Sentences with phrase «on voting procedures»

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Depending on results, we will strengthen up voting procedure,» the President tweeted.

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 anti-abortion amendment being voted on this week in the state could restrict in vitro procedures, and the Carpenters are worried that if they wait too long to add to their family, they may end up breaking the law.

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.

Obama later congratulated the AME religion's efforts on fighting slavery and ending racially bias voting laws and procedures.

I met with them when they were launching their site, a portal for learning about the candidates» position on 14 core issues and about newly changed voting procedures (similar to our Project Vote Smart in many respects).

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.

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

New York City Elections Commissioner J.C. Polanco thinks September will be «a public - relations nightmare» unless changes are made to the vote counting procedure on election night.

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.

Among other things, the negative resolution procedure is a rarely used one, through which a peer (or MP) intervenes during the forty days after a statutory instrument has been laid on the table in parliament to force a debate and (potentially) a vote.

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.

The third term that Mayor Bloomberg wanted was voted on in hugger - mugger under highly irregular procedures.

Kerr imagined that the exit procedure might be triggered after an authoritarian leader took power in a member country and the EU responded by suspending that country's right to vote on EU decisions.

Dustin Czarny, an Onondaga County elections commissioner, said New York is lagging behind other states when it comes to voting systems and procedures because state legislators often have partisan views on voting matters.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One potential problem with a Labour - led minority government follows from the new procedures on «English votes for English laws».

«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).

The state's Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr Nkwachukwu Orji said the procedures for accreditation and voting on 18th November will take place between 8 am and 2 pm in all PUs, while voters in the queue by 2 pm will be allowed to complete accreditation and voting.

It will provide you with an understanding of key security procedures required to ensure safety of election officials on election duties and equip you with skill sets that would enable you balance the imperative of securing the electoral process with the need to allow voters unfettered opportunity to come out and cast their votes without fear or intimidation as a result of the presence of security personnel.»

He polled 40,965 votes, even though the state would not print a party label on the ballot next to his name, because he used the independent candidate procedure.

In July, congressional Republicans threatened to attach an amendment barring undocumented immigrants from receiving WTC health payments; Democrats feared they were being trapped into a vote that could be used against them in attack ads, provoking Anthony Weiner's infamous rant on the House floor, in which he screamed that the Republicans were «cowardly» for hiding behind procedure instead of voting against the bill because they thought it was a bad idea.

Republicans opposed proxy voting on the grounds that it allowed an indolent Democratic majority to move legislation through committee with antimajoritarian procedures.

Postal voting and early voting are separate procedures also available to voters who would not be in their registered electoral districts on a voting day.

The voting procedures and thresholds for passage of a redistricting plan by the independent commission and the legislature varies depending on which parties control each house of the legislature.

During a news briefing at the 2018 AAAS Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas on Feb. 15, Perez said she recommends states undertake «basic, common - sense procedures» such as instituting automatic voter registration when a person applies for a driver's license or other state services, extending polling place hours, increasing absentee ballot use and increasing election funding to improve voting technology and staffing.

(d) The Executive Officer shall be a member of the Board without vote; a member of the Council, of the Committee on Council Affairs, of the Executive Committee, and of the Committee on Investment and Finance; shall serve as secretary of the Board, of the Council, and of the Committee on Council Affairs, and as staff officer of the Committee on Nominations; shall be in charge of the Association's offices and shall manage the affairs of the Association in accordance with procedures prescribed by the Board; shall be custodian of the current operating funds; and shall have the authority to enter into contracts for the Association that have been approved by the Board or that are required for the conduct of the Association's activities specifically provided for in the approved annual budgets.

Congress can make such changes to tax policy through «reconciliation,» a procedure that avoids up - or - down votes on each proposal and the threat of a Democratic filibuster in the Senate.

The Illinois State Board of Education took on sweeping authority to supervise special education at Chicago Public Schools on Wednesday, voting to appoint an outside monitor who for at least three years will have to approve any changes to the district's special ed policies and procedures.

Of course, using standard operating procedure, a «final» draft of the bill was only issued yesterday which means few legislators will even know what they are voting on in the 1,000 page bill.

The proxy voting policies and procedures of Broad Run Investment Management, LLC («Broad Run») address the responsibility of Broad Run to ensure that proxies received for portfolio securities held by the Hennessy Focus Fund (the «Focus Fund») are voted in the best interest of the Focus Fund, including in those situations involving a conflict of interest between the Focus Fund on the one hand, and Broad Run or its affiliated persons, on the other hand.

The Firm includes in Part 2A of its Form ADV (1) a summary of these policies and procedures relating to proxy voting, (2) an offer to provide a copy of such policies and procedures to clients on request, and (3) information concerning how a client may obtain a report summarizing how the Firm voted proxies on behalf of such client.

The Board has adopted Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures («Policies») on behalf of the Trust, which delegate the responsibility for voting proxies to the Adviser or its designee, subject to the Board's continuing oversight.

The trustees have adopted CSIM's Proxy Voting Policy and Procedures with respect to proxies voted on behalf of the various Schwab Funds portfolios.

Freeing the Grid is a policy guide developed by Vote Solar, the Interstate Renewable Energy Council and GRACE that grades all 50 states on two key renewable energy programs: net metering and interconnection procedures.

The Committee confirmed procedures for broad participation of NGOs, recognized the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as its primary technical support body, and agreed to use consensus decision - making except when impasses arose, in which case important questions would be put to majority vote.

The complaint is full of interesting tidbits, like the procedure whereby the league's «Protest Committee» called each of the plaintiffs (and three other players whose gayness was questioned) into a room and, in front of a crowd of 25, peppered them with questions about their sexual preferences before voting on whether the men were gay or not.

(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;

The site's e-Book on Election Law is a primer on the law governing voter eligibility, candidate eligibility, campaigns, voting equipment and procedures, voting districts and types of elections.

Information often included: • Basic nonprofit information: organization name, number of directors and term limits, type of incorporation and amendment procedures • Meeting details: location of meeting, how often meetings occur, procedures to call special meetings, how meetings are announced and quorum size (minimum number of people required for meetings) • Board of directors information: director qualifications, term limits and attendance requirements, removal procedures, definitions of roles and conflict of interest policies • Membership information: eligibility requirements, dues, voting rights of members, and quit or termination procedures Erring on the side of simplicity usually is the best way to start.

On the other hand, the Bill restores union certification and decertification procedures as they existed prior to June 16, 2015, such that mandatory secret ballot voting will no longer be required.