Sentences with phrase «more open elections»

One concession Sanders supporters want in New York is more open elections, including ending the practice of so - called closed primaries in which only party members can vote in that party's primary.

This eliminates concerns about vote - splitting and spoilers, allowing more open elections with more than two viable candidates.

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Merkel was weakened after a September election as voters angry with her decision in 2015 to open Germany's borders to more than a million asylum seekers punished her conservatives by voting for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) far - right party.

Fears of seeming «political» during a presidential election year, sluggish growth in the Eurozone and a slowdown of the Chinese economic juggernaut will also keep Janet Yellen and the rest of the Federal Open Markets Committee from pulling the trigger more often; their vacillation will be one of the year's longest - running (and least loved) dramas.

But a more open world can make it easier for governments to undermine each other's elections from afar; a more connected world can make it easier to spread hatred and incite violence.

Indivisible, a progressive organizing group founded after the 2016 election, is backing the April 20 walkout and helping Murdock and some of her fellow students organize — and some students indicated that the April 20 event is a bit more of an open political push for gun reform.

The opposition forces are deeply divided ideologically, regionally and in terms of personalities, leaving open the possibility that another single candidate from the Russophone East of Ukraine (a cleaner and more moderate version of Yanukovych) could again triumph in a presidential election.

Personally I am more inclined to have completely open and transparent elections.

[2] An open primary seems to me to make considerably more sense in a Mayoral direct election — perhaps especially in London -

In the opening half of the current parliament, it was the grassroots who were least invested in the present government; local authority elections were a much more important priority for councillors, many of which have already paid the price with their seats for the Lib Dem - Tory tie - up.

While DeFrancisco and Seward are opposed to early voting, they did propose opening up absentee voting for more voters who would like to cast their votes before Election Day.

Alexander admits that with little more than four months to go the election is wide open.

The Times Union editorial board writes this week that the three seats left open by retiring Assembly members will create new opportunities for more competitive races during the next election cycle.

The report released today by Citizens Union found the rate of re-election for incumbents would be lower and open the elections to more candidates, thus ensuring increased competition in state races.

Schurin says he doesn't expect much legislation this session because lawmakers will be focused on the November election, with a closely divided legislature and more than two dozen candidates actively campaigning for the open governor's seat.

«Five weeks until Election Day, and this special election is a wide - open race with both candidates trying to become more known to the voters of the district and earn their support,» Siena pollster Steven GreenbeElection Day, and this special election is a wide - open race with both candidates trying to become more known to the voters of the district and earn their support,» Siena pollster Steven Greenbeelection is a wide - open race with both candidates trying to become more known to the voters of the district and earn their support,» Siena pollster Steven Greenberg said.

«These proposals will modernize and open up our election system, making it easier for more voters to participate in the process and helping to make a more fair, more just and more representative New York for all.»

«I've campaigned for a better, more open, more transparent, new politics, every single day of this general election campaign.

While the IDC has once more aligned with the Senate Republicans, the conference remained officially neutral in the 2016 elections, and claimed it was open to partnering with the mainline Democrats if they won enough seats to build a unified majority.

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Kolb, who heads a GOP bloc of 50 in the 150 - member Assembly, will likely have 51 votes, one more than needed to block an override, after the Nov. 8 elections, when an open seat near Buffalo is expected to go Republican.

State Sen. Daniel Squadron also said «fundamental reform of the system» is needed «including laws to create a better campaign finance system and more open and competitive elections, and to disentangle public service from for - profit business.»

He also ran into more controversy recently when the State Elections Enforcement Commission opened an investigation into a complaint by a Bridgeport resident who said he never signed a petition that allowed Ganim to get on the primary ballot.

had in his opening remarks stated that «notwithstanding the apparent victories we achieved at the last general elections in the zone, it is glaring that our party now faces more challenges than it has ever experienced since its formation».

Open Secrets, a project of the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics, ranks the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association — the nation's largest teachers unions — as the 9th and 11th most generous givers to Democrats out of more than 18,000 super PACs during the 2016 election cycle.

«I was told it was always a bad idea to answer hypothetical questions...» A chuckle from the audience opened the door for a more direct continuation in which Gove assured the crowd of his faith that the Conservative Party would win an outright majority at the next election, hence he was «absolutely confident that the situation need not arise.»

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman said he believes that if Hillary Clinton won last year's presidential election, her approach to US relations with North Korea would be «more open - minded» than the Trump administration's.

«The absolutely central question at this general election is less who is the prime minister on 9 June, and more what is the nature of the mandate, and in particular — because otherwise frankly this is a steamroller election — is it possible that we can return as many members of parliament as possible to parliament that are going to keep an open mind on this Brexit negotiation until we see the final terms?»

They noted that «never in the history of Local Government Elections in Enugu has there been a commission that leaves its door open to the political parties», adding that the electoral body was «accessible to the political parties and much more they were receptive to superior arguments».

That possibility remains for former county Democratic Party chair and incumbent county legislator John Parete of Boiceville, who holds a slim 20 vote lead over Democratic challenger Kathy Nolan in the 22nd district, which includes Shandaken, Olive, Denning and Hardenburgh, with 217 absentee ballots on hand at the county board of elections and a possibility of more arriving before they can be opened beginning Wednesday, November 15.

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With 99 absentee ballots sitting in the hopper on the day after the 2017 election, and more potentially to come in before they get opened beginning Wednesday, November 15, only two votes separated Hurley town supervisor candidates Republican / Conservative / Independence party choice John Perry (1104) and Democrat / Green / Working Families hopeful Tracy Kellogg (1102).

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for governor, said at a press conference last Wednesday that the decision by the Working Families Party to endorse Gov. Andrew Cuomo «has made this election even more interesting for us» and opens up the possibility of him winning in the election.

The public uproar inspired the election of a strongly pro-environment Town Board slate, who initiated measures for open space protection and more restrictive planning and zoning regulations.

Senate Democrats plan to hold a test vote on a bill that would give small businesses tax breaks for boosting payrolls, the opening salvo in a long - anticipated election - season fight over which party's tax cut plan is more likely to help spur job creation.

The election was a run - off after an October 19 open primary with more than a dozen candidates, where Riser and McAllister finished in first and second place, at 32 % and 18 %, respectively.

The next election is wide open, but the Tories will need a much broader, and more broadly delivered, message if they are to succeed.

He added, «it aims at cultivating in the youth of Ghana improved civic participation, knowledge and attitudes, and the practice of critical and objective analysis of public issues as well as the effective use of freedom of expression and association to build more peaceful, tolerant and open societies in Ghana especially towards the 2016 elections.»

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Labour's victory thus seems less based on the election campaign itself, and more on the fact they opened up a significant lead during the early to middle part of the parliament, a gap that was simply too large for the Conservatives to close.

In an election - year gift, the de Blasio administration is issuing up to 50,000 more car placards to city education workers — rolling back reforms made by Mayor Mike Bloomberg and opening the floodgates for abuse.

The speech outlined Mr. Stringer's first year in office — touting audits that uncovered waste in the New York City Housing Authority and city schools, his efforts to bring more transparency and open elections to the boards of major corporations, and his ClaimStat program to track suits against the city.

«Five weeks until Election Day and this special election is a wide - open race with both candidates trying to become more known to the voters of the district and earn their support,» said Siena College pollster Steven GrElection Day and this special election is a wide - open race with both candidates trying to become more known to the voters of the district and earn their support,» said Siena College pollster Steven Grelection is a wide - open race with both candidates trying to become more known to the voters of the district and earn their support,» said Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg.

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So what will I do when I finally vote in the referendum on May 5th where on the one hand we have the incumbent First Past the Post System which we know at a national level to be unrepresentative and unfair as it returns governments with overwhelming majorities in the House of Commons even though they only have forty per cent of the vote or less, or AV which is not a representative system but more complicated with it's opaque results making it more open to election fraud or the suspicion of.

Councilman Vincent Gentile, a Democrat running for an open House seat in Brooklyn and Staten Island, raised nearly $ 200,000 and still has more than $ 100,000 in cash on hand with less than two weeks to go until Election Day, new filings with the Federal Election Commission show.

We need more states to adopt open primaries and non-partisan redistricting, we need to reduce the role of the Senate filibuster, reduce the role of money in elections... a variety of things like that, which my colleagues and I discuss at www.CivilPolitics.org.

At first blush, it might have seemed that the series was just going to full - throttle go after Trump and his supporters, but these opening moments are a more damning indictment of obtuse liberals — I believe «snowflakes» is one word to describe them — who wallowed in self - pity and indignation after the election.

And he is open about the fact that he approaches the issues from a more left - leaning perspective, something that might come in handy after the next election.