Sentences with phrase «fair elections so»

«It's time to close these corporate tax loopholes and pass publicly financed Fair Elections so that our elected officials don't allow CEO campaign contributors to get away with these sweetheart deals ever again.

In the wake of years of inaction by the elected officials in the region and continuing unemployment and disinvestment in Poughkeepsie, a growing movement has been building in the Hudson Valley and across the state in support of Fair Elections so that New Yorkers can have a democractic system that elects officials that will be responsive to the needs of all communities.

Not exact matches

«The Republican Party will just send a letter to the Board of Elections asking them to review it and if there's no wrongdoing then so be it and if there's an issue then we all need to play on the same fair playing field,» Reilich said.

During the last elections, many opposition parties boycotted the presidential and parliamentary election, denouncing massive electoral fraud during the municipal elections and claiming that municipal elections were not free and fair and the next polls unlikely to be so.

The governor in a statement signed his Special Adviser on Communication and Strategy to the governor, Mr. Bolaji Tunji on Wednesday, said that it was on record that the so - called unity forum adjudged the election to be free, credible and fair in an advertorial published in a national daily and even went ahead to congratulate the congress committee for a job well done.

«I join Senator Kavanagh in urging the Governor to include early voting in the budget so that all New Yorkers can have a fairer government where elections are a right accessible to all rather than a burden on working families,» Senator Leroy Comrie said.

In an op - ed in the Poughkeepsie Journal, 2012 Congressional candidate Julian Schreibman explained why adopting Fair Elections is so important for New York.

@JimmyJames To be fair most elections for judgeships aren't really much of an election so I doubt they do much campaigning.

In the most recent election, as the original post notes, neither of the major parties changed their share of seats in local government offices by more than 0.3 %, which rounds down to 0 %, so it is fair to say that there was «no clear winner» judged relative to the status quo.

That is why it is good to have everything in place so that the elections will be conducted free and fair and in a very transparent manner.

«We call on the various Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), National Peace Council, the CODEO and the international community «to take steps to reverse these disturbing trends so that we can have proper free and fair elections in the future since free and fair elections for 7th December 2016 have escaped us.»

«We went the extra-ordinary length to purchase the EVM (Electronic Voting Machine) so that the elections will be free and fair.

Do not engage in any form of violence against our opponent and his supporters so as to take away the beauty of the victory we are about to chalk, because we want to win a peaceful, free and fair elections.

With Fair Elections reform, elected officials who spend time raising small - dollar contributions from their constituents will receive matching funds so that the playing field is leveled.

«You need the cooperation of the EC to conduct the election in a free and fair manner, and so it's not only the personal responsibility of the president, it's also the duty of all these agencies and the duty of every single Ghanaian who is a stakeholder in the elections.

He emphasized that it is important for us to have a free, fair and transparent elections in 2016, «so that we can preserve our peace, stability and democracy.»

I thank the legislature for quickly and unanimously passing this measure so that I could sign it into law and call a special election to ensure fair representation in the 26th Congressional District.»

You could also try convincing these 3 states (or any of the others that voted Trump) that Clinton supporters were so confident that Clinton was going to win that they failed to vote, and that the «fairest» thing to do would be to hold another election, if they're not willing to flip votes outright.

He urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, to remain steadfast as they conduct the remaining rerun elections so as to ensure a free, fair and credible election.

It has been altered a fair bit in 1995.97 and in 2010, both in the Tories favour, so this corner of the city really should be Conservative in all elections where they are ahead nationally.

Our freedoms have been curtailed in one way or other because of the security situation and so we need to double our steps to ensure that the next election which is crucial to Ghanaians are conducted in a free and fair manner.»

A second source said Cuomo was so close to Pigeon that in 2010, Gov. David Paterson refused to allow then - Attorney General Cuomo to name a special prosecutor to investigate election - related corruption charges being made against Pigeon — because he felt Cuomo «couldn't be trusted to authorize a fair probe.»

We can expect that in May 2016 there is a very fair chance indeed that a majority of voters for the Scottish Parliament will still back the SNP, so that even under Scotland's proportional representation elections, the SNP will govern Scotland to 2020 with a large majority.

Abeg let him remain in London so that we can have a free & fair election.

That's not to say that young voters were not still important in explaining the election result — age was still an important divide on how people voted, young people did still heavily vote for Labour so it is still fair to say Labour managed to enthuse young people more, it's just that the level of turnout among under 25s does not appear to have risen; Labour just took a greater share of support among younger voters.

An AFT spokesperson told POLITICO that Paul's administrators «created a toxic environment so full of fear, harassment and intimidation that we felt a fair election would be impossible at this time.»

After purchasing restricted stock in a company, so that the amount paid for the stock is exactly equal to its fair market value at the time of purchase, can you file an 83b election at that time?

One could also criticize the Harper government for its «war on science,» so eloquently described in Chris Turner's book of that name, or its egregiously misnamed and misconceived «Fair Elections Act,» which has been denounced by a roster of distinguished political scientists, or its cancellation of perhaps the best census in the world, again denounced by the experts, or the gutting of environmental legislation and the Department of the Environment.

Why is the Fair Elections Act so harmful to our voting rights?

The idea of killing the Voter Information Card, like so many other weird bits of nonsense in the Fair Elections Act, comes completely out of left field, supported by no serious evidence.

«Things happen so quickly on Election Day that getting the facts and the law right to arrive at a reasoned, fair result is put to the test,» said Young, who worked on the ABA project.

But then, so does «Fair Elections Act»

We think it's fair to say that our most recent election cycle has stirred more uncertainty than many can remember, so 2017 is guaranteed to hold many answers for all of us.