Sentences with phrase «enact voting reforms»

Voting and Other Reforms Leading up to his speech Cuomo unveiled parts of his «Democracy Agenda,» which aims to protect the integrity of elections, requires transparency for digital advertisements, and enact voting reforms.

Democracy Agenda - Protect integrity of New York Elections, require transparency for digital ads, and enact voting reforms.

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«I came to Albany to enact real reform and the SOLE Act will bring a lot of issues up for a vote that have stalled out in past years,» Johns said in a statement.

Working together we will build on all that we've achieved and continue to lift up New Yorkers by investing in our infrastructure, passing the DREAM Act, enacting campaign finance and voting reform, and further strengthening New York's nation - leading gun safety laws.

For the WFP, that counterweight agenda includes bolstering health care benefits in New York that exist under the current Affordable Care Act, protecting Muslims, making it easier to register to vote and enacting «comprehensive campaign finance reform.»

The Vote Better NY coalition traveled to Albany to urge the legislature to «put voters first» and enact major reforms in New York's election laws.

Additionally, Ryan called upon the legislature to enact other voting reforms to modernize elections in New York, make it easier to vote, and expand voting options for all New Yorkers to help boost low turnout rates.

Other potential reforms explored by the report and enacted in some states, though not New York, include online voting, pre-registration of 16 - and 17 - year - olds, «vote - by - mail,» and re-enfranchising convicted felons.

The League says state lawmakers who were also against the constitutional convention now have to step up to the plate and enact real reforms to combat corruption and improve voting access, among other things.

And he says, in answer to reporters» questions, the Assembly still wants to enact the pension reforms, but simply got bogged down on details required to amend the state's constitution, which requires the vote of two concurrently elected legislatures.

On voting reform, Cuomo vowed to enact early voting, allowing people to cast their ballots for about a week prior to election day, and to implement same - day registration, permitting New Yorkers to register to vote on election day.

The NHS reforms enacted by Andrew Lansley and carried through by his teenage successor, Jeremy Hunt, will soon be fully enshrined in law following a Lords vote in six days time.

«I really find it kind of ironic, especially since he voted to defund the Moreland Commission, and that was a commission that was set up for the sole purpose of identifying corruption and enacting reform,» says Serino.

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.

All of the progressive things that California's doing and Oregon and Washington — campaign finance reform and voting reform and fully funding our schools and being a leader in renewable energy and enacting real criminal justice reform... this is the kind of stuff we want to be doing in New York.

The League says state lawmakers who were also again the constitutional convention, now have to step up to the plate and enact real reforms to combat corruption and improve voting access, among other things.

Cuomo and the state Legislature must prove to the voters before November they believe in actual democracy, by enacting significant reforms that block the big - money billionaires and lift up the voices and votes of everyday New Yorkers.

While a Con Con, as it is often called, would provide a chance for enacting reforms on things like government ethics, term limits for elected officials, modernized voting and voter registration rules, and more, it would open up the entire state constitution to change.

Some are worth casting a Tory vote just to see them enacted, such as Michael Gove's promise of school reform.

The Assembly Education Committee deferred for one week a vote on the 69 - page bill by Senator Gary K. Hart, a Democrat from Santa Barbara who offered a school - finance reform measure that is more sweeping than that enacted last year.

The Janesville Education Association, which serves more than 10,000 students, voted unanimously to stick to its pre-2011 deal and avoid enacting any reforms despite a $ 2.1 million deficit.

Texans voted to enact tort reform in 2003, but that doesn't mean it can't be repealed (as many states have already done).