Moreover, as far as a Justice Department spokeswoman, Kara Peterson, knows, the monitor, Walter F. Timpone -- who has the power to hire and fire election workers and distribute election material -- is the only federal election monitor in place in the country this election season.
Mr. Timpone was appointed, with authority to hire and fire election workers, after municipal elections in May and the June primary, during which federal election observers reported that the county ignored a consent order it had signed in June 1999 calling for the same reforms that Mr. Timpone announced yesterday.
As the starting gun for the local government polls and general election is fired and election fever/ fatigue engulfs the nation, if I had a pound for everytime I'd heard the claim that 2010 heralds the first new media election I reckon I'd have at least a couple of quid by now.
There would be no need for the long and costly - especially to the workers who are fired - election campaign.
Her focus: his frenetic version of "You're fired!" this election season and how that's played out with the Republican establishment, without whom (and without whose money) she doubts he can make it to the Oval Office.
Setting your opponent's hair on fire, election conspiracies.
Election season is busy for me as I prepare to bring readers candidate profiles and get into the pre-production phase for the upcoming Feet to the Fire election forums.
She probed: "The gun has fired for the election campaign proper … you are probably not going to give me a date, I don't know, you might, but if you can nail it down to a month it would be quite helpful for the election".
But the president of a major union -- which spent unprecedented sums this election cycle -- fired back, saying the elections reflect a larger sense of dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party and that losses were not referenda on union-backed candidates or policies.
The state elections chief fired two Democrats from the elections board in the Dayton area on Tuesday after they pressed to allow early voting on weekends.
To add insult to injury, Karzai appointed Azizullah Lodin, the former head of the international election committee who had been fired over the 2009 election fraud, as the new head of the HOOAC.
