Sentences with phrase «election system does»

Convocation has been criticized as being too cozy, and the current election system doesn't help by encouraging voting shortcuts.»

The US election system doesn't account for a change in power because election fraud was discovered.

Not exact matches

«While this might make Putin look like a tough guy flexing new nuclear muscles ahead of upcoming undemocratic elections in Russia that will coronate him again, the new systems don't change the essential deterrence equation between the US and Russia,» Barry Pavel, a senior vice president and director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council wrote.

«Virginia has always been an early - warning system for midterm elections — almost always showing us what will happen in the next year if the course of the storm doesn't shift.

The report, from 2012, did not claim that those people voted illegally in an election, as it was written as an argument for modernizing the US voting system.

Chinese policy shifts may cause tectonic effects, but one virtue of their system is their big plans don't switch with each election cycle.

Donald Trump's warning that he might not accept the results of the presidential election exemplifies his approach to everything: Do whatever it takes to win, even if that means undermining the integrity of the entire system.

He could raise the GST, but the Prime Minister has ruled that out; he could fulfill an election commitment by undertaking a serious simplification of the income tax system, which could yield substantial revenues (about $ 3 to $ 5 billion), but he seems reluctant to do that; or, he could take the easy way out and simply cut his fiscal prudence in half and «miraculously» free up $ 3billion annually for his cabinet colleagues.

If you can remember as far back as Tuesday, the week's news cycle began with the nation's intelligence chiefs testifying that Russia is continuing to interfere with our election systems here in 2018, and that President Trump hasn't asked them to do anything about it.

Unlike in the USA however, winning an election in a Parliamentary system doesn't necessarily guarantee control.

The reference to elections is an interesting point, I do believe this is in reference to blockchain based voting systems, perhaps this is a subtle reference to the recent scandal with regards to Russian intervention within the Donald Trump campaign etc, who knows?

It's hard to imagine how so many people don't understand that by the nature of our representation and elections we have a two party system which only legislation is likely to change.

In real - world elections, there are some systems where is is much harder to vote tactically than others - you never have perfect information on everyone else's vote, so the more information that you need to be able to vote tactically, the less likely people are to do so.

And no doubt, regardless of what may have happened in the last elections, he's done a lot to restore stability in the electoral system in our country.

Under the current system, such candidates don't even make it to the general election, even though a majority who will vote in the election would prefer them to one or the other candidate.

Dominion did not get the contract, which went to Nebraska - based Elections Systems & Software.

In that regard, any ruling party that is powerful of it's own - i.e., has intrinsic power not derived from voters; a power to stick to ruling despite the changing desires of people - is antidemocratic; so a «democracy through strength» is a danger that might (not always, but a possibility) turn into a dictatorship; and a «democracy through weakness» which is unable to do so and needs to re-estabilish it's power (and right to exist) at every single elections is a preferrable system of governance that would pay more attention towards their people, and be better for the people (as opposed to their own nomenclature).

coumo has no conpassion for the peaple pf ny, he cares more about balancing the budget then he does about the peaple, he has huet the elderly bad and he has gone really overboard on the education system, i can't wait till the next election so i can help the opponent get him out of office

But I guess that if forced to choose between those two and only those two (and the first - past - the - post system effectively does force people as far as elections are concerned), they will likely vote for candidates from the Democratic Party.

A computerized system that casts ballots automatically will expedite the election process, as the current system does not officially elect a president until over a month after the election.

Because of this, going to such a system simply reduces the impact of a state in an election, and is therefore not in the interest of the state to do.

But the 2015 elections have shown that we can do it if all critical stakeholders agree to work together to consolidate a number of electoral tools that we have developed such as the use of the card reader in the designed election management system with the key seven principal business areas.

Lawmakers in Suffolk County on Tuesday approved a public matching system for elections there, making it the largest county to date to do so.

Even, improbably, Jeremy Corbyn has used it, telling his delirious fans in his leadership acceptance speech, «I want us to stand up and say «we want to live in a society where we don't pass by on the other side of those people rejected by an unfair welfare system»,» and motivating them again 18 months later at the start of the 2017 Election campaign by claiming, «we know that the people of Britain don't pass by on the other side.»

However, in focusing on the advantages of fixed - term elections, Schleiter does not consider whether there are certain advantages to the old system, in which an election could be called at any moment.

In a parliamentary system the party in power is the one with the most votes in parliament and that would always correspond to the party that won the most actual votes in the election, even if they didn't get the most seats.

Does this system have any democratic election characteristic or even with these anomalies is it a democratic system?

-LRB-...) since the constitution, unlike many of its European counterparts, does not prescribe proportional representation in elections, no feature of the new electoral system discussed so far appears to be unconstitutional.

Electoral area system does lead to a «winner - take - all» scenario, where a 55 % majority often leads to a total dominance - a visible example is the USA elections; where if 51 % of a state votes for a presidental candidate, then nationally 100 % of that state votes go for him / her.

Not only does the electoral system work against us, making the whole election contingent on a handful of swing voters in marginal constituencies, but the rightwing media get to call all the shots.

Many proposals to «fix corruption» focus on creating a taxpayer - funded campaign finance system, similar to New York City's, and do not address changes necessary for true reform and parity amongst all parties impacted by elections.

«I don't know her well enough in terms of her background, but to the extent you can understand the state's tax system, it would seem those are important values to have in tackling the election law.»

There are those who believe it's time to do away county committee votes for party nominees for state level seats, perhaps by shifting to the New York City system, which requires non-partisan special elections to fill vacancies.

The Senate Republicans» assumption, that two candidates in every general election would receive the maximum amount of public funds, does not jibe with the experience of New York City, where a multiple matching funds system is already in place.

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.

In principle any system with repeated elections does this to some extent as regards politicians, in that people tend not to vote for a politician or party which is thought to breaks promises.

«Only New York State could have this convoluted an election system that we could find ourselves here in this time and place having to make some difficult decisions about what to do next....

On AV, I think it is more complicated, as neither you nor I can say we know what the pattern of 1st preferences would be in the first AV General Election, still less do any of us know what the overall candidate and party system look like, and the way in which different candidates and parties might interact over two or three elections.

I don't think the election is going to descend into chaos, but it is going to expose the limitations of the current system in a rapidly changing social demographic.»

«The fact that our election system sends a message that we don't want you to vote makes it difficult to increase turnout,» said Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, D - Manhattan.

Senator Brian Kavanagh, Ranking Member of the Senate Elections Committee, released the following statement: «Voting is the bedrock of our system of government, and we must do everything in our power to ensure eligible New Yorkers are able to access the polls and make their voices heard.

It is a sign of just how badly the Conservative election campaign is going, that they've today resorted to claiming Labour will do a deal with the SNP to scrap the Trident nuclear weapons system.

«Yet the Coalition is preparing to replace that House with a new second chamber elected by means of regional party lists» Factually untrue, Tories hate closed list PR even more than Lib Dems do, the plan is, and always was, for elections to be run using STV (also known as the British Proportional System, as used for the Australian Senate).

Even on the old system, 60 % of Unite members did not vote for me in the leadership election, although they were recommended to do so.

But even if you do make that assumption, could you say Dems would have won a national election in a winner - take - all system, Electoral College system?

These disproportionalities aside, the unfairness of the system can be seen in the 25.7 million people who we, at the Electoral Reform Society, estimated lived in safe seats earlier this year It can also be seen in the approximately three million people who felt they had to vote tactically, or the almost three quarters of votes which were wasted in this election — i.e. they didn't contribute to electing an MP.

Carroll views early voting as a first step in modernizing our voting systems, but feels that there is so much more to do, «from allowing same day registration, no fault absentee voting, allowing for party enrollment changes to take place 10 days before an election and more.»

The plan would create a «doing business» database similar to what's in place in the New York City elections system.

Mayor's right about the horrible turnout numbers, but did he forget that he gamed the election system more by getting to run for a third term???

A «contested election» does not include an election in which only members of the sitting monarch's extended family can vote (like the succession system of the Saudi Arabian monarchy or the Cambodian monarchy).