Sentences with phrase «longer use elections»

We believe strongly that we can no longer use elections as a tool to fight for developments which we ordinarily deserve.

Not exact matches

The days when Mark Zuckerberg felt like he could be glib about the idea of Russia using Facebook to interfere in the presidential election suddenly seem long ago.

«There's a long history of the US interfering with foreign elections and doing the exact same thing [creating bot networks and using trolls for online intimidation].»

Based on what Environment Minister Peter Kent recently told CBC's Evan Solomon, the Tories no longer oppose only the broadest form of carbon tax (as proposed Stéphane Dion is his disastrous 2008 election run as Liberal leader), but also the cap - and - trade option, which use to be in the Conservative platform (it's on page 32 here).

The elections could usher in a party that would remove Greece from the Eurozone, meaning they would no longer use the Euro, which could put the European currency in jeopardy...

While bullying has a long and sordid history in American classrooms, a November 7, 2016 article in The Nation asserts that the current surge is notable in two respects, both for the similarity of its targets - Muslim students, immigrants and children of immigrants, children of color, girls, and Jews - and the language used against them, leading some educators to suggest a link to Donald Trump and the «degraded course of this election season.»

A Long Island Republican wants the state Board of Elections to expand an investigation into the use of county party committees by de Blasio and his team to help Senate Democratic candidates in 2014.

Removing names by due process, using the quasi-judicial methods outlined in the Public Elections (Registration of Voters) Regulations, 2016 (C.I. 91) and by the Supreme Court, is the democratic, constitutional and civilised way to go; unless we are already fed - up with the Rule of Law and Due Process and are longing and yearning for the return of dictatorial rule.

But microtargeting has the potential to help with more than just the last - minute turnout frenzy, since campaigns can use consumer information databases to zero - in on and recruit supporters long before the actual election.

When the Commons dissolves for an election, MPs can no longer refer to themselves as such, using the phrase «prospective parliamentary candidates» instead.

In a landmark ruling, the Federal Election Commission approved a request from Liuba Grechen Shirley, a Long Island Democrat running for Congress, to use money collected from campaign donors to pay for child care services while she is campaigning.

Elections used to be something we took for granted, like the inevitability of a long sax solo in an 80s song.

But after Brexit, appearing «prime ministerial» is no longer the deal - breaker it used to be for the kind of angry voter Labour needs to attract if it is to win the next election.

Polanco, a former president of the city's Board of Elections, has long championed reforms to make it easier to register and vote, including having voters check in using iPads to shorten lines on Election Day.

Use this registration form: http://www.elections.ny.gov/NYSBOE/download/voting/voteform.pdf Since you are re-registering within New York State, the City Board of Elections should be notified automatically, and you should receive notification that you're no longer registered in the city.

Election officials decided to resort to the older lever voting machines during Tuesday's primaries because the newer electronic machines used in 2012 confused voters, sparked long lines and caused problems during the tallying process.

One would allow political candidates to use campaign funds to pay for child care, as the Federal Election Commission recently allowed that a mother of two who's running for Congress on Long Island.

More distinctive is the reiteration of Plaid's long - standing support for the use of Single Transferable Vote (STV), an electoral system that it wants to see used for electing the second chamber as well as («when applicable») in all other elections.

Senate Republicans are again using de Blasio as a foil in a key special election to fill former Majority Leader Dean Skelos» seat on Long Island.

Members, who will no longer be called peers, will sit for a maximum of three five - year terms and elections will take place at the same time as European Parliament elections, using the same regional lists system of proportional representation.

On Thursday, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) voted unanimously — by a vote of 4 - 0 — to allow Democrat Liuba Grechen Shirley, a community organizer who is challenging Rep. Peter King, a Long Island Republican, to use the funds for her two children: Nicholas, age 2, and Mila, age 3.

«LEANING IN, POLITICS EDITION» — Daily News Edit Board: «In a unanimous vote of the Federal Election Commission, Liuba Grechen Shirley, running for Congress on Long Island — mom to a 2 - year - old and a 3 - year - old — won the okay to use campaign funds for child - care expenses necessary as she runs for office.

ALBANY — A Long Island Republican wants the state Board of Elections to expand an investigation into the use of county party committees by Mayor de Blasio and his team to help Senate Democratic candidates in 2014, the Daily News has learned.

In the run up to the last general election, Osborne encouraged ministers to use the phrase «long term economic plan» in almost every statement they made.

The FOIL request from the Elections panel, however, complies with the state's law for disclosure of voter rolls as long as the information is used for election - related purposes.

The ballots used such a tiny font in order to fit the long roster of candidates, along with translations in Chinese, Korean, Bengali and Spanish, according to Board of Elections Executive Director Michael Ryan.

Democrat Todd Kaminsky faces Republican Chris McGrath in the April 19 Senate election for the seat long held by ex-Senate Leader Dean Skelos, a Republican convicted last year of using his position to obtain payments and jobs for his son.

But the GOP clearly sees the scandal as an opening this election season, with Republican Senate candidate Wendy Long using Lopez scandal to knock Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

The Federal Election Commission on Thursday gave a woman running for a Long Island congressional seat the OK to use campaign funds for child care — a landmark precedent for...

The film uses recycled footage from the show, but either as a substitute for the longer version or a recap for those of us who can't get enough of the political analyst trio of Mark Halperin, John Heilemann, and Mark McKinnon, it's a phenomenal and often funny triumph of election coverage repurposed as history lesson.

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That's an election that was made, and that same method must be used for as long as you own the ABC Fund.

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Third: In Canada we have some 300 long - running Local Governments which replace their members using systems other than the kind of «elections» defined under the various Municipal Acts or equivalent across the country.

There have been dozens of examples over the company's long history, but the most recent may be the most scandalous: A shady firm of «political consultants» secretly harvested data belonging to as many as 87 million Facebook users without their knowledge, and then used that data to influence the 2016 presidential election.

Furthermore, according to publicly available information, the Trump campaign was no longer using Cambridge Analytica as a «consultant» by the time of the general election, so while the manipulation of the private data of millions of voters goes a long way toward explaining how the general election came down to Trump and Clinton, it had no impact whatsoever on Trump's electoral victory or Clinton's embarrassing defeat.

The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 («BCRA») continued the long - standing prohibition on the use of corporate treasury funds in federal candidate elections.

Article V, Section 6 of the NAR Bylaws authorizes individual members to use the terms REALTOR ® and REALTORS ® in connection with activities in support of specific candidates in specific elections as long as the definition of REALTOR ® and the identification of those conducting the activity as members of a specific Member Board are included on all materials related to the members» advocacy, unless not reasonably practical; and all such use of the MARKS ceases immediately after the election.