Sentences with phrase «open ballot»

Another Assembly member, John Kubi, told Valentina Ofori - Afriyie on Class FM's 505 programme that: «They (thugs) entered just after the last person voted and the electoral officer was about to open the ballot box.

The Reform Party has stood proudly against the establishment since 1996, and will not move away from opening the ballots, ending gerrymandering and limiting the influence of lobbyists on legislators.

We also want to ending the practice of gerrymandering, and open ballots for third parties and independents.

If no court action is filed, then election commissioners Alison McGahay and Mark Whitney can then open the ballots after the close of the business day on Monday, Sept. 21.

If you would like to donate to help fund opening the ballot in Texas, Oklahoma and North Carolina, or to defend our ballot access in Pennsylvania, Alabama and Arkansas, it is possible to donate to the Reform Party through this link or to the Roque De La Fuente campaign here.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Wednesday that he intends to restore voting rights to felons on parole, a move that could open the ballot box to more than 35,000 people.

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.

It seems that Nigeria uses an open ballot system in order to minimize potential for election fraud.

If historical examples are allowed, I think Prussia had an open ballot (and 3 clasees) voting system between 1850 and 1918.

Although it was annulled without justification by military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, it was widely acknowledged as the freest and fairest ever held in Nigeria, perhaps because it was conducted using the open ballot system.

True reform in the United States will be found when the ballot access laws are changed to open the ballots to all parties, and gerrymandering is outlawed so entrenched politicians can be voted out of office.

Under the new law, even if public sector unions can somehow persuade more than half of their members to open the ballots and respond in time, the government have added a further threshold requiring more than 40 % of all those eligible to strike to vote in favour.

Thankfully, Charlotte Osei [EC Chairperson] said their system had been compromised; and I think she actually agreed with us so we are going to court, we open the ballot boxes and go for manual count,» he added.

The Reform Party wants to open the ballot, remove special interest money from politics, and ban gerrymandering.

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