Sentences with phrase «including over voting»

He argued that the Tamale central constituency Parliamentary election on December 7 was characterized with irregularities including over voting...

He argued that the Tamale central constituency Parliamentary election on December 7 was characterized with irregularities including over voting and results from unknown polling stations.

As managers of the household, women assert a crucial degree of power within the family and local community structures, including over voting decisions.

Not exact matches

Cabinet ministers have been at odds over policy, including citizenship laws, the national vote on same - sex marriage and competition reform, as well as being left out of the decision loop on a series of «captain's picks» by the prime minister.

Calls have included asking representatives to vote against Betsy DeVos's nomination for secretary of education or asking Customs and Border Control to voice concern over President Trump's suspension of refugee immigration.

Mr. Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway share voting and dispositive power over 342,235,585 reported shares, which include shares beneficially owned by certain subsidiaries of Berkshire Hathaway.

The Ways and Means Committee voted on a number of tax bills last week, including legislation that would restore and expand bonus depreciation at a cost of $ 360 billion over the next decade (including interest).

Greece's parliament voted early Thursday following a marathon 20 - hour session to investigate 10 senior politicians, including two former prime ministers, over allegations they were involved in a pharmaceutical bribery scandal.

In addition to their board seats, such persons will have significant influence over corporate actions requiring stockholder approval, irrespective of how the company's other stockholders, including you, may vote.

Britons voted last Thursday to leave the EU over concerns including immigration and regulation.

While both parties have denied explicit wrongdoing, Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are facing whistleblower claims this data was used to support Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election campaign, with the latter firm also being said to have yielded influence over other democratic votes including the EU referendum.

While the official team picked by UEFA did not include the Arsenal star but did feature his international team mates Toni Kroos of Real Madrid, Jerome Boateng and Joshua Kimmich of Bayern Munich, Squawka.com have reported that Ozil won the fans vote hands down with over a quarter of all the votes polled.

The one inclusion who was not selected because of the vote is former Barcelona forward David Villa, who was included following over 800,000 goals having been scored on FIFA using the striker.

THE VOTE: His playoff achievements, which include winning the Conn Smythe Trophy, put him over the top and into the Hall.

Ozil amazingly picked up over 50 % of the votes for the award, which is astounding when you consider the masses of Deutsche stars who could have rivalled him, including Jerome Boateng, Toni Kroos, Phillipe Lahm, Thomas Muller, Marco Reus and many others.

-- Your vote over at Red Tricycle also enters you to win some fab prizes from them too, including the Grand Prize: a $ 500 Gift Certificate to giggle, 1st Prize: A Flip Video Camera (value $ 300) and 2nd Prize: A Large Organic Plush Winnie - the - Pooh (value $ 110).

I have put forward proposals to exert greater shareholder control over their companies, including binding votes on pay.

Several labor groups, including CWA and 32BJ SEIU, left the WFP ahead of its vote on Saturday to back Nixon, an actress and public education advocate, over Cuomo, a two - term incumbent running for re-election.

Subsequently in 1911, the first International Women's Day (IWD) was marked by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland; characterized by demontsrations, strikes, parades and marches to demand a myriad of rights including the right to vote, the right to hold public office, and an end to economic discrimination amongst others.

Although the odds remain against Smith, he will be hoping that an enthusiastic campaign over the next month will do enough to persuade Corbyn backers, including among the third tranche who can take part — the 70,000 union affiliates — to either switch their vote or not cast it at all.

Gyimah points out there will be an automatic carry - over of voters for the 2015 general election, meaning anyone who disappears will be artificially included in the list of those allowed to vote in the looming contest.

That ought still to include a promise to force a Commons vote on it and thus challenge the Lib Dems, a promise to enable and require councils to build houses, a promise to restore the Agricultural Wages Board that the Lib Dems have abolished, a promise to reverse the dismantlement of England's NHS by Shirley Williams and other Lib Dems, a promise to reverse any privatisation of the Royal Mail and thus stop it because no buyer would take the risk, and a promise to renationalise the railways for free over the course of a Parliament by simply taking back each franchise as it came up for renewal.

She captured just over 25 percent of the vote in the district, which includes Flushing, Queensboro Hill, Mitchell Gardens, Kissena Park, Harding Heights, Auburndale and parts of Whitestone.

The budget includes the first step toward tolls, but lawmakers were unclear over whether they will need to vote twice on tolls — once to start the process and then again next year after the tolling sites have been chosen.

Gibson has been slamming Murphy for voting «yes» on the health care reform bill — a vote that came only after considerable lobbying by the Democratic powers - that - be, including the president, who had the freshman congressman over for a little Oval Office chat.

Koppell was hit with many criticisms, including his vote to extend term limits in the City Council, as well as his support of former county Democratic boss Jose Rivera over Assemblyman Carl Heastie in 2008.

The threshold level of votes had been set at 2.5 % (For the purposes of this example) Points to note include In an FPTP election, Party A, with 335 MPs would have a clear majority over all the other parties combined, and thus would be the single party of government, despite the fact that they only won 35.2 % of the popular vote, and almost 2/3 of voters voted for other parties.

Several Democratic senators, including Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerHow the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel Hillicon Valley: Trump stuns lawmakers with push to help Chinese company Facebook suspends 200 apps over data practices Dems want answers on Cohen payments Senate net neutrality vote coming Wednesday Harry Reid undergoes surgery for pancreatic cancer MORE (N.Y.), have said they will give money received from Weinstein to charity.

Four out of seven «Blue Dogs» on the Energy and Commerce Committee were won over; with a similar level of conservative support the full House, reform will pass with about 235 votes, probably including a public option.

A tradition of over a decade, the sessions allow CUNY students to assume the role and responsibility of State Senators and to hold a full mock session, with a vote included, in the Senate Chamber.

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.

However, this central estimate, based on an update survey conducted over the weekend, combines the data from three different turnout scenarios: including all those who currently say they will vote on Thursday (giving a Conservative majority of 70); including all those who say they voted in the EU referendum (a Conservative majority of 48); and assuming turnout matches that of the 2015 election (a Conservative majority of 78)(more...)

Moreover, this strict amendment process has not excessively impeded constitutional change, as it has allowed for many significant constitutional amendments over the nation's history, including the Bill of Rights and Amendments concerning the income tax, the direct election of senators, the two term presidency, and the right to vote of women and 18 year olds.

Over 400 international election observers — including officials from the United States and the European Union — were deployed across the country to monitor voting, the tallying process and part of the post-election period.

The release includes no quotes from either Miner or Wright, who are scheduled to take over on June 5 after a state committee vote.

The ad accuses Slaughter of a voting for a slew of tax increases, including the so - called «cap and trade» emissions measure and trots out the frequent Republicant talking point that the 2010 federal health care bill cuts $ 716 billion for Medicare, which is actually spread out over 10 years and targets subsidies to insurance companies.

Pataki noted that his national PAC, Revere America, spent well over six figures targeting Democrats who had voted «yes» on health care reform, including outgoing Rep. John Hall, who lost to Republican Congresswoman - elect Nan Hayworth.

New York lawmakers will return to Albany on Wednesday to begin their work for 2017, a session expected to include debates over voting laws, corruption, Uber's proposal to expand upstate and the state's response to the Trump administration.

Public services including the payment of tax credits and the production of new driving licences could be hit by strike action after hundreds of IT staff voted for industrial action over pay.

The Senate Democrats seen as the most likely contenders to challenge Trump in 2020 — including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand — all voted against the bill to reopen the government, even though most Democrats agreed to end the stalemate over immigration and fund the government again.

It comes at a time when Mr Brown is facing criticism over other issues, including his reform plans for MPs» expenses, which will also go to a vote on Thursday.

He garnered over 52,000 votes, and because of this showing, the party received automatic ballot status for the next four years, and was included as a party option on all state voter registration forms.

The clock is counting down to Election Day, and in this final NBC 4 New York / Wall Street Journal / Marist Poll, Democrat Bill de Blasio has a very wide lead over Republican Joe Lhota among New York City likely voters including those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate and those who voted by absentee ballot.

The Democratic moves, including boycotting committee room votes on nominees last week and a round - the - clock debate Monday night before Tuesday's confirmation of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, reached a boiling point during the debate over Sessions — which Democrats continued overnight.

When the board met on July 1, however, the Bronx appointee voted with the other members to keep Mr. Klein as chancellor and give him full power over the schools, including allowing him to approve contracts.

[14] McHugh was first elected in 1992, and was reelected eight times with over 60 % of the vote, including running unopposed in 2002.

When in power as part of the Tory - led coalition from 2010 - 15, the Lib Dems voted through a raft of benefit cuts including the bedroom tax, cuts to council tax benefit, housing benefit and tax credits, as well as presiding over a disability benefit testing system that wrongly denied benefits to thousands of people, and a job centre sanctions system that saw benefits docked for hundreds of thousands of jobseekers.

He has been a lifelong volunteer for causes he believes in, including conducting climate change science field research with the Harvard Department of Forestry in Southern Africa, working on get - out - the - vote efforts for John Kerry, Barack Obama and Zephyr Teachout, building agricultural databases for USAID funded international projects all over the world, and providing technical assistance to schools in Senegal (for which he was awarded the President's Volunteer Service Award by the Obama administration).

That possibility remains for former county Democratic Party chair and incumbent county legislator John Parete of Boiceville, who holds a slim 20 - vote lead over Democratic challenger Kathy Nolan in the 22nd district, which includes Shandaken, Olive, Denning and Hardenburgh, with at least 217 absentee ballots still to count.

The rally was co-sponsored by members of the Let NY Vote coalition, which includes over thirty organizations, nonprofits, and labor unions, including Common Cause / NY, Public Citizen, New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, as well as the statewide NAACP and the National Action Network, grassroots organizations, faith groups, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American, and the LGBTQ community.