Sentences with phrase «most all voting law»

In the United States, most all voting law is found at the state level rather than the federal level.

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The Northern Ireland Assembly has voted in favour of what's described as the «UK's most extensive human trafficking law».

I will not vote for him for president because he screwed us with HIS healthcare law and I found him to be like most politicians, useless

Pay our taxes, vote, obey most laws.

Also it has been proved 100's of time that churchs (most of them) break the law by advising there followers how to vote, that is illigal.

The staunch opposition comes after Cuomo has been able to get the Senate GOP, now in a governing coalition with four independent Democrats, to hold votes on a variety of liberal causes, most recently the gun control law in January.

But most states do count the votes of the recently deceased, according to the bi-partisan National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), an NGO that tracks US state election laws.

The two best countries to see this are Switzerland, which has referendum voting at the Federal Level and The United States, which has some system of referendum voting at the state level (The most common being referral voting, where the legislature can opt to pass a law by citizen vote, which is available in all 50 states.

Union bosses say MPs backing strike law reform, with less than half the vote themselves (as most are), are hypocrites.

State law defines an established political party as any party whose candidate for a statewide office received at least 2 percent of the total votes cast that office in either of the two most recent general elections.

Maio, who seldom speaks on any subject outside of law enforcement, seems more comfortable counting noses on votes, the most fundamental responsibility of any legislative leader.

Unfortunately, New York State has some of the most archaic voting laws in the nation.

Under current law, a new party must get signatures equal to two percent of the most recent vote for governor or president to qualify for the ballot.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) has been sitting in Congress for two decades with no hope of it becoming law anytime soon; the most recent incarnation passed in the Senate last fall and is awaiting a vote in the House.

The Swiss version of democracy is one of the world's most direct, meaning that the vote of the people is able to make laws rather than just elect representatives.

The fear and loathing and mutual incomprehension between the most ardent Remainers and Leavers was always a minority sport, indulged in on social media, often by those who never talk to anybody who voted the other way, save perhaps the occasional Sunday lunch political row with the in - laws.

Perhaps the most important deadline is Dec. 19, when electors around the country must meet to cast their Electoral College votes, said Edward Foley, an expert in election law at Moritz College of Law at Ohio State Universilaw at Moritz College of Law at Ohio State UniversiLaw at Ohio State University.

While most New York House Democrats voted against the recently - passed law, the Siena poll shows a strong majority — 61 percent — of voters in NY - 9 said they would have wanted their representative to vote for the bill.

When Ms. Teachout, a law professor, racked up far more votes than most pundits thought possible, Ms. James appeared pleased.

During the «Four Women in a Room» panel discussion, hosted by activist groups True Blue New York and Empire State Indivisible and moderated by POLITICO politics reporter Gloria Pazmino, Williams noted that New York has some of the worst voting laws in the country and addressed comments made by Melissa DeRosa, secretary to the governor, in which she said that most of the panelists do not have state government experience.

New York's voting and registration laws have long been derided as onerous and needlessly restrictive, falling far behind most other states that have implemented modern methods to register and cast a vote.

If most people vote «yes» in this referendum, the Assembly will gain powers to pass laws on all subjects in the devolved areas.

The PAC should be empowered in at least the cases of the most egregious misfeasance to table a resolution for debate and voting on the floor of the House of Commons which, if passed, would then be sent to the Lords, and if agreed there too, would command the force of law for being implemented.

LENOIR, (Dec. 26)-- Two of the major Republican presidential hopefuls are learning what third party and independent candidates have known for years, that ballot access laws in most states are rigged against offering voters any real choices in primaries and on election day, said Jordon Greene, president of Free the Vote North Carolina in a statement issued today.

One of the most conservative members of the Democratic conference, Lipinski is one of three Democrats still in the House who voted against the 2010 health care law, although he has not supported GOP efforts to repeal the law.

The vote puts Congress close to reforming one of the nation's most maligned environmental laws for the first time in nearly 40 years.

In a statement after tonight's vote, Boxer said «the bill has been vastly improved over the original bill, which in my opinion would have been harmful to our families, because it overrode our state laws and set up an ineffective and nonexistent way to regulate most toxic pollutants.»

This stands in contrast to the U.S. Congress, where from the 1930s through the 1960s, many Southern legislators voted for progressive - minded economic legislation such as Social Security and other New Deal laws that expanded the role of government, while maintaining a much more conservative outlook on social issues, most prominently civil rights.

First in the amendment debate, and then in the vote that follows, the two most principled characters in the movie are driven to outright lies: Stevens, agreeing at last to play the long game, denies that he believes all men are equal, arguing only that they should be treated equally before the law.

«It's a stretch of credibility to think most people who voted for this law read every page of it, because if they did, you wouldn't have...

I'm voting to close this question as off - topic because most of the issues that need to be addressed have to do with law and not money.

Most recently, MPs voted for the Climate Change Bill, which became law, and allowed an unaccountable and unscrutinised Climate Change Committee to dictate what the UK's climate targets ought to be.

The Finnish parliament today approved after voting a new climate bill that commits to 80 % emissions reductions by 2050, in one of the most ambitious climate laws passed to date across Europe.

In the state's most expensive Senate race, three - term incumbent Landrieu faced two Republican challengers, and none of them won more than 50 percent of votes as required under state law.

This puppy doesn't know who to vote for because lines of democratic accountability have been obscured.The filibuster stands today as the single most important impediment to the significant reforms needed in America's climate / energy policies, its immigration policies, its labor law policies, and its need for a functioning judiciary.

The best law firm websites in 2010 article created an overwhelming response, awarding it the # 1 most viewed and favorite article of 2010 by vote.

Most if not all votes were whipped, which meant that, in a majority government, the position of the Prime Minister and his inner Cabinet invariably became the law of the...

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At Sentencing Law and Policy, Douglas Berman says the most interesting aspect of the ruling may be the voting pattern, with Justice Samuel Alito writing the majority opinion and Justice Clarence Thomas writing the dissent, joined only by Justice Antonin Scalia.

Law firm mergers are notoriously hard things to put together — most talks break down long before making it to a partner vote.

The annual list is a guide to the country's top attorneys and represents those most nominated and voted on by their peers in 79 specialty areas of law.

One of the most fundamental of human rights is the right to participate in the making of the laws that govern you; and the basic right behind that is the right to vote.

While the opinion does not discuss any other international organizations, it is made plain that accession will depend on the rules of each organization: some, like the IMF and World Bank, have in fact accepted that a state may directly succeed to membership if they are satisfied that the necessary requirements are fulfilled (see «State Succession in Treaties» Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law); the WTO, on the other hand, has a complicated process which includes lengthy bilateral market access negotiations and a vote by the WTO Members on the terms of the accession package (a process navigated most recently by Tajikistan who will become the 159th Member on 2 March).

In her most recent post, Weiss Haserot notes that during its annual meeting session from August 13 - 14, 2007, the American Bar Association House of Delegates is expected to vote on Proposal 10A, a proposed resolution that calls for law firms to discontinue their mandatory retirement policies.

Randy is Chair of the Cincinnati Employment Lawyers Association, has been recognized in every edition of «Best Lawyers in America» since 1994, has received «Super Lawyer» designations since its inception, has been one of the top 10 vote recipients in Ohio for the designation of «Super Lawyer» in 2006 through 2014 surveys of Ohio lawyers by Law and Politics Magazine, was recognized by Cincinnati Magazine as one of the most influential lawyers in Cincinnati in October, 2008, and has been recognized annually by Cincy Business Magazine as one of Cincinnati's «Leading Lawyers».

It is the basis for the perceived rule of law that informed most of my fellow Benchers» votes in April.

A survey undertaken by PathMotion, an employer - to - candidate engagement platform, before the referendum suggested that the sectors most likely to face a reduction in graduate recruitment after a Brexit vote were banking and finance, retail, media, technology and law.

In the narrowly - divided Senate, most bills need 60 votes to become law.