Sentences with phrase «of early voting in»

They include adoption of early voting in New York, same day voter registration, public financing of campaigns, and constitutional amendments to impose term limits on elected officials.
The measures backed by Schneiderman this week would provide for a system of early voting in the state, consolidate the two federal and state party primaries in a single date and allow for same - day enrollment, among other provisions.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is putting his money where his mouth is by adding funding in his 2018 - 19 state budget proposal for the implementation of early voting in New York.
They include adoption of early voting in New York, same - day voter registration, public financing of campaigns, and constitutional amendments to impose term limits on elected officials.

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However, the vote is likely to happen in the early part of 2016, during an election year.
And even before the Senate voted to gut key provisions of the ACA in early December, he introduced a bill to overturn the 2010 health care law in 2013.
In January, a committee of the federal Liberal party, following a vote in favour of decriminalization a year earlier at the party's convention, came out with a 38 - page paper advocating full legalizatioIn January, a committee of the federal Liberal party, following a vote in favour of decriminalization a year earlier at the party's convention, came out with a 38 - page paper advocating full legalizatioin favour of decriminalization a year earlier at the party's convention, came out with a 38 - page paper advocating full legalization.
Collins, a moderate who voted against the GOP's efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare earlier this year, says the bills will offset the impact of the loss of the individual mandate, but experts largely disagree, arguing that the elimination of the mandate will spike health costs and reduce choice in plans.
The voting process in that parliamentary chamber is less straightforward, requiring a two - thirds majority in the early stages of the vote before an absolute majority in the final stages of the vote.
Shareholders will now have one vote per share, ending a class of supervoting shares in a move that substantially decreases the power of Kalanick and some other early investors.
Talk of rate hikes are in the air Wednesday after minutes from the Bank of England's last meeting showed two out of nine board members voted for a rate hike as early as this month, the first time in three years that policymakers have done so.
Italian stocks fell at the start of this morning's trading, after populist parties won almost half the vote in Italy's Sunday elections, and early results suggested the country is heading for a hung parliament due to no party or coalition of parties meeting the 40 % threshold for stable governance.
Earlier on Tuesday, CNBC reported that BlackRock Inc., which has a stake in Dell of more than 3 percent, was likely to vote against the buyout.
House Republicans passed their version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in November, and Senate Republicans voted to pass their version early Saturday.
The power behind Fink's threat to enforce his views hinges, in part, on the standard of one share, one vote — that shareholders» voting power is based on the number of shares they own in a given company rather than the votes of entrenched founders or early investors.
Earlier this year, Indiana passed right - to - work legislation and two cities in California voted to curb the pensions of public sector workers.
In early October, Stonecrest's City Council voted 4 - 2 in favor of the name changIn early October, Stonecrest's City Council voted 4 - 2 in favor of the name changin favor of the name change.
In early February, the firm received a response from Vanguard, which Tim Smith, senior vice president at Walden Asset Management, told me included a discussion of Vanguard's efforts to talk with companies about social and environmental issues, but stopped short of saying that Vanguard would actually change its proxy voting practices.
The results of Thursday's vote aren't expected in until early Friday morning GMT.
But the more we learn about the negative implications of the Russia sanctions bill, which sailed through the Senate earlier this summer by a vote of 98 - 2, the clearer it becomes that the House will need to play the role of «cooling saucer» to prevent a few loosely written provisions in the bill from scalding the U.S. economy.
As part of an aggressive new voter - targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «psychographic profiles» of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.
Tsipras is campaigning for a no vote in the referendum on Sunday, which is officially on whether to accept a tough earlier bailout offer, to impress on EU negotiators that spiralling poverty and a collapse in everyday business activity across Greece has meant further austerity should be ruled out of any new rescue package.
If you are the stockholder of record, you may change your vote by granting a new proxy bearing a later date (which automatically revokes the earlier proxy), by providing a written notice of revocation to the Corporate Secretary at the address below in Question 30 prior to your shares being voted, or by attending the annual meeting and voting in person.
LONDON — The arrival of the Bank of England's new governor has prompted an immediate change in the voting behaviour of the central bank's policymaking panel, with all nine members deciding to maintain the status quo, minutes to their meeting earlier this month showed Wednesday.
It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»
There was the decline in the number of African - American early votes.
One of the earliest examples was the International Silver Company, whose common stock (issued in 1898) had no voting rights until 1902 and then only received one vote for every two shares.
[20] In essence, this was an early version of the conflict of interest argument made below: promoters were using nonvoting common stock as a way of maintaining voting control for themselves.
The left - wing prime minister won a vote in parliament early Monday that will heap more taxes on a dwindling number of Greeks able to pay them.
Additionally, Rafael Bostic will assume leadership of the Atlanta Fed in early June and sit on the FOMC next year while the Richmond Fed is continuing its search for Jeffrey Lacker's successor, who will have a vote in 2018 as well.
Earlier in the day, Texas Republican Senator Weber said Congress will most likely vote on the «first phase» of emergency relief money for Hurricane Harvey in mid-September, which however did not incorporate Trump's revised plan and / or schedule.
In every block, you at random are allowed to choose only five tickets from the pool of live tickets to do voting on the validity of the earlier block.
Pop superstar Jennifer Lopez was joined by Hillary Clinton at a free concert in Miami Saturday night, where the Democratic presidential candidate urged supporters to head to the polls for early voting as her campaign was rocked by a renewed FBI probe of her emails the previous day.
The Senate passed the corrected version of the bill in the early morning hours of December 20, voting 51 - 48 along party lines.
In Saturday's case, a former federal cabinet minister renowned as one of his generation's shrewdest campaigners made good on yet another case of frontrunner status, having earlier this year easily seized the helm of the creaky PC ship and seamlessly executed a merger vote to fuse the Tories and Wildrosers into a single party.
The other is the Windsor case — discussed by Carl Scott earlierin which the majority opinion not only sets aside part of the Defense of Marriage Act passed with overwhelming support in 1996, but also dismisses and disparages the motives of those who voted for it.
Around 65 per cent of younger people voted for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party earlier this year and YouGov has observed that «age seems to be the new dividing line in British politics», with older people tending to favour the Conservative Party and younger people generally voting Labour.
Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN)- The staging ground for Monday night's Republican presidential debate - the first of 2012 presidential cycle in the critical early voting state of New Hampshire - is connected to a history so deep that it predates American politics by a millennium.
So despite the fact that I believe human life is inherently valuable even in its earliest form, I only feel a little guilty voting for pro-choice candidates because I'm often convinced they will do more to address the root causes of abortion — poverty, health care, education, etc..
When the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative movement within Judaism issued guidelines for homosexual marriage by a vote of thirteen in favor, none opposed, and one abstention earlier this year, a Gentile friend of mine e-mailed me....
U.S. opposition to the ICC is of a piece with its vote a year earlier against the treaty to ban antipersonnel land - mines, its refusal to pay UN dues, its economic sanctions on allies that do business in Cuba, and its implicit foreign policy of demanding a «superpower exemption» from international rules.
Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.
Early voting started a couple of days ago in Texas, and it sure makes it easy to vote for a primary election dated for May 29.
Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, who rode evangelical support to victory in the first - in - the - nation Iowa caucuses earlier this month, each got 21 % of the evangelical vote in South Carolina.
Earlier this week, the Southern Baptist Convention — which is the largest Protestant denomination in the world — voted to «call [their] brothers and sisters in Christ to discontinue the display of the Confederate...
To earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the ready availability of abortion would facilitate the sexual exploitation of women.
And Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas and one of Trump's earliest supporters, said the «lewd, offensive, and indefensible» comments weren't enough «to make me vote for Hillary Clinton.»
According to Reuters, 20 percent of self - identified «born again Christians» now say they would abstain from voting, down from a high of 28 percent in early April.
Declaring early in American history that the Constitution was «godless» because it failed to acknowledge the authority of Jesus Christ, the church up until a generation ago practiced «political dissent,» not allowing members to vote, hold public office, or take oaths of allegiance to the flag or the Constitution.
Earlier this week, the Southern Baptist Convention — which is the largest Protestant denomination in the world — voted to «call [their] brothers and sisters in Christ to discontinue the display of the Confederate battle flag as a sign of solidarity of the whole Body of Christ.»
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