Sentences with phrase «over voting»

She has received a lot of criticism from gay rights groups over her no vote on gay marriage last year.
This website's goal is to try to make sure the redistricting process and litigation over voting law is as transparent and accessible as possible to the public.
This website's goal is to try to make sure the redistricting process and litigation over voting law is as transparent and accessible as possible to the public.
Four years earlier the other two households had left, angry with each other and the church over a vote at a session meeting.
Do authoritarian regimes typically have weak control over the vote counting people?
In other words, they could threaten to call a general election over any vote or piece of law if they lost.
Meanwhile, the party is still waiting for the 8th circuit to issue an opinion in its lawsuit over the vote test for remaining on the ballot.
This website's goal is to try to make sure the redistricting process and litigation over voting law is as transparent and accessible as possible to the public.
This website's goal is to try to make sure the redistricting process and litigation over voting law is as transparent and accessible as possible to the public.
In particular, I believe there is the need for a new creative campaign which is aimed at winning over the votes of the millennial generation — those who came of age at the turn of the century.
«The marginal difference between the APC and PDP is 29,491, and the cancelled votes is 39,150, so the cancelled votes exceeded the marginal difference between APC and PDP as a result of over voting in some polling units of the constituency.
Concannon and several union officials accused Weprin of voting for the community safety act to win over votes for a potential run for speaker.
As managers of the household, women assert a crucial degree of power within the family and local community structures, including over voting decisions.
But Mr Clegg replied that he was «absolutely dismayed» at the Labour leader trying to make a show of unity over voting reform after opposing it during his time in power.
Paul, who's actively courting support from African - Americans and other minority voters, sees this as an opportunity to set himself apart from the deluge of criticism aimed at Republicans over voting rights.
There are related questions about the second chamber of Parliament and the election itself is likely to raise again questions over the voting system.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee last week launched new salvos against Republican Reps. John Faso and Claudia Tenney over their votes in support of the American Health Care Act, the House GOP bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
16:40 - Constitutional reform minister continues the frontbench offensive over the voting system.
Sen. Jon Tester, D - Mont., could face challenges from Republicans over his vote against the continuing resolution to reopen the government, and Pennsylvania might get a new district map.
National Democrats and Republicans have launched dueling ad campaigns in the district of U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney over her vote last week to begin repealing Obamacare.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — With labor groups livid over his vote against health - care reform, Rep. Michael McMahon could face a Democratic primary challenge this year from on old foe: Brooklyn attorney Stephen Harrison.
New York's Presidential primary is today, but the initial excitement over the vote vanished when Rick Santorum dropped out earlier this month.
New York's Presidential primary is Tuesday, but the initial excitement over the vote vanished when Rick Santorum dropped out earlier this month.
More than 30,000 people have joined a Facebook group requesting the resignation of equality minister Theresa May over her voting record on gay rights.
Mr. Rangel, for his part, appeared to be preparing for an extended fight over the vote results.
In a dispute over voting by proxy, the Ontario Superior Court has dismissed an order to invalidate the election of a condominium's board of directors.
As a rule, Milner has said he doesn't take board seats in his later - stage investments, and rarely requires founders to hand over voting shares when issuing company stock.
Mickey Revenaugh, the virtual school executive overseeing the committee, presided over the vote endorsing the measure.
According to the Auditor General, accrual appropriations would provide Parliament with the same basis and approval over voted spending as the government's overall financial plan and summary financial statements.
She argues that accrual - based appropriations would provide Parliament with a consistent basis for control and approval over voted spending that is the same as the overall government financial plan».
We saw that most recently in the election of 2000, where the final votes were contested and there was some question about whether Al Gore would bring a legal case to contest the outcome over the vote tally in the state of Florida.
With many Democrats already unhappy over the vote by McMahon (D - Staten Island / Brooklyn) against health - care reform, Democratic county committee member John Lavelle Jr. said it was «disturbing» to see the lawmaker's campaign staffer on Ms. Malliotakis» page, especially given the fact that Ms. Hyer - Spencer represents a swing district crucial to McMahon's re-election chances this fall.
New York lawmakers will return to Albany on Wednesday to begin their work for 2017, a session expected to include debates over voting laws, corruption, Uber's proposal to expand upstate and the state's response to the Trump administration.
As Henderson explains, «Winning over those votes depended on a popular governor committed to expanding choice, his willingness to put his political capital to work for the proposal's success, and adept navigation of the legislative process.»
To determine the optimal block size limit, we introduce a non-negative dissatisfaction function based on a vote and a target limit and minimize its value summed over all votes.
It took Al Gore sitting down with Emanuel and going over voting lists, name by name, to persuade the White House to throw its muscle behind the bill and pressure congressional holdouts to fall in line.
The FCC has already drawn criticism from a number of groups over the vote.
«At a fundamental level, you're gonna strip people of their power, prestige, money, whatever over a vote?
But he also faced questions during his campaign over his votes for Cuomo - supported legislation and budgets during his career in Albany.
The budget debate is beginning on a contentious note in the state Senate, where mainline Democrats are raising a number of concerns over voting for budget bills that, in essence, have some holes in them which will be filled by yet - to - be-printed bills.
Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who faces skepticism from upstate Republicans and gun owners over his vote in favor of the SAFE Act, has said a repeal is highly unlikely.
In 1976 Richard McKelvey went much further, in a complex series of mathematical proofs, establishing that given control over a voting agenda it was possible to bring about almost any outcome the agenda setter desired.
The bitter tussle over voting reform will be decided tomorrow as voters head to the polls to decide whether to switch to the alternative vote (AV).
A meeting over the expansion of the Peace Bridge was so contentious the board deadlocked over a vote to approve the minutes from a previous meeting.
He tells Sunday Live he believes the Conservatives and Lib Dems will «cobble together» an agreement but that stable government is «much, much more important than some squabble over the voting system.»»
David Cameron and Ed Miliband's standoff over the voting rights of Scottish MPs is deepening, threatening a full - scale constitutional crisis which some are warning could yet imperil the union.
One report even suggested that work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith threatened to resign over the vote.
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