Sentences with phrase «other electoral reforms»

State and local laws vary widely, and various campaign finance reforms, as well as other electoral reforms, have been enacted in a variety of states.

Early voting is one component of Cuomo's Democracy Agenda, which includes other electoral reforms.

Not exact matches

Then read the rest of the Federalist Papers on how to achieve other sensible electoral reforms.

On another point, while I strongly support electoral reform, it continues to alarm me that a few others do not appear to consider the proportionality (and thus the fairness) of the electoral system to be of over-riding or critical importance.

Given the Fabian society has a good record on electoral reform, perhaps you might take action / put pressure on the likes of Tom Harris who undermined Lib - Lab negotiations by saying he'd never accept anything other than FPTP.

Without other reforms AV will be no more than a form of palliative care for our electoral system.

Both of these, in the form of a manifesto commitment to a referendum on electoral reform, and as an exploration of the stake - holding idea espoused by Will Hutton among others, had already entered «New Labour» thinking.

In 2010, the party invested all its chips in electoral reform and in a few other token policies.

His first challenge was the legislation for the AV referendum on electoral reform that was defeated after Harper's other boss — David Cameron — asked Tory donors to donate to the No campaign that trashed his Cabinet Office boss.

What is important is which of the other leaders Nick thinks can best deliver what people voting for us in this election (that didn't defect to the reds for fear of the blues or to the blues from fear of the reds) wanted, central amongst which was electoral reform.

«We don't have to go to Albany and deal with that political dysfunction in order to get this electoral reform,» he said, an apparent reference to that fact that many other voting and election laws are dictated by the state.

No amount of wielding of unchecked executive power and dismissal of vital select committee findings can wish away the progress that NOTA UK and other groups campaigning for electoral reform have made — so we crack on.

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That might then lead to nothing and a second election, to agreements about electoral reform, to other arrangements about supply / confidence, etc..

While the other party leaders grapple with their own futures — Mr Clegg to hold on to his leadership; Mr Miliband to ponder whether he needs to adapt his «no risk» strategy to get into Number Ten; and Mr Cameron to try to deliver progress on EU reform sooner rather than later and to head off calls for an electoral pact with UKIP — Mr Farage has the luxury of planning his next steps while momentum is on his side.

If a hotchpotch deal with Labour and various other parties could not deliver on our policy prospectus, on economic stability or even on the most modest form of electoral reform legislation, what on the earth was the point of it?

On the eve of polling day the Labour leader appeared to lock and bolt the door to electoral reform for a generation, saying he did not support anything other than AV as an alternative to First Past The Post.

Other cabinet ministers, including James Purnell - who is pushing for a swift review of party funding to clean up another area of concern to voters - Harriet Harman and Hilary Benn are also backing a debate on constitutional and electoral reforms.

Even as ethics and electoral reforms move up toward the top of Albany's to - do list, big - money interests armed with expensive lobbyists and lots of campaign cash have other ideas.

Negotiations between the Liberal Democrats and the other parties resumed today after yesterday's dramatic events which saw Gordon Brown announce his resignation and the Conservatives offer a referendum on electoral reform.

They will be committed to electoral reforms such as Instant Runoff Voting, public financing for campaigns or other local campaign and electoral reforms.

While some have suggested that the proposal's defeat in the polls was the last nail in the coffin of electoral reform, others have interpreted it as the first step in a longer journey.

Given the concessions on electoral reform and fixed term parliaments that the Conservatives were forced to make as part of the Coalition Government, they are unlikely to allow themselves to be pushed into other constitutional reforms in the immediate future.

«Every Welsh Liberal Democrat councillor in Wales will make the positive case for electoral reform, and I call on all other parties in Wales to do the same.»

While mayoral control is locked in intense political jockeying and electoral reforms are mostly dead on arrival due to opposition from the Republican - controlled state Senate, the de Blasio administration is somewhat optimistic about getting at least some of what it wants on the other three items: design - build, M / WBE contracting, and speed cameras.

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