Sentences with phrase «change the election process»

Now, one New York State Assemblyman thinks it's time to change the election process itself, urging his fellow lawmakers to allow some form of early voting.

Not exact matches

«Responsible change may not come as immediately as some hope for, but rather through an incremental process of constitutional reform and U.N. - supervised elections.

The Liberals have introduced changes as they try to fulfil their 2015 election promise to improve Parliament's financial processes by bringing more consistency and clarity when it comes to government accounting of how it spends public money.

There is little danger of military interference in Colombian elections, however, since the Liberal and Conservative parties control the entire process, and neither represents any significant change of the system.

When the membership process was entered into, it appeared that Turkey was making progress towards reaching the membership criteria, but then the AKP changed course and became much more authoritarian and illiberal in how it runs it's courts and elections.

Since we have discovered the dirtiness in the process of the last primary election, it is necessary, as change agents, we speak against the corruption in the process.

Yet fellow Gambians, change of the better is common place in decision making processes in pursuit of good governance,» Jammeh said, as he maintains that the only way out to resolve the current political impasse is to organize fresh elections.

The most important thing is that analysing past elections & predicting future elections is ridiculous, since electoral reform will hopefully change the political parties and the political process anyway, to make them more responsive to the genuine majority view, instead of the tribal attitude we see when Paul suggests that we should keep FPTP as the best way of electing a Labour government.

If we want to effect change in the political process, the right to call an election should reside with the electorate, not politicians.

But it is the process we currently have, and the one in which we need to work to ensure that we elect the best candidates (while we also work to change election laws to make them more small - d democratic).

Rebranding Labour may be a more difficult process than its supporters imagine right now but we know change is key to any future election success.

As a constitutional change, the bill requires more work to pass than normal legislation: Changes must be ratified by two consecutively elected Legislatures and then by voters in the next general election (for example, casino gaming was approved by that process in 2013).

Counting the write - in ballots at the Board of Elections is set to begin in a few minutes, which may cause the gap to change again later today, depending on the speed the process moves forward.

Cuomo had previously been supportive of holding a convention, but based on proposed changes to the convention structure and delegate election process.

Outlining the tasks ahead, Prof Yakubu said: «As we move towards the 2019 General Elections, changes will be taking place in the political process that will directly affect electoral operations.

Moreover, this strict amendment process has not excessively impeded constitutional change, as it has allowed for many significant constitutional amendments over the nation's history, including the Bill of Rights and Amendments concerning the income tax, the direct election of senators, the two term presidency, and the right to vote of women and 18 year olds.

After the 1968 election debacle, the Democrats changed their nominating process for 1972, spreading out the candidate selection process.

He noted the Justices of the Supreme Court recognised the need for significant changes in our electoral process and therefore gave a road map in their various judgments during the 2012 Election Petition.

Individual voters choose what they want to choose — whether or not the information and perspectives they hear were all actually correct information and fair perspectives (their job at the time to decide if they accept any information, whatever its nature, or whether they check it)... whether or not they later change their mind or wish they'd known other information (as happens to many people after most elections anyway)... and the democratic process respects their freely made choice as the result.

This is because, strict adherence to the law in the transition process will be followed in case there is a change of government after this year's election.

There's no undisputed example of unlawful tampering with the electoral process actually changing the result of a Presidential election, in the sense of a criminal conviction where the crime committed changed the result.

But in a year expected to bring significant changes to the electoral process in New York, it remains to be seen when that special election will be held — if at all.

This training also seeks to support the FOISECON in order to build their capacity to conduct free and credible elections at the local government levels and how well - implemented electoral process can bring about peaceful change of power and improve their leadership skills and take on board means for preventing or mitigating the escalation of electoral violence and conflict throughout the respective electoral cycle.

CHANGE OF ADDRESS Notices of change of address from registered voters received by June 8th by a county board of elections must be processed and entered in the records in time for the Congressional PrCHANGE OF ADDRESS Notices of change of address from registered voters received by June 8th by a county board of elections must be processed and entered in the records in time for the Congressional Prchange of address from registered voters received by June 8th by a county board of elections must be processed and entered in the records in time for the Congressional Primary.

CHANGE OF ADDRESS Notices of change of address from registered voters received by August 24th by a county board of elections must be processed and entered in the records in time for the State & Local PrCHANGE OF ADDRESS Notices of change of address from registered voters received by August 24th by a county board of elections must be processed and entered in the records in time for the State & Local Prchange of address from registered voters received by August 24th by a county board of elections must be processed and entered in the records in time for the State & Local Primary.

The good government groups that back a proposed constitutional change to the state's redistricting process plan a voter outreach and education effort in the lead - up to the Nov. 4 election.

She added that «one election day, if you want to influence the process, you have to change your election sheet and change all the result sheets being held by all the candidates» agents... So it is really impossible.»

During the meeting, the newly - formed Bylaws Review Committee gave a presentation about potential changes to the SA elections process.

The second difference between now and 1990 is that the nature of the Tory leadership election process has changed.

John McDonnell has signalled there could be a compromise on proposed changes to the Labour leadership election rules as he said the «heat is off» on the need to reduce MPs» influence on the process.

But democratic systems also have the downside of high cost of periodic elections, the influence of special interests on elected leaders and the general lack of a sharp national focus, in some cases, because of the frequent changing of leadership and change of national development plans anytime such changes happen, and also the generally slow nature of the decision - making process.

In August 2014, Connor told the Daily News that the IDC Initiative was in the process of re-registering with the state Board of Elections as an independent expenditure committee, a change that would allow it to spend unlimited sums as long as its spending decisions were made independently of candidates» campaigns.

And last summer, after the disaster that kept giving that was Falkirk - when Unite was accused of attempting to rig the process to select a Labour candidate in the by - election - Ed Miliband stood tall and declared it was time for change.

Climate change seemed to have slipped out of the public awareness a little bit, and it wasn't helped at all during the election process, because nobody was talking about it much then, either.»

These include a gradual reduction in the size of the Board of Directors, a change in the appointment process for the Nominations Committee, a process for appointing diverse members to the Leadership Council, and a shorter time line for returning election ballots.

In Episode 9 of CASconversations, Megan opens up to CAS President Dr. Rosie Vojtek about the campaign process, her election victory and her plans for affecting change during her upcoming term.

«Taxpayers have a process to trigger change and it's called an election,» said Ryan Owens, general counsel for the Cooperative Council for Oklahoma School Administration and executive director of United Suburban Schools Association, an advocacy group for more than 50 school districts outside Tulsa and Oklahoma City.

Week in Review: Ah, the Week in Review section ought to be full of climate change coverage this week, given everything that is happening (Bali, letters, reports, etc.), the importance of the issue, and the nearness of the election process, right?

Beyond research, we need to make changes in our political processes that would give us a chance to actually do long - term planning — maybe we should abolish midterm elections to diminish gridlock, as a recent NYT op - ed suggested.

The Committee also recognizes that the Government can not act immediately because of the process for changing the Canada Elections Act, but it urges speedy examinations of the report of the Chief Electoral Officer and implementation of its proposed amendments.

He also sees the recent changes to Canada's system aimed at processing applications faster as making the country more attractive to Americans who last checked in after the Bush / Gore election.

There was pressure from Government to change from traditional practices to more «modern» elections, but some First Nations who moved to an election process were dissatisfied, and moved back to a more traditional but totally self - defined process.

According to a poll funded by the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, 74 percent of Oklahoma voters favor choosing appellate judges in contested elections over a merit selection and retention process, and 69 percent support amending the constitution to make this change.

House GOP Caucus Working Group Recommends Speaker Election Changes The House Republican Caucus has circulated proposed changes to the caucus by - laws governing the process for the nomination of candidates for SChanges The House Republican Caucus has circulated proposed changes to the caucus by - laws governing the process for the nomination of candidates for Schanges to the caucus by - laws governing the process for the nomination of candidates for Speaker.

It is time for a change in governance to restore our basic democratic rights beginning with an elections process that supports the right to vote and reflects all preferences through proportional representation.

If there's an election process that works better than the one in your bylaws, change the bylaws.