Sentences with phrase «about voting issues»

Also at 7 p.m., Assemblyman David Buchwald is a panelist on a League of Women Voters of Westchester forum about voting issues and reform, Church St. School, 295 Church St., White Plains.

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Asked about the discrepancy, the chairwoman of the polling station's election commission, Oksana Mediyeva, said independent monitors had watched the vote and had raised no issues.

In early February, the firm received a response from Vanguard, which Tim Smith, senior vice president at Walden Asset Management, told me included a discussion of Vanguard's efforts to talk with companies about social and environmental issues, but stopped short of saying that Vanguard would actually change its proxy voting practices.

In early January, Walden Asset Management, a corporate client who uses Vanguard for their 401 (k) program, wrote Vanguard about its proxy voting practices with respect to social and environmental issues like political spending and climate change.

Such conversations can reveal which issues your shareholders actually care about — maybe board diversity isn't even on their radar, and won't be a deal - breaker come vote time.

We used the data to identify «persuadable» voters, how likely they were to vote, the issues they cared about, and who was most likely to donate.

Pressing the issue further, Ms. Pelosi and the next two highest - ranking House Democrats sent a letter to Mr. Ryan noting their desire for the government to remain open and imploring him to make a public statement about the scheduling of a vote on legislation to protect young undocumented immigrants who are now shielded from deportation by the Obama - era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.

Last month, it gave Listed an update, noting, «The CSA has heard concerns about the role of proxy advisers in influencing shareholder voting and has solicited formal feedback on this issue.

Despite talking for a month about an option to bypass leadership's stonewalling on DACA legislation and saying he had the votes to do so, California Republican Rep. Jeff Denham refused to say if he would actually use it at a press conference on the issue Wednesday.

And finally, we will argue that sometimes voting support is modest in early years but later garners significant shareholder backing as knowledge about an issue accumulates.»

Clients can select which issue categories they care about, and how they would like company performance in those areas to translate into voting decisions.

Before the Dominion Elections Act (1920), voting in Canadian federal elections was largely governed by the provinces, just as voting in US federal elections is still, even today, governed by the «several States» (as they are wont to put it)-- except for the 1917 wartime election, labelled as the «largest gerrymander in Canadian history» (I've just finished a fascinating book about that election, fought over the issue of conscription; I highly recommend it).

The three great imperatives advanced by the Indiana guidelines are: Learn about Candidates and Issues, Support the Candidates of Your Choice, Vote and Encourage Others to Vote.

«He's one of London's most inspiring young men, encouraging his listeners to vote, pray and speak openly about mental health and their issues and problems.

I car more about their record of voting and their stance on the issues.

there's no way anyone in their right mind would change their mind about voting over one issue like u mentioned.

So, having said these things, I will still vote for President Obama not so much for the other issues I agree with him (immigration and especially economy), but because of the facts you Baptist Minister also mentioned about Bishop Romney (he was indeed a Mormon priest in Boston and a Mormon missionary in France).

If young evangelicals were concerned about regulating «morality» instead of global social issues then they would all be voting for Perry.

This is not to say that we can not come to impassioned, principled positions about how to vote, particularly when dealing with issues as important as sexual assault, bigotry, racism, responsible foreign policy, religious liberty, and the dignity of human life at every stage in its development.

The meeting should be a private one, but the MP could be told quite clearly that afterwards a clear statement will be issued giving his, or her, views about homosexual marriage with the MP's voting intentions.

I have no problems with how others vote or how they think about religious or political issues.

This should provide sufficient motivation to vote, and to ask which candidate will appoint the kind of justices who will defend the Constitution and the issues and freedoms we care most about.

The decline in political activity proved true for every category, from preaching a sermon on a public policy issue (1 % did so in 2016, down from 37 % in 2014) to distributing voter guides (36 %, down from 45 %) to speaking to the congregation about the importance of voting (62 %, down from 78 %).

... Many people expected evangelicals would forget about the issues and vote only on the character flaws of the two candidates, if they voted at all.

Furthermore, he violated the consti.tution by speaking about political issues and trying to inadvertently sway the vote away from Obama, for which once the IRS are done he could very well have cost his cult of bigots their tax - exempt status.

Most of the presidential stand clear of this issue but the one who is willing to speak about it will earn the votes.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

The founders of Black Lives Matter refute these 11 stated misconceptions about their movement; they ignore Black on Black crime, they're leaderless, they have no agenda, they're a one - issue movement (Police brutality), they don't respect their elders, they reject the Black Church, they don't care about Queer / Trans lives, they hate White people, they hate Police officers, politically speaking their focus should be the vote, and they're not actually a movement.

«Painful irony of pro-choice stance of Women's March is that abortion was likely THE issue to tip scales for evangelical women to vote Trump,» said Hannah Anderson, who writes and podcasts about gender and theology for Christ and Pop Culture.

I always wonder about those very issues you posed concerning the «religious» and their motivations, and to whom they will vote for and why.

The only time I ever hear politics mentioned from the pulpit is about this time every year when church members are reminded of our duty as citizens of the U.S. to vote and to become informed on the issues and candidates before choosing how they will vote.

Vote for one who tells the American people the TRUTH about tough issues.

He added that there was no discussion by the board — either before voting to place the issues on the ballot or since — about any of the three issues.

Several members said they were not comfortable voting on the issue after several speakers warned about the dangers of exposing...

However, in move that will no doubt disappoint scientists and consumer advocates concerned about the issue, the FDA advisory committee voted 8 to 6 yesterday that there's no need for foods containing artificial dyes to carry a warning label, let alone be banned.

In practice the line between person and project blurs a little since issues important enough to bother with and having few enough plans to make a reasonable vote normally have individual champions or leading thinkers who make the explanation to the voters what voting for that plan means, and nobody wins votes without some hints about what direction they are planning to go in.

``... another thing remarkable he did not ask the whole of Ghana to vote for Nana Akufo Addo; of course being an NPP stalwart, it is expected that he would ask people to vote against President Mahama... but he did not ask the people of Ghana to vote for Nana Akufo Addo; it is extremely instructive; it raises a very serious issue... If I were an NPP member, I would be extremely worried about this grave omission,» he noted.

I met with them when they were launching their site, a portal for learning about the candidates» position on 14 core issues and about newly changed voting procedures (similar to our Project Vote Smart in many respects).

If Scotland votes Yes, Trident will become a major political issue in the UK, as the Tories panic about where they can base the submarines.

Because everyone has to vote, the whole country may become more politically literate and they might actually learn what their positions on different issues are, allowing them to make very informed decisions about their choice.

The chance that that tiny sliver of extra voting power in the legislative body itself will be the deciding factor on an issue you care about is incredibly small.

«If he's suggesting he'd vote differently then let's talk about the issues,» Nojay said.

«The Staten Island voting base is more intelligent than some people give them credit for, and I believe Staten Islanders care about the issues that impact them most, and vote for the candidate they believe can deliver on those issues.»

In March ’17 we launched our Money Talks campaign, aimed at the NYS budget, to educate the public about the issues at stake in the budget negotiations and bringing attention to the progressive bills passed in the NYS Assembly that were either defeated or never brought to a vote in the State Senate.

UPDATE: The Times also notes, correctly, that it's not really clear how much voters actually care about the issue of missed votes - and it is hard to imagine the non-voting alone will majorly affect the outcome of the primary.

-- Vote against the finance bill after listening to the people's concerns over issues like the 10p tax rate (assuming the bill remains talking about retrospective taxation)-- Recognise the much bulkier and more vast argument against 42 days legislation and support the rebellion against this legislation rather than supporting the PR men and the policy writers to the hilt regardless of the realities of the situation.

Many Americans continue to say their religious beliefs have been influential in shaping their views about social issues, including abortion and same - sex marriage, according to Pew research, but it doesn't always translate into votes.

If he is not prepared to put his career on the line by only voting slavishly in line with the whip then there can not be any complaints about his lack of credibility when it comes to raising issues regarding his party's policy failures.

Lawmakers spent a lot of time talking about meaty issues, including establishing a system of paid family and medical leave, reinstituting tolls on state highways and setting up new measures to address police accountability, but in the end, a lack of consensus scuttled chances for a vote.