Sentences with phrase «increase access to the ballot»

I have been an ally in the fight to protect voters rights for many years and will continue to advocate for increased access to the ballot box.»

During his 2018 State of the State speech on Wednesday in Albany, Governor Andrew Cuomo spent little time on government ethics reform, but did address at somewhat greater length his proposals to increase access to the ballot box and change state campaign finance law.

Not exact matches

Mr Aminu Idris, Director, Election and Party Monitoring, INEC, gave the assurance at the Debate on «Increasing number of political parties in Nigeria and access to ballot in 2019» on Tuesday in Abuja.

Through the convention process, voters can introduce term limits for lawmakers, require public campaign financing, enable early voting and increase access to absentee ballots — all proposals that will encourage more competitive elections.

As population has increased, roughly five times more petition signatures are required now to run for office than in 1943 when the ballot access laws were first implemented

On April 17, the New Hampshire Senate Election Law and Veterans Affairs Committee passed HB 521, a bill to «study all current New Hampshire election laws and procedures and review all options to increase participation and access to the ballot.»

«This ballot question actually takes a fairly tempered approach to increasing access in a gradual process, year by year, with retention of the important oversight of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education,» said Christopher Anderson, a former chairman of the state Board of Education and one of the petition's signers.