Sentences with phrase «lower vote threshold»

Some thought to delay the vote from 75 % for 6 months to get a lower vote threshold unethical.

Of particular importance on the legislative agenda this year, is Senate Constitutional Amendment 3 (SCA 3) introduced by Senator Mark Leno, which would lower the vote threshold for local school district parcel tax measures from 2/3 to 55 percent.

Local parcel taxes are one way that communities may supplement state funding for education, and lowering the vote threshold will make passage of these measures more likely.

One of the BCLI's key recommendations is to lower the voting threshold for BC Law Institute Releases Consultation Paper on Terminating a Strata Institute Seeks Feedback on Recommendations authorizing termination.

Not exact matches

In rural ridings where NDP candidates were elected in tight races, the low 20 percent threshold in Ms. Aheer's Bill 206 would equal almost the same amount of votes received by Wildrose candidates in the recent election.

While Ataka's leader refused to back any government and claimed to become «a nightmare» for any government, the decision of some of its parliamentarians not to register for the government - related vote lowered the majority threshold, allowing the Socialist government to be appointed.

A «Celtic yes vote» is more likely to overwhelm an «English no» if turnout in England is low - vindicating those like Lord Lamont who said there should be a 40 % threshold.

Pollsters use different lower thresholds for excluding people altogether, and some exclude people altogether if they say they're anything except absolutely certain to vote.

MPs should maintain the gateway vote on who goes forward, but there should be a lower threshold (10 % seems fair), and in the final ballot an MP's vote should be equal to any member / affiliate / levy payer.

Barring a Democratic wave this fall — an unlikely scenario — Democrats will not have the votes needed to lower the filibuster threshold.

Lower the threshold for a new political party to qualify for the ballot by reducing the number of signatures they must collect from 2 % of the vote for Governor to 0.25 % of the vote for Governor or President, whichever is less.

Lower the threshold for a new political party to maintain ballot status by lowering the number of votes they must get from 2 % of the votes for Governor or President to 0.25 % of the vote for Governor, President, or any council of state office, whichever is less.

«By having that low 50,000 - vote threshold to get on the ballot it's created a situation where you see these major parties creating these false lines, which are basically cross endorsement lines for the major parties,» said Dustin Czarny, an Onondaga County Board of Elections commissioner.

Garry Gratton, president of the South Okanagan board, saw the voting day as one of «highs and lows» with his membership surpassing the needed 75 per cent threshold and then seeing the initiative fail at the end.