Sentences with phrase «at ballot»

The Observer revealed this week that the company had harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters, in one of the tech giant's biggest ever data breaches, and used them to build a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box.

He said Cambridge Analytica used it to build a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box.

Decisions on individual cases are neither submitted to nor blessed at the ballot box.

Simply put, if Parliament or the legislatures want courts to defer to government agencies on interpretations of law, an arrangement that can be easily understood by all Canadians as a departure from the conventional separation of powers, then it makes sense that they should have to «take it on the chin» — to do so explicitly and be prepared to be held accountable for it (whether in Parliament, in Committee Hearings, or at the ballot box).

It is far too early to tell if Twitter engagement will make a difference at the ballot box in this campaign, but it's safe to say it's already achieved relevance.

Although a Supreme Court Justice is voted in by the public their political affiliation is not listed at the ballot box.

It is up to the people of Texas now to take the findings of fact and act on them by seeking to remove Keller from office through their elected representatives using the impeachment process or at the ballot box in 2012 when she is up for re-election.

If the Harper Conservatives continue to mishandle this file, then the only choice for Canadians will be to view the next federal election as an opportunity to put an end to this sorry chapter in Canadian history at the ballot box.

This idea of judicial infallibility is reinforced by journalists and politicians whose avant - garde causes fare better in the hands of a few judges than at the ballot box.

They have often perpetuated ideologies and attitudes that are outdated or that Americans have repudiated at the ballot box.»

Meanwhile, only 10 % would be so disgusted by his global warming «alarmism» (what the fringy right calls agreeing with 97 % of scientists in the field) that they'd be less inclined to go Romney at the ballot box.

Just over half of American adults (51 percent) are either Alarmed or Concerned about global warming, and these individuals are poised to vote on the issue with their pocket books and at the ballot box.

A cross-party consensus existed on an issue that had never been tested at the ballot box, notwithstanding the Green Party, which struggled to rise above low single - digit percentages of the vote after four decades of campaigning.

Sen. Steve Farley called the APS / Kavanagh measure, «a cynical maneuver to try to confuse voters at the ballot so that they think this is the real clean energy initiative as opposed to one that's being run by advocates at the same time.»

Might it be because people aren't trusted to make sensible decisions at the ballot box, so international frameworks are needed to make sure that no democracy gets out of hand?

Not that it will cut any ice at the ballot box.

Except, perhaps, at the ballot box.

California Cap and Trade is alive and well as part of AB 32, which survived a challenge at the ballot box on November 2.

It will be won, or lost, at the ballot box.

We basically have a Cold War going on with two hostile camps kept from violence only by both sides seeing the better chance at the ballot box.

Carbon taxing had a test run at the ballot box last November in the state of Washington, and it ended badly.

Once businesses and households realise that the Feds are going to collect $ billions in fines via retail power bills, a swathe of angry voters are going to belt Labor at the ballot box.

But blanket bans on destructive practices often don't work, and earlier this year the people of Bhutan rebelled — at the ballot booth.

But judging For Freedoms entirely by its success or failure at the ballot box is something Gottesman and Thomas would likely take issue with, and for good reason.

He is always one of the top choices at online polls so it is safe to assume that he is among the top ones at the ballot too.

We are proud to have grown new corporate support during 2017 to help us realize this vision for library funding at the ballot box, and to have renewed our 2016 corporate donors as well.

EveryLibrary helps secure funding for libraries at the ballot box.

This growing interest is reflected in the overwhelming public support — 73.5 percent — at the ballot box last November for the passage of Proposition 58, the California state ballot initiative that creates more opportunities for bilingual education.

Although the measure was not successful at the ballot box, we sparked the momentum that is needed to continue this fight until funding is improved.

However, the most effective work to defend public education must be done at the local level and involve parents who will fight the fight at home and at the ballot box.

The failure of Democracy Alliance's network and the wider Democratic machine to make any gains at the ballot box will remind those progressive traditionalists that NEA has sustained the party's established order, which rejected Sanders, their favored candidate.

Reformers were defeated at the ballot box on key issues in Massachusetts and Georgia.

The goal was to overcome what Klipsch referred to as «the problem» — the Indiana State Teachers Association, which his presentation calls «the most powerful political force at the Statehouse and at the ballot box» and «the biggest spender by far» in Indiana politics.

In the state's brief history with school referenda, schools have had mixed success at the ballot box, but there is some evidence that districts are getting better at asking for money.

Charter public school parents and advocates made their voices clear at the ballot box in support of parent choice and improved access to quality public schools for every student.

«The LGA opposes forced academisation and giving significant powers relating to education to unelected civil servants with parents and residents unable to hold them to account at the ballot box.»

Readers who find the BOE's behavior reprehensible need to demand change at the Board meetings and at the ballot.

Many Democrats have championed education reforms of some kind without being hurt at the ballot box, Jarosz Brady says.

«Going forward, I hope and pray that we can get our community to support our schools at the ballot box.»

While SB 213 makes a quantum leap in providing greater equity, adequacy and accountability for school funding, it will require our citizens to know enough about school funding (not the most glamorous topic) to make an informed decision at the ballot box.

What it does mean is that the movement will be more aggressive in articulating its positive vision for the futures of children at the ballot box, as it should be.

Jenny Hontz is a founding member of Speak UP, a grassroots organization helping California parents advocate for excellent, equitable education in their schools, communities and at the ballot box.

Though the campaign was defeated at the ballot box earlier this month, it has still created a strong grassroots movement that will continue to fight for fair school funding.

The defeat of two high - profile charter initiatives at the ballot box on Tuesday signals a growing public concern about the impacts, and rapid proliferation of charter schools across the country.

While numerous schools and municipalities nationwide are grappling with the question, the issue overtook the election in suburbs northwest of Chicago, which was the community's first chance to weigh in at the ballot box.

But issues surrounding charter schools have become particularly contentious at the ballot box in recent years as candidates supported by wealthy charter school advocates have increasingly squared off against those backed by teachers» unions in local and state elections.

A Conservative party spokesman said that decisions about what was in the curriculum should lie in the hands of those «who can be held to account by parents at the ballot box — not unelected bureaucrats as proposed by the Lib Dems».

It appears that when they can not win at the ballot box, progressive special interest groups are content to try upending the will of the people in court.

Education reformers had good news at the ballot box this month as voters in Washington and Georgia approved measures to create new charter schools.

Washington voters have rejected charter school proposals at the ballot three times since 1996.