Sentences with phrase «address voting problems»

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In both cases, many votes are wasted and there are massive distortions between the make - up of the parliament and the popular vote so the added complexity does not solve any of the problems you set out to address.

WFP Executive Director Dan Cantor recently sounded the alarm over a judge's decision not to grant the party a pre-Election Day injunction to address the so - called «double - vote» problem with the new electronic voting machines, calling that a «hudge problem» for the minor party.

You already addressed the problems with getting the «youth vote» (TP, December), but it is not fi rst and foremost a problem with getting us interested.

On Tuesday morning - Election Day - in Manhattan's Foley Square, a large group of New Yorkers will hold a rally, kicking off a campaign to address two of New York's enduring problems: voting access and voter turnout.

Although his office can not mandate repairs to the voting system, de Blasio announced that the city would spend $ 20 million to improve the Board of Elections, provided it would agree to a series of changes aimed at addressing the problems with last week's primary.

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled his $ 82.2 billion executive budget for New York City on Tuesday with a presentation focused on savings extracted from city agencies, and a few new programs intended to address problems that arose over the past year, from snarled snowplows in Queens to voting woes in the presidential primary last week.

While some of the abuses that have occurred this week can not be undone, we call on you to immediately address the problems that can still be fixed, and to bring in an independent third party to conduct Saturday's vote.

The problem which disrupted the voting process for a while was quickly addressed by the police and voting continued.

On Monday, the governor took an important step toward addressing that problem by announcing a 30 - day budget amendment to fund voting reforms, including early voting across the state.

In a letter, addressed to Reps. Elijah Cummings, Robert Brady, and James Clyburn, Schneiderman emphasized the real voting challenges in New York are those that disenfranchise potential voters, rather than the «imaginary problem of voter fraud.»

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July 31, 2014 • A 91 - 3 vote in the Senate will send the landmark VA legislation, meant to address widespread problems in the VA health care system, to President Obama for his signature.

Members TJ Mertz and Nicki Vander Meulen voted against referral as both had other problems with the contract they thought would not be addressed in further negotiations.

The Civic Mission of Schools also suggested that citizens act politically by organizing to address social issues, solve problems in groups, speak in public, petition, protest, and vote.

(Calif.) A bill headed for a final vote in the state Senate addresses a problem many kids and parents would like to see resolved: Students not having enough time to eat lunch at school.

I can assure Mr. Morano and the Senator that I will not vote for any candidate who does not completely «get» the problem of climate change and commit, sincerely, to taking steps to address it.

For example, as law - makers consider how to vote — and consider how seriously to take the problem of climate change — they should do so with an awareness that if they don't face and address climate change via their decisions and votes, then at least some people will likely begin to embrace other approaches to societal change, including NVCD, and justifiably so.

In the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources last June came together and unanimously voted out a bipartisan bill to address the key problems uncovered by our hearings on the disaster.

Bylaws are also necessary to address problems that may arise within the company (like a director voting on an issue he has direct financial interest in).

It is suggested that, by considering only voting requirements and the exclusion of certain sectors, a significant problem will not be addressed.