Sentences with phrase «made voting reforms»

He has not made voting reforms a top priority.

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While Carney said he was not making any recommendation about how to vote in the June 23 referendum, he gave a positive assessment of reform promises that Cameron extracted E.U. leaders ahead of the referendum.

He has made himself a highly visible nuisance to Liberal leadership, particularly by voting in favour of a Conservative motion in the House to extend consultations on the small - business tax reforms, and they kicked him off a couple of House committees as punishment.

The fate of health care reform in the Senate is uncertain, with members of both parties saying major changes need to be made to the House version of the bill before the Senate can vote.

However, his reforms so far have made little impact, and the 5 - Star Movement has claimed the anti-establishment banner, tapping into a populist mood that saw Britons vote to leave the European Union and Americans elect Donald Trump president.

Then we will have a 99 % voting block that can actually make reform and scare the crud out of the 1 % of greedy who think they can buy their way into anything.

European Parliament Agriculture Committee MEPs are making their final preparations ahead of a vote on proposed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform amendments — including the adoption of supply management measures.

Justice minister Lord Faulks valiantly tried to salvage the debate for the government, telling peers the admission was «clearly regrettable», but it was difficult for him to make the case for the reforms once it became clear the Commons had voted on the basis of false information.

So here's the manual: 1) Create a party that exploits a legitimate fear: STOP COMMON CORE 2) Get petition signatures and 50,000 votes under that banner 3) CHANGE the name to Reform Party so can you dupe some progressives into voting for your pals 4) Use the line as leverage to get the GOP nomination for Governor but making local friends statewide Classic bait - and - switch Except, Little Lord Rob would get creamed again for Governor.

The mainline Democratic conference in the state Senate on Tuesday pushed for a package of voting reforms designed to make it easier to cast a ballot in New York.

When Cuomo last week proposed reforms to make voting easier in New York state, he left something out: The cost, and how the additional expenses of maintaining early - voting sites would be covered, which worries local government officials.

Democratic lawmakers in the state Senate and Assembly have sought to apply post-budget pressure to Republicans to consider voter reforms designed to enhance ballot access and make it easier to vote as well as to register.

Gillibrand spokesman Matt Canter confirmed the senator is not making it to Buffalo because, as he put it, there are «votes to do with the very important Wall Street reform bill today.»

For the WFP, that counterweight agenda includes bolstering health care benefits in New York that exist under the current Affordable Care Act, protecting Muslims, making it easier to register to vote and enacting «comprehensive campaign finance reform.»

Labour have made strides forward in standing up for real reform of our political system — including backing votes at 16 and calling for change to the second Chamber.

Senator Ted Cruz proposed an amendment to the recent tax reform bill to allow funds from 529 plans to be used for homeschooling1, but the Democrats voted against it and it did not make it into the final bill.

The campaign was launched as a result of genuine concerns that sufficient parliamentary time would not be made available to debate and vote on the reforms prior to the 2015 General Election.

Early voting and the other reforms will also ease pressure on polling sites, which will make voting more convenient.

We applaud Senator Kavanagh for making early voting a priority issue and for urging the Governor to fund this reform in the state budget,» said Jennifer Wilson, Legislative Director for the League of Women Voters of NYS.

Efforts to reform the house of lords have foundered on disagreement on questions of scale - how big, what proportion should be elected and on what basis - first past the post, single transferable vote, alternative vote... a fresh start would make almost anything possible.

I suggested to him that this doesn't make much sense for the Democratic primary since the bulk of the vote comes out of NYC, which explains why all of the Democratic hopefuls — particularly Sen. Eric Schneiderman — are running so hard to the left and playing up issues like Rockefeller Drug Law reform, which has zero to do with the AG's office.

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.

For nonprofit organizations specializing in voting reform, such as Vote.org, making voting more convenient and accessible is necessary for increased voter turnout.

Harper voted against all the reform options in the last parliament when Jack Straw made a late attempt in the final years of the Labour government to burnish its reformist credentials.

The mayor called on the state Legislature to pass broad voting and election reforms, including same - day voter registration, early voting, «no excuse» absentee voting, electronic poll books, consolidation of primary elections, reformatting ballots to make them more user - friendly, and pre-registration of 16 - and 17 - year - olds.

On the heels of deeply troubling problems at the polls during the April 19th presidential primary, roughly 200 citizen advocates will meet with lawmakers to share their personal voting experiences and make the case for fundamental reform to New York's antiquated election laws.

NEW YORK, NY (03/28/2018)(readMedia)-- Joining with 25 other organizations representing a variety of different issues from the Child Victims Act, to bail reform, to reproductive health, the Let New York Vote coalition made a final push for early voting in the NYS budget.

The vote in 2007 was itself an FPTP vote on the future of the Lords, rather than a preferential vote, and I remember it being couched in no uncertain terms at the time as 100 % being the obstreperous option that would result in Lords reform progressing the slowest; indeed, despite wide - ranging support in the Commons for 100 % elected Lords, the Labour government indeed made no progress whatsoever on such legislation.

Additionally, Ryan called upon the legislature to enact other voting reforms to modernize elections in New York, make it easier to vote, and expand voting options for all New Yorkers to help boost low turnout rates.

In the same way, the opposition to boundary reform smacks of reaching for an excuse ahead of the next General Election, instead of doing the hard work to make an attractive offer to the voting public.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has also pushed strongly for voting reform, making it a key platform in his State of the State agenda this year.

The Huffington Post is reporting that iVote, a voting rights group is making automatic voter registration its centerpiece election reform proposal for 2016.

For me, thinking about AV and electoral reform made me realise properly, for the first time, how much the voting system dictates how we go about our democratic politics — especially in relation to marginal constituencies or marginal wards.

But there are growing signs that Miliband has stepped back from plans to dilute the size of the union vote at party conference, and is instead focusing on a series of reforms designed to make local parties more dynamic, and open up the party to a wider group of Labour supporters.

Nick Clegg has made clear he expects Conservative colleagues to «stick to the deal» in the coalition agreement, following a vote on House of Lords reform on Tuesday night in which 91 Tories rebelled.

And she says that the fact that all three parties proposed Lords reform in their manifestos makes the case for a referendum even stronger, because people did not have the chance to vote for a party opposed to it.

Karen Scharff, with the reform group Citizen Action, says Cuomo and lawmakers also should act this spring to modernize voting requirements and make it easier to vote, through early voting and automatic voter registration.

But Miliband has made clear his intention to press ahead with the reforms — now all but signed and sealed, and voted for by a large majority of Labour's executive.

Some of those changes were voted on as rules reforms, others were made as pledges.

A yes vote on Issue 2 will make long overdue reforms to unfair and costly government practices in Ohio, while helping to get government spending under control and making government more accountable to taxpayers.

Now supporters of the rules change have ammo to support their cause, as a panel set up by the Democratic National Committee — the Unity Reform Commission, which included Sanders and Clinton campaign representatives — issued a report calling for all state parties to pass laws, change party rules or file lawsuits if necessary, to make it easier for voters to switch their registration to vote in Democratic primaries.

«Reforms like early voting and extended registration deadlines will help New Yorkers make their voices heard.»

www.ycc.uk.net * The Electoral Reform Society is a founding member of the Votes at 16 Coalition, made up of over 40 leading youth and democracy organisation to campaign for the lowering of the voting age to 16 for all UK public elections.

Newsday's editorial board says Gov. Cuomo's executive order to make it easier to register to vote is a «good step» but it's «not the best step» the state can take on election reform.

The board, made up of one Republican and one Democrat from each borough, also voted unanimously to keep Donovan on the Reform Party ballot line.

When initial explorations into voting reform were last made by the late Roy Jenkins, it was shown that, had the 1997 election been held under the alternative vote system, Labour's already huge majority would have gone up from 179 to 245.

Moreover, the quality of decision making would be improved if the abolition of the Lords was accompanied by appropriate reforms to the House of Commons (such as changing the voting system to PR and greatly strengthening select committees to scrutinise legislation and temporarily appoint outside expert advisers, etc).

WASHINGTON — Central New York's two members of Congress split with their party Thursday on a vote to pass a 2018 budget resolution that makes it easier for Republicans to move forward with a sweeping tax reform plan.

The Cabinet Office did not want to comment, but officials pointed out that the coalition agreement states that until Lords reform passes: «Lords appointments will be made with the objective of creating a second chamber reflective of the share of the vote secured by the political parties in the last general election.»

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