Sentences with phrase «election process earlier»

Violence has escalated in the highlands, where gas is produced for the LNG project, due to anger among locals over the nation's election process earlier this year and disputes over royalties from the PNG LNG project, an observer said.

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or never got to vote because there were too few early voting places, or too few voting places to process the volume of election day voters.

@user4012 about 2), the final election day is just the end of a lengthy electoral process; if voters are better educated and use that education all through the process a demagogue should be stopped earlier in the process (so, for a party supporter it would not be end as [My demagogue] vs [candidate from other party], because [My demagogue] would have been voted out in the primaries; in these primaries such a voter would have the option to vote for other candidates more ideologically acceptable).

And the lawmakers want Cuomo to put some spending commitments on the table as well, especially for election reform, seeking $ 3.1 million for aiding local governments to adopt early voting and ease the transition process.

Rather, multiple political actors, such as parliament, the cabinet, and the presidential head of state are involved at different stages in the process that leads to an early election.

After the 2005 General Election, the Conservatives went through an early process of candidate selection.

The Prime Minister called for an early general election on Tuesday just weeks after starting the formal process of Britain leaving the EU, causing exasperation amongst some EU leaders.

Through the convention process, voters can introduce term limits for lawmakers, require public campaign financing, enable early voting and increase access to absentee ballots — all proposals that will encourage more competitive elections.

Speaking earlier, the SGF recalled the role played by Speaker Dogara in the process that led to the victory of the All Progressive Congress in the 2015 General elections.

INEC may wish to commence this process by early preparations as well as plugging identified loopholes in the Anambra election.»

Unite the Union have denied any wrongdoing by members throughout the candidate selection process in the Falkirk by - election earlier this year.

Silver said he would advance the two election measures early in the next session, and said they would «give New York's voters a far stronger voice and help level the playing field in the electoral process.»

Earlier this month Pat Glass MP had a Private Members Bill which if passed would tweak some of the rules of the review, requiring the Commissions to start the process again from scratch and therefore probably delaying it beyond the election.

So with this ruling by the court, it is good news because we are going to resume the nomination process and hopefully early next week we will finish up and come up with the list of candidates who will officially stand for this year's election,» he said.

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.

Speaking in an interview with Citi News on Tuesday [November 8], on the sidelines of the launch of an interactive voter education platform, «Voter Match» in Accra, Justice Short said, «the EC should ensure that this whole process of scrutiny of the nomination forms and taking a decision as to who qualifies and who does not qualify, should be brought back so that candidates will know at an early stage whether they are qualified to stand in the elections or not,» he said.

Early on the prospects for this appeared unlikely due to the Election Commission's refusal to permit international observers access to monitor the process, save a handful of observers from ASEAN member states, who par for the course declared that the elections were carried out in a free and fair manner without any notable irregularities.

That conversion process began soon after the general election, and figures out earlier this week showed that since this time last year, more than 1,000 schools have switched to become academies.

Marshall beat corporate partner John Flynn and tax partner George Lyall to take the post of senior partner following the election process, which took place earlier this month (19 March).

Clifford Chance (CC) has kicked off the election process for London and Middle East regional managing partner, with banking partner Mark Stewart emerging as an early contender for the post.

The 33 - year - old started adopting a more apologetic rhetoric in early 2017 following the initial controversy caused by numerous reports about the role Facebook played in foreign misinformation campaigns aimed at meddling with the last U.S. presidential election and the backlash prompted by his initial response to the allegations, which was to assert that the very notion of Russian or other agents being capable of using Facebook to influence the stateside democratic process is «pretty crazy.»