Sentences with phrase «less voting by»

As discontent and disapproval of state government grows, so does a lack of interest and involvement in the political system - less voting by those who are eligible; fewer aspirants willing to run for office.

Not exact matches

Clinton lost to Trump in Wisconsin by about 22,000 votes, or less than 1 percentage point.

These shares usually have less voting rights than the Class A Shares, which are the preferred share by most investors, although the company or corporation has the right to designate which classification of shares has the most voting rights and when they are issued to the shareholders.

In the end, he told his caucus to vote for the Liberal motion, which was enough to get Scheer called a «backstabber» by Ezra Levant, whose Rebel Media more or less defines the far right end of the political mainstream in Canada.

If the Republicans, who are holding out for concessions on the health care law — the Affordable Care Act — in exchange for a budget vote, back down or are blamed for a shutdown, they would have even less ability to push their wishes by refusing to raise the debt ceiling, analysts at DBS in Singapore wrote Tuesday.

However, the same way investors are growing leery of Washington's political rhetoric, they are also putting less weight on the endless parade of speeches by voting members of the Fed — specifically, Janet Yellen, Stan Fischer, Bill Dudley, and Lael Brainard — in an effort to manipulate markets without doing anything.

Pursuant to Section 228 of the DGCL, any action required to be taken at any annual or special meeting of the stockholders may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote if a consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, is signed by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares of our stock entitled to vote thereon were present and voted, unless the certificate of incorporation provides otherwise.

July 25 (Reuters)- The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2000 GMT on Thursday: ** Dell Inc founder Michael Dell raised his $ 24.4 billion bid by less than 1 percent just hours before it was to be put to a vote, tacking on...

** Dell Inc founder Michael Dell raised his $ 24.4 billion bid by less than 1 percent just hours before it was to be put to a vote, tacking on a controversial demand to change voting rules to make it easier for him to buy and take the No. 3 personal computer maker private.

Even when they had the White House (George W) and both Houses of Congress the GOP never even introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatives.

Less than two years after the citizens of Washington voted by referendum to uphold the state's prohibition of physician - assisted suicide, a federal judge invalidated the statute as....

And the Plan that requires these holocausts to the God of Economics is no less violent for being voted by a parliament and being made a law.

A January 2000 survey by the Panetta Institute found college students are less likely to vote than the population at large.

Even if such an alliance is a long shot, a president who received less than 10 percent of the African - American vote has little to lose by emphasizing the increased availability of funds for black church social - service programs.

Although white traditionalists tend to be outnumbered, the electoral scales are balanced somewhat by their greater turnout: ethnic and racial minorities, white modernists, and seculars voted less frequently.

It's simple as this, Rick Santorum appeals to the less educated, extremely conservative and more bigot minded segment of rural America, which is largely dominated by Born again evangelicals, who as the article points out have a misguided view that that Mormons aren't Christian, and in their misguided bigotry seem to be voting against Romney based upon their religion rather than for a good candidate who can win the general election.

The report as prepared by the commission and adopted by the conference has the appearance of having been written by men who, rather radical themselves, were aware that it would have to be adopted, if at all, by the votes of those less so.

A survey released this month by the Pew Research Center found that a quarter of American adults admit to being less likely to vote for a Mormon candidate for president.

When the only vote is for the lesser of two evils, I believe the only way to truly be heard is to vote by not voting.

The March initiative failed by a 2 - 1 margin, but the November proposal fell less than 800 votes short of passage.

It's a flash game (to be played in browser) that tasks you with redistricting given populations to achieve specific goals, for example depriving a surefire opposition candidate of votes, consolidating opposition in one area leaving one opposition candidate with almost all their voters and all the rest with less than enough to win, or just assuring status quo between the two parties by marginalizing uncertainty coming from undecided voters.

After counting absentee ballots, Slaughter claimed victory by less than a thousand votes.

In the case two Pennsylvania Democrats challenged the state's Republican controlled state legislature for denying the principle of «one person one vote» to them by ensuring their votes would be less likely to impact their representation in a heavily Republican district.

Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal studies earlier this week suggests that the UK's actual net contribution to the EU is # 150m a week - less than half that claimed by Vote Leave.

According to them, by nullifying elections in 18 out of 31 local government areas, Section 179 (2)(b) of the Nigerian Constitution, which required that a candidate vying for the office of the Governor would be declared winner if he has not less than one quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two - thirds of the local government areas, has been breached.

With perhaps just over two months until the general election, voters may have less than a fortnight to register to vote once the polling date has been announced by the prime minister.

I get less excited by reform of voting systems, Europe and bills of rights.

However, she also previously displayed a less progressive side by voting against repealing section 28 and against reducing the age of consent for gay sex.

In several of these cases (1951, 1966 and Oct 1974) the parliament was either hung, or the Prime minister had a majority of less than 10 (which is not considered to be a «working majority» in the UK's parliamentary system) and so you can say that they «jumped» to call an election before they were «pushed» by losing a vote of no - confidence.

In the election there were 23 micro-parties, so the average vote needed by each of them for the method to work was less than 1 %.

Making the independence vote a rare and decisive event makes it less likely that the secession right will have the destabilising consequences identified by Sunstein.

note: I'm less sanguine than Aiden about the prospect of voting - by - phone in the near term (though I'll note a Larry Niven story from the late»60s in which he describes half of a future Earth population «bothering» to phone in their votes).

After that, Ball has more or less proven himself a reliable vote and loyal member in the Senate GOP fold, as evidenced by leadership's support for him when Assemblyman Steve Katz (one of several intra-party enemies Ball has made over the years) launched a short - lived primary challenge that fizzled after some initial fireworks.

The European Parliament has been given more powers by successive treaties, but less and less Europeans have bothered to vote in European elections.

In Bromley and Enfield, Labour candidates fell short by a margin of less than the Women's Equality party votes, while in Richmond the Liberal Democrat / Green alliance saw off the Tory challenge for a second time.

Thus they are strongly supported by parties like the Liberal Democrats, UKIP, the Greens and so, that often pile up millions of votes in FPTP contests but may win few or no seats, because they are less commonly or rarely the largest party in a given local area.

But even before that, Democrats won five of the six statewide offices up for grabs in 2008, the same year in which Obama lost to McCain there by less than 4,000 votes.

In Canastota and Fulton, the budgets were defeated by less than 10 votes each.

By less than 5,000 votes, he defeated Ceretto, a three - term incumbent who switched party affiliation from the GOP to Democratic in the summer of 2015.

Alabama Rep. Martha Roby comfortably won a fourth term in 2016 but with less than 50 percent of the vote, thanks to a write - in campaign inspired by her disavowal of Trump.

This means that if there are more than two candidates running, a third party candidate can «spoil» the vote for the viable candidate most similar in ideology to him by splitting the vote of people who share their ideology, making the winner the candidate whose ideology actually has less support in the electorate than an alternative.

This would suggest that voting preference is less swung by the day - to - day cut and thrust of an election campaign, and more with identification with the principles that underlay the party's ethos.

If the nominee received less than 20 % of the votes in the last election, they may may choose between holding a primary election or nominating by convention.

If less seats earned through electorates, than the number of seats earned by the party vote, then the difference is made up of list seats.

The WFP's raw vote is down in places, but on average it is down by less than the drop in turnout.

Analysis by the Electoral Reform Society shows that 63 % of those who voted on May 7 did so for losing candidates, and that almost half of elected MPs won less than 50 % of their constituency vote.

According to Professor Sir John Curtice Labour's vote was up on average by as much as 11 points in wards where more than 35 per cent of voters are aged between 18 and 34, and up by just 4 per cent where the proportion of younger voters is less than 20 per cent.

According to John Curtice, the Greens won 7.5 per cent of the vote in the wards they contested (down by 2 points on 2014) and UKIP won just over 6 per cent of the vote on average in the wards they fought (no less than a 20 point drop on 2014).

In Illinois» 3rd District — a seat held by Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski — 34 percent of his current supporters said they would be less likely to vote for Lipinski if he opposed the Equality Act.

Hours before polls closed, Espaillat — who lost to Rangel in the 2012 primary by less than 1,000 votes last cycle — declared Rangel a «liability» for House Democrats.