Sentences with phrase «allowing open primaries»

This includes allowing registration up to 10 days before Election Day, rather than the current 25; linking existing state and local Boards of Elections databases; allowing open primaries regardless of party affiliation.

That's why we like the legislation proposed by Assemblyman Fred Thiele Jr. that would allow an open primary system, so all New Yorkers can vote.

Not exact matches

The primary goal of our walkout is to allow students to have an open discussion about gun control.

Since its an open primary, center and center right voters are allowed to vote, and that is to whom Huntsman appeals.

There are a lot of good ideas for reform out there: allow independent redistricting, open primaries, reform campaign finance, and, most importantly, establish mobile voting.

Open primaries would allow outsiders and those without the backing of the party machine to have a place in politics.

While Sal Albanese, who is also challenging Mayor Bill de Blasio in the Democratic primary, has been backed by the Reform Party, Dietl and Malliotakis are each attempting to convince their supporters to help them steal the ballot line by voting on primary day — Tuesday, September 12 — using a provision in state election law that effectively allows an open vote.

Combine those two dynamics, add in the fact that any registered voter is allowed to vote in Michigan's open primary, and you get a recipe for Democrats to make mischief.

Cuomo would instead open up primaries to allow candidates registered in one party to run in a different party's primary, if they wanted to.

He also ran into more controversy recently when the State Elections Enforcement Commission opened an investigation into a complaint by a Bridgeport resident who said he never signed a petition that allowed Ganim to get on the primary ballot.

Open primaries retain partisan nomination while allowing any voter to participate in the nomination process for any party.

Others made the patently false claim that the courts had already declared an open primary or that a «law» had passed allowing any registered voter to participate.

At the same time, there does not appear to be much appetite to allow voters to switch enrollment from a blank to membership in order to participate in primary, nor has there been much of an effort in previous years to open the state's primaries to those voters not enrolled as Democrats or Republicans.

John Liu Current Comptroller John Liu, running in the Democratic Primary, emphasized his work to implement the open - source Checkbook NYC platform that allows the public to access detailed New York City financial contract information.

While much smaller than the Democratic and Republican parties, third parties have active registered voters, and opening presidential primaries to allow any voter to vote in any primary regardless of party affiliation could be detrimental to these minor parties.

ELIZABETHTOWN — A winner of the Conservative Party primary for county judge remains elusive following a court decision on Wednesday that allowed one absentee ballot to be opened and another to be set aside.

At a national level reform measures could / should include an elected second chamber, a directly elected post of Prime Minister, and open primaries for all members of Parliament, giving the people the power to apply their own checks and balances to the system as well as allowing individuals to chose their Parliamentary representatives free of party machines.

In the future, United Russia has sometimes resorted to an «open» model of primaries, which allows voting to all interested voters.

When the pH of the vagina is more neutral, unhealthy pathogens and yeasts are allowed to flourish while the beneficial bacteria are reduced — this is one of the primary causes of yeast infections and bacterial vaginosis, and can open the door to urinary tract infections as well.

«My primary concern is that it remains within the control of Utah to allow public comment that is open to Sunshine laws, and people can be involved in the development standards,» Williams said.

The cover would be entirely reversible so as to allow the E-ink display to be used as a secondary display, when open, or a (limited) primary display, when closed.

Would you allow your primary care doctor to perform open - heart surgery, repair a torn ACL, address complex skin issues or amputate your leg?

Primary - colored yarn floats down from the ceiling; glass sheets hang suspended; and angled pedestals and vitrines open the space for a layered effect, allowing for works to be viewed from multiple vantage points.

As much as I enjoy the visceral impact of a stroll through the stacks at a law library and the serendipity of opening a dusty old law report to find something of use (or at least interest), my practical experience over the past decade in the quasi-legal administrative world of telecommunications policy has allowed me to conduct primary research nearly exclusively through digital sources — and mostly free ones at that.

In my opinion, the law should be more open to allowing the primary caregiver to return to work to lessen financial pressure What do you think are important measures to consider prior to marriage, to ensure if a divorce was to happen, that you are best prepared?

Open access is a type of health insurance plan that allows policyholders to see other medical professionals in the plan's network without first having to obtain a referral from a gatekeeper such as a primary care physician.

Nelson defines an open marriage as one where the married partners are the primary sexual and emotional relationship, but allow for extra-marital partners that do not sexually or emotionally threaten the primary relationship.

Others are more permissive and allow things like flirting and cybersex, and some even go so far as to allow kissing and physical intimacy outside of the primary relationship (e.g., «swingers» and people in open relationships).