Sentences with phrase «problems than our voting»

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But the problem is that after ten years, I'm getting tired of trying to convince fellow Christians that I am, in fact, a Christian, even though I may vote a little differently than they vote, interpret the Bible differently than they interpret it, engage with science a little differently than they engage with it, and understand sovereignty and choice a little differently than they understand those things.

There would be no courage and no glory in voting for a law based more on slogans than on arguments, in conforming to the dominant political correctness out of fear of the threatened anathema, and by counter-attacking as a last resort by a question such as: «Dven if there is no reason to pass a law, why is it a problem if we want to pass one?»

There would be no courage and no glory in voting for a law based more on slogans than on arguments, in conforming to the dominant political correctness out of fear of being anathematized, and in hiding behind a question such as: «Even if there is no reason to pass a law, why is it a problem if we want to pass one?»

The only problem is it feels more like a vote against Young than an honor another player has taken away from him.

Adding «the young», another small group which tends not to vote, to this list might actually cause more problems than it solves.

«But given that the Independence, Conservative, and Working Families parties all had more than 150,000 votes at the top of the ticket in both 2008 and 2006, it is very unlikely that the double - vote problem will cost any party their ballot line.»

Data from British Election Study panel surveys shows that the main problem UKIP has faced in translating its success from European Parliament elections to general elections has been retaining voters, whether because some UKIP voters only vote UKIP at European Parliament elections in protest and the return to their «normal» party for general elections or because the nature of the British electoral system incentivises voters to cast their vote for one of the existing main parties rather than a new entrant.

More than three quarters of all voters, including a clear majority of those who intend to vote Labour on Thursday, think the last Labour government «must accept a large part of the blame» for Britain's economic problems; Mr Miliband is unlikely to succeed in his campaign to persuade the electorate that this idea is a «big lie» put about by the coalition.

My (admittedly superficial) understanding of the problem is that it's about making it compulsory to have an ID to vote, more than about the ID itself (which de facto exists for nearly all americans, in the form of a social security number).

Washington (CNN)- The Justice Department Friday announced that it is dispatching more than 780 federal observers and monitors to 23 states to watch for potential problems which would violate voting rights protected by federal law.

The problem is not so much that a number of Conservatives voted against the government - in fact, rebel Tory votes tipped the balance only once, in the unusual circumstances of the multiple rebellion on the European Economic Area amendment - or even that rather more Conservative peers didn't vote at all, because the government whips managed to bring in more than usual.

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Anonymity has multiple underlying problems that relate to preventing people from voting more than once.

For example, an absolute threshold in the number of votes (e.g. requiring a certain proportion of the whole population or of registered voters to be elected rather than a plurality of the vote) can seem intuitively appealing but has never, to my knowledge, been implemented for a national election, precisely because leaving an important office unfilled is a problem (unless, of course, you subscribe to radical small - government ideas, in which case the question seems moot and you might just as well do away with elections or democracy itself).

The problem is more structural than anything - the party leaders think they «own» the votes of the party faithful.

Third, if minor parties are worried about how winner - take - all, single - member - district elections encourage voters to vote for lesser evils rather than their first choice, we want to work with them for a real solution to that problem: a system of proportional representation,» LaVenia said.

The problem for this strategy, other than to give George Osborne an easy ride, so he can do the Shadow Chancellor's job part time, is that he has failed to give people a reason to vote Conservative.

It does become a problem if it is an indication of soft support for Labour, if the government become less unpopular once they have a better economy behind them, if minor parties establish themselves as alternative recipients of anti-government votes or if during an election campaign it becomes more of a choice between two alternatives, rather than a judgement on the incumbent.

The spoiler effect is a problem in plurality voting systems because they enable a candidate to win with less than half of the vote.

In a letter, addressed to Reps. Elijah Cummings, Robert Brady, and James Clyburn, Schneiderman emphasized the real voting challenges in New York are those that disenfranchise potential voters, rather than the «imaginary problem of voter fraud.»

New York State used a different voting process than Florida, but the law found that lever machines were prone to several glitches and problems and required them, as well as all paper - punch systems like Florida's, to be replaced with either optical scanners or touch - screen machines.

Ranzenhofer said he recognizes the increasing tendency of New Yorkers to register and vote Democratic, but cites the problem as one more of geography than political philosophy.

Osborne gambles Britain would rather vote for a political party that cuts the price of beer than a government that solves Britain's debt problems.

The Lib Dems» problem is that their vote is much more evenly spread than that of the other two parties.

Electronic voting machines promise to make elections more accurate than ever before, but only if certain problems — with the machines and the wider electoral process — are rectified

The Census Bureau estimates that more than 15 percent of all eligible voters had moved in the past year, and three million eligible voters did not vote in 2000 because problems with their registration.

To date, we have over 5,300 active members in our community responsible for submitting more than 130 problem statements, and nearly 1400 votes from our online community.

If the NUT can not get more than 25 % of its own members to vote it clearly has a problem getting its message over, or most of its members think this is a wrong direction of travel.

Since the Law Society has already voted to extend its EDI recommendations to «other equality - seeking groups» without bothering with the pretense of requiring evidence of discrimination, or without even defining those groups, we might be forgiven for thinking that we are dealing more with ideology than with the solving of actual problems.

The only things you list that are actually worse for electronic voting than they are for paper balloting are the problem of risk allocation (there are fewer points of failure between the voter and the count in paper ballots, and they are less easily manipulated), and the problem of secret balloting (which is only worse for internet - based voting).