Sentences with phrase «own voter reforms»

Democratic lawmakers in the state Senate and Assembly have sought to apply post-budget pressure to Republicans to consider voter reforms designed to enhance ballot access and make it easier to vote as well as to register.

It's smart voter reform which only enhances our democracy.»

Stewart - Cousins, a Democrat from Yonkers, confirmed that issues such as voter reform measures and changes to the state's ethics laws had fallen out of the budget talks.

Senate Democrats this week unveiled their own voter reforms this week as part of a response to Donald Trump's administration.

The Let NY Vote Coalition, which has advocated for early voting and other voter reforms, praised the governor for funding early voting in his spending plan.

It's time for Albany to pass real voter reform bills to make participation easier, not harder.»

The attorney general called for voter reform after 1,500 people complained about the April election.

«With or without Peralta, we will assemble on June 26th to discuss the range of issues at stake on the state level, including public school funding, health care, women's health care, immigrants» rights, sanctuary state, Dream Act, LGBT rights, voter reform, criminal justice reform, and climate change reforms,» organizers wrote in a press release.

The Syracuse Common Council will consider on Monday a resolution to support New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo's voter reform bill that would allow early voting throughout the state.

Barbara Bartoletti, the legislative director at the New York State League of Women Voters, said the latest package of voter reforms have been a long time coming.

It's far from certain whether legislators will take up ethics and voter reform following their two - week break.

On WBFO's Capitol Pressroom, Bartoletti said she's disappointed voter reforms did not make it into the final budget.

Not exact matches

Deprivation angered Greek voters, destroying any possibility of building a broad consensus on sensible economic reforms — such as creating a tax system that would force the some of the world's most notorious tax dodgers to contribute to the running of the government.

Even if the 40 percent of voters that supported former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi still stick with his center - left party, chances are that the next Italian parliament will be even more divided, making implementation of much needed reforms increasingly difficult.

He said British voters were reacting to the fact that EU rules are too complicated, and will likely need to be reformed.

Reacting to voters» frustration with this news, both presidential candidates have called for additional health care reforms.

But as Congress moves toward repealing the mandate as part of tax reform, voters, legislators and industry experts have flocked to its defense, pointing out that doing away with it would cause already high premiums for individual health plans to rise by 10 percent.

And, if you look at what happened yesterday as a whole, I think what you see is that cannabis reform was the one issue that was able to cut across party lines and unite voters in a bipartisan consensus.»

«The only way that could happen is for a very significant number of Trump voters — red voters, Southern voters — to vote in favor of cannabis reform.

While the candidates currently hold some very similar positions on issues such as immigration reform, gay rights, gun control and campaign finance reform, Sanders has been able to stake out positions to the left of Clinton on other issues that excite some vocal voters.

If parliament gives its nod, Greek voters will be asked to rule on two complex draft documents that detail a proposal by the country's creditors to unlock aid of as much as 15.5 billion euros for Greece in return for sales - tax increases and pension reforms.

The ReformaTories ™ reminded voters they were more Reform than Tory when Steve took a run at Canadian culture claiming it was a «niche» issue.

Though 92 percent of Americans support universal background checks, gun reform was a less significant issue to voters than terrorism and the economy.

In focus groups arranged to test messages for the 2014 midterms, these voters responded to calls for building a new wall to block the entry of illegal immigrants, to reforms intended to «drain the swamp» of Washington's entrenched political community and to thinly veiled forms of racism toward African Americans called «race realism,» he recounted.

But the pain from economic reforms in Argentina and Brazil could make voters reconsider, if it's not accompanied by growth.

Do you believe that electoral reform is necessary to ensure that our House of Commons adequately reflects the preferences of Canadian voters?

There is a pretense that Russian voters somehow must find a midpoint between «reform» and a return to the past.

The reform's tax competitive stance is likely to be politically palatable because most voters neither understand nor care that the Trump administration's fight for a larger United States share of the worldwide economy might result in a smaller worldwide economy overall.

A joint study of the voters» rolls by electoral reform groups Bersih and Engage found some cases in which dead voters were re-registered, and one voter whose birth year was listed as 1897

Election experts say Facebook must crack down on inflammatory ads on politically divisive issues such as immigration reform and gun rights, which were used to influence voters during and after the presidential campaign.

It was the speech of a guy running for President and who is serious about enacting center - right reforms (and that includes being serious about winning over swing - voters to a responsible center - right agenda.)

Although intelligence reform is fundamentally a law - and - order issue which ought to appeal to conservative voters, this cautious election year augurs ill for reform in two additional ways.

If the GOP refuses to budge on immigration reform they will risk turning the latinos into as reliably Democratic voters as the black community tends to be, and that will effectively kill the GOP in the long run.

The Clinton Administration was politically able to trade market reforms of social welfare programs (where there are fewer well «organized voters) for egalitarian policies in the labor market, college athletics, academia, and the military (where voters can be organized).

The conservative health care message most of these voters have heard can be summarized as «socialized medicine is bad + tort reform is good + so anyway, back to more important things like capital gains tax cuts.»

Most swing voters have never heard a conservative make an extended argument for any kind of market - oriented health care reform.

Miller would reform campaign finance by giving each registered voter a supply of federally financed «patriot dollars.»

Another path is to try to become an American version of the U.K. Independence Party and seek to combine those who oppose the current version of «comprehensive immigration reform» with white swing voters who are alienated from both parties.

It is only fascist retardican minion evangelical idiot voters that are not for health care reform.

What a terrible indictment of the Tory party and their candidate that they couldn't even be bothered to turn up and engage with local voters on political reform.

The targeting of these voters is part of a five - figure digital ad buy (ad samples: 1, 2, 3, 4) that includes banner, Facebook, and pre-roll video ads exposing Republican nominee Greg Gianforte (R - MT) for trying to have it both ways on healthcare reform.

«They banked on voters not paying attention as they blocked reforms in almost every area of policy: voting rights, reproductive rights, government reform and more.

Voters also want independent redistricting reform, 64 - 24, but don't believe (49 - 34) lawmakers will keep their promise to former NYC Mayor Ed Koch and actually relinquish their power to draw their own district lines.

The TU says the retirements of Assemblymen Bob Reilly, Jack McEneny and Rob Canestrari gives voters a rare opportunity and «bank slate» to elect lawmakers who might be more reform - minded.

Also on the NYC Indy Party reform to - do list: Initiative and referendum, term limits for legislators, letting voters change their enrollment after a one - month waiting period, nonpartisan administration of the Board of Elections, nonpartisan redistricting and campaign finance reform.

AV is just neither here nor there, proportionality is where any electoral reform would derive its fairness and potentially in time improve the connection between voters and voted for.

Here's Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver taking a swipe at Ed Koch in response to the former NYC mayor's recent remarks that his fellow Manhattan Democrat is an enemy of reform and a «bum» who should be ejected from office by the voters this fall.

Young people and potential lib dem voters will be particularly attracted to the radical constitutional reform, and middle England and pensioners will place high value in public service reform and voluntary individual budgets etc..

Young voters aged between 18 and 24 actually backed going ahead with the reforms by 46 % to 39 %.

«But in the meantime, I remain certain that Matt will win with a grassroots field campaign focused on voters of the 99 %, and I will continue on in my support of Matt's efforts to reform the system and win.»