Sentences with phrase «early voting efforts»

Both campaigns say they believe the gap will narrow as Republicans increase their early voting efforts, but it also reflects differences in the parties» get - out - the - vote operations.

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Republican senators formed the last - ditch effort, called the Health Care Freedom Act, after earlier votes on the Senate's healthcare plans failed.

Collins, a moderate who voted against the GOP's efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare earlier this year, says the bills will offset the impact of the loss of the individual mandate, but experts largely disagree, arguing that the elimination of the mandate will spike health costs and reduce choice in plans.

With Congress stalemated over immigration, Flake earlier this week sought to force a Senate vote on temporarily protecting «Dreamer» immigrants from being deported, while financing Trump's border wall for three years, but another Republican blocked Flake's effort.

In early February, the firm received a response from Vanguard, which Tim Smith, senior vice president at Walden Asset Management, told me included a discussion of Vanguard's efforts to talk with companies about social and environmental issues, but stopped short of saying that Vanguard would actually change its proxy voting practices.

Legislative suspicion of the corporate form and fear of the concentrated economic power it represented probably motivated the early efforts to limit shareholder voting rights.

Veteran reporter Joe Mahoney reported on efforts to enact early voting, «no - excuse» absentee voting, pre-registration for teenagers, and other measures championed by Kavanagh that have gained support in the Assembly but have not been acted upon by the Republican - controlled State Senate.

I applaud the Vote Better NY coalition's efforts to modernize the system and its support for early voting, expanded voter registration and calls for a clear and concise ballot design.»

The advocacy efforts of the Vote Better NY coalition focus on reforming these laws in three critical areas, through bills I've introduced: fully modernizing and transforming voter registration through the Voter Empowerment Act, instituting early voting, and ensuring ballots are clear and usable through the Voter Friendly Ballot Act.

Despite Espada's efforts, the bill was narrowly defeated on Tuesday, after several Democrats who had earlier supported the legislation voted no.

The Buffalo News reported earlier this week that sources indicated the efforts to woo Hochul followed Saturday's vote by the Working Families Party state committee to endorse Cynthia Nixon against Cuomo for governor and New York City Councilman Jumaane Williams over Hochul for lieutenant governor.

«An arms length relationship between the Tory leadership and the No campaign that meant Cameron was unable to stop the targeting of the politically toxic Nick Clegg and his broken promises Main AV could only be defeated if a large number of Labour supported voted to keep First Past The Post and from the earliest days of the campaign huge efforts were made to ensure the No campaign was genuinely cross-party»

Efforts to enact early voting and other reforms were unsuccessful when the state Senate, led by a coalition of Republicans and breakaway Democrats, did not act on the bills.

With two months left to make their best sales pitch, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton are each beefing up their efforts to woo voters in early voting states, and prepare for a campaign - defining first debate at Hofstra University on Sept. 26.

A full turn - out of Labour MPs would have prevented the government from blocking efforts at helping child refugees, according to an early analysis of last night's Commons vote.

In an effort to modernize voting process, New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a new plan allowing early voting, automatic voter registration and same - day voter registration throughout the state.

Earlier this year, the county government, voted to pass $ 1.8 million in community college chargeback costs to the towns in an effort to clear up the county's financial situation.

Mr. McCain's advisers said they had put far less effort into the early voting program, instead sticking with what has worked for Florida Republicans for a decade: building up their margin with absentee ballots.

Schumer declined to discuss when he became aware of McCain's decision to bring down the repeal effort he had voted to begin three days earlier.

The Empire State Pride Agenda, the Human Rights Campaign, Freedom to Marry and Marriage Equality New York — will form a single organization called New Yorkers United for Marriage which will shortly undertake a coordinated effort to sway three Democrats and 12 Republicans who voted against marriage equality last year in an effort to pass it by early summer, the NYT reports:

Earlier today, at a clergy breakfast in Brooklyn with the Rev. Al Sharpton, de Blasio urged clergy members to join in the effort, and said Skelos is «denying us our rights» by not allowing a vote on the mayor's plan.

DO NOT VOTE FOR ED BROUNSTEIN In an effort to mislead Jewish voters, his early posters had Jewish stars around the border.

But according to the memo, most remaining staffers will be offered a position in the early voting states or as part of its ballot access effort at a reduced salary.

Although previous efforts to reauthorize the education law collapsed under deep disagreements about funding and federal oversight, the latest iteration — called the «Every Student Succeeds Act» — appears to be zooming toward a final vote in the Senate as early as next week.

There are many subtexts in this effort, many of which are laid out nicely in the Journal article on the earlier vote.

The vote follows a report released earlier that day by the cross-party House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee calling for a ban on fracking due to the risks it poses to Britain's efforts to tackle climate change.