Sentences with phrase «additional votes»

Therefore, conceptually, if two people already - as universally supported - don't necessarily have the same voting weight (you can have a vote taken away from you for presumably doing wrong to society), what is the moral / philosophical argument against having select people being given additional votes for presumably doing more than average for society?

Borough presidents appoint two additional voting members who are district residents or who own or operate a business in the district.

SB 441 by Sen. Ron Calderon, D - Montebello, is scheduled for reconsideration this Wednesday but even the author does not appear optimistic he will find the one additional vote needed to move the bill along.

Therefore, polling stations which functioned throughout the entire day would show a disproportionate turnout as they would have gotten additional votes from people who were turned away from their assigned polling stations.

The «triple lock» budget pledge was allowed to entirely dominate Labour's manifesto launch — surely securing not a single additional vote.

If it wanted to, Facebook could mobilize users likely to vote in line with the company's interests (as it tried to do in India) based on their demographic group and geographic location — a sort of digital gerrymandering capable of garnering hundreds of thousands of additional votes.

Meanwhile, opponents of pollution controls continue to press for further debate and additional votes on bills that would restrict or eliminate EPA's authority.

Given how helpful it was to have a dry shampoo roundup from which to shop, here is a recap of the recommendations, ordered from lowest to highest price (prices are reflective of price at time of posting) and including commentary and additional vote notes.

This is due in part to the fact that they're still mutually dependent on each other: Cuomo would certainly take whatever additional votes he might receive by having the line, and the party will need to receive 50,000 votes again to remain an official party in the next gubernatorial election.

[We are] planning on circulating independent nominating petitions for our statewide candidates in order to create an issue - themed additional voting line...» the letter states.

«It was the governor who unilaterally put into place New York's first online voter registration system and has repeatedly advanced additional voting reforms,» Rich Azzopardi, the governor's senior deputy communications director, said in an email.

The Associated Press originally declared Grothman the winner of the GOP primary last week but then rescinded its call after additional votes came in and rendered the race too close to call.

Should Dietl succeed there, he'll still have to win additional votes, with Manhattan the most likely possibility among the three remaining boroughs of Staten Island, Brooklyn and Manhattan.

The ruling Popular Party doesn't have enough seats and will need to find additional votes.

Create additional voting seats on the board, elected directly by their constituencies, for: students from art, architecture, and engineering; faculty from art, architecture, engineering, and humanities; and staff

One of the delicate negotiations currently under way is likely over whether supporters can find more than one additional vote for the measure, and to whom those votes might belong.

There are two additional voting members who are appointed by the borough presidents or the Public Advocate and must be residents of or own or operate a business in the district These CECs serve as a link between the community, department of education and government and serve as a potential voice in advocating for the needs of the schools in their district.

Don't co-op, Fabians even Christian friends of labour get additional votes, as my Union RMT isn't affiliated not sure if unions got a vote on the NEC in 2014

So, with all this diversity across our panel of developers (thank you, by the way; you're all rock stars), the title that grabbed the award by virtue of a single additional vote was...

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Ferrari, in which Exor has large stakes, both have versions of loyalty structures, under which investors who hold shares for a certain period and register them receive additional special shares giving them additional voting rights.

That coolness toward outsiders may well have cost him the 21 additional votes he needed to make the Baseball Hall of Fame last month.

However, comparing his performance in the 2012 election where he stood on the NPP ticket, it showed that Akufo Addo may not be as popular as his apparatchiks would make the country believ; he only added 188,630 additional votes.

In one critical Jackson - based county, Cochran backers who were caught napping during the June 3 GOP primary helped provide 7,000 additional votes — about the margin of the senator's runoff victory Tuesday — through a frenzy of precision door knocks, carefully scripted phone calls and Facebook and text messages to remind supporters just how much they were needed at the polls.

Members would be elected exactly as now, but where their party was under - represented nationally this would be corrected by giving them an additional voting strength in the division lobbies of the House of Commons.

Your constituency is Additional Vote (AV), go to 3

Apparently he changed some minds, because when Brazile announced the vote total for the second round, it was 235 to 200 — meaning that Perez had won, and that Ellison hadn't managed to garner one additional vote.

For representation on the State Committee, each affiliated County Organization shall be entitled to one voting member plus an additional voting member for every 200 Enrolled Members and one additional voting member for every ten Supporting Members.

It's only the additional votes that Dan Malloy received from the so - called Working Families party that put him over the top.»

The bill requires nine votes in order to pass through the Legislature and three additional votes to avoid a potential veto by County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican who is yet to take a public stance on the proposal.

He asked for those attending the dinner to help him secure the additional votes needed for passage.

«When people talk about voter fraud, what they usually mean is additional votes being cast by one party, but this is different.

If it makes any changes to the bill, the measure must return to the Senate for an additional vote.

Bhuva's team cites the case of the 2003 local election in Schaerbeek, Belgium, in which an SEU in an electronic voting machine gave one candidate 4,096 additional votes.

That gives Sandra the weekend to drum up the seven additional votes she needs to remain employed, which she reluctantly tries to do by knocking on doors and asking her friends to give up their bonuses on her behalf.

However, Streep's anti-Trump speech at the Golden Globes certainly helped her pick - up some additional votes from her colleagues.

However, once you have submitted your choices, any additional votes you enter later will not be counted.)

However, once you have submitted your choice, any additional votes you enter later will not be counted.)

The fine print... Each person can only vote once; any additional votes will not be counted.

Each of your additional votes adds one - tenth of a pound.

Choice Awards organizers believe that, in tandem with their goal of having the most focused, impartial awards in the game industry, this additional voting transparency will further boost the awards» reputation.

Those that blatantly mass - downvote other reviews — typically around 10,000 times on a single game, the Steam blog noted — will see each additional vote diluted more and more.