Sentences with phrase «down vote system»

The down vote system is very weird and doesn't serve much of a purpose.

Also get rid of the Up and Down Vote system and the Score system... whats it for anyway.

Not exact matches

Strikes and riots in Greece, Spain and Portugal have found a new political expression in one - fourth of the vote obtained by a three - year - old Italian party that wants to tear down the political system.

Earlier this week, Georgia Representative Hank Johnson introduced two bills that he believes will help improve voting security a few years down the road: the Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act, which, if passed, would classify voting systems as critical infrastructure to be protected by the Department of Homeland Security; and the Election Integrity Act, which will map out a planned response for voting system failures and control the types of voting machines states are allowed to buy.

So after the pro-democracy legislators in Hong Kong's Legislative Council (Legco) voted down Beijing's proposal to replace the former British colony's undemocratic electoral system with another equally undemocratic version, the only thing we should expect is that this is not the end of the story.

As for the «evangelicals» who hitched their wagon to the blasphemous Romney thinking that Jesus would have voted for someone who openly denies His Diety and sovereignty, and who hijacked the discussion of faith in this country to hide their actual agendas of hate, racism, division, and greed, the election result is another lesson to them to not drag Holy God down into the vile realm of man's political systems.

A communication era ended in the U.S. Catholic Church when American bishops voted to close down the church's satellite system and to begin a strategic planning effort to discern current telecommunications needs.

As to the last part of your question, using a weak voting system is definitely a real threat to fair voting, but Arrow's theorem doesn't just boil down to «democracy is impossible».

All the sites front pages are predominantly top - down (campaign - driven) tools, but at least Obama and Huckabee's sites try to feature their supporters and their enthusiasm (and provide a public reporting system for voting problems).

By urging tribunals to strike down the use of the card reader, the implication is a return to our prior election system, going back to the 2003 and 2007 era where Mike Tyson, dead people and ghost names on the voter register produced huge votes recorded on election day to declare people winners of election.

For all these reasons, I think AV is actually a very good voting system and I would put the referendum result down to several things — an ineffective Yes campaign (if you typed AV into Google, they didn't even come up on the first page of results), lies and smears spread by the No campaign, the association with Nick Clegg, the split in Labour over AV and finally, and not insignificantly, the fact that the Electoral Commission sent leaflets to every household containing an overly complex explanation that made AV look more complex than the insides of a nuclear reactor.

Sadly, most commentators enthuse about the House of Lords only because they despair of the tribal party antics and unrepresentative voting system for the commons, which places MPs even further down the popularity tables than peers.

Perhaps more importantly, if the amendment is voted down it will give Governor Christie and future elected officials a «public mandate» to avoid fixing the pension system.

Grisanti also received some pressure from the left yesterday, compliments of campaign finance reform advocates who were angry he joined his fellow Republicans in voting down a hostile amendment that would have established a publicly financed system.

You could imagine other solutions, especially with electronic voting systems, but, e.g., writing down the details of every person who shows up to vote and then cross-checking those lists after the fact would be much more cumbersome than checking the details of each voter against a pre-existing list.

State officials set a deadline of midnight Tuesday to shut down the system's betting parlors and lay off its 900 workers — some of whom watched the vote from the Senate's galleries.

I am convinced that it is down to the good work of many Labour MPs in the previous Parliament, objecting to a full blown version of PR, which prevented Gordon Brown from pursing complete destruction of our voting system.

Peter Black AM this morning tabled an amendment to the Local Government (Wales) Bill calling for the Single Transferable Vote system to be introduced; however this amendment was voted down in Committee.

What was discovered of note was that if you changed the voting system to open list, or indeed anything candidate based as a form of voting, UKIP went down six points and the Tories up five — meaning the Conservatives would then leapfrog UKIP into second, just barely behind Labour.

At a London debate the argument for changing Britain's voting system was narrowly voted down and OurKingdom's Co-Editor was on the losing side.

It will move from a winner - take - all system, where a candidate who wins a majority of votes automatically receives all state delegates, to a system where candidates win a proportionate amount of delegates according to votes broken down by congressional districts.

I would vote for the DEM... she was way more down to earth and a moderate in her views... Corwin kept doubling down on the Paul Ryan plan to destroy medicare and replace it with a voucher system.

While the unloved compromise of AV was voted down by referendum, the changing nature of the British party system, and the likely messy outcome of the vote in May, could well put long - needed reform of FPTP back on the table.

Do we really want a system where the casual 7th preference vote of someone staring down the ballot paper and thinking «Who have I not voted for yet?»

Italians didn't vote up or down on the construction of new reactors, explains Roberto Vacca, a retired professor of system engineering at the University of Rome and an expert on Italian science policy.

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The voting system seems to narrow down and eliminate the not - so attractive people on the site.

To determine the winners, we will use a simple scoring system, where all 1st place votes get 5 points, 2nd place votes get 4 points, and so on down to 1 point for each 5th place vote.

Cincinnati's merit pay plan, proposed in 2002, was overwhelmingly voted down by teachers (1892 to 73), even though the program did not base bonuses on student test scores, but rather on a multifaceted evaluation system that included classroom observations by professional peers and administrators and portfolios of lesson plans and student work.

In a 10 - 8 vote that went straight down party lines, the House Appropriations and Finance Committee also decided not to fund the system of merit pay for teachers that Martinez advocated.

The bill «unfortunately continues to propagate the large and ever - growing role of the federal government in our education system — the same federal government that sold us failed top - down standards like Common Core,» Cruz, who didn't vote, said in a statement Wednesday.

But then again, the list of those waiting for i - Pad's launch is somewhat overflowing: Hardware makers like HP (HPQ) and Dell (DELL) have been betting that consumers would vote for the netbooks, the scaled - down versions of laptops; e-reader makers such as Amazon (AMZN) and Sony (SNE), who have similar devices lined up; the publishing equivalent of i - Tunes; Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG), whose operating systems compete with the i — Phone OS that drives the i - Pad.

It works like a Youtube comment system where you can leave your impressions of the book and people can vote up or vote down them.

So which is more important for the EU: Hammering out a better deal the Cyprus parliament might actually vote to approve (and the people can live with), or sticking to their guns and seeing how fast Cyprus & its banking system melts down..?!

Polygon has been down voted to hell on here yet the mods allow it to still have its articles and reviews posted because they think of it as a big enough site to be above the democratic voting system.

In fact, the game that came 11th in our list had the same number of votes as Alpha Protocol (our 10th pick), and was relegated to the annals of failure purely down to a complex system of weighting and analysis we won't go into here.

We can kick that down the road cause politicians can only count to 4 or 5 (depending on your particular voting system) and they don't even know what Present Value, Future Value, and Life Cycle Costs are.

Partners at Clifford Chance (CC) have voted through a proposal to shake up the upper echelons of the firm's lockstep system to retain more star talent while also nudging down under - performers.

The CREAcrat - inspired rating system that was voted down by representatives of in - the - trenches Realtors could prove fatal, via a targeted negative rating for reasons other than services rendered, to the reputation of an otherwise good Realtor, whereas a poor rating against a resort can easily be explained away as just a one - off occurence by a wayward employee or a misapplication by someone of a policy or simply a minor oversight / mistake.