Sentences with phrase «leave the paper ballot»

But critics don't want to leave the paper ballot behind.

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The chamber is controlled by Republicans, but Democrats in the Senate were buoyed after a paper ballot count left their candidate in a Long Island Senate race with a 41 vote advantage, potentially giving them a 32 - person majority.

If you stir in legislation such as the European Referendum Act 2015 which set the question to appear on the ballot paper but failed to address the legal consequences of a vote to leave, and the anomalies thrown up by the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011, not least the ability to avoid a fixed - term, then the unsatisfactory basis upon which the country has gone to the polls three times in the last three years is underscored.

the party's logo, if registered by the Electoral Commission and submitted to the Electoral Commission for inclusion on the ballot paper, shall be shown to the left of the name of the political party.

on the left - hand side of the ballot paper beside the name of that party on the party vote part of the ballot paper; and

Labour moderates were left licking their wounds this afternoon after it was confirmed that Jeremy Corbyn will not be thrown off the ballot paper for the Labour leadership contest.

What that means, in essence, is that the elector must attend a polling place, have their name marked off the register, and then either accept a ballot paper and vote, or leave.

But, while in agreement with Labour's governing body, the National Executive Committee, that Corbyn should be on the ballot paper in the leadership contest, Smith nevertheless decided to resign and oppose his leader when a meeting between Corbyn and the so - called soft left of the shadow cabinet, including shadow energy secretary Lisa Nandy, led to rancour.

As leadership ballot papers are despatched, here's John Slinger with his top ten for a centre - left party that is serious about winning.

CLPD also proposes that the threshold of support be lowered from 15 % to just 5 % of MPs and MEPs, potentially making it easier for a left - winger to make the ballot paper.

According to the Orange County Registrar of Voters, there are an estimated 4,700 absentee ballots returned at the polls, 1,264 provisional ballots and 141 election day paper ballots left to count.

LabourList reports the disgusting remarks at a hustings of John McDonnell, the Left - wing candidate for the Labour leadership, who is unlikely to reach the ballot paper due to lack of support:

Diane Abbott The Labour left - winger, who made it on to the ballot paper after David Miliband lent her his support, has cheered the party's grass roots with her opposition to Trident, Iraq and privatisation.

It's the latest chapter in Cornwall's maligned postal voting system following the revelation last month that several candidates were left off the ballot paper, as reported by politics.co.uk.

He continued: «At the end of the voting when ballot papers were not sorted... they entered and they started beating me up, hitting me with the chairs that the people were sitting on and then dragged me until two of the policemen came to rescue me and I went and sat in a pickup for some time and then I came out and left.

Ahead of the crunch talks, Unite general secretary and NEC member Len McCluskey said it would be a «sordid little fix» if Mr Corbyn was left off the ballot paper.

«The left - wing MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington joins David and Ed Miliband, former children's secretary Ed Balls, and former health secretary Andy Burnham on the list -LSB-...] But Ms Abbott's presence on the ballot paper was only thanks to a late flurry of support after fellow left - winger John McDonnell quit the race and called on his backers to get behind her.»

The left will have confirmation this week that any successor to Corbyn will be of their ilk, when a motion is passed to reduce the threshold from 15 % to 10 % for the number of MPs» votes needed to get on the leadership ballot paper (the difficulty for the left is getting backing from MPs, not from the members who ultimately chose the leader).

The Left (and more) will recognise her courage in ensuring Dianne Abbott was on the ballot paper and she has succeeded in ensuring that women are not marginalised in the way they (including Harriet herself) were under Gordon Brown's leadership and in the election campaign in particular.

Labour's Yvette Cooper says she can beat leading left - wing candidate Jeremy Corbyn to win the party's leadership election, as ballot papers begin to arrive.

It means Corbyn will automatically be on the ballot paper and left rebels scrambling to ensure only one «unity» candidate takes him on.

The British government announced on 22 November 2006 that the two separate ballot papers used in the previous Scottish Parliament elections would be replaced for the elections in May 2007 by a single paper, with the left side listing the parties standing for election as regional MSPs and the right side the candidates standing as constituency MSPs.

I knew he would be unlikely to win and I put what I assumed would be the eventual winner, David Miliband, at No 2 on my ballot paper and left it at that.

Intellectual left - winger Steve Webb could, perhaps, have got himself on the ballot paper - any candidate needs the support of seven Liberal MPs to do so - but would almost certainly have come a poor third.