Sentences with phrase «on voting systems»

This is a cross-curricular lesson on voting systems!!

Steven Brams, an expert on voting systems at New York University, doesn't foresee any surge of support for a change.

Acemyan said that more secure methods of voting — such as STAR - Vote and Prêt à Voter, the enhanced security system used in this study — are designed knowing that there is always the potential for malicious attacks on voting systems to manipulate and alter election results.

An independent commission on voting systems will be appointed early to recommend a proportional alternative to the first - past - the - post system.

[7] It was the way that compensatory seats were allocated that made their report the origin of the additional member system, the term which the report also invented, which was then applied along with the much older «mixed system» by English - speaking writers on voting systems to West Germany's system and similar models until mixed member proportional (MMP) was invented for the adoption of the German system proposed for New Zealand in a royal commission report in 1986, which would explain why AMS and MMP have been used as synonyms.

When I pressed Tom Harris on this at his blog site last year his response, in essence, was to say: «Things like inequality don't depend on voting systems but on the policies one adopts.»

I watched David Cameron talking recently about Brown's suggestion of a referendum on the voting system.

Oh yes, sill me, the Lib Dems get some crumbs from the table like a referendum on the voting system.

Given the loss of the AV referendum on the voting system and the deadlock over House of Lords reform, this may be unsurprising.

They reckoned that their best hope of holding their seats was for the coming referendum on the voting system to produce a majority for the Alternative Vote (AV).

We're looking at having Lords with 15 year terms, with no prospect of re-election, on a voting system that the electorate have just rejected in a referendum.

It also covers the referendum on the voting system for the UK Parliament, the Scottish referendum and the EU referendum.

But some Labour MPs have accused the coalition of gerrymandering while some Lib Dems are reported to be unhappy about the prospect of losing seats in the shake - up - agreed as a package earlier this year in combination with May's referendum on the voting system.

Cameron's current willingness to emphasise Tory tunes is a good short - term strategy to get Tory voters to go out in vote in lower turnout elections for local government and on the voting system.

However, in the wake of his defeat in the referendum on the voting system, the Lib Dem leader is anxious to avoid seeming obsessed with constitutional matters at a time of deep spending cuts.

YouGov President Peter Kellner delves into the debate over Scottish independence and argues that the outcome of the coming referendum will depend on the voting system used

A referendum on the voting system sealed the deal on the Coalition in 2010 when the Conservatives surprised the Liberal Democrats by agreeing to one on the alternative vote (AV).

The protest outside the Lib Dem meeting played an important role in putting voting reform squarely on the agenda, ensuring we have a referendum on the voting system, rather than just an investigative «commission» as the Conservatives were initially offering.

The Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, chaired by Labour MP Graham Allen has complained that it has been given inadequate time to scrutinise the legislation that will fix parliamentary terms, cut the number of MPs to 600 and enable a nationwide referendum on the voting system.

Well this «Referendum on the voting system used to elect MPs to the House of Commons» came about as a result of the bargaining carried out in anonymous back rooms, possibly no longer smoke filled due to Health and Safety, which resulted in the creation of the coalition which is now our government.

David Cameron came under fire from the right of the Conservative party over any compromise on the voting system and Europe.

The recent referendum in the UK on the voting system showed that we have no appetite at all to change our democratic governance.

Not exact matches

The Republican - controlled U.S. Congress will begin voting on Tuesday on the biggest overhaul of the U.S. tax system in more than 30 years.

On Friday, Senate Republicans» plan to overhaul the US healthcare system came to a dramatic end as leaders failed to garner enough votes to move forward legislation.

Originally designing electronic voting systems, the company soon moved on to designing and manufacturing scoreboards and other equipment for arenas.

While it's highly unlikely that any Kobo users will end up on a Canadian watchlist, the point remains: ship your data abroad, and it falls into other jurisdictions and other legal systems that you don't necessarily vote for or understand.

That people's capitalism, the system that we have, depends on the age - old system of one - share - one - vote....

The report also gave details about a two - year - old warning from the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, a bipartisan organization, that described the state of America's aging voting system as an «impending crisis.»

You don't have the time and you can't have a vote on which systems you're going to use, or what products or branding.

Michigan does not have an audit system, but it's important to note that the state's residents vote on optical scan machines, a type of machine that's considered less vulnerable to hacking than the paperless, touchscreen machines used in some other states.

«They realized they could get access to the voting registration systems, which can have an impact on state elections and primaries.

The Brennan Center for Justice estimated in August that up to 20 % of US voters would use a digital system without a paper trail to cast votes on November 8, and 42 states would use voting machines that were at least a decade old and had outdated hardware and software.

Bitcoin hosts («miners») essentially «vote» on any system changes by choosing what software to run.

PageRank is Google's system of counting link votes and determining which pages are most important based on them.

The University System of Maryland's Board of Regents voted to waive the residency rule on Tuesday.

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Though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reneged on his promise to change the country's voting system before 2019, his government didn't totally walk away from electoral reform.

The incubator already has several startups enrolled in the program, including an American bitcoin exchange, called Cryptos, an Uber like service but with Bitcoin, called LiveryCab, a lightweight Bitcoin ATM machine, called Digital Asset Vending Enterprises (D.A.V.E) and a non-corruptible voting system based on the block chain, called Blockchain Apparatus.

Speaking to 1,000 people at the sold out conference, Broadbent called on delegates to seize this «once - in - a-generation opportunity for progressive change, an opportunity to ensure we have a fair voting system in which every voter counts, in which every citizen has a real opportunity to elect a candidate according to his or her values.

I think having unbalanced trade leaves room for the common man to blame his ills on the system and decide to vote for people who will fix it.

OTTAWA — Broadbent Institute founder Ed Broadbent on Friday kicked off the country's flagship progressive policy conference with a call for progressives to make sure the next election is held under a proportional voting system.

had hoped to find both the necessary votes and time on the House floor for consideration of a bill that would spin the nation's air traffic controllers and thousands of people working on modernizing the aviation system into a private nonprofit corporation.

- Carrying out of voting on a choice of coworking places - Beginning of GoodNet and GoodCRM systems developе

The voting system for individuals within the network to «propose» and then vote on an proposal for action for which the network can allocate resources to e.g. for the development or marketing of the currency.

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

In the House, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced a vote on the STOP School Violence Act, a bill that doesn't address guns but provides an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems.

On Wednesday afternoon, the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the STOP School Violence Act, a bill that doesn't address guns but provides an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and upgraded reporting systemOn Wednesday afternoon, the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the STOP School Violence Act, a bill that doesn't address guns but provides an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and upgraded reporting systemon the STOP School Violence Act, a bill that doesn't address guns but provides an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and upgraded reporting systems.

Numbers can't be established for a «national popular vote» (even one based on a fiction) under a state - by - state system like ours unless all the states have their act together.

I vote for a low key servant leadership in a democratic system, structures that help us focus on the right stuff without dictating what should happen, and conserning norms, I prefer values before rules.

(Mar 2006) Voted YES on extending the PATRIOT Act's wiretap provision and Santorum will continue the Corporate wellfare system where big business gets an unfair advantage against start up companies.