Sentences with phrase «ballot boxes did»

The long wait for the result at Ryedale civic centre in Malton, where the last ballot boxes did not arrive until after midnight, was enlivened by one other election count.

Yet, examples from Eastern Europe, South America and Africa showcase that opposition victories and transitions through the ballot box do happen.

Not exact matches

And all people did was try to protect ballot boxes from police in riot gear,» he says.

«Nor do I intend to share my private opinion other than via the anonymity of [the] ballot box when I join millions of others to cast my vote,» Carney continued.

The good news, for Enbridge and the federal government anyway, is that they don't really have to; accountability at this stage of the environmental process is primarily intended for the ballot box, not the court room.

We don't even know whether they believe in political pluralism; they obviously are not firmly attached to the ballot box.

Catharine Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher, argued against women's suffrage on the grounds that «women could influence public affairs very satisfactorily without recourse to the ballot box, by the simple expedient of influencing the opinions and outlook of those who did have the vote — their husbands and sons» (Reay Tannahill, Sex in History, [Stein & Day], 1980, p. 389).

I do not expect nor wish for their approval, however as they stand on the street corners of America and call me the most vile of names and attempt to marginalize me and my family at the ballot box, I will and have fought back.

Gather your votes insecrecy before the next election comes and when it does stuff the hell outta the ballot box!

In conclusion, we would all do well to remember that the genius of the culture wars is that they convince us we change the world through bumper stickers, boycotts, and ballot boxes.

is the only series in production that dares to remind us that no matter what happened at the ballot box, family doesn't stop.

Roseanne is the only series in production that dares to remind us that no matter what happened at the ballot box, family doesn't stop.

The voting places do not sort the ballots by voter party, they all go into a common lockbox and when the box is opened all the ballots in that box are counted together at the same time.

This is the iron law in modern democracy: extremism does not pay off at the ballot box.

In a comment piece for politics.co.uk, the NUS president wrote: «The promises they made gained them significant student support at the ballot box - and I can personally guarantee that we will do everything we can to ensure that any MPs who so flagrantly betray the public's trust are never given the opportunity to serve us again.

As long as 3 dishonest men in a room can dictate what does and does not reach the floor for debate then lets drop the pretext that we have a representative government and eliminate everyone except the 3 dishonest men in a room and maybe the NYS voters will do their job and fire them at the ballot box.

He added, «I don't think there's a conspiracy, but nowadays, people in politics can change things a lot more than at the ballot box.»

And even if it does not feature in the British election debate, the idea of replacing means - tested cash benefits with an unconditional, universal weekly payment to every adult citizen as a right of citizenship will soon be tested at the Swiss ballot box, with a referendum on basic income in Switzerland due sometime this year.

These people are without the backbone or the will required to do what must be done so they must be ousted at the ballot box.

We need to move towards a means of electing our MPs where all voices are heard and where people don't feel forced to hold their nose at the ballot box.

«Democrats, just like Republicans, will be held accountable in the ballot box in 2018 if they do not back the Dream Act,» said Yesenia Mata, political director of the Dream Action Coalition, which sponsored the protest.

During his 2018 State of the State speech on Wednesday in Albany, Governor Andrew Cuomo spent little time on government ethics reform, but did address at somewhat greater length his proposals to increase access to the ballot box and change state campaign finance law.

The answer is always at the ballot box when you don't agree with something.

This does not, of course, mean that they should not be used, but it does mean that there is a danger in viewing the laptop less as a means to express a view, and more as a «second ballot box» because, unlike an actual ballot box, it is simply not available to everybody.

The damage you can do to a single ballot, a single ballot box, a single court house and so on require an increasing number of coconspirators without exceptions, with numbers and efforts in proportion to the tampered votes.

He charged the crowd to do their best and also empower those who have strength to move to the polling stations to ensure that they beat up anyone who dares snatch a ballot box», Mr Boadu was caught on tape as saying.

«We know for example that the EC has not got this particular information in the data because at the time that the registration was done, it was not scanned into the database so that means they have to do it outside the database by going into the ballot boxes and getting these documents... We have a fear that the way things are going we might not be able to get the timetable working as it should.

«Elected officials work for the voters — and we have a responsibility to do everything we can to ensure they can make their voices heard at the ballot box.

This kind of funny politics that we are playing must stop... we do not want people to carry ballot boxes and steal results.

Home» Politics» What Buhari should do about snatching of ballot boxes at APC congresses — Okorocha

«We must do everything we can to break down the barriers to voting so that working New Yorkers can make their voices heard at the ballot box,» said 32BJ President Hector Figueroa.

This has everything to do with allowing unelectable and unelected officials — and the interests they serve — to achieve political results that could not be secured at the ballot box...»

In a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose questioned the police authority on what it has done in respect of the Police officers that Nigerians have seen on videos, hijacking ballot boxes.

«I think they've convinced themselves there are no ramifications at the ballot box if they do nothing.

Look if we don't de-select the New Labour MPs the British public will at the ballot box and that will be the end of the Labour Party.

In the United Kingdom, the Electoral Commission distinguishes between «valid vote turnout», which excludes spoilt ballots, and «ballot box turnout», which does not.

I do not have evidence that this is the case (other than past posts on this thread which I have read), but if somebody, or some people, are stuffing the ballot boxes with Labour postal votes it is not at all surprising that the Labour majority should be inflated.

However he questioned what impact Brown's debate performance would have at the ballot box: «Will it do him any good?

Mayor Zhang wasn't an elected official, so he didn't have to face voters at the ballot box.

In your review of «The Simpsons Movie,» you mention that it is already voted as the 166th best film of all time on the Internet Movie Database and ask, «Do you suppose somehow the ballot box got stuffed by «Simpsons» fans who didn't even need to see the movie to know it was a masterpiece?

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.

The issue even made it to the ballot box in 2016 when HISD added a measure meant to put pressure on the state legislature to change its school funding system after lawsuits failed to do the same.

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.

If state lawmakers don't address the public education advocates» demands, then they will take their concerns to the ballot box in November, Jewell said.

You know, if the publishers get wind of this kind of ballot - box stuffing — and even if they don't, if the Kindle sales are significantly lower than the number of requests — they'll probably start ignoring all requests, so one should probably ask for only ones he'd actually want to see on Kindle, so as not to ruin it for the rest of the people in the end.

Think about it — voters are already going to the ballot box or mailing in a ballot, but they don't have the confidence they need to make informed decisions about judges.

The first is democracy, in connection with which I address the issue of the democratic deficit of adjudicative law and the argument that it can claim a democratic legitimacy that does not rest on 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).

However, protection for minority rights, and the rights of Indigenous Australians and refugees in particular, do not attract sufficient support at the ballot box.