Sentences with phrase «like voting in an election»

When voting for a winner, in every category but one, they simply check the box beside their choice, just like voting in an election, easy.

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Sugar said: «If [politicians] lie, which results in massive decisions like leaving the European Union, or gaining votes in a general election, then this should be a criminal offence as it would be in a public company if I lied to my shareholders.»

Does a man who received almost 3 million fewer votes than his opponent in the election really have the political capital to carry on like this?

Like the voting machine companies, Internet voting services — mostly purveying their software in private or corporate elections — largely resist subjecting their work to public trial.

No, although I've voted Democratic in every election since 1976 — except for primaries in Texas where there's no point in voting Democratic — I can say that every candidate I've ever seen has made some effort to look like a man of faith.

It's funny, I was chatting with god the other night, you know about girls and money and basically life in general, and then from out of no where god was like, «Yo, Chuckles, I have a job for you, it's very important that you do it, I need you to go and vote this upcoming election and I need you to vote for Rick Perry, he seems a little crazy, but don't worry, he's all good in my book».

And I'd like to suggest that voting for a pro-choice candidate in this election, or any election, need not overburden your conscience.

Looks like I will be NOT voting in November election.

That fellow voted for the wrong guy in the last election, he cheats on his wife, is dishonest in business, drinks like a fish, doesn't go to church, has crazy religious ideas, and his neighbor tells me he may be gay!

His last prayer is that Ron Paul stays in and gets the whack - a-doodle religious vote so that Paul becomes like Nader and Perot, giving the election away to the other side.

When asked how many times they ate out last week, how frequently they have sex, and whether or not they voted in the last election, most people report what they usually do, what they would like to do or what they think someone like them ought to do.

He mentions that issues like climate change, genocide, fair trade, and peace are becoming more important to evangelicals and may even affect their how they vote in this election cycle.

However, it looks like Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire are both in danger of falling off this year by failing to secure five percent of the vote, and neither Roger Clemens nor Barry Bonds looks as if they've made any progress towards election.

I'd like to see non partisan elections in New York State or instant run - off voting at the general election.

He stood for Cardiff South East in the 1964 general election but couldn't manage to accumulate votes like he did runs, losing to James Callaghan.

Anyway, it looks like both sides are calling in the big guns in advance of tonight's Wednesday's dueling chairmanship votes — one that will see Ragusa re-elected to another two - year term, the other resulting in the election of former NYC Council Minority Leader / 2005 NYC mayoral contender and 2010 LG candidate Tom Ognibene.

Clegg knows, like any party leader, that the significance of by - elections far outweighs the advantage of one extra MP voting in the division lobbies on your side.

Though this may seem like a reasonable suggestion and is the norm in STV elections, it is important to understand the consequences this has on voting behaviour.

Worse still, having vowed to abandon the European Union, Mrs May is driven into the arms of someone whose election (like the Brexit vote) was enthusiastically welcomed by every protectionist and nationalist in Europe, who seeks to destabilise the European Union itself, who has questioned the importance of Nato and who seeks a new deal with Putin as a strongman whom he admires as someone he can do business with.

«New York's elected officials like to know who the voters are who are showing up in an election,» he said — voters who are new to a party may vote too unpredictably for incumbents» tastes.

Much like yesterday's Panelbase poll in The Sunday Times today's poll suggests there might have been some narrowing of the SNP lead in voting intentions for May's Westminster election.

Socially conservative groups like Slattery's could be the deciding factor in the Democratic primary, much in the same way the socially conservative religious voting bloc came out in force for the election of Congressman Bob Turner in Queens and Brooklyn.

At the European election in June the Conservatives beat Labour in the popular vote in Wales for the first time in living memory, and if the findings of this poll were replicated at the general election, it looks like being a close run thing again at the general election.

Tactical voting might go up at this election since it looks like there will be more people who support a party coming third or lower in their constituency.

Saying Israel isn't democratic because Palestinians don't vote in Israeli elections is like saying the US is democratic because Iraqis don't vote in American elections.

If we refuse to jail him, Ghanaians will vote against us in the [elections] next four years and so we need to get corrupt officials like him away from the country,» Mr Agyapong added.

The report details what the results in the 2011 Assembly election could have looked like under different voting systems.

«The mayor and I were able to advocate together for universal pre-kindergarten but election reforms weren't on that list... I think that when we have so few people engaged in voting and such low turnout, people need to put good government on the same plane as things like universal pre-kindergarten.»

«The President should know that there is trouble; if things continue like this, in the next election, nobody will vote for him,» the cleric had stated.

As someone who generally agrees with the policy positions of Left Futures, I find it rather ridiculous that you're supporting a petition that says we reverse the results of a democratic election because the result seems like something that wouldn't happen in an uncoerced vote.

Just like four years ago, President Obama stumped for Malloy in Bridgeport two days before the election, highlighting the importance of getting out the urban vote for the Democrat.

Campaigning for the London Mayoral Election began today, and there was good news for Boris Johnson who would like to keep his job after people vote in May.

«What we've seen historically — albeit in the general elections — is that when Staten Island feels like there's a mayor that either they really don't like or a candidate they do like if they have potential, they do turn out and vote,» said Bradley Tusk, an entrepreneur and former adviser to the mayor's predecessor Michael Bloomberg, who plans to work against de Blasio with or without a candidate to support using the group «NYC Deserves Better.»

That being said... She will lose and I will gladly vote against her like I did in the last state Senate elections.

The Reform Party would like to encourage those that voted for Bernie Sanders in the primary to vote for Roque De La Fuente in the general election.

From now on, the electronic memory sticks from inside of voting machines will be used to calculate preliminary, election - night totals, just like every other county in the state.

«I liked the old days,» said Mr. Kelley, reminiscing about election nights past when runners from each district would arrive in the office, results in hand, and people would huddle together as someone recorded and added up the votes.

If you think it should be easier for outsiders to run for office, and if you'd like to see cross-endorsements by political parties banned because they rob you of choices in elections, vote yes.

As such, in elections where a large portion of electorate isn't terribly inspired by either candidates, and mostly votes for «lesser of two evils» in current FPTP, the two major party candidates just might accrue enough down - votes that a 3rd party candidate who isn't nearly as disliked will, on balance, win over both of them (or at the very least, acquire more than the abysmal 4 % combined popular vote and 0 electoral vote like 2016 US presidential elections, despite 3rd party candidates combined likely being preferred by 40 % of electorate, as a low bound).

In the ongoing fight between Democrats and Republicans over election procedures like voter ID and early voting, the Democrats are supposedly the champions of higher turnout and reducing barriers to participation.

It seems anodyne to point out that by - elections are not like other votes - but it's especially pertinent when the Lib Dems are in town.

Rebutting the dismissals of some senior Tories, like Michael Ashcroft, that they are nothing more than a protest party, he said the Conservatives were more likely to win votes in Thursday's local elections if they had a «credible and believable» approach to Europe.

A win by Wu would stick Cuomo with a running mate he doesn't want or like — a conundrum that occurred to his father and Al Del Bello back in 1982 — and also leave him unable to combine votes in the general election from the WFP and Independence Party lines (unless he can get Hochul off them and Wu on).

Garnar, a Democrat like Cuomo, has formed a committee of Broome County former and current officials to develop share service proposals that would later be voted on in the November general election this year.

«The potential of a tool like this to help boost participation is enormous - in the Netherlands, 1 - in - 3 voters used Vote Match's sister site «Stemwijzer» in the last Parliamentary elections and is seen as a trusted tool that can help boost turnout.»

A «contested election» does not include an election in which only members of the sitting monarch's extended family can vote (like the succession system of the Saudi Arabian monarchy or the Cambodian monarchy).

Mr. Koomson, in the run - up to the 2008 general election, warned he won't be comfortable in the unlikely event that his friend, Nana Addo, is voted as President of Ghana because, «it is not safe» for a great country like Ghana.

However the Fixed - term Parliaments Act looks like a piece of binding legislation, since it requires a two - thirds majority vote in the House of Commons to trigger a general election.

Like any small protest party they will cause annoyance where a few votes decide seats in the Council elections but I don't think they'll be a serious threat by next GE.

It looks instead like the government will use the constitutional reform and governance bill to pave the way for a referendum within two years of the next election, ie in the next parliament, but just on the alternative vote (AV)-- a system that allows preferences but isn't proportional.