Sentences with phrase «from voting lists»

In 1991, the Manitoba Aboriginal Justice Inquiry report detailed how Indigenous people were historically denied the right to sit on juries since names were drawn from voting lists.

«It has been reported to us from voters and voting rights monitors that the voting lists in Brooklyn contain numerous errors, including the purging of entire buildings and blocks of voters from the voting lists,» de Blasio said in his statement.

The letter cited reports of voters purged from voting lists, closed polling stations, and broken machines, among other issues.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio — who endorsed Hillary Clinton in October 2015 — also issued a statement Tuesday condemning the purge of voters from voting lists and added his support for the comptroller's audit.

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Add a potential multi-billion dollar entertainment industry merger to the long list of economic casualties from the Brexit less than a week after the U.K.'s historic vote to leave the European Union.

The 30 sandwiches came from a list of about 200, which executives had previously voted either for or against based on just their names.

Murphy's call for the two votes came as presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said he would meet with the National Rifle Association to discuss ways to block people on terrorism watch lists or no - fly lists from buying guns.

Tencent Music, however, has decided to go for a U.S. listing as Spotify is listed there and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing's (HKEX) newly introduced rules do not allow corporate entities to benefit from weighted voting rights for now, according to IFR.

Bloggers, restaurant critics and other food writers from around the world voted to create the list of 101 Best Hotel Restaurants Around the World.

Following completion of this offering, the Principal Stockholders will control more than 50 % of the combined voting power of our common stock, so under current listing standards, we would qualify as a «controlled company» and accordingly, will be exempt from requirements to have a majority of independent directors, a fully independent nominating and corporate governance committee and a fully independent compensation committee.

Doing this we found a high correlation between the companies on our final list and those that received the highest level of opposition from shareholders voting on these pay packages at the annual meetings.

The board of Rockville, Maryland - based Metropolitan Regional Information Systems Inc. (MRIS) has voted to finalize negotiations with Zillow to send the portal a direct feed of its more than 50,000 for - sale home listings and 8,800 rental listings from its more than 45,000 subscribers.

The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President.

Romney's religion does not keep me from voting for him... there is a long list of reasons I think he is dangerous for the presidency and religion is not on the list.

Just last month the American Psychiatric Association, voting on a recommendation from its board of trustees, dropped homosexuality as such from its list of mental disorders.

After all, it was only three years from the time that femi and gays first zapped the APA at a behavior therapy session to the time that the Board of Trustees voted in 1973 to approve removing homi from the list of mental disorders.

In 2016, NOSB voted to remove carrageenan from its list of approved organic ingredients, citing proof that there are alternative, safer ingredients that can be used in carrageenan's place.

Any change to the status quo (i.e., removing a material from the National List) requires a 2/3 majority vote of the full NOSB.

The range of activities being quarantined under a 48 per cent buyout of the Maggie Beer Products premium food business by ASX - listed Primary Opinions has been clearly outlined in a prospectus ahead of a vote on June 24 by shareholders in the Victorian acquirer, which is switching to food manufacturing and away from operating a legal services networking hub.

It's from this list that the chefs and restaurateurs will now vote in this exclusively peer - voted initiative.

Materials listed as approved in the National Organic Program (NOP) standards are subject to review every five years, at which time the NOSB board can vote to either a) relist them as allowed or prohibited or b) remove them from the organic standards.

Technically, Davis is listed at PF, so he wouldn't steal votes away from Embiid at C unless the voters really want to just say he's a C. Second team All - NBA Defense for Embiid is fair, but the first team center is Drummond if you scroll up to a previous comment reply.

The list, compiled by a vote from France based football journalists of their ideal squad of players from around the world, heavily features Bayern Munich and Real Madrid stars.

Vote here from the star - studded list of nominees.

From now until the NFL Draft in late April we'll be putting up a daily poll asking GGN to vote on the best available player from a rolling list of a dozen candidaFrom now until the NFL Draft in late April we'll be putting up a daily poll asking GGN to vote on the best available player from a rolling list of a dozen candidafrom a rolling list of a dozen candidates.

After some debate, which saw some goals included and others excluded, a list of 15 goals has been selected from which you can vote.

Would your child enjoy choosing from a list of books that thousands of kids their age voted as their favorites?.

The formal definition is that if you know how everyone else is going to vote, there are circumstances where you switch your vote away from your sincere preference list and the winner will be someone higher up your preference list than it would be if you voted your sincere preferences.

So here's the scoop: remember that «Ten Who Are Changing the World of Politics and the Internet» list from a few months ago, the one in which all of you voted for e.politics?

Hi folks, Quick Hits is off this week, but our friends over at the Campaign Workshop have posted a nice alternative to our usual Friday reading list: they've pulled together links to some of the best Get Out The Vote guides online, from sources like the New Organizing Institute, Campaigns & Elections and our own Epolitics.com.

Theoretically speaking, there are mechanisms that prevent someone from voting twice (you are only allocated to vote to one polling place based on your residence address, and that polling place has a name list where you sign off that you voted).

Are there any notable proposals to implement plural voting in modern times aside from «parental vote» model listed on the Wikipedia page?

Photo courtesy Wikipedia Hi folks, Quick Hits is off this week, but our friends over at the Campaign Workshop have posted a nice alternative to our usual Friday reading list: they've pulled together links to some of the best Get Out The Vote guides online, from sources like the New...

This argument is based on evidence from Australia that, given the choice, the vast majority (around 95 %) of voters choose to vote above the line and so it is a de facto closed list PR system.

In the 2000 Florida election, at least 1,100 eligible voters were wrongly dropped from voting rolls in an attempt to purge a list of felons

But as senior politicians cast their votes, others were turned away from voting in the north London borough of Barnet after the wrong electoral register lists were printed for polling stations.

Two cases in point from the Obama side: super.del.egates.us is a wiki - based contact list for voters to use to reach the precious unpledged delegates to the Democratic Convention, while Yrmomma4obama aims to help young voters (and those too young to vote themselves) to use text messages to persuade their friends and family to jump on the Obama bandwagon.

Four parties are likely to clear the 5 per cent hurdle to gain a portion of the 225 party - list seats: United Russia, the centrist «party of power,» which currently holds 238 seats in the Duma; the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), a leftist opposition party (92 seats); the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), a nationalist party dominated by its firebrand leader, Vladimir Zhirinovsky (56 seats); and A Just Russia (JR), a leftist party engineered by the Kremlin to capture votes from the KPRF — but which also included a small number of liberal legislators in the 2011 - 2016 Duma (64 seats).

In NAACP v. Harris, a class - action, Blacks argued that over 57,000 Black voters were wrongfully purged from Florida's voting lists and that Black communities were provided with defective voting mechanisms.

However, in the Hungarian system, surplus votes of the party winning the constituency go towards the list as well, skewing the result away from proportionality.

relying heavily on the methods that have served him well in past wins: a well - organized and well - financed ground operation, a heavy emphasis on early - voting recruitment, a growing list of endorsements, including from both establishment and tea - party leaders, and millions of dollars in TV advertisements.

Smart use of email fundraising from the Daily Kos activism list today: they sent out a message this afternoon asking activists to support last - minute Get Out The Vote work on behalf of three separate several Democrats running for state legislature in Virginia.

The latest (but not recent) episode I remember is this vote from June 2016, when the US senate rejected restrictions on sale of weapons to people on the terror watch list.

Aside from fund - raising, Goff said the digital operation wasn't about getting supporters on their lists to vote — it was about getting their friends to vote for Obama.

The Electoral Commission must first ascertain from the information given under section 179 (1)(a) the total number of all the party votes received by each of the parties listed on the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote.

Still — that's a useful list from Sunder of the 21 people across the country who will be voting Labour next time round.

If it does not have enough seats to reflect their share of the vote, the party gets to fill another seat with a candidate from the «list» they submit before the election.

Where the Electoral Commission disregards the name of a party in accordance with subsection (4), that party shall, for the purpose of this section and sections 192 and 193, be deemed to have been deleted from the list of parties included in the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote.

Second, the wording of the question used to ascertain voting intentions on the list vote is markedly different from the one that the company has used previously.