Sentences with phrase «change electoral rules»

Technology is changing the electoral rules, though, inspiring reformers to envision a new and more open brand of politics, one built around online voting and Facebook - style campaigns.

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Italy might have just become a smaller concern for investors after the constitutional court ruled on changes to the country's electoral law.

The legislation and court rulings to which it led effected sweeping changes in the structures of education, employment, and electoral politics.

Today's second change: the previously announced transparency rules will apply not just to electoral ads but to issue ads as well.

In one state after another, the electoral rule that allowed the workers (mostly Democrats) to unite with the farmers (mostly Populists), was changed.

With their votes at the party conference, they could help to push through rule changes that assisted the centrists — perhaps to reintroduce the old electoral college for choosing leaders — and overturn the left's majority on the NEC, as they did in the early 1980s.

That distinction between challenges and vacancies was enshrined in a rule change in 1993, when the electoral college was re-weighted evenly between the three voting sections.

Whether legislating for a five - year fixed - term parliament, or changing the voting registration system, or redrawing the electoral map, this is a government which has not stopped to think twice before meddling with the rules of the game.

McKenzie said New York's electoral rules, like closed primaries and a requirement that voters register in a party six months before the ballot, had left many Sanders supporters shocked, disillusioned and determined to bring about a change.

Although current electoral rules in Northern Ireland allow political parties to protect the identities of donors and funding, the government is expected to announce this will soon change.

Anne Perkins, Michael White and Alberto Nardelli join Tom Clark to discuss how electoral and party funding rule changes being brought in by the government will disadvantage Labour at the next election

Republican state legislators in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia are attempting to change state election rules so as to apportion electoral college votes to counties rather than the entire state.