Sentences with phrase «existing voting system»

«A No vote cast to spite Nick Clegg for forming the Coalition is a vote that bolsters George Osborne, the cuts and his strategy for a Tory majority in 2015 on the existing voting system,» said Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Labour - affiliated Fabian Society.

[12] The referendum was held in May 2011 and resulted in the retention of the existing voting system.

For instance, if somehow the existing voting system could limit lobbying, which one would be best?

Not exact matches

America could be a true multi-party system as in Europe, but the existing parties have been quite effective at duping people into voting for them so that the other side wouldn't win.

The existing electoral system, though confirmed in a vote in 2011, is struggling to give adequate expression to the range of party support in the nations of the UK.

Therefore the primary reason that made us to create the indirect voting system no longer exists.

I assume that under the existing system, the focus is on swing states, which contain moderate voters, which means convincing moderate supporters of one candidate to vote for the other candidate instead, or convincing moderate supporters of one candidate to get out and vote for them, or convincing moderate supporters of the opposing candidate to stay at home on election day.

Those counties where an elite can manage the economy in their own interest exist now, though usually because of corruption or dictatorship not because the voting system is designed this way.

Data from British Election Study panel surveys shows that the main problem UKIP has faced in translating its success from European Parliament elections to general elections has been retaining voters, whether because some UKIP voters only vote UKIP at European Parliament elections in protest and the return to their «normal» party for general elections or because the nature of the British electoral system incentivises voters to cast their vote for one of the existing main parties rather than a new entrant.

They could also wait for the next hung parliament, and hope that a smaller party has enough influence (and determination) to hold a referendum on a PR voting system, but this depends on the luck of hung parliaments, and on the negotiating decisions of existing parties.

This democracy package could also include a review of local government, including voting systems (where there is a strong case for PR, perhaps by STV given the existing tradition of multi-member constituencies).

Here, I use the phrase eligible candidate to mean that the candidate is actually in the image of the voting system (if three candidates exist but you accept that one of them can not be elected in any situation, then you can consider the simple majority rule on the other two candidates, which is neither dictatorial nor manipulable).

The existing Panel for Educational Policy, the board that votes on education issues, would be redundant under a board system and would be eliminated.

The vote - No change in administration to the existing system is required.

This country has got used to yet another of the distortions of the existing electoral system, by which one party or another forms the government on a minority of the vote.

Review Federal Regulations for Repeal — Vote Passed (240 - 185, 4 Not Voting) The measure would establish a commission to review existing federal regulations and identify those that should be repealed in order to reduce costs on the U.S. economy — including those that should be repealed immediately and those that should be repealed over time through a new regulatory «cut - go» system under which agencies could not issue new rules unless the cost of a new rule was offset by repealing existing rules identified by the commission.

Single Transferable Vote is a fairer voting system that would help end the one - party states that exist in many Welsh councils.

Existing electronic voting systems have been slow to catch on.

An elected school board that oversaw a system of non-profit operated schools could allow for both forms (voting, choice) of accountability to simultaneously exist.

A similar precaution was urged in the recent report, and in fact exists in several municipal online voting systems as well.

Not a lot of surprises in the lists, except possibly the risk that a network system could be very costly, especially when supplementing existing voting channels.