Sentences with phrase «of voting procedures»

For any further funds to be made available, CREA has set out a number of voting procedures.

Eligible resume samples for Election Clerk mention qualifications like knowledge of voting procedures, time management, attention to details, integrity, confidentiality, and teamwork.

Reactionary state laws, unequal and unethical administration of voting procedures, and the unfettered access of corporations to influence electoral outcomes has severely damaged our democracy.

Not exact matches

Fast - track votes typically happen as a straight up or down procedure, and they do not give members of Congress the ability to add additional items to the bills.

During the Federal Court hearing this week, Mr Kirwan's lawyer, Tottle Partners» Stephen Penrose, questioned the voting procedures at last month's meeting of StateWest members, where they voted strongly in favour of demutualisation.

Although the banks say the moves would be legal procedures that would have a minimum impact on their operations and jobs in Scotland, their warnings intensified concerns about an independent Scotland's ability to retain businesses — particularly during the months of financial uncertainty that would follow a vote to break the 307 - year union with England.

By telephone — Stockholders of record who live in the United States or Canada may request a paper proxy card from Tesla by following the procedures in the Notice of Internet Availability, and submit proxies by telephone by following the «Vote by Telephone» instructions on the proxy card until 1:00 a.m., Central time on June 5, 2018.

The Board must accept or reject such resignation within 90 days following certification of the shareholder vote in accordance with the procedures established by the Bylaws.

Please note that since a street name stockholder is not the stockholder of record, you may not vote your shares in person at the Annual Meeting unless you follow your broker's procedures for obtaining a legal proxy.

The passage of the Reform Bill may be defined in a shorthand way as the procedure of voting by Parliament, and approval by King William IV, of a law changing the qualifications for voting in British elections and redistributing seats in the House of Commons.

On Saturday, the Sandy Valley Conference of Free Will Baptists, the regional body of the denomination, released a statement saying the church policy was «Null and Void,» because the vote was not held in accordance with proper parliamentary procedure.

In too many Baptist churches, baptism is an afterthought to the real work of a prior conversion experience, an act justified on the purely historical grounds that «Jesus told us to do it» (though why and for what effect remain in doubt), a procedure mainly of value in entitling one to vote in future congregational squabbles.

In April, 1956, the American Association of University Professors voted to censure six institutions for violations of academic freedom, most of them in loyalty procedures.

The basic questions to be asked about this project, therefore, concern not the Seminar's voting procedures or means of communicating its findings but rather the substance of its claims.

Each member will have one vote in decision - making procedures, regardless of how many shares each individual holds.

But the DRC has rules and procedures, and one of them is that candidates who don't pre-interview don't get voted on at the straw poll — no matter who they are or how popular they might be.

It is considered by some parties as illegitimate, posing a serious danger to Japan's democracy since the Prime Minister circumvented the constitutional amendment procedure, dictating a radical change to the meaning of fundamental principles in the Constitution by way of Cabinet fiat without Diet debate, vote, or public approval.

On the last day of Parliament, before the parliamentary election in 2013, violating procedure, the Speaker failed to bring the bill to a vote.

The power of the agenda setter has been long known: In his book Theory of Voting Robin Farquharson relates a tale of Pliny the Younger attempting to manipulate the Roman Senate by changing the usual voting procedure.

I have been trying in recent weeks to publicise in my blog and in LabourList the little - known procedures in the event of a hung parliament, under which whatever the results in votes and seats, Gordon Brown will be both entitled and obliged to continue in office until he has met parliament as prime minister and ascertained by the vote on his Queen's Speech whether he still commands a majority in the House.

Can we just take a minute to say how sad of a commentary it is that «I'm going to vote for a bill I don't believe in because someone else will fix it» is the standard operating procedure of the governing body for the world's largest economy?

Labour has vowed to use a vote on Wednesday to invoke an ancient and obscure piece of parliamentary procedure in a bid to force the move.

In a flash of parliamentary procedure, Libous called a vote installing Dean Skelos as the majority leader and Espada as temporary president.

The EU has tried to reform voting procedures to facilitate common agreement, but member states have proved reluctant to relinquish this feature of their national sovereignty.

For the purposes of elections knowledge, a candidate receiving the most votes can be elected in some electorates, while in some countries this can instead require a majority, and there may be a form of run - off procedure.

A reformed institution will give a proper voice to the whole of the UK and act as an effective complement to a House of Commons which — because of the first - past - the - post voting procedure — does not fairly represent our citizens politically.

In a news conference in the early evening, Senator Malcolm A. Smith of Queens, leader of the Senate Democrats, insisted that the Republican - engineered vote was illegal and violated parliamentary procedure.

New City Library prepares for trustee and budget vote; forward progress despite continued feuding BY CHERYL SLAVIN Despite the continuous sniping, sarcastic jabs and a great deal of eye rolling, the New City Library Board of Trustees managed at its regular meeting last Thursday night to agree upon the procedures to be used for its -LSB-...]

Owen Smith, the shadow Northern Ireland secretary, has used a parliamentary procedure to demand a full debate and vote in the House of Commons, which — if granted — could be lost by May given the scale of opposition to the policy.

In order to increase voter turnout and make voting a more accessible process, it should be understood that instilling early voting — a process permitted in 37 states and the District of Columbia — and other procedures should be a priority.

On 1 March 2014, at a special conference the party reformed internal Labour election procedures, including replacing the electoral college system for selecting new leaders with a «one member, one vote» system following the recommendation of a review by former general - secretary Ray Collins.

Notwithstanding any other provision of these Rules and Regulations, the Policy Committee may establish procedures which shall govern the conduct of the County Committee members from New York County at any such joint meeting, including rules covering such matters as proxy voting, method of balloting and identification of members.

This is also one of the reasons why New York is lagging behind other states when it comes to voting systems and procedures, he added.

In the ongoing fight between Democrats and Republicans over election procedures like voter ID and early voting, the Democrats are supposedly the champions of higher turnout and reducing barriers to participation.

Federal agencies making these kinds of decisions sometimes use some version of non-standard voting procedures as well, although it is uncommon.

As a result, it has proposed the procedure for taking decisions be changed so issues which normally require unanimous agreement, such as terrorism, fraud and the trafficking of people, drugs and arms, be decided merely on a majority vote.

She recently used a parliamentary procedure to force the measure onto the Senate Health Committee agenda, and Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos has said he expects there will be a full Senate vote on some version of the med - mar bill before the session is over next month.

Speaking to Nick Robinson, the Labour leader confirmed that his party's Trident policy could be put to a vote of members, thus bypassing the party's established policy making procedure.

The «2/3 vote» does look like the kind of thing you'd see in an entrenched law (see, for example, amendments to the US Constitution), but in this case the 2/3 requirement has nothing to do with changing laws — it's to do with the House of Commons triggering a procedure under the law.

Amid continuing investigations of Nassau's contracting procedures, county Republican leaders have agreed to increase public scrutiny by dropping the threshold required for a legislative vote on county contracts from $ 25,000 to $ 1,000.

I would expect it to be reinvested in the NHS, but I am sure that I can generate a letter from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health to explain the accounting procedures to which the hon. Lady has just referred and to give her the reassurance that the money that Parliament has voted to the NHS will indeed be applied to the NHS.»

Following the full board vote, Marlow sent a letter to CB3 Chairperson Gigi Li and members of the transportation committee arguing that the board's own procedures had been violated since McCarthy voluntarily withdrew with the understanding that the committee would eventually vote «yes» or «no» on his proposal.

On Wednesday, City Council Member Mark Treyger will introduce a bill to ensure that the Board of Elections, which administers voting in the city, joins these agencies in formulating its own disaster - preparedness procedures for conducting the polls.

While the Corbyn surge and the tripling of numbers entitled to vote flowed from changes made in the procedure, the thinking behind the leadership selection has lapsed behind the constitutional changes made and being made by the coalition government and its Tory successor, most importantly the Fixed - term Parliaments Act.

Maine has the nation's most burdensome procedure for a new party to qualify by petition (the requirement is 5 % of the last vote cast, and no one who is a registered member of a qualified party may sign).

The tweet referred to an ongoing party procedure that decides whether the sitting Mayor of Tower Hamlets, John Biggs, has to win a vote among members of his local party before becoming the Labour candidate for the 2018 - 22 term.

Speaking during his citizens» engagement tour of some local government areas in the state, Prof. Ezeon explained that the said voting machines were designed by the Nigeria Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) and demonstrated to the National Assembly members for adoption for elections, adding that the federal government was yet to adopt the electronic voting procedure for elections.

The Electoral Commission performed a reallocation in keeping with the same procedures they used to allocate 72 MEPs and an extra Conservative MEP was allocated to the West Midlands constituency based on the 2009 vote and was enshrined in the European Union Act 2011 as an amendment of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002.

«Today, Governor Cuomo signed an Executive Order setting up a procedure that should result in many tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are on parole having their voting rights restored: one of Let NY Vote's top 3 priorities, along with Early Voting (EV) and Automatic Voter Registration (AVR).

Through its own audit procedures, the Ministry of Justice has been systematically seeking prisoners» level of interest in voting and is known to have received positive responses.