Sentences with phrase «independent voter rights»

Not exact matches

As I flew back from Dublin to Edinburgh I read the Sunday edition of the Irish Independent the headline of which was «POLL: Act Now on Abortion say voters» with the story continuing: «The most seismic shift [in the Irish public's attitude to abortion] is that a clear majority (56 %) now favour a new referendum to repeal the current position, which gives equal right to life to the mother and foetus.»

«While a bare majority of Democrats think the country is on the right track, as do a plurality of New York City voters, more than three quarters of Republicans and roughly six in ten independents, downstate suburbanites and upstaters say the country is headed in the wrong direction.»

The far - right and their voters in Austria and other European countries might well be heading towards a space where independent journalism, and therefore public scrutiny, can no longer reach them.

15th May 2017, The Independent: Tory voters think their party is now more right - wing thank Ukip, poll finds

«Unfortunately the State of New York has shown time and again that they have little concern for the rights of independent voters or members of minor parties.

I personally am more frightened by the prospect of a continued Repub majority in Congress as they lurch further and further to the extreme right than I am by the excesses of the Dems, who can always be held in check by the combination of a robust Repub minority, independent swing voters and people who are simply fed up with the size and inefficiency of our government on all levels.»

«By 52 - 33 % — exactly the same as last month — voters say New York is headed on the right track, including a majority of downstaters and Democrats, and a plurality of upstaters and independents,» said Siena's Steve Greenberg.

«Now that the voters have given him another term, the governor needs to start off on the right foot by acknowledging the growing dangers of fracking and commission a truly independent and transparent Health Impacts Assessment that follows accepted medical standards,» he said.

This proposal is an important step in the right direction, but it does not address the biggest impediment to voting: The fact that 3.3 million independent and unaffiliated voters are locked out of New York's closed primary system.

Until landowners are prevented from signing away their land for a generation or more without a requirement they receive independent legal advice, until the legislation and regulation is made transparent to average voters (for example, until they understand why much of what they actually want to appeal may not be appealed so that, from their perspective, they in fact have no right of appeal), until they understand why of all structures it is only the power to approve the erection of wind towers that has been taken away from local municipalities, until they understand why applications for immediately adjacent areas (by gilead and wpd) abutting Lake Ontario in either the most dense or second-most dense bird migration area in all of Eastern Canada may not be joined into one proceeding [guess whose interests that favours]... the list of «untils» is a long one and there is no indication of any change on the way.

Almost half of UK voters believe that the European Union will collapse if France votes in a right - wing Government later this year that takes the country out of the EU, according to a YouGov poll conducted on behalf of BE Offices, a leading independent serviced offices provider.

This includes registering voters for the Boston Election Commission in 1967, helping to establish the second Independent Living Center in the United States for persons with disabilities in the 1970's, establishing bi-racial councils in Boston Public Schools during desegregation, and supporting equal rights for the LGBTQ community.

From registering voters in Boston and Georgia in the 1960's, to helping to establish the second independent living center in the United States for persons with disabilities in the 1970's, to helping establish bi-racial councils in Boston Public Schools during desegregation, to supporting equal rights for the LGBTQ community, civil rights has been part of his community work.