Sentences with phrase «elections voted unanimously»

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GRANDE PRAIRIE — Moments after the CUPE Alberta convention voted (unanimously) to support the Alberta NDP in next year's provincial election, Premier Rachel Notley was received with cheers, chants, hugs and multiple standing ovations by delegates.

Third, the Constitutional Committee organized a national election of 25 Constitutional Assembly representatives to draft the constitution, a task that the Constitutional Assembly, renamed Council, completed within the four months assigned to it in 2011 by producing a partly crowd - sourced constitution bill, fully consistent with the conclusion of the National Assembly, and passing it unanimously with 25 votes to 0, a rare feat.

The state Independence Party executive committee met this afternoon and unanimously voted to put Democratic AG nominee Eric Schneiderman on Row C in the general election.

The Maine Ethics Commission voted unanimously on August 27 to not enforce the $ 1,500 limit for each election, opting instead for a $ 3,000 per individual limit for the 2014 election cycle.

The state Board of Elections unanimously voted to make the criminal referral, a source has told Newsday.

After nearly screwing up the contentious primary between Rep. Charlie Rangel and State Sen. Adriano Espaillat, the troubled board voted unanimously Tuesday to immediately update the way it counts ballots on election night.

The board also voted unanimously to enact restrictions to mass mailings, prohibiting incumbents from sending them out within 45 days of an election.

«In line with the wishes of the majority of the members of the National Democratic Congress, and in the wake of recommendations made by the election review committee chaired by Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, the National Executive Committee, which is the highest decision - making body after Congress, voted unanimously for the scrapping of the register which was used to conduct our internal elections last year,» Kofi Portuphy said.

While a Daley - connected circuit judge, Thomas Kluczynski (who would later be appointed a federal judge by Kennedy, at Daley's recommendation), threw out a federal lawsuit «filed to contend» the voting totals, [42] the Republican - dominated State Board of Elections unanimously rejected the challenge to the results.

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously endorsed election maps that bolster the growing political influence of America's Latinos, ruling that states can count everyone, not just eligible voters, in drawing voting districts.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The city Board of Elections (BOE) voted unanimously on Tuesday to refer the filing of petition signatures for Rep. Daniel Donovan by a Grimm campaign operative to local, state, and federal prosecutors.

On Thursday, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) voted unanimously — by a vote of 4 - 0 — to allow Democrat Liuba Grechen Shirley, a community organizer who is challenging Rep. Peter King, a Long Island Republican, to use the funds for her two children: Nicholas, age 2, and Mila, age 3.

In June 2015, the Scottish Parliament voted unanimously to reduce the voting age to 16 for Scottish Parliament elections and Scottish local government elections.

«After a critical assessment of individual activities and the performance of the party during the last elections, members of the party in Ward C, Ilasamaja, Mushin unanimously voted for the immediate suspension of Banire from participating in party activities in the Ward and his removal from office as National Legal Adviser,» he said.

The city's board of elections — two Republicans and two Democrats — voted unanimously to refer the complaint to the Manhattan district attorney for criminal investigation.

But on the election day, while 51 APC senators were at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, waiting for a truce meeting called by the party leadership and Buhari, Saraki avoided the meeting and was unanimously voted for as the Senate President by 57 senators who were in attendance.

In the 2009 election, he was elected to the Hellenic Parliament for Athens A and was subsequently voted unanimously to be the head of the Syriza parliamentary group.