Sentence examples for elections to influence from inspiring English sources

Researchers say this new breed of bots is being designed not just with greater sophistication but also with grander goals: to sway elections, to influence the stock market, to attack governments, even to flirt with people and one another.

Instead, he loves to see corporate money being spent secretly in elections to influence their outcome.

Conservative justices on the Supreme Court (which is split on abortion) make a political play, strikingly reminiscent of the last presidential election, to influence the Senate to vote against Caroline Masters.

In San Francisco last year, outside groups spent $2.6 million — up from $30,000 in the previous election — to influence the mayor's race, with most (both for and against) going to the eventual winner, Mayor Edwin M. Lee.

Yet all seventeen U.S. intelligence agencies agreed that Russia had launched cyber-attacks just before the November election to influence Trump's victory.

The charges coincide with mounting tensions between U.S. intelligence agencies and Russian President Vladimir Putin's government, which they accused of hacking the 2016 U.S. presidential election to influence the vote in favor of then-Republican candidate Donald Trump.

Pressure groups help people to take part in politics between elections, and to influence a government's policy in areas that they care and know about.

During the campaign, questions were raised about whether Trump improperly made campaign contributions to Bondi's re-election effort to influence whether she investigated allegations against Trump University.

The new campaign law seeks to fence off money raised ostensibly for the purpose of state elections from being used to influence federal elections.

By last year's presidential election, dozens of such "social welfare" organizations were trying to influence elections.

"Though the trust may work in concert with like-minded individuals, organizations and political committees that will attempt to influence elections directly, the trust itself will not fund direct attempts to influence elections," the commission wrote.