Sentences with phrase «needed change to the voting system»

«Welsh Liberal Democrats are trying to give this Bill a purpose by introducing a much - needed change to the voting system for local council elections.

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The report strongly recommends that any proposed change to the voting system would also need to take into account whether it is necessary or desirable to link the National Assembly for Wales constituencies to Westminster constituencies.

Now, either Labour has a huge amount to fear from forthcoming boundary changes (and much - needed reform of the corrupt postal voting system), or Cameron is an electoral genius.

AV IS NOT THE REFORM WE NEED: There are lots of genuine reforms which would go some way to restoring people's trust in politics — but changing our voting system to AV is not one of them.

As a result, this May Britain will cast judgement on whether the system it used to vote last summer needs changing.

We need to change our voting system now if we want to see a parliament that represents the people!

The Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman added: «There is a general feeling that we need to change the voting system.»

The added factor of needing a referendum on AV might slow the process a little, but would also likely see the Lords more readily accept the changes to the voting system (not wanting to defy the democratic will of the people).

«While Labour fights a leadership contest and Lib Dems wonder whether they can change the voting system as a reward for their loyalty, Osborne needs to win the argument that his measures are «unavoidable» — a word that recurred in his speech as often as «progressive».

«we need to change our voting system so that ultra-safe seats can be made a thing of the past.»

So while the Electoral Reform Society and other civil society groups are rightly campaigning for people to cast their votes on May 3, it is also recognised that change is desperately needed to spread the use of a proportional system across the United Kingdom.

We need to change our party funding system so that we have properly funded parties able to campaign for votes across the country.

And we need to change our voting system so that ultra-safe seats can be made a thing of the past.

(8) the points made in the conclusion are: (1) consistent with avoiding expenditures on the criminal justice system, the federal attorney general appeared to be neglecting the plight of pre-trial inmates in custody in extremely bad jail conditions, and the provincial attorney general appeared to ignore the needs of prosecutors for greater resources of staff and time in order to work adequately; (2) similarly, the other examples presented also support the proposition that the criminal justice system is inadequately resourced because there are «no votes in justice»; and, (3) the reduction in the safeguards against wrongful convictions caused by the radical changes in procedures made necessary because governments do not provide adequate resources for the criminal justice system;

Under Facebook's previous system, a vote was triggered if more than 7,000 users commented on a given change — but 30 percent of the site's one billion users needed to vote to make it binding.