Sentences with phrase «about electoral»

Please do not contact Planned Parenthood health centers about electoral matters.

The federal Liberal government's stated intention to bring about electoral «reform» without a referendum brings to mind Lord Acton's famous dictum: «Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.»

For more information about the electoral process, visit the Secretary of State's website.

«No, we are not talking about the electoral system — we are talking about the climate.»

As a former speechwriter for Al Gore, Pink knows something about electoral politics.

However, this is sometimes a little bit tricky to explain to our students who may have little knowledge about the politics or about the electoral process.

The new song created exclusively for this collection, the America Rock tune «I'm Gon na Send Your Vote to College» (about the electoral college system), is also uninspired, and this collection's relentless pimping of the song is downright annoying.

«I've made very clear my views about our electoral system and about proportional representation,» he said.

Mr Baako is urging the Commission to quickly resolve the grievances of political parties and other interest groups about the electoral roll before the general election.

His on - again, off - again campaign in 2000 and his truncated run for the White House in 2008 raise serious doubts about his electoral viability.

The review will leave many MPs unusually insecure about their electoral fortunes.

The angry alienated may not care about electoral systems, but they might be even angrier if they knew what harm they suffer from their voting boycott.

It's difficult to understand the thought process behind an acceptance that fixed - term parliaments, candidate selection and the number of MPs can be valid and relevant to the situation we are in, but that any discussion at all about the electoral system is not.

He told Sky News: «I was asked to speak about electoral reform; I talked about change and I think it's unfair of you to try and read anything into it.

Dozens of Labour MPs, anxious about the electoral damage inflicted by the row over the Tory smears, want Mr Draper banished to the political wilderness.

Ghanaians have rejected their many lies about the electoral system and we know Ghanaians stand poised to reject them once again in 2016.

In his pronouncements both on national and international platforms, he has not missed an opportunity to use incendiary rhetoric amidst lies and fabrications about our electoral process.

Here, the team summarise these previews, while providing additional information about the electoral systems in use for the contest, and a set of simplified ballot papers which show each candidates actual chances of being -LSB-...]

The debate about electoral reform should include firstly attitudes to political parties (in general terms, not the particular parties) and secondly the importance of the individual candidates (again in general terms) and their significance in our democratic system.

Some of the wilder talk about electoral pacts was sparked by the Prime Minister's ambiguous early remarks wishing the Liberal Democrats well.

I have a question about the electoral system of...

«The noises around about the electoral process not being encouraging enough for some people are not true.

Timed to coincide with celebrations of Gordon Brown's impassioned and well - delivered leader's speech, the Sun headline all - but detonated the conference by undermining Labour just at the moment the party felt a glimmer of hope about its electoral prospects.

That might then lead to nothing and a second election, to agreements about electoral reform, to other arrangements about supply / confidence, etc..

Peter Facey (London, Unlock Democracy): As someone who watches the debate about our electoral system with a keen (if not nerdish) interest and tries to read the tea leaves of what it means for our future, two things are becoming clear.

John Curtice explains the contradiction: «Our willingness to give contradictory responses to survey questions about electoral systems suggests that relatively few of us have thought through the trade - offs involved the choice of an electoral system or have firm views on the subject.»

Mr. Quaicoo commended YFM and STAR Ghana for the initiative, and urged the youth to learn a lot from the discussions in order to influence their friends and family who are ignorant about electoral issues.

Most significantly, there is again a serious discussion about electoral reform.

That was the most notable observation I could draw out of current Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis when I asked about her electoral predecessor, 2013 candidate Joe Lhota, and lessons from his campaign.

14:39 — The first question in parliament is from Willie Bain — it's about electoral registration.

Labour needs to stop worrying about its electoral future, and start attacking the tories on POLICIES not personalities, but for that it needs to define policies that will inspire confidence in the vast majority of people in the UK, whose gross annual income is below # 25k

The Tories by contrast are confused about electoral reform.

They don't care about electoral reform (at parliamentary level anyway), they don't have the habit of listening to their grassroots who are concerned about it, and they'd probably much rather have all the votes back they've lost to us.

If they really cared about electoral reform, I suspect they'd have made the Lib Dems an offer they couldn't refuse by now, much as Sunny suggested two days ago.

5) Did Dr Bawumia peddle falsehood at the Supreme Court in 2012 about electoral fraud, padding of votes, rigging and when he was pushed for evidence, his response was that «You and I were not there»?

«How to survey about electoral turnout?

Although he is the first party leader since Margaret Thatcher to change the minds of some colleagues and commentators about the electoral consequences of espousing radical policies he is still constrained by party orthodoxies of which he is personally opposed.

The president hit his favorite highlights in the interview with Fox and Friends, criticizing CNN and NBC, among others, as «fake news,» and bragging about his electoral college win.

Not exact matches

We think a lot about Nixon's downfall in the wake of Watergate, but few recall he won the job by commanding electoral landslides (and even beat John F. Kennedy in the popular vote back in 1960).

What's strange about Merkel's record of electoral success is how consistently she has confirmed the adage that policy failures are an unavoidable part of politics, while avoiding its corollary: that erosions of public support are inevitable, too.

Since Trump's electoral victory, various surveys of consumer confidence have shown that Americans» optimism about the labor market has improved.

Many expressed doubts about the plan, but whatever its merits that's the one that has received electoral endorsement.

Nor has Occupy made any noticeable moves in the realm of electoral politics; and however cynical you want to be about that system, it is still a crucial part of getting things done.

For Donald Trump, everything is about Donald Trump, including the electoral system that has held the United States together for nearly 240 years.

This scandal is only the latest in a string of worrisome disclosures about the use of social media by third parties, from foreign governments and electoral candidates to law enforcement agencies, to spy on the activities of users — especially immigrant, Black and other vulnerable communities.

The landmark survey commissioned by the Broadbent Institute is the first study of its kind and size to measure Canadians» attitudes about voting system design and preference for electoral reform.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada needs to be vigilant about protecting the integrity of its electoral systems from foreign interference.

Many have commented that the US presidential election may impact the Canadian federal election, particularly as Canadians often know just as much about American electoral events as their own.

Alberta's Chief Electoral Officer Glen Resler spoke to the Standing Committee on Legislative Offices on September 24, 2015 about legislated timelines that require an Electoral Boundaries Commission be appointed to redraw the provincial electoral districts.

The electoral college is about much more than tallying votes.