Sentences with phrase «get votes form»

Instead, only competent politicians with moderate positions and that already distinguished themselves within the parliament can get votes form the majority of the parliament.

Not exact matches

We're here at Business Insider Greek Election HQ to watch the information come in, and to learn if the pro-bailout New Democracy party, and its leader Antonis Samaras, can hold off the upstart leftist Alexis Tsipras, and get enough votes to form a government.

However, when the substantial majority of over 60 per cent gets split among four other competing parties, the Conservatives — with a minority of the vote — could wind up forming the government.

Together, they form the 12 - member FOMC, though presidents of districts other than New York only get a rotating policy vote, and thus considerably less say over interest rate policy.

(I know, because I was the President of the Zoning Commission which formed the regulations when the township was forced to vote on the zoning issue several years ago, which did get defeated.

Certain religious political activists have succeeded in forming a political bloc that encourages some politicians to say what that bloc wants to hear to get votes.

On form alone, Fulham would get my vote hands down.

Being given the nod in the Europa League might be the vote of confidence Lacazette needs to regain his form and get his confidence back.

I don't think plural voting would be considered a less democratic system, if we were able to come up with a balanced (or at least apparently balanced) and (mostly) frictionless way of determining who gets the extra votes, similarly to how forms of weighted voting are not generally considered undemocratic and are practised and widely accepted in several democratic countries and institutions.

Why, form them up into March Madness - style brackets and get folks to vote on»em!

They had software on iPhones and BlackBerries that drew on their voter target list and used a volunteer's GPS location to provide a list of which doors to knock on, a script for interactions with voters and a form to fill out responses, eliminating the need for paper get - out - the - vote walk sheets.

You wouldn't claim people get more votes under other forms of runoff voting (two round system or exhaustive ballot for example).

«I think these two races are going to come down to who can get the vote out,» said Libby Post of Capital Women, a progressive organization formed in response to Trump's election that's backing Doran and O'Connor.

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).

DiNapoli does have institutional support in the form of most of the Democratic establishment and a lot of labor unions, which can help him get out the vote on Election Day.

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.

Spitzer declined, even after Cuomo successfully blocked all his primary opponents form getting onto the ballot at the convention (recall that this year, all five AG candidates were allowed on the ballot after much mathematical manipulation of the weighted vote).

A coalition of gun rights advocates and others are forming a new political movement to get what they say are disaffected and disenfranchised New Yorkers to vote.

So, by some form of voting system — I think it's closer to propawtional representation than furs past the post — the politicians get their constituents to vote online for their canine running mates, and then they have to do the «Doggy Dash» where they are forcibly raced through one of two narrow tubes.

Merkel could choose to form a minority government, by getting enough votes to be elected Chancellor.

She suggests the focus on who forms the next government distracts a bit from the election from voters» point of view: «We are not getting what we're voting for.

In doing so he will challenge the constitutional convention that says if Britain votes for a hung parliament, the existing prime minister gets the first chance to form a government.

But, in his first comments on what he might do if Thursday's election is inconclusive, Mr Cameron challenged the Whitehall convention that says that, if Britain votes for a hung parliament, the existing Prime Minister gets the first chance to form a government, even if his party has fewer seats or votes than its main rival.

A newly - formed coalition is pressing a Buffalo - area Assemblyman to back the bill and get it on the floor for a vote.

Under this fourth consequence of the possible electoral arithmetic, policy for non-Scottish areas of the country would be partially formed by a party that has never received a single vote in those areas, is completely unaccountable to the electorate and has an electoral incentive in ensuring that another part of the country, Scotland, gets as large a slice of the national budget as possible.

A coalition of second amendment advocates and others in New York are forming a new political movement to get what they say are disaffected and disenfranchised New Yorkers to vote, possibly in primaries against incumbent state lawmakers.

In a race where the incumbent governor is perceived as far ahead of his opponent, the governor's newly formed Women's Equality Party may help provide the extra boost to get women supporters out to vote on November 4.

In a first past the post system, the Tories can't simply rely on boosting their votes in the South of England, something they've been getting quite good at over the last two or three years: they need to win seats in other regions if they are to form a government.

Whatever the constitutional convention about the party with the largest number of seats getting first shot at forming a government, the pressure on Clegg to back a Cameron - led administration if the Tories won the largest share of the vote — rather than support a party that had lost its majority — would be intense.

But if smaller parties form an alliance their votes are added up for the distribution of seats, so this increases their chances of getting one.

Ok if the Tories got more seats, then they could try and form a minority Govt, but they could be voted down in a vote of confidence, and a Lab - Lib Dem coalition be formed.

Vietnam, LSD, immigration, fear of communism, voting rights, poverty, and racial equality — these were the hot button issues of the campaign, and they all get stitched in to the overall stories in some form or fashion to show just what Kennedy's nomination meant to the futures of many of the main characters.

So, parents say they value accountability and will do anything to get a good education for their kids, but they don't hold anyone responsible for outcomes by exercising the most effective form of accountability in their control — strategically voting on the issue.

So if I had to handicap the outcome it might look something like this: 60 % probability that the offer gets increased, either by management or by a third party, 20 % probability that the buyout goes through in its current form and 20 % probability that the buyout is voted down and falls apart.

But what you get with those financial considerations comes with drawbacks in the form of no voting rights in elections or other decision - making procedures.

Traditionally, registering to vote requires that you fill out a paper registration form that you get from election officials (or the internet).