develop response plans for when things go awry.
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In this apparent stronghold of ordinariness, the Alternative for Germany, a far-right populist party, won more than 22 percent of the vote in the 2016 local election — more than any other party.
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The ANC won 52 percent at the 2011 local election in Mandela Bay municipality overall, compared with the DA's 40 percent, but opinion polls suggest it could struggle to win a majority on Wednesday.
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State and local election boards can work with Centrify to get free access to the company's services for eight months, though they'll need to sign up for an annual plan to get the deal.
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The new, local election reminders will appear for all state, county, and municipal elections in the U.S. in areas with a population of over 10,000 people, and will include both primaries and general elections.
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Earlier this year Mr Whitley compiled a list of 100,000 people the state suspected were not citizens and encouraged local election officials to purge them from the rolls, even though some were recently naturalised.
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There is no single system for voter registration records, the Post noted, so local election officials must rely on their counterparts in other states to help exchange and keep such information up to date.
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DHS is currently providing most of the federal government's technical support to state and local election officials, but the EAC has deeper, long-term relationships with many of these officials that pre-date 2016.
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Eagle-eyed election analysts watching the votes roll in have spotted those anomalies in recent years, helping local election boards find and fix them — all long before counts are made official a week later.
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But when the appeals court ordered counties to restore the early voting period to 17 days, it left decisions about the number of polling places and their operating hours up to local election boards.
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While his renewed involvement in domestic politics may feed Law and Justice's complaints of a meddling EU, it will also energize Civic Platform, the party of Trzaskowski and many other recent local election victors.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government, its ratings slipping over suspicions of favouritism, has suffered a fresh embarrassment after his defense minister made politically sensitive remarks just days ahead of a key local election.
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Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill tweeted that the decision to move the primaries was made after consulting with Lamont, local election officials, bipartisan leadership in the General Assembly and colleagues in other states.
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The victory by Shelly Simonds, a school board member in Newport News, was a civics lesson in every-vote-counts as she won 11,608 to 11,607 in a recount conducted by local election officials.
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Foreign nationals are prohibited under U.S. law from contributing or donating money or anything else of value or making any expenditure in connection with any federal, state or local election in the United States.
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"This was a very rushed process, and our local election officials are trying to handle it the best way that they can," said Matt Dietrich, a spokesperson for the Illinois State Board of Elections.
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"Most of us cannot compel our local election jurisdictions to update their equipment," said Jared Dearing, executive director of the Kentucky State Board of Elections, before an Elections Assistance Commission panel in Silver Spring.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provided cybersecurity assistance to 33 state election offices and 36 local election offices leading up to the 2016 presidential election, according to information released by Democratic congressional staff.
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DHS' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is partnering with non-profit group VotingWorks on an open-source software tool known as Arlo, which is provided to state and local election officials for free.
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Speaking at a local election rally in Istanbul, Erdogan said "some people" had begun provoking Turkey and that they were attempting to make the lira decline against foreign currencies with their cooperators in Turkey.
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As the 2020 presidential election nears, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced on Thursday that it would start notifying states when local election systems are hacked in an effort to make elections more secure.
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Russian hackers targeted election systems in all 50 states in 2016, according to the Senate Intelligence Committee, a far-reaching effort that went largely undetected by federal and local election officials at the time.
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DHS's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is partnering with non-profit group VotingWorks on an open-source software tool known as Arlo, which is provided to state and local election officials for free.
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The department is also making efforts to help repel ransomware attacks on voter registration databases managed by local election administrators, fearing that hostile nations could use criminal hacker techniques to undermine the 23183 election.
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Representative Andy Biggs, Republican of Arizona who branded Ms. Omar an anti-Semite, raised eyebrows in 2016 when he charged that the Jewish philanthropist George Soros was buying a local election for county attorney.
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That document, which details a Russian military intelligence cyberattack that was reportedly launched on U.S. voting software suppliers and local election officials just days before the 2016 presidential election, was reportedly published on May 5.
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The report seemingly contained information detailing how Russian hackers got into a U.S. voting software supplier and sent so-called "spear-phishing" emails to more than 100 local election officials ahead of the 2016 election.
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"We basically do not believe that in this local election people made a choice on the cross-strait policy issue or made a major change," Tsai said, in comments carried live on her Facebook page.
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"No compelling state interest is served by misleading local election authorities and voters into believing a photo ID card is a requirement for voting," Cole County Senior Circuit Judge Richard Callahan wrote in his ruling.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi sacked five local election officials on Saturday on charges of corruption during the May 12 parliamentary election, a spokesman for the Independent High Elections Commission (IHEC) said.
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With recent local election results revealing waning public support, the ANC would be justified in looking to the Chinese Communist Party's more secure hold on power as a model of winning over hearts and minds.
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A small group, headed by Sheela, went to poison grocery stores in The Dalles — a city with an open county seat — with salmonella in order to help sway a local election in the commune's favor.
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" However, the Department of Homeland Security and state and local election officials have "dramatically changed" their approach to securing the elections and are "working together to bridge gaps in information sharing and shore up vulnerabilities.
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At least 39 people were killed in election-related violence, according to local election observers, and two offices of Nigeria's Independent Electoral Electoral Commission were set on fire a few days before the presidential polls.
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Those two plot twists have provided unexpected cover as the Middle East's largest economy claws its way out of recession, and as President Tayyip Erdogan recovers from shock local election losses by his ruling party.
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In the last several months, I've spoken at several gatherings of state and local election officials, and I can say with certainty that they are attuned to the threat, and stand ready to address it.
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"All year, the Intelligence Community, law enforcement, and state and local election officials have been working to ensure that this election was conducted consistent with our long history of free and fair elections," she said.
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Local election officials are exploring ways to help those who didn't relocate get placed back on the voter rolls after it was determined many residents who received the postcards shouldn't have due to faulty data.
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Preclearance amounted to an extraordinary federal intervention in state and local election laws, but the VRA's drafters argued it was necessary to reverse almost a century of racist voter suppression in the South and elsewhere.
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"The relationship gets better [every time] a service we offer helps a state or local election official make a decision or do their job," said DHS Acting Deputy Under Secretary Bob Kolasky at the event.
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In Arizona, the state Republican Party also filed a lawsuit against several county recorders over mail-in ballots as local election officials work to tally votes in the state's closely watched Senate race between Reps.
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The move came after Mr. Abadi sacked five local election officials on Saturday on charges of corruption during the May 12 parliamentary election, a spokesman for the Independent High Elections Commission said, according to Reuters.
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Thanks to this administration's leadership, all 50 states and more than 1,400 local election jurisdictions focused on election security like never before," adding, "Thanks to efforts across the federal government, in 2018, we were ready.
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Those changes include pushing back the deadline for when mail ballots must be received, allowing election officials to start processing ballots before Election Day, and providing federal funding to support state and local election administrators.
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No candidate for mayor of Minneapolis received a majority of votes on Tuesday, local election officials reported, meaning that the city's complex ranked-choice voting process will be used starting Wednesday to determine a winner.
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While campaigning for several elections since then, including a parliamentary vote in October and a local election last year, the opposition has struggled to formulate a strong message to wrest support away from the PiS.
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Until now, Rajoy has remained vague on whether he would use article 155, the so-called nuclear option, of the constitution which enables him to sack the regional government and call a fresh local election.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government, its ratings slipping over suspicions of favoritism, has suffered a fresh embarrassment when his defense minister made politically sensitive remarks just days ahead of a key local election.
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Wolf emphasized on Tuesday that hacking operations had not taken place in Iowa, where the caucuses are run by political parties and not by state and local election officials, as the majority of U.S. elections are.
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Hovland praised the efforts of state and local election officials to increase election security and resiliency ahead of 2020 but pleaded with the committee to provide consistent federal funding to bolster election security efforts going forward.
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If your state does not allow online registration or you prefer doing things with a trusty paper and pen you can complete the National Mail Voter Registration Form and mail it to your local election office.
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The 43-year-old lawyer and activist was jailed last month after calling for people to demonstrate in central Moscow over the exclusion of opposition candidates from a local election in the Russian capital next month.
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Speaking to members of his AK Party in parliament, Erdogan said he wanted to carry the alliance into the future, but added that it would run independently from the MHP in the March 2019 local election.
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Moreover, the document reflects NSA's confidence that the hackers—members of a special Russian military intelligence unit—attempted to infect more than 100 local election officials with malware in phishing operation involving a faux-Google website.
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But after that, it's still a good idea to contact the AG's hotline and/or to contact your local election judge, who can give you an order so that you can exercise your right to vote.
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Additionally, the Times wrote, many local election sites report vote totals to their county election offices via phone lines, a practice that "election officials and vendors" say is safe because it does not use the internet.
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Erdogan played a video from the shootings at local election rallies and said the gunman had targeted Turkey by saying in a manifesto posted online that Turks should be removed from the European half of Istanbul.
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Others included NSA employee Harold Martin III and contractor Reality Winner, who leaked a classified document to news outlet The Intercept detailing the scope of Russian attacks aimed at local election officials around the 2016 election.
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As local election boards began rewriting their election plans to carry out the appeals court ruling, Republican leaders privately urged them in emails to limit voting hours and polling places in areas of heavy Democratic turnout.
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The cyber wing has been in the news more recently for taking the lead on helping state and local election officials protect their digital voting systems from cyberattacks, following Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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Child's play "The biggest threat is who reports the votes and having that hacked," West Virginia's secretary of state, Mac Warner, told CNN last month at a cybersecurity training event he organized for local election officials.
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The technique of using a political victory in a local election to flatter an important foreign leader is new for Trump, but not an entire surprise for a president still basking in his own political victory.
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Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Saturday he would not rule out removing Catalonia's government and calling a fresh local election if it claimed independence, as well as suspending the wealthy region's existing autonomous status.
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Vox spent six months speaking with more than 100 people in the world of elections — officials in the federal government, the intelligence community, election advocacy, state and local election offices, private vendors, academic researchers, and campaigns.
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Holder shredded the part of the Voting Rights Act that gave the Justice Department the role of monitoring any changes to local election rules and practices in states and counties with a history of racial discrimination.
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And as for those foreigners, a new survey of local election officials in 42 jurisdictions turned up a total of about 30 cases of suspected noncitizen voting last November — out of more than 23 million votes.
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A right-wing coalition scored a net victory in a local election in the central Italian region of Umbria, official data from the Interior Ministry showed on Monday, giving a boost to Matteo Salvini's League party.
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In a separate local election held on Sunday in the underdeveloped southern region of Calabria, the League and its allies were poised for an easy victory against the sitting, PD-led administration, the exit polls said.
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In a separate local election held on Sunday in the underdeveloped southern region of Calabria, the League and its allies were poised for an easy victory against the sitting, PD-led administration, the exit poll said.
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Tsai's comfortable victory caps a remarkable comeback after devastating local election results in 2018 saw her step down as leader of the Democratic Progressive Party following its crushing defeat in races across the self-governing island.
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Severe consequences Unlike other legislation that focuses on protecting state and local election infrastructure, Van Hollen and Rubio's bill is the first that would focus on punishing foreign actors by laying out severe consequences, staffers say.
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In a case in July that triggered global condemnation, police in Moscow detained more than 1,000 people for taking part in a protest calling for opposition members to be allowed to run in a local election.
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In last year's parliamentary election, the local election commission in the Bashkortostan region in central Russia claimed that one of these counters was a radioactive device and tried to have the reporter ejected from the polling station.
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In Sunday's local election, 70 percent of votes cast locally went to a Bosnian Serb, Mladen Grujicic, causing uproar in a town that is still deeply scarred by the massacre, Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two.
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Far-right media and the Republican candidate Roy Moore's campaign itself repeatedly tried to discredit those reports, the accusers, and the entire political opposition party, effectively transforming a local election into a full-blown national culture war.
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COLOMBO, Feb 22018 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee ended down on Monday after hitting a record low during the day as foreign investors sold government securities following local election defeats at the weekend for ruling coalition parties.
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It has weakened another 10 percent this year on new U.S. strains, challenges to local election results in Istanbul, and a drawdown in reserves that could leave the central bank with little room to cushion another crisis.
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This legislation promotes states' ability to control their elections and would do three key things to correct vulnerabilities in our infrastructure: First, it would improve information-sharing between local election officials, cybersecurity experts, and national security personnel.
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But some experts say that mail-in absentee voting also raises the likelihood of ballot tampering, because there are fewer checks in place to ensure that completed ballots reach local election officials without interference from third parties.
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But observers say their statements cannot be fully verified because local election bureaus by law do not have access to the personal identification numbers of candidates as they register, and so cannot conduct proper searches on them.
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ISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party has lost control of Turkey's two largest cities, Istanbul and Ankara, a complete tally of local election ballots showed on Tuesday, but the governing party said it would challenge the outcomes.
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In a letter, Mr. Colyer said some clerks had been provided incorrect information about which ballots to count, and he urged Mr. Kobach to appoint the state attorney general to handle future questions from local election workers.
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The report described two cyberattacks by Russia's military intelligence unit, the G.R.U. — one in August against a company that sells voter-registration-related software and another, a few days before the election, against 122 local election officials.
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The report described two cyberattacks by Russia's military intelligence unit, the G.R.U. — one in August against a company that sells voter registration-related software and another, a few days before the election, against 122 local election officials.
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GUWAHATI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Violent protests by male dominated indigenous groups in India's northeast have forced authorities to postpone a local election that would, for the first time, guarantee seats for women in urban civic bodies.
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Ustinov is one of several people jailed for about three to four years over a series of political protests that flared this summer when opposition candidates were barred from taking part in a local election in Moscow.
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"Since 2016, the focus and level of resource and intense effort on the federal government's part to support those state and local [election offices] has increased exponentially," Matt Masterson, DHS's senior adviser on election security, told me.
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Police arrested more than two thousand people at protests over the summer that began when more than a dozen opposition candidates were barred from taking part in a local election in Moscow that was held this month.
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Launched in early 2018, the service lets Facebook users opt into local news and information from local organizations, for example, to receive missing-person alerts, local election results, road closure information and crime reports (The Associated Press).
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To plan for the midterms, DHS has been looking back at the Russian spear phishing campaigns and other sorts of attacks on state and local election infrastructure to "make sure those things don't happen again," said Krebs.
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Thirty-one journalists were among 57 people killed in a massacre in 2009 in the southern province of Maguindanao while covering a local election, in what was one of the most deadly incidents involving media in the world.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's High Election Board (YSK) will recount local election votes in eight districts of Istanbul after objections, YSK head Sadi Guven said on Wednesday, after President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party (AKP) appealed results across the city.
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Russians took to the streets when a slew of opposition politicians were barred from taking part in a local election in the capital, rallies that grew into the biggest sustained protest movement in the Russian capital in years.
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He said that state and local election officials have stepped up their collaboration with federal agencies over the past two years, and that election security is largely focused on making sure that a system can withstand an attack.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government said it was very concerned about Russian police arresting more than 1,000 people in Moscow on Saturday around a protest to demand that opposition members be allowed to run in a local election.
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ABERDEEN, Scotland/LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May could reach a Brexit deal with the opposition Labour Party within days, a leading Conservative Party figure said on Saturday, after senior ministers urged compromise following poor local election results.
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The project's goal is to harden individual campaigns and local election offices — two different operations, Mook said, that are stuck in the same predicament: underfunded, overstressed, prone to mistakes, and squarely in the crosshairs of a sophisticated threat.
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Instead, the Labour Party's Twitter account, after asking about supporters' "weekend plans," suggested they participate in local election events, a post that critics said was symptomatic of Labour's attempts to sidestep the biggest political crisis in a generation.
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CISA is one of the key agencies that works with state and local election officials on election security, an issue that has been permanently in the spotlight in the wake of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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Mike Duggan, the mayor who oversaw Detroit's emergence from bankruptcy protection, was re-elected on Tuesday, local election results showed, defeating Coleman A. Young II, the son of a storied politician who was the city's first black mayor.
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There was a plastic baggie emblazoned with red dice, a fake I.D. slipped into a voter pamphlet for a local election in Pierce County, Washington, and a package of ketamine taped to the back of a Christmas card.
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The FBI on Thursday announced a new policy intended to "clarify and guide timely" notification of state and local election officials of any cyber intrusions, marking a major shift three years after Russian intrusions during the 2016 elections.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain's Labour Party, said on Friday local election results should spur lawmakers to find a way to break the deadlock over Brexit and "get a deal done" to leave the European Union.
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Siding with a lower court, the appeals panel struck down a 2014 requirement that local election officials toss out absentee and provisional ballots if they contain an address or birth date that fails to perfectly match voting records.
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That has included a massive Department of Homeland Security effort to vet the cybersecurity of local election offices and to monitor them for hacking, as well as more than $800 million in election security money delivered by Congress.
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"Heading into 2020, we're exploring all possible ways that we can support state and local election officials while also ensuring that Americans across the country can confidently cast their votes," CISA Director Christopher Krebs said in a statement.
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New Delhi (CNN)What was meant to be a simple uneventful local election has sparked uncertainty over the future of Sri Lanka's political landscape, after a newly formed party led by former president Mahinda Rajapaksa swept to victory.
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Local election officials balked at the advisory, which advised them to confirm the citizenship status of listed people in their jurisdictions, and complained that the so-called lists were delivered to them as a disorganized jumble of documents.
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Democrats, emboldened by state and local election victories in Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday, have sought to capitalize on the accusations in support of Alabama's Democratic nominee, former U.S. Attorney Doug Jones, who remains a long shot.
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ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party has submitted objections to local election results in all districts of Istanbul and Ankara, party officials said on Tuesday, after results showed the opposition earned narrow victories in both cities.
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It comes at a time when leadership of Nowoczesna party, a smaller partner of the main opposition the Civic Platform Party (PO), has fallen apart, weakening the entire opposition block ahead of the local election in autumn this year.
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There is confidence -- mostly -- in our election system DHS officials repeatedly said they do not believe that an attempt by nation-backed hackers to change votes in a national, state or local election would be able to escape notice.
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Absentee ballots A federal judge has ruled that Georgia election officials must provide time for voters to fix their absentee ballots when the signature on the ballot does not match the one on file with their local election office.
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In a ruling early on Wednesday, High Court Judge George Odunga said some local election officials had been appointed in an irregular manner, but to withdraw them at the last minute would only make an already dire situation worse.
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So if voters received misleading emails or Facebook messages falsely claiming a polling site had changed, local election officials would be required to inform voters of the correct polling place, so their ballots could still be cast and counted.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's government said on Monday it is worried that the Russian police detained more than 1,000 people in Moscow over the weekend around a protest to demand opposition members be allowed to run in a local election.
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Collaboration between state and local election officials and the federal government is a major factor in incentivizing the patching of election systems and helping the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency achieve its goal of 100 percent auditability by 2020.
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Today's voting system is a sprawling network of hardware, software and local election officials that integrate voter registration, electronic voting, tabulating vote totals, and reporting these results to precinct, county, state and national centers that compile final vote results.
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Ms. Nielsen told the senators, who are investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 election, that the department made significant strides in recent months working with state and local election officials to improve communication about threats and share cybersecurity resources.
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If you show up to the polls and see that your name isn't on the rolls, you can ask to fill out what's called a provisional ballot, which can still be counted after local election officials confirm your registration.
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Opponents call that a smoke screen, and say the legislation is crafted to curtail early voting by requiring local election officials to staff every polling place 12 hours a day for all 17 days of the early voting period.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy's government has decided to backtrack on a contested tax on plastic in its 2020 budget in the face of protests from producers in a region where the ruling parties face a key local election in January.
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan suffered a severe setback as his ruling AK Party lost control of the capital Ankara for the first time in a local election and he appeared to concede defeat in the country's largest city, Istanbul.
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The reality — and this data and information comes from those who directly run elections — is that the state and local election officials, and specifically the secretaries of state across the country that looked into it, find that fraud happens.
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Yet, while she has handed out her stickers to voters at Middle School 114 in Manhattan at a local election in 2013, she has never been given one herself — it will be four more years until she can vote.
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"Nursing homes around the state are withdrawing as polling places, so local election authorities are relocating polling places and sending out statutorily required notifications to affected voters," said Matt Dietrich, a spokesman for the Illinois State Board of Elections.
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"The cut in subsidies just months before the local election in the autumn will in reality impede the efficiency of the campaigns of the parties that were relying on them," said Vanya Nusheva of anti-corruption group Transparency International.
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ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party was on track on Monday to lose control of Turkey's two biggest cities, Istanbul and Ankara, in a stunning local election setback that could complicate the president's plans to combat recession.
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Hong Kong authorities have barred a pro-democracy lawmaker from running in a local election for "implicitly" supporting Hong Kong's independence from China, in what critics said was another instance of civil rights being eroded in the China-ruled city.
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The Venezuelan Electoral Observatory, an independent local election monitoring group, has also flagged problems that include an inadequate timeframe to update the electoral register and develop a network of poll center witnesses, and a reduction in real-time audits of results.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean opposition parties demanded on Wednesday that presidential elections next year be conducted by a committee set up by the United Nations and African Union because they had lost confidence in the neutrality of the local election agency.
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"Our goal is to build an information-sharing organization that includes political parties, campaigns, state and local election officials, and tech companies," Alex Stamos, Facebook's chief security officer and a member of Defending Digital Democracy's advisory board, told Gizmodo last summer.
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May's government has opposed a customs union, preferring a looser arrangement that would allow Britain to strike its own trade deals with countries outside the EU. Hancock suggested there could be greater willingness to compromise following the local election losses.
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Tuesday's local election victories included a 22-year-old elected to a school board in Pennsylvania and a female candidate for freeholder in Atlantic County, NJ, who defeating the Republican incumbent who made a misogynistic joke about the Women's March.
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Abadi had appointed a special committee to investigate claims of vote-rigging in several regions, and on Saturday he approved its recommendation to dismiss local election chiefs in Kirkuk, Anbar and Salahuddin, Judge Laith Jabr Hamza said in a statement.
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ISTANBUL, April 11 (Reuters) - Turkey's lira dipped to its weakest level in more than two weeks on Thursday on concerns over the country's dwindling net reserves, with disappointment over an economic reform plan and local election uncertainty also weighing on sentiment.
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The currency TRYTOM=D3, which stood at 5.6775 at 0746 GMT, has been pressured by the initial local election results that showed Erdogan's AK Party (AKP) narrowly lost control of both Ankara and Istanbul to the main opposition party CHP.
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"Based on your work with election officials, cybersecurity experts and federal law enforcement, we also would appreciate an impartial assessment of the challenges that state and local election officials face in protecting future U.S. elections from cybersecurity threats," they wrote.
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The department's new agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which under its creation last year was charged with reducing the nation's cybersecurity risks, was also "not adequately staffed" to support state and local election officials to help secure election infrastructure.
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He noted that give the decentralization of the system, the audits and testing by local election officials, the media attention and the scrutiny of anything that looks amiss, it would be very difficult to do something without it being detected.
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"Many factors including the state of the economy, data - especially inflation - and the local election were effective in this decision being taken," he said, referring to the re-run of an Istanbul mayoral election that the opposition won on June 23.
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"I do not believe there is a correlation between the local election and the referendum," Mr. Renzi said, arguing that even those who had chosen a protest vote at the local level would vote in favor of the constitutional changes.
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The yen briefly gained on worries Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's reflationary policies may be at risk after his Liberal Democratic Party suffered an historic defeat in a local election in Tokyo on Sunday, though the impact did not last long.
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At DHS, scores of mid-level staff — especially within the National Protection and Programs directorate — are working to answer state and local election officials requesting cyber assistance, while at the same time gathering what limited resources exist to prepare for 2018.
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Despite registering ADS on Facebook as a "Political Organization," we were able to run an ad campaign without providing basic information necessary to ensure compliance with federal, state or local election laws, such as campaign contact information, candidate ID, etc.
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West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner, who oversees elections in the state and is in his first term, told a meeting of local election officials on Monday that he pressured DHS to share more information with states about threats.
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In May 2006 in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, ES&S technicians used the pcAnywhere software installed on that county's election-management system for hours trying to reconcile vote discrepancies in a local election, according to a report filed at the time.
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Mr. Abadi had appointed a special committee to investigate claims of vote-rigging in several regions, and on Saturday he approved its recommendation to dismiss local election chiefs in Kirkuk, Anbar and Salahuddin, Judge Laith Jabr Hamza said in a statement.
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In November, nonpartisan public interest organization Common Cause, filed a lawsuit with the ACLU that challenged an Indiana law which allowed local election officials to immediately remove – without notice or waiting period – registered voters who matched in the Crosscheck program.
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Until the weekend, Rajoy has remained vague on whether he would take the unprecedented step of triggering Article 155 of the constitution, the so-called nuclear option which enables him to sack the regional government and call a local election.
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Three Reuters reporters who registered through the new system as well as at their local election office were able to vote once and then get the go-ahead by officials to vote a second time at a different polling station.
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That report found that hackers from Russia's military intelligence agency, the G.R.U., had penetrated the company's computer systems as early as August 2016, then sent "spear-phishing" emails from a fake VR Systems account to 122 state and local election jurisdictions.
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Congress could try setting a new election timeline, local election boards could be unable to operate polling sites, and the president could sow doubt in the election's legitimacy or push executive emergency powers to the legal brink to disrupt the vote.
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Before 2016, the job of local election officials could had been described as akin to a wedding planner who keeps track of who will be showing up on Election Day and ensures all the equipment and supplies are in place.
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The May 5 N.S.A. report that Ms. Winner is charged with releasing was classified as top secret and described hacks by a Russian intelligence service against 122 local election officials and a company that sold software related to voter registration.
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Marian Schneider, the president of Verified Voting, a nonpartisan group that promotes the integrity of elections, pointed to a recent data breach at a large supermarket chain, Wawa, which would have more resources to devote to security than local election offices.
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On Monday, the McCrory team suffered a further blow when the state board ruled that the challenged votes could be thrown out by county election officials only if there were enough votes to determine the outcome of a local election.
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The lira has also been pressured by local election results showing President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party on track to lose control of both Ankara and Istanbul, his popularity hit by a recession, in large part triggered by the currency weakness.
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In May 2017, Ms. Winner used her work computer to print out a top-secret report on detailed hacking attacks by a Russian intelligence service against local election officials and voter registration databases during the 2016 election, according to prosecutors.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - When openly gay independent candidate Wataru Ishizaka campaigned for a 2007 Tokyo local election, people snickered at his speeches, but now even Japan's conservative ruling party mentions gay rights in its platform for this year's upper house election.
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The Women's League's endorsement is the first for a specific candidate by a national section of the ANC and will intensify the debate over who will take the party forward after it suffered its worst local election results last year.
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"I was proud to be the lead Democratic sponsor of the bipartisan Help America Vote Act legislation that established the Election Assistance Commission and charged it with helping state and local election officials ensure free, fair, and safe elections," Hoyer wrote.
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A backlash against proposals to build up to 2750,211 new houses in and around Guildford, a commuter town in Surrey, led to the Tories slumping from 34 of 48 councillors in the previous local election to just nine this year.
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Last year, Russian hackers tried to break into voter databases in at least 39 states, aiming to alter or delete voter data, and also attempted to take over the computers of more than 100 local election officials before Election Day.
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SYDNEY, Australia — Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday raised the possibility of moving the Australian Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, an idea that drew criticism as a baldly political gambit meant only to win a crucial local election.
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A June 2017 Intercept report based on a leaked National Security Agency classified document (remember Reality Winner?) detailed Russians' gambit to hack a private vendor that supplied voter registration software, and try to obtain information from more than 100 US local election officials.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court appeared split on Tuesday as it considered whether a New Jersey cop could bring a retaliation lawsuit claiming he was demoted because his boss mistakenly thought he was supporting a political rival in a local election.
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Through regular security alerts, conference calls, direct assistance, and other resources such as system security checklists and best practices documents, state and local election officials had a direct line to the resources and actionable intelligence information they needed to secure their systems.
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The recent NSA report -- written May 5 -- detailed extensively a Russian intelligence-directed operation that targeted a company that provides voter registration software and, using information from that hack, later evolved into a "spearfishing" campaign against multiple state and local election officials.
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As many of us continue to examine the challenges posed by ongoing cybersecurity threats, alleged voting irregularities, our nation's aging election system infrastructure and other election-related concerns, the EAC will keep turning to state and local election officials to listen and respond.
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Other productions include "All You Need to Know," an adaptation of José Saramago's novel "Seeing," about a town where, one day, for reasons that are unclear, around 80 percent of voters in an unnamed country cast blank ballots in a local election.
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"It's not an uptick in activity," he continued, saying state and local election officials have gotten better at sharing information about cyber activities targeting election systems like voter registration databases since the 85033 election, when that kind of information sharing largely wasn't happening.
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A lower court later ordered state officials to let people without IDs vote by signing a statement that they "cannot reasonably obtain" one — and told the state to spend $2.5 million to educate voters and local election officials on the relaxed requirement.
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Given almost no advance notice, DHS officials scrambled on Wednesday night to inform stakeholders that Trump's mandate would not interfere with efforts to help state and local election officials bolster their voting infrastructure against potential cyber attacks, according to a senior U.S. official.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was jailed for 30 days on Wednesday, his spokeswoman said, ahead of a march he planned to lead in Moscow in protest at the exclusion of several opposition-minded candidates from a local election in September.
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Radicals started delaying company shuttles two years ago, but discontent has become more mainstream since, stoked by accusations that the tech elite tried to buy a crucial local election and Airbnb's spending a fortune to defeat a proposition to restrict its business.
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In an indication of the hostility May faces from the most pro-Brexit wing of her party, former leader Iain Duncan Smith renewed his call for her to step down soon, calling her a "caretaker prime minister" after the local election losses.
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The pressure to seek an oil and gas bonanza is especially intense because of local politics: Much of the Bight extends along the state of South Australia, a struggling postindustrial area where talk of jobs and economic growth dominated a recent local election.
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In an analysis of Gallup data from 26 major US cities, Aaron Weinschenk, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay, found that local election turnout among 18- to 24-year-olds is half that of voters ages 25 and older.
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Some of Mr. Dowless's workers told news organizations that they mounted an aggressive absentee-ballot drive, including collecting ballots — some said to be unsealed or unsigned — from individual voters and delivered them to local election officials, an apparent violation of state law.
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At the trial, Mr. Kobach's key exhibit was a spreadsheet, compiled by two local election officers, that purported to show that dozens of people who lacked citizenship tried to register to vote in a single county, Sedgwick, over a period of 18 years.
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During Sunday's vote Mitrokhin, who was himself initially barred from running by the local election commission, told Reuters he thought the press-ganging of soldiers into voting at these polling stations could affect his chances of winning a seat in the Moscow legislature.
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When the Fourth Circuit's ruling late last summer required restoration of early voting hours, the chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party, Dallas Woodhouse, sent a memo instructing Republican members of local election boards to make "party line" decisions in early voting plans.
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" A spokesperson for Dominion told The Hill that "as we have done in past years, we will review and verify any identified critical security issues and take appropriate steps with state and local election authorities to address them in timely and reasonable fashion.
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"This consensus won't alter a bit because of a local election on Taiwan, and will not be shaken because of the wrong words and actions of certain Western politicians," Wang added, in an apparent reference to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
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The local election is not expected to change the course of Prime Minister Juha Sipila's three-party government, but a loss for the Finns could complicate the coalition's efforts and tip the party's own leadership race in favor of a hardline candidates.
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A big step Congress has taken is appropriating funds for state and local election officials to improve election security efforts, with Congress sending $380 million to the states in 2018, and an additional $2023 million to states in appropriations bills this month.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan suffered a severe setback on Sunday as his ruling AK Party lost control of the capital Ankara for the first time in a local election and he appeared to concede defeat in the country's largest city, Istanbul.
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Most of the dozen-plus state and local election officials interviewed by Reuters said they worry about bad actors hacking the older electronic voting machines to alter ballots, and then being unable to verify the results because there will be no paper trail.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a former police detective can sue a New Jersey city claiming he was demoted as punishment after getting a campaign sign for his bedridden mother supporting the mayor's rival in a 2006 local election.
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In an open letter, they demanded that criminal cases be dropped against more than a dozen people who face up to eight years in jail for what police have said was mass unrest at a recent opposition protest over a local election next month.
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But the agency faces challenges including inadequate resources to meet the need of local election jurisdictions, hindered ability to access social media sites to collect threat information and limited capacity for field staff to respond to incidents on Election Day, according to the report.
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But so far, US officials have not detected any effort to probe local election infrastructure, DHS Under Secretary Chris Krebs told the House Homeland Security Committee in testimony that mirrored that of senior cybersecurity adviser Matt Masterson before the Senate Rules and Administration Committee.
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As though to confirm the trend, the day after Mr Abyzov's arrest, the FSB detained Viktor Ishaev, a powerful former governor of Khabarovsk region in the far east where the Kremlin's United Russia party suffered a crushing defeat in a local election last autumn.
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"The state and local election officials, this whole notion of security is not new to them this is something they deal with all the time," said Tim Mattice, executive director of the Elections Center, which trains state and local elections officials on administering elections.
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The Turkish lira eased more than 1 percent to 5.6158 per dollar after President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party lost control of the capital Ankara for the first time in a local election and he appeared to concede defeat in the country's largest city, Istanbul.
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There has been more focus on Russian efforts to target election systems following The Intercept's report on a classified NSA document indicating that Russian intelligence sent spear-phishing emails to over 100 local election officials in the days leading up to the 2016 presidential election.
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Imagine this: One of the largest companies in Russia and the world, with billions of dollars in contracts with the Russian government, dumps $1.5 million into an American local election with the intent to shape the outcome to be more favorable to its interests.
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He said that the project will focus on "broadening the reach and depth of assistance to state and local officials," on top of emphasizing the need to audit elections, patch vulnerabilities in election systems and develop cybersecurity priorities for state and local election officials.
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If either position is filled by a person who disputes these findings, the EAC will instantly have a credibility problem and be more likely to encounter resistance from its partners, whether it's certain state and local election officials, federal agencies, or other election stakeholders.
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The city is reportedly exploring methods that will make its local election more inclusive by allowing participation by legal permanent residents, visa holders and residents who are legally residing in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
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The lawmakers say they are looking at legislation that would require mandatory reporting from the FBI to local election partners and Congress when it comes to cyberattacks, while arguing that congressional delegations deserve FBI briefings on such national security matters unfolding in their state.
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Trump is one of those answers; Brexit, the surprise British vote to leave the European Union, was another; the fall of Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany next year could be a third, after she trailed an anti-immigrant party in a local election this month.
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The American Civil Liberties Union has been sending its members to observe meetings of other local election commissions across the state, and to watch for similar proposals that could curtail voter access, according to Andrea Young, the executive director of the group's Georgia chapter.
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But multiple local outlets reported widespread confusion and miscommunications over the election between local election officials and poll workers, many of whom were told not to come in to run their polling places even after Judge Fyre's ruling ordering the election to continue as planned.
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Under pressure from his own lawmakers for pulling Labour away from the center ground from where it won three elections under Tony Blair, Corbyn has also launched Labour's local election campaign, saying the party was spurred by anger about the Conservatives "running our country down".
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The researchers began looking for connected systems in July of 2018 after seeing repeated comments from state and local election officials as well as federal officials with the Election Assistance Commission, that voting machines and backend election systems are never connected to the internet.
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My junior year at Prairie View was memorably punctuated in 28503 by the case of the "Prairie View 22019" — fellow students cast their ballot in a local election only to be arrested, booked and indicted by Waller County officials who claimed that they voted fraudulently.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - The imprisoned leader of the Kurdish militant group PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, called on supporters of a pro-Kurdish political party to remain politically neutral ahead of a local election in Istanbul this weekend, suggesting they should abstain, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
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In the briefings, the C.I.A. said there was intelligence indicating not only that the Russians were trying to get Mr. Trump elected but that they had gained computer access to multiple state and local election boards in the United States since 2014, officials said.
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He wrote that the Perry County Grand Jury — the majority of whom were African-American — instigated the initial probe into the voter fraud allegations during the 1982 local election and then submitted their findings to his office, requesting that Sessions commence a federal investigation.
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NSA CONTRACTOR ACCUSED OF LEAKING TOP SECRET REPORT ON RUSSIAN HACKING EFFORTS The report seemingly contained information detailing how Russian hackers got into a U.S. voting software supplier and sent so-called "spear-phishing" emails to more than 100 local election officials ahead of the 2016 election.
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" A company spokesperson wrote: "We're working with experts in the U.S. and around the world to explore tools that capture a wider range of political ads — including ads about political issues (beyond just candidate ads), state and local election ads, and political ads in other countries.
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Extended at the end of last year, the Minsk peace deal signed by Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany aims to give Ukraine back control of its border with Russia, see all heavy weapons withdrawn, return hostages and allow an internationally monitored local election in the east.
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Poll watchers in Florida are allowed to challenge the identity or right of a person to vote in the county in question so long as they explain their reasons for doing so under oath, and file the challenge with the clerk of the local election board.
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The currency lost some 227.33% of its value against the dollar last year and has shed another 210% this year as investors fret about the threat of U.S. sanctions, uncertainty over local election results, declining central bank reserves and a trend of Turks ramping up forex holdings.
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The currency lost some 2166.16% of its value against the dollar last year and has shed another 228.48% this year as investors fretted about the threat of U.S. sanctions, uncertainty over local election results, declining central bank reserves and a trend of Turks ramping up forex holdings.
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The Turkish lira eased 0.9 percent to 5.591 per dollar after President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party was set to lose control of the capital Ankara for the first time in a local election and he appeared to concede defeat in the country's largest city, Istanbul.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has seen his popularity slump ahead of a local election in Tokyo following scandals and gaffes by officials close to him, but the stock market is betting that a poor showing by the premier's party would be good for shares.
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Robert Brady (D-Pa.), ranking member of the Administration Committee, to create a special panel that will collect data, conduct hearings and interview experts — including cybersecurity specialists and state and local election officials — for the purpose of protecting future elections from hacking and other external interference.
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Early voting restrictions In North Carolina, where a court in July struck down a 2013 voter ID law whose restrictions took aim at black voters, Republicans on local election boards are busily cutting back early and Sunday voting hours, which are disproportionately used by African Americans.
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As part our commission's "BeReady16" effort, we worked with state and local election officials to: These accomplishments and others like them reflect the EAC's core mission to give all registered voters access to a trustworthy and secure voting system based on the best available research and data.
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Persky explained in his email how the debt incurred by challenging the campaign brought against him stemmed from a lawsuit that contended the California secretary of state should have presided over the petition to qualify his recall for the ballot instead of the local election office.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told the Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday that only about 20 of 150 state and local election officials have security clearances to obtain election security intel as they try to shore up vulnerabilities in light of Russia's efforts to meddle in U.S. elections.
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In Wisconsin, political analysts and others by Wednesday were weighing how much to make of the outcome here: Should this be seen as merely meaningful as a local election with issues unique to a single district, or as a larger sign of what Republicans should expect ahead?
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In a local election in Northern Virginia, Danica Roem, 33, defeated a Republican who had served in the state's House of Delegates for a quarter of a century — and, in doing so, Ms. Roem became the first transgender person to be elected to the Virginia legislature.
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But they said losing a monthslong parade of candidates who stream through tiny towns to talk farm-country issues could be a death blow for rural Democrats, who are still struggling to convert anti-Trump sentiment into local election wins in places where the president remains popular.
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Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen is expected to claim an easy victory, capping a remarkable comeback after devastating local election results in 2018 saw her step down as leader of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) following its crushing defeat in races across the self-governing island.
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Tuesday's election results — from Virginia to Boston to New York to New Jersey to Washington state including virtually every state-wide and local election — can be simply interpreted as this: The anti-Trump counter-revolution is energized and hungry, while the Republican side is divided and complacent.
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Some of the key findings from this year's survey include: This is just some of the important data that lawmakers, state and local election leaders, voters and other stakeholders will use over the coming months and beyond to improve voter experience and how elections are administered.
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A claim made last week by the Texas secretary of state — that 95,000 registered voters had a citizenship status that could not be determined — appeared to fall apart on Tuesday when local election officials said many of the people were known to be United States citizens.
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This is the first: A foreign national shall not, directly or indirectly, make a contribution or a donation of money or other thing of value, or expressly or impliedly promise to make a contribution or a donation, in connection with any Federal, State, or local election.
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Argentine sovereign bonds were also pressed about 2.1% lower in early trade, reflecting local election and global trade jitters after U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Beijing had not fulfilled a promise to buy large volumes of U.S. farm products and vowed to impose new tariffs.
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While the federal government certainly has a major role to play — in deterring future interference, in supporting state and local election officials, and in boosting national security efforts — Touhill noted that the technology companies Russians use as a conduit in their disinformation campaign have a responsibility as well.
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Under a plea bargain arrangement, Sheela and Ma Anand Puja—another senior figure in the group—admitted their roles in a 1984 food poisoning attack that affected more than 750 people, which was intended to influence a local election and remains the largest biological terror attack in US history.
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During the 2016 election cycle, we were able to connect local election administrators facing growing cybersecurity threats and other challenges with the right resources from federal entities such as the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Health and Human Services and the U.S. Postal Service.
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Based on the conversations I had last week, the following topics have emerged as their primary concerns ahead of the 2018 election cycle: As EAC chairman, I'm committed to helping Americans vote and giving state and local election officials the support they need to carry out successful elections.
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Earlier he'd said how that aspect of his investigation has been underplayed will have a long-term effect on the US. In his report, the former special counsel disclosed that Russian hackers compromised local election systems of two Florida counties in 2016, a development later confirmed by Florida Gov.
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PARIS, March 13 (Reuters) - Vikash Dhorasoo is not your usual candidate for a local election in France, but the ex-French soccer international hopes to send a message that politics can be done differently as he campaigns to become the mayor of one of Paris' more diverse districts.
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Over the past few days, news has trickled out that liberal billionaire George Soros has poured millions of dollars into local election campaigns against "tough on crime" prosecutors, helping defeat one such prosecutor in Illinois earlier this year and dropping money into races ranging from Mississippi to New Mexico.
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"When researchers recently contacted CISA to report vulnerabilities in mobile voting technology, we quickly shared this information with both the vendor and the state and local election officials who plan to pilot or use this technology during the 2020 election cycle," a CISA spokesperson said in a statement.
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In the estimation of many officials and experts, the effort was probably a trial run meant to probe American defenses and identify weaknesses in the vast back-end apparatus — voter-registration operations, state and local election databases, electronic poll books and other equipment — through which American elections are run.
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Some of those states allow you to vote with any form of identification, while some require you to have a photo ID. If you've never voted before, or are unsure what's required for your state, you can always contact your state or local election office to make sure you're fully prepared.
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The transfer plan sends a message "that things are worse than first assumed, (and) that the fiscal tightening we expected post March 31 local elections is being put off likely beyond the June 23 local election date," said Timothy Ash, head of emerging market research at Blue Bay Asset Management.
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Separately, the Department of Justice runs an Election Day Watch Program that appoints a district election officer in each US attorney's office around the country—roughly 94 total—and trains them as liaisons between DoJ in Washington, DC, attorneys and investigators in the field, and state and local election officials.
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India's prime minister Narendra Modi first spoke out against the practice in 2016, arguing that India cannot allow the lives of Muslim women to be ruined by three words over the phone, and the issue has been linked to BJP's electoral success in a crucial local election in Uttar Pradesh.
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The Open Source Election Technology Institute, a nonprofit research center founded by Miller, is currently developing a voting system that anyone with knowledge of code can understand—unlike the "black box" of commercial machines, which leave local election officials in the dark and require a maintenance person from the manufacturer.
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In a letter to the agency on Friday, Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center said published reports indicate that the Trump committee has solicited contributions from foreign nationals, in violation of the ban on soliciting any contribution in connection with a federal, state or local election from a foreign national.
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Some state and local election officials had raised concerns about some of the measures included in the bill, but Warner said Friday that he believes the officials who administer elections are ready to accept assistance from the federal government, and that lawmakers will try to pass the bill again next year.
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"And with federal partners like the Canada Revenue Agency and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, and provincial data from drivers bureaus and civil registries," In Quebec , the provincial health insurance agency sends listings to local election offices with information about all citizens that will turn 20143 within the next six months.
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" The state officials called the GOP's amount "simply not enough to give all local election officials the support needed to plan and pay for the changes that will be necessary for elections in light of how COVID-19 is creating new norms that cannot be ignored as we continue forward.
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The American Civil Liberties Union -- which says 20% of the black voting age population in Florida has been disenfranchised due to a felony conviction -- has argued that the state has not provided guidance to voters or local election supervisors, having a chilling effect on voters with a conviction who fear prosecution.
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Sessions was the first federal prosecutor to pursue allegations of absentee-voter fraud in a strictly local election, James Liebman, one of the NAACP lawyers, testified to the Senate in 1986, and the first to bring the might of the federal government to bear over a relatively small number of ballots.
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While she said there was no suggestion that Russia was aiming to interfere with the 2018 elections on the same "scale or scope" as they allegedly did in the Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton campaign two years ago, she promised government assistance to help state and local election systems safeguard themselves against cyberattacks.
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And while elections are supposed to be the way Americans can push through actual, sustainable change, a lagging voting infrastructure has continued to stand in the way—whether through accident, complacency, or deliberate voter suppression, everything from voting machines to basic things like local election boards actually having websites suffer from outdated technology.
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"We take transparency and disclosure of political ads very seriously which is why we have decided to pause state and local election ads in Washington, starting June 7, while we assess the amended campaign disclosure law and ensure that our systems are built to comply with the new requirements," a spokesperson said.
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President Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's Justice Department has urged state and local election officials to be more aggressive in their purging practices.
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Now — after the city officially gave the shuttles free rein to use public bus stops; after the tech elite were accused of trying to buy a crucial local election; after the home-rental company Airbnb spent a fortune to defeat a proposition that would have restricted its business — the discontent is mainstream.
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The assaults on the vast back-end election apparatus — voter-registration operations, state and local election databases, e-poll books and other equipment — have received far less attention than other aspects of the Russian interference, such as the hacking of Democratic emails and spreading of false or damaging information about Mrs. Clinton.
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Ms. Winner, who was honorably discharged from the Air Force in 2016, was working as a contractor for the National Security Agency when she obtained a copy of a report that described hacks by a Russian intelligence service against local election officials and a company that sold software related to voter registration.
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What they're saying: "Due to improved relationships between DHS and our state and local election partners, our partners have increased their reporting of what they are seeing to DHS, which is contributing to a more comprehensive understanding of the threats facing our nation's election infrastructure," a DHS official said in an emailed statement to Axios.
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"If this becomes a local election like we saw with Connor Lamb in Pennsylvania -- where he really localized the election; he ran away from Nancy Pelosi as a Democrat; he said I'm not really interested in voting for her for the next speaker -- then I think the Democrats could do fairly well," he added.
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Mark Warner, the top Dem on the Senate Intel Committee, said Tuesday that what has been made public thus far about Russian hacking during the 2016 election is the tip of the iceberg: This comes after the report that Russian military intelligence operatives targeted more than 100 local election officials in the buildup to the election.
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But if Coloradans lose or never receive their mail-in ballots or just want to get a new ballot before they mail their old one in, they can void their old ballots — the ones that they got by mail — and get a new ballot at a local election office that they can then file by mail or in person.
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Graham, Dick Durbin, Chuck Grassley, and Richard Blumenthal, that would bar any individual convicted of interfering in US elections from obtaining a visa to enter the US. The second was the Defending the Integrity of Voting Systems Act, sponsored by Blumenthal, Graham, and Sheldon Whitehouse, which would make it a federal crime to hack into a local election system.
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The National Security Agency report said Russian military intelligence executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. supplier of voting software and sent deceptive emails to more than 100 local election officials in the days leading up to the election last November — a sign that Moscow's hacking may have penetrated further into voting systems than previously known.
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Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN)As hackers sit down to break into dozens of voting machines here in Las Vegas this weekend, some state and local election officials that have flown in to witness the spectacle at one of the world's largest hacking conventions are becoming increasingly concerned about another threat to November's midterm elections: information warfare.
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At a time when the Department of Homeland Security has designated election systems as part of the country's critical infrastructure, election officials face cybersecurity threats, our nation's voting machinery is aging and there are accusations of election irregularities, the EAC is the only federal agency bridging the gap between federal guidance and the needs of state and local election officials.
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Terri SewellTerrycina (Terri) Andrea Sewell'Raise the Wage Act' would drop the hammer on the most vulnerable workers Ocasio-Cortez distances herself from ex-staffer's controversial tweet Mueller says political campaigns should report offers of foreign assistance MORE (D-Ala.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, on Friday introduced two bills aimed at strengthening the cybersecurity of federal, state, and local election campaigns.
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