Sentences with phrase «of ballot referenda»

Its recommendations will take the form of ballot referenda to be offered to voters in this year's general election.

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Rajoy has been criticized by the way his government has dealt with the referendum, by ordering the removal of campaign materials, ballot boxes and the use of police.

Prior to Pishevar's tweetstorm, organization Yes California Independence Campaign started laying groundwork in hopes of putting a referendum on the ballot in 2019.

Mounting tension in Iraq following the Kurdish independence referendum is impacting oil production and exports; the ballot included three provinces of Iraqi Kurdistan and the oil - rich Kirkuk region.

I live in Maryland, where we have a lot of controversial questions on Tuesday's ballot, including referenda on marriage equality, the rights of immigrants and the expansion of gambling.

There is much to be said, for instance, on behalf of Justice Kennedy's complaint that the decision deprives the people of California of the right to govern themselves by referenda, if the losers of a plebiscite can challenge the outcome and, with the collusion of friendly state officials unwilling to defend the people's will, win in court what they can not win at the ballot box.

On August 14th, the Park Board of Commissioners voted to place a referendum question on the November 6 general election ballot asking voters to choose whether or not to support a $ 39 million bond issue.

The Glen Ellyn and Oak Brook Park Districts will proceed with a lawsuit Wednesday against the Du Page County Board of Election Commissioners despite a successful petition drive in Glen Ellyn to place three alternative referendum questions on the ballot.

The Park Board voted unanimously last week to place a referendum question on the Nov. 2 ballot asking voters to approve purchase of the land and construction of playing fields and a facility.

Under village law, 300 signatures, or 5 percent of the registered voters, are needed to get a referendum question on the ballot.

MUNDELEIN — Mundelein «s Fremont District 79 Board of Education has scheduled a special session Monday to decide whether to place a referendum on the November ballot to finance a new school.

The group recently succeeded in getting a Park District referendum on the March 19 ballot seeking to raise $ 3 million of the $ 6 million to $ 8 million its attorneys believe is needed to buy the land.

«With two referendums on the same ballot, it's magnified twice, and voters have to figure out how to navigate both things, which is sort of asking a lot of them,» Krupnikov added.

GLEN ELLYN — A shortage of funds for capital projects has pushed the Glen Ellyn Park District Board to consider a referendum question for the April ballot.

The park district's proposed referendum question could appear alongside a November ballot request from New Trier High School asking voters to approve $ 89 million in funding for a major renovation of the aging Winnetka campus.

While New Trier and the park district have yet to make a final decision of whether or not to place the referendum requests on the November ballot, officials from both organizations said they are talking to each other and understand the potential challenges of asking voters to support two measures in one election.

The board of commissioners has until August to decide whether to place the question on the November ballot, the next time a referendum could be presented to voters.

If even half of the contested signatures were removed, there would be no referendum item because it required just under 3,000 signatures, or 20 percent of the district's registered votersto be placed on the ballot.

Residents petitioned the Wilmette Park District to place the referendum on the ballot in hopes the village would later arrange for private redevelopment of the historic building at 1041 Ridge Rd.

But it is contingent on the results of a referendum question the district wants included on the April 3 ballot.

It's too late to place another referendum question on the November ballot, so the board has plenty of time to consider how to proceed, he said.

The Oak Brook Park District joined the Glen Ellyn Park District this week in suing the Du Page County Board of Elections in an effort to get non-binding referendum proposals on the November ballot.

Barring a sudden change of heart, a referendum question would be placed on the November or April 2009 election ballot.

The referendum ballot paper explains: «Under the Falkland Islands constitution the people of the Falklands Islands have the right to self - determination, which they can exercise at any time.»

Of course there were caveats: it was to be a single - question referendum, rather than the two - question ballot Salmond had often hinted at, and the question would have to be put by the end of 201Of course there were caveats: it was to be a single - question referendum, rather than the two - question ballot Salmond had often hinted at, and the question would have to be put by the end of 201of 2014.

A constitutional amendment must be approved by two separately elected sessions of the Legislature and then goes to voters in a ballot referendum.

In the wake of an appellate court decision, Spa City's charter change advocates are once again trying to get their hands on electronic images of ballots cast in November's charter referendum that was defeated by a narrow 10 - vote margin.

If you stir in legislation such as the European Referendum Act 2015 which set the question to appear on the ballot paper but failed to address the legal consequences of a vote to leave, and the anomalies thrown up by the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011, not least the ability to avoid a fixed - term, then the unsatisfactory basis upon which the country has gone to the polls three times in the last three years is underscored.

In an open ballot, however, members of the government majority that had launched the constitutional reform process could not permit themselves to vote against the result of the referendum.

The first of two ways an amendment can be incorporated into the state constitution takes at least four years: two separately elected state legislatures must first vote to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot; then the majority of New Yorkers must vote on it and pass it by referendum.

8:15 pm — Vote on official position of two referendum propositions on November ballot See below for propositions

But the wording of the actual referendum on the ballot may increase the odds of the new casinos being approved.

Spokesman John Conklin says the commissioners also decided that the casino gambling expansion referendum should be the first one of six proposals that voters will see on the November ballot.

Cuomo said he will push for a November ballot referendum, even after expressing concern that the lack of a statewide election could skew the turnout, with scores of city voters casting mayoral ballots.

Onondaga County legislators have scheduled a special session Aug. 31 to vote on a proposed consolidation of jail operations under the sheriff's office in time to get a proposition on the ballot Nov. 7 for a public referendum.

And even if it does not feature in the British election debate, the idea of replacing means - tested cash benefits with an unconditional, universal weekly payment to every adult citizen as a right of citizenship will soon be tested at the Swiss ballot box, with a referendum on basic income in Switzerland due sometime this year.

Given the difficulty of getting a statewide petition on the ballot in New York, the law is unlikely to be overturned by a referendum, as was the case in California.

The concern is that voters would miss referendum questions if they are placed on the back of the ballot.

Evan Davis, a former counsel to Gov. Mario Cuomo who had been pursuing legal action against the state Board of Elections over placement of a referendum for a constitutional convention, has withdrawn his suit following the boards agreement to take steps to highlight the issue on the fall ballot.

On March 5, 2018, Dunlap announced that a sufficient number of valid signatures had been submitted to place the referendum on the ballot, meaning that ranked - choice voting would be used for federal and state offices in the June 2018 primary election.

Our region's voters deserve a discussion of our needs before casting casino referendum ballots in November.

Consensus aims to have a government merger referendum between the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County governments on the ballot in 2018, Murphy said.

But none of these races will attract the $ 150 million that will be spent persuading New Yorkers to support or oppose expanded casino gambling in a ballot referendum this November.

«Putting it on the ballot and letting the people decide is one of the few areas that you can actually do a statewide referendum on.

The Conservative backbencher who topped a ballot for private member's bills will be given Parliamentary time to push for a referendum by 2017 deciding the UK's future in, or out, of the European Union.

Statewide turnout increased from 3.3 million in 2013 to 3.6 million this year, and only 6.6 percent of ballots left the question blank, compared with 16 percent in a referendum on expanding casino gambling four years ago.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Onondaga County legislators have scheduled a special session Aug. 31 to vote on a proposed consolidation of jail operations under the sheriff's office in time to get a proposition on the ballot Nov. 7 for a public referendum.

New York Jobs Now was just one of several ballot referendum committees supporting casino expansion in New York, but with its support from labor groups and casino companies, it was easily the largest and most significant when it came to media purchases, phone banking and GOTV.

The pro-casino New York Jobs Now ballot referendum committee has raised $ 725,000, according to notices filed on the state Board of Elections website.

A supporter of the convention, Davis is challenging the ballot placement given it's the first time in recent political history the once every 20 year referendum is being put to voters on paper, not lever machines.