Sentences with phrase «election model for»

Both the NACC and the NAC held direct elections, while ATSIC had direct election to Regional Councils and then an indirect election model for other positions.

Not exact matches

Certainly this is a conversation where everyone has more to lose; those scapegoating Facebook probably don't want to think about their own responsibility, such that it may be, for an election result they disagree with, and the stakes are even higher for Facebook: giving people what they want to see is far more important to the company's business model than $ 100,000 in illegal ads, unintended consequences or not.

This contract, which is dated September 15, 2014, is for the: «Design and development of an Engagement Platform System», also referred to as «the Ripon Platform», and described as: «A scalable engagement platform that leverages the strength of SCLs modelling data, providing an actionable toolset and dashboard interface for the target campaigns in the 2014 election cycle.

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

The fears that emerged during the 1980 national elections were understandable: Was paid - time religious programming the correct model for electronic communication, destined to become the new form of Christianity in the modern age?

@MontyHarder Agreed, and an interesting fact to note is that we got rid of that model for Senators in favor of direct elections because an Illinois governor was involved ina scandal to sell the Senate seat to the highest bidder... and almost 100 years to the day of that amendment to the constitution you had another Illinois governor do the exact same thing.

The Root MSE tells us that the models are on average 3 to 5 percentage points out on the change in share of the council seats won, which is a big average error for a prediction model when there are thousands of seats up for election.

Also note that the LD model performs relatively poorly for the coalition years and on coincident general elections so these factors are included in that model.

A similar technique was used to successfully predict the outcome of the 2012 US election, but the firm had to construct a new model for Britain's more complex 650 - constituency political system.

The dependent variable for the models is the change in share of seats at a given election.

The result, as the world now knows: an election victory for Barack Obama, a sea change in American politics and policy, and a model for online campaigners around the world.

For example, many in the UK believed that the 2015 election would yield a hung parliament — even Murr's (2016) citizen forecasters (although in relative terms the citizen forecaster model was the most precise).

You might now look at recent US election results and reason that even if the US would use the European counting model, the number of votes for other parties than Republicans and Democrats are usually so few that it wouldn't be enough for noteworthy representation in Congress.

The Chairman of the Electoral Committee, Kenneth Mozia (SAN), who supervised the opening of the forms, assured the aspirants and members of the NBA that his committee would do its best in conducting not just a free, fair and credible election but one that would serve as a model for future elections in the country and beyond.

In Bolivia, the election of Evo Morales as President in 2005 and the rise of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) gave political meaning to plurinationalism as an alternative model of state and citizenship, which was meant to overcome the neoliberal multicultural framework for diversity management.

Nigel Marriott in his final model now includes a forecast for party vote shares as well as the previous seat forecasts and so this is included; we have also added new models from Election Data, Elections Etc, Janta - Lipinski, Kantar Public, Michael Thrasher, Andreas Murr et al and Number Cruncher Politics.

While the Federal Election Commission approved a federal text - to - donate model for campaigns back in June of 2012, down - ballot campaigns need approval at the state level.

And even then, heading into Election Day, the campaign's internal modeling predicted an electorate that voted for Mitt Romney over Obama by 2 percentage points.

· Public Matching Funds: A voluntary public matching funds and disclosure system should be enacted for state elections, modeled on the system that has been successfully implemented in New York City.

My forecasting model for seat gains / losses at local elections has previously been a simple model based on change in party support in the polls.

For the 2011 and 2012 local elections the model is fairly certain that the Conservatives will be the largest party at the next election.

If a DEEM turns bad or ineffective during the four - year term, and loses the confidence of the council, in the current English model there is no provision for the removal of a DEEM until the next election, although a leader can be ejected.

Considering that Roy Moore, who's leading the polls for the election in Alabama, has been accused of being a sexual predator targeting underage women, and considering that the elected president of the USA, Donald Trump, is himself someone who has admitted to groping and spying on naked, underage models, and even said that he would like to have sex with his own daughter, my question is, to what extent is pedophilia an accepted sexual orientation in the United States?

In short, for a very simple model, it fits the data remarkably well, explaining 88.5 % of the variance in English by - election results (an R2 of 0.885 in stats parlance).

The net effects of this trend are reflected in the vote intention polls, but geographical implications for this year's local elections are not part of my model.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver formally introduced a bill this week that would create a statewide voluntary public matching funds program in New York, calling on fellow legislators to pass the bill and make New York state «the model for the rest of the nation in establishing and preserving fair elections.»

I will now use my nURS model described in step 4 to generate an election forecast for a variety of CON - LAB leads shown in the blue and green labels in table P0.

For a variety of reasons (including the impact of high levels of undecided voters in a specific poll), the actual result of an election contest may vary from the figures suggested by an opinion poll, even if the poll is carried out relatively close to election day, or on election day itself as in the case of exit polls, but the likelihood of such variation is not something that can be factored into this model.

Since the model uses data from every general elections since 1945, it can only work for parties that have been on the national scene since then.

Both Koch and Zimroth view New York City's small donor matching funds system as a good model for financing state elections.

One ethics reform proposal that has been touted by Democrats has been a public financing system for all elections — using the New York City model.

The question before progressive advocates of public campaign financing in New York State is whether we push for full public campaign finance on the Clean Money model of equal and sufficient funding grants for all qualified candidates, or whether we settle for partial public campaign financing on the Matching Funds model used for presidential primaries since 1976 and for New York City local elections since 1989.

If Silver is still in his post come fall or still in office come next election period it would represent that democratic leaders and voters are lacking what it takes to model behavior, set the example and appreciate the basic public need to suffer consequences for wrong behavior.

When allies of the mayor began to set up the Campaign for One New York, after de Blasio's election in 2013, they followed a model established by Gov. Andrew Cuomo — even hiring the same well - established election lawyer, Laurence Laufer, who had helped set up a similar nonprofit to support Cuomo's agenda three years earlier.

Some of the ideas already mooted include drafting of a model law establishing SIECs to bring them in line with the Electoral Act and global best practice, as well as the development of voluntary «Guiding Principles for the Conduct of Free, Fair and Credible Elections in Nigeria» to which we expect all 37 Election Management Bodies in Nigeria to accede.

Mayor de Blasio says he is rethinking the Board of Elections model after saying, «I think it's time for a fundamental change.»

NEW YORK (WBEN / AP)-- Hillary Clinton says the nation's first free college tuition plan approved by New York state lawmakers can be a model for other states and can eventually pave the way for nationwide reforms that were championed by Democrats during the 2016 presidential election.

Since taking office, Secretary Kemp has established his state as a national model for election security, including; the My Voter Page or «MVP» voter education website.

It's often argued that there are three types of elections; «we're desperate for a change and anything will do» (the 1979, 1997 and 2010 models), «stick with what you know, there isn't anything else better for now» (the 1987, 1992 and 2005 models) and the «let us finish the job» elections (the 1983 and 2001 models).

Fair Elections for New York, an umbrella coalition that's pushing for an extensive public matching system based on the New York City model, was already getting underway in the post-budget session.

Bolton's group was considered a «Tier 1» client of Cambridge Analytica and its affiliate SCL Elections, which meant the company was using psychographic modeling for the group, former employee Chris Wylie told The Washington Post.

Kennedy, as did his opponent in 2014, signed a contract promising to limit campaign spending to a grant of about $ 95,000 in taxpayer money he received under the Citizen Election Program (CEP), the landmark Connecticut campaign finance reform that its supporters claim is a model for keeping special interest money out of elections.

It seeks to change the voting system for parliamentary elections in the UK to a model of proportional representation.

Unlike in May 2015 though I've a good idea of what went wrong (the turnout model we used for the poll weighted down people who didn't vote at the last general election, when in reality turnout ended up being higher than the last general election), which is something that can be worked on.

The campaign, titled Protect Our Democracy, is modeled after the successful strategy that led to marriage equality for New Yorkers and will inject itself into the upcoming state elections to put pressure on state senators that failed to support reform this past legislative session.

Gingrich complained that Beck, Limbaugh, and company were pursuing «a very destructive model for the Republican Party,» and those concerns appear to have been vindicated by the outcome of Tuesday's election.

TRMPAC was modeled closely after DeLay's Americans for a Republican Majority (ARMPAC), a federal - level organization created to raise funds for Republicans during the 2000 national elections.

(Recall that de Blasio is a big labor guy and also largely owes his election in 2009 to the WFP, which subscribes so heavily to the grassroots organizing campaign model that it has its own for - profit field arm).

But after sending shockwaves around the political world last night, the pollsters quickly stressed the drawbacks of their new model for the 2017 general election.

In a debate on the Silk Commission's proposals, including introducing a reserved powers model and strengthening the capacity of the National Assembly to scrutinise legislation, Kirsty Williams will challenge other political parties to follow the Silk Commission's recommendations and include these proposals in their party manifestos for the 2015 Westminster and 2016 Assembly elections.