Sentences with phrase «for electoral»

No Vote, No Voice is a free non-partisan «virtual podium» for electoral candidates running in the four ridings in the VIREB area: North Island - Powell River, Courtenay - Alberni, Nanaimo - Ladysmith and Cowichan - Malahat - Langford.

There was also support for an electoral college model [14] to provide the legitimacy of elections but within a more controlled, less costly structure.

Chloe Smith, the minister with responsibility for electoral law, said she would not comment on the allegations while they were under investigation.

Measures introduced to modernise the electoral system, such as postal and electronic voting, have caused an increase in convictions for electoral fraud have led to greater vulnerability generally.

If government can do that, then they will also create a much easier apples - to - apples comparison for pricing, service and quality — in addition to all the other deliverables for electoral trust.

8 (1) The Chief Electoral Officer shall appoint an election clerk for each electoral district, in consultation with the returning officer.

17.2 The Chief Electoral Officer may, for electoral purposes, provide information from the permanent register of electors to,

(2) In the case of a general election, the list shall show the candidates for each electoral district.

(a) one or more special ballot officers for each electoral district, in consultation with the returning officer; and

Blank cells for an electoral district indicate that the position is vacant and that the appointment process is taking place or will soon take place.

But for electoral purposes, this is a rural country.

56 Leadership Vote procedure (1) The Leadership Vote is a direct vote of all supporters members of the Party who have a right to vote on the Leadership Vote weighted equally for each electoral district in Canada and counted in accordance with this Section.

Many provinces and the feds had someone with such a title in the middle of the past decade, but most such positions have disappeared (I think) as the taste for electoral reform has faded.

For most of the province, voting hours will run from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.. For electoral districts that lie «entirely west of the meridian of 90º W. longitude» (i.e. in the Central Time Zone), voting hours will run from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m....

The lack of clarity here over the role of provincial consent has led Pal to concludes that its possible that only the general amending formula can be used for electoral reform, and the matter should be referred to the Court on this issue specifically.

All of the panelists looked into the complicated question of whether provincial consent would be required for electoral reform, especially in light of Part V of the Constitution Act, 1982, which requires several procedures under ss.

(ii) the establishment, for electoral purposes, of geographic areas within the areas of jurisdiction of district school boards,

The House of Assembly, in the exercise of its historic right to expel a member in appropriate circumstances, hereby expels from the Assembly the member last elected before the coming into force of this Act for the electoral district of Inverness South by reason of his conviction on four counts of using forged documents in respect of money received by him in his capacity as a member, and the seat of that member is and is deemed to be vacant until an election is held in that electoral district according to law.

(The idea seems to be an extreme variation of some of the ideas that Ted Morton and some of the extreme Calgary Charter sceptics were developing in the old Canadian Alliance party before Stephen Harper house - trained them for electoral acceptability.

I understand the constitution does not explicitly guarantee that all votes must be equal, nor does it ban geographic voter discrimination and that it does call for an electoral college so I see the counter argument would be strong, but I wonder if you guys think there is any case to be made for my argument.

My hope is for the electoral process to work to throw the bastards out.

With a fairly significant US election looming on the horizon, candidates are already working the public for both electoral and financial support.

Unfortunately, the unions themselves are responsible for reporting and enforcing the boundary between political and non-political, and a recent history of settlements for electoral violations and court defeats shows they are willing to blur that line.

Sargsyan received immediate congratulatory messages from the Russian, Chinese, and American governments for his electoral triumph, although expectedly the latter did raise concerns over the misuse of state resources during the campaign.

Today's cool fact of the day is that if you provided with an adequate amount of oxygen, your heart can actually continuously beat outside of your body because it basically has its own system for electoral activation which is kind of cool and kind of creepy.

The singer Billy Bragg, a high - profile campaigner against the British National Party, will today argue for electoral reform as a crucial step to marginalising extremist politicians.

The Liberal Democrat leader said that the party had examined «every possible outcome» but warned that any alliance would be conditional on support for electoral reform.

The group was formed immediately before the 2010 general election, with funding from the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, hoping that there would be opportunities to push for electoral reform after the election.

TBP presented itself as a coalition of groups campaigning for electoral reform, including the Electoral Reform Society, Friends of the Earth, the National Union of Students, and many others.

«The Liberal Democrat dream for electoral reform may be dead for a generation... and their «friends» on the Left have helped to kill it Main Cameron might keep Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister if the Lib Dems ousted him as leader»

Nor are Labour exempt from cynicism as they failed to implement any concrete electoral reforms to the way MPs are elected to the House of Commons whilst in power from 1997 to 2010 but now their leader wishes to be seen as the reformer though he is still so partisan that he refuses to be seen in the company of the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, I personally assume therefore this is more about driving a wedge into the coalition, opposing David Cameron and general point scoring than a real desire for electoral reform for Ed Miliband.

«There will be a time and a place for electoral politics,» said Lenny Alcivar, a Stefanik campaign spokesman.

But given the Conservatives» outright refusal to countenance electoral reform — presumably Clegg's minimum precondition for any electoral deal — and likely visceral Lib Dem backbench opposition to supporting a Tory government, that would be some coup to pull off.

The Liberal Democrat dream for electoral reform may be dead for a generation... and their «friends» on the Left have helped to kill it

The Ukip threat hasn't been nullified; Labour are 10 points ahead in the polls — this is not propitious ground for electoral brinkmanship.

Fair Vote Canada (FVC) is a grassroots, nonprofit, multi-partisan citizens» movement for electoral reform in Canada.

Blairism triumphed in the Labour Party because it offered a plausible strategy for electoral victory; but was there an alternative option?

As some claimed the result placed Labour on track for electoral meltdown, the general secretary of a trade union that has backed Corbyn in two leadership elections issued a stark warning.

There is majority support for electoral reform among all age groups, although 18 - 24 year - olds (68 per cent) are more likely to back change than those 65 and over (52 per cent).

If you look at the actual figures for electoral registration according to the ONS [1] the figures for December 2015 [2] were:

The problem, though, is that the SNP is presenting its White Paper as the basis for their electoral mandate if they win the referendum.

He said Nigerians would recall that in the heat of 2015 elections, many citizens, who claimed to have become tired of the PDP and its government, opted for a coalition of strange bedfellows who he said had little or no experience in governance as a vehicle for electoral victory.

«Every Welsh Liberal Democrat councillor in Wales will make the positive case for electoral reform, and I call on all other parties in Wales to do the same.»

One of the important areas of preparation is keeping all our stores in good shape for electoral materials that may soon be coming in.

The road ahead is not easy for electoral reform activists, but it is worth travelling.

This naturally implies that any pushes for electoral reform in the future should consider alternatives that account for this issue.

@democraticaudit @katieghose @electoralreform Is it not time instead to campaign for electoral reform before the next GE?

Readers of this blog may think they understand the reasons for electoral reform — but all we tend to have different reasons — so what hope that the disaffected would «see the light» and (i) vote for a «rigged» coalition and (ii) vote yes in another referendum for AV?

He argues for an electoral system in which every vote carries equal weight.

If voters become accustomed to this system - which is likely - it will be easier for electoral reform supporters to bid for a new referendum in the future.