Sentences with phrase «as electoral»

Such disclosure would require politicians to divulge if they had ever provided any government data, such as electoral rolls, to third parties.

Gasteiger explained that blockchain technology could replace existing infrastructures and methods, such as electoral votes and the digitization of ownership.

But as electoral reform, lower small business taxes, stock option loopholes, modest deficits and on and on demonstrate, election promises are made to be broken.

As the electoral fortunes of two national parties, the Congress and BJP, kept swinging between a clear simple majority to the saffron outfit and the possibility of a Congress - JD (S) government, the

The reason why the notion of «alternative facts» has gotten so much attention lately is because of the explicit adoption of the following... as an electoral strategy:

Other records such as the electoral roll are publicly available.

While a formal civics course is not offered until high school, kindergarten students learn to «identify personal traits, such as courage, honesty, and responsibility» and third - graders learn to «explain how local government officials are chosen, e.g., election, appointment,» according to the Idaho State Department of Education's social studies standards.22 By the time students reach 12th grade, they are more prepared to learn civics - related topics, such as the electoral process and role of political parties; the methods of public participation; and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, than students with no prior exposure to a civics curriculum.

In any event, this being a hypothetical ballot, I feel no obligation to abide by the academy's list of official submissions or its long - standing one - film - per - country rule, which is almost as outmoded as the electoral college.

As the night went on, many of us were stunned as the electoral college results came in.

Karpinski climbed onto a stage and told several hundred activists, lawmakers and environmental leaders attending a reception that now is the time to leverage climate change as an electoral asset for Clinton.

Public information such as the electoral register is not classed as personal, but Woulds says the registrar has not yet decided whether adding it to maps changes its status.

Of course they see that as electoral suicide and avoid like the plague.

But the political cost of using, say, religion as an electoral wedge issue if the Muslim Bawumia were to emerge as the NPP's flagbearer would be too prohibitive for the NDC itself.

«I believe Labour needs to work out how to build an economy that generates a much greater degree of prosperity, is much more successful at tackling inequality and poverty, and which is radical in pursuing more democratic and inclusive political chance, such as electoral reform.

But he has not tackled many of the more urgent questions and issues (such as electoral reform).

«When the BNP disappears as an electoral force, people who are still dissatisfied do look to other parties which to put their vote,» she said.

The UNDP report also stated that the «the electoral process in Ghana is faced with a number of challenges such as electoral fraud, violence, bloated register, and intimidation of election officials.»

Noting the strides made by the Manhattan county Democratic organization, Yee believes the Democratic Party as a whole needs to «get its act together» in terms of engaging voters and transparency if it wants to be successful as an electoral force.

But the political power of ethics as an electoral issue will also be an undercurrent in 2016: The Republicans currently hold the slimmest of majorities in the 63 - seat Senate, with 31 seats and the help of Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who caucuses with the Republicans.

Bobby Jindal: As the electoral map turned against McCain tonight, there was one name on the lips of dispirited GOP strategists: Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana.

When in 2007, the 2003 Mimiko - Agagu sweet song of political treachery turned hideous proverbs, Mimiko annexed the Labour Party (LP) as electoral platform.

In his words, «The wide acceptance of NYSC Scheme both at the national and international levels is borne out by the noteworthy contribution of Corps members to such exercises as the electoral process, the effective nationwide campaign against HIV / AIDs, Road accidents, Drug Abuse, Human Trafficking, Corruption, Illiteracy and the implementation of various aspects of the SDGs programme.

BukolaSaraki also ensured that one of his sidekicks was posted as electoral commissioner to Anambra state for the 2007 elections.

As electoral slates are typically chosen by the political party or the party's presidential nominee, electors usually have high loyalty to the party and its candidate: a faithless elector runs a greater risk of party censure than criminal charges.

Nick Clegg has signalled his determination to press ahead with reform of the House of Lords in a move likely to anger Conservative MPs who have identified the issue as an electoral millstone that contributed to the dismal performance by coalition parties in last week's local elections.

Labour will come out of 2020 destroyed as an electoral force.

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, founded as an electoral alliance of socialist parties in 2010, had 135 candidates and was the only other party to have more than 40 candidates.

The House of Representatives currently consists of 150 members, elected by and representing single member districts, known as electoral divisions (commonly referred to as «electorates» or «seats»).

Ed Miliband was told by one of his MPs to «get out more» as his electoral strategy was condemned as suicidal.

Adding that irregularities were also witnessed in Northern Taraba, particularly in Lau and Yoro, where Manzo comes from, Abubakar insisted that thousands of troops deployed to some areas as well as electoral officers were heavily compromised.

And in the short - term, the BNP are finished as an electoral threat.

This has epitomized the ruling government's grip on the region as its electoral world bank in successive elections.

Former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan, who served as an electoral observer for the US - based National Democratic Institute (NDI), said a successful resolution to the process was of particular importance within the international community.

Leanne Wood, Bethan Jenkins, Helen Mary Jones and Nerys Evans have opposed the deal, describing it as an electoral liability and pointing to the Conservatives» record in Wales during the 1980s.

One example where this was particularly obvious was the 2016 Presidential election, where one candidate won one large state by such a massive margin, and lost many smaller states by slivers of margins, that one single state by itself caused the electoral college result to differ from the popular vote (the state was California - if add up the remaining 49 states and DC, the other candidate comfortably won the popular vote as well as the electoral college).

Since 1997, the case for caution has prevailed among Labour strategists — the «vision thing» seen as an electoral risk Labour can not afford.

Held at Lehman College in the Bronx, and hosted by NY1, the debate featured sharp exchanges as the electoral clock ticks louder.

Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, the Labour leader said the comparison with the Kinnock era was misleading as the electoral system then was different to the one under which he was elected last year.

Polling agents as well as electoral officers, she added, will be made to swear an oath before a magistrate prior to the elections.

«In the same vein, Ms. Mary Tunkuyo, Mr Agona Isaac, Mr Ademola Toba, NYSC members that served as electoral officers were physically assaulted and sustained serious injuries, yet they stood their grounds and discharged their responsibilities.

It seems to me, as an American observer of your election, that the cry for PR as electoral reform on behalf of the Lib Dems is nothing but naked self interest from these self described idealists.

Quite possibly, nothing — at least as far as electoral politics goes.

The dust raised prior to the just concluded local government elections in Lagos State may appear to have settled feebly as the electoral exercise has come and gone.

This will open the door to more coups and more provocations from the PLP and the party apparatchicks that will eventually see the Labour Party imploding never to recover as an electoral force.

Pragmatists throwing their hands up in despair should think seriously about why the majority of party members have chosen to back a candidate they see as an electoral long shot.

Moreover it is a bit rich for the de Blasio campaign to complain about using race as an electoral tactic.

The highest number of voters who turned out to vote in a referendum that was not held on the same day as another electoral contest was the 1,816,098 people who turned out to vote in the 2009 Lisbon Treaty (II) Referendum.

E.g. Yisrael Beiteinu (until October 2012 the third largest party in Knesset, and which has just merged with Likud into what is generally considered the strongest party in Israel, Likud Yisrael Beiteinu)- has had as its electoral planks, and introduced into 15th Knesset - the creation of Constitution (as well as a change to Presidential form of government).

UKIP has performed well in recent West Midlands European elections — winning 3 of the 7 regional seats — but the party is unlikely to represent a significant force in Birmingham next month, as their current decline as an electoral force in British politics continues.

Once 35 % would have been seen as an electoral disaster for either Labour or the Tories — it's what Neil Kinnock polled in 1992 — now it would be seen as respectable.