Sentences with phrase «election reform package»

Assemblyman Rory Lancman, who has a bill that would allow runoff voting in New York City, said he did not know what would come of his legislation, but predicted the Assembly would pass an election reform package of its own before the end of session, which ends this month.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D - NY, is introducing a comprehensive election reform package as part of his 2018 State of the State agenda.

The actors have endorsed the Fair Elections reform package which includes a system of matching small donations with public funds, as well as lower contribution limits, restrictions on contractors and lobbyists doing business with the state, and greater enforcement and transparency.

Not exact matches

While Premier Klein has not explicitly stated that the government is considering these particular reforms, he stated that he would introduce some reform package if he won the 2004 provincial election.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduced his Democracy Agenda on Thursday, a comprehensive election and voting reform package for New York.

The second portion of the reform package addressed potential cyber-related threats to elections.

Cuomo failed to get lawmakers to agree on a package of campaign finance reforms, and says he will now appoint a commission under the powers» of the state's Moreland Act, to investigate campaign filings at the State Board of Elections.

The governor has also proposed a package of reforms to help county boards of elections better protect against cyberattacks, and to more closely regulate political ads on social media, in the wake of reports of Russian infiltration of Facebook and Twitter during the 2016 elections.

Could he advance a comprehensive reform package that was commensurate with the unprecedented ethics, campaign finance and elections failings of the state?

The IDC backs public financing of political campaigns, but has released its own package of reform measures separate from the Fair Elections push.

Mr Blair also urged party activists to accept his legacy reform packages, adding: «The fourth election will not be decided by current events.

Cuomo introduced his Democracy Agenda on Thursday, a comprehensive election and voting reform package for New York.

19 July 2007: Jack Straw, in his new position of justice secretary in the cabinet of Gordon Brown, insists the government is determined to proceed with Lords reform and that the powers of the chamber, the method of election, financial packages and the number of members will (yet again) be discussed by a cross-party working group.

In the two most recent general elections, seeking a consensus package on party funding reform was listed in the manifestos of the (then) three largest parties.

Ukip's victory in the European elections has prompted many politicians to begin questioning the pace of change, however - potentially boosting the chances of more substantial reform packages.

He also suggests the two sides could work together on a constitutional reform package including party funding reform, more powers for Scottish parliament primary elections and even proportional representation.

Malick told the audience she has pledged to support the full package of reforms championed by Demand Democracy, which includes publicly funded elections, enhanced protection of voting rights, and ethics reform in Albany.

Governor Cuomo, who was already planning on pushing for campaign finance reform in the second half of the legislative session, says he now plans a larger «more robust» package that could also look at strengthening the State's Board of Elections investigatory powers, and perhaps ending party cross endorsements in eElections investigatory powers, and perhaps ending party cross endorsements in electionselections.

And on Tuesday, state Senate Democrats announced a package of bills aimed at reforming the state's election system which they called a «relic of the last century.»

Klein and the IDC support a reform package that also includes changes in election law.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an ethics reform package on Wednesday that would impose tight new restrictions on deep - pocketed outside spending groups in New York elections, but has also drawn criticism for sweeping new disclosure requirements it will place on nonprofit lobbying groups and donors.

A week before the November election, several dozen members and candidates just days away from winning their seats gathered at City Hall to embrace a package of procedural reforms, chief among them one that would «take the politics out of member items» by allocating discretionary funding for Council districts on a «fair and objective basis.»

She saw the reform as part of a wider package including directly elected mayors, votes at 16 and primaries for the election of parliamentary candidates.

The governor had promised to form the investigatory commission in accordance with the state's Moreland Act after he and lawmakers failed to agree on a package of ethics and elections law reforms that ranged from increasing punishment for taking bribes to making it easier to register to vote to using taxpayer money to finance political campaigns.

After the 2000 election, George W. Bush dubbed himself America's «educator in chief,» and until terrorism hijacked the national agenda, he was staking his presidency on a school - reform package known as the No Child Left Behind Act, a bill that — as every teacher knows — dominates the course of public education in America today.

One month after the South Dakota Legislature approved Gov. William J. Janklow's education - reform package, a group of law and citizens is working on a petition drive to put the bill up to public vote in next November's election.

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has brought school funding to the fore of Labour's election campaign by committing to fully fund the Gonski reforms in a package that will cost $ 4.5 billion over school years 2018 and 2019 and a total of $ 37.3 billion a decade.

With Abbott's election as governor, the proposal headed toward legislation as part of a larger reform package, including an A — F grade for individual school campuses and a new teacher evaluation system.