Sentences with phrase «questions over the voting»

There are related questions about the second chamber of Parliament and the election itself is likely to raise again questions over the voting system.

Rep. John Faso appeared at a town hall event that was televised on Thursday night, drawing questions over his vote for the Republican - backed health care law.

Not exact matches

(UPDATE) With a narrow vote to pass same - sex questions to committee, Methodists band - aid over rumors of split.

Methodists Won't Vote on Gay Marriage This Year After All With a narrow vote to pass same - sex questions to committee, Methodists band - aid over rumors of spVote on Gay Marriage This Year After All With a narrow vote to pass same - sex questions to committee, Methodists band - aid over rumors of spvote to pass same - sex questions to committee, Methodists band - aid over rumors of split.

But he also faced questions during his campaign over his votes for Cuomo - supported legislation and budgets during his career in Albany.

That there will only be a single question is a good example of something well known to those that study social choice theory: the power that someone with control over the agenda has over the outcome of voting.

No matter how big the question marks over the HS2 project get, the government seems even more determined to push the project through, and announced today the first vote on their «blank cheque» paving bill will take place on June 26th.

Tory grandee Ken Clarke said: «On the question of the parliamentary role, I think the Prime Minister was not relying on the archaic, narrow interpretation of the Royal prerogative, which no government has invoked in this country for over 50 years - they have always come to Parliament for debates and votes if possible on any military action.

That's the question hanging over all three parties» conferences as they seek to shore up their core vote.

This is the question many New York progressives have asked themselves as they stepped into the voting booth in election after election over the past sixteen years to see the party's name, usually on Row D.

I chose this answer over the more highly voted question as I believe it better answered the question I was trying to ask.

Military contingency plans are already being drawn up by the Ministry of Defence despite question - marks remaining over the legality of any military action, the binding nature of any Commons vote and the government's intention to publish the evidence justifying an armed intervention.

(1) Your question is based on the ridiculous assumption that economy and politics is a zero sum game and that somehow being «for» middle class means you're «against» (or «don't care about») poor; (2) Leaving that aside, championing the case of 75 % of population over 25 % seems like a lot less of a political suicide than championing the case of 25 % over the 75 %, unless I don't quite understand how voting works in a democracy.

I was reading over this question and was wondering why Maine and the other municipalities that adopted ranked voting use instant runoff voting.

«While the Convention Question won't be on the front of the ballot where it should be, voters will at least be urged to turn the ballot over to vote on whether to hold a Constitutional Convention and on two Amendments proposed by the Legislature.

The other standard trackers all paint an equally bleak picture for the government, on the forced choice question (which I always tend to think of our best indicator of which way tactical voting is likely to go next time round, given that there are no regular tracker questions that ask directly about it) the Conservatives now enjoy a 12 point lead over Labour, they have an 8 point lead as the party most likely to run the economy well, David Cameron has an 8 point lead as Best Prime Minister.

Full results on voting intentions going back to the beginning of our polling - plus the trends in the big questions over time

The vote comes after it was postponed for a week amid controversy and questions over a federal probe of the projects.

The real question is if Ed Cox has pull over Lawrence Kadish or Jennifer Saul's votes, or if they are free agents.

He asked where Gordon Brown had been, and questioned why the chancellor always seemed to «disappear» at times of crisis, citing not only the current police probe, but the rebellion over trust schools and the vote on the war on Iraq.

On Monday after presiding over the state's electoral college vote, Cuomo brushed off a question as to whether he'd run in 2020.

Boris was the favourite among those who said they would vote UKIP in the standard voting intention question (by 43 % to 33 % over Cameron).

Latimer also faced questions over a suspended car registration due to unpaid parking tickets and missed votes on the state budget because he was traveling in the United Kingdom.

Note also that, judging from the tables, ComRes have switched over to prompting for UKIP in their main voting intention question in this poll — as with their last national poll, it does not seem to have had a major effect (UPDATE — I think this is because ComRes have changed turnout weightings, so that there is a tighter turnout filter for the Greens and UKIP than for the main parties).

New York's vote is pivotal in the national question over same - sex marriage, an effort that largely stalled in the same room two years ago when the Senate voted it down.

* Voters all over Long Island are questioning whether our new system for voting works.

Where the Conservatives have more grounds for optimism are some of the other questions asked in the recent polls about David Cameron — a recent ICM poll that found that David Cameron was seen as a potential PM, a person who could change the way people thought about the Conservatives and a person who over a third of Labour voters and almost half Lib Dem voters said they could vote for; another ICM poll that found that 40 % of people thought that Cameron was the natural heir of Tony Blair — these sort of findings were definitely not seen after Michael Howard became leader.

The question now is whether or not the Labour party will let its members have a «free vote» over whether to bomb Syria.

State Sen. John DeFrancisco, R - Syracuse, brandished his trademark dry wit, questioning why if Republican state Sen. Michael Ranzenhofer's Western New York district is the birthplace of Jell - O, yogurt was voted the state snack in 2014 — a reference to the infamous nearly hourlong debate over that simple distinction which became the butt of jokes on «The Daily Show.»

Sharp differences among Democrats over abortion and immigration, however, have raised questions over whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi currently has the 218 - vote majority needed for passage.

Sharp differences among Democrats over abortion and immigration have raised questions over whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi currently has the 218 - vote majority needed for passage of the bill.

Mr Bain, who represents the Glasgow North East constituency and is a Unite member, said: «What we have done is said those members who will be eligible to vote were those who were members of the Falkirk Labour Party as of March 2012 and that would remove most or all of those members in respect of whom there was a question mark over their recruitment.»

Weiner, who was one of just seven House Democrats who voted against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act in 2007 to protest the lack of protections for transgender workers, recently faced questions over two occasions at which he failed to speak out against homophobic statements made in his presence while he was campaigning.

It shows Nick Clegg holding on to his seat by a margin of seven points over Labour when respondents are asked a voting intention question that includes the names of the candidates standing.

It's Friday, Oscar - nominations voting begins today, and I'm ruminating over one of the central questions of our age: If I'm dressing to topple the patriarchy, do I have to skip the fake eyelashes?

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.

She answered questions from her Senate colleagues for over an hour before the vote was called.

However questions were raised about the suitability of the new children's minister, Robert Goodwill, to preside over SRE changes after Schools Week revealed that Goodwill voted against the legalisation of same - sex marriage.

The vote was held amongst readers of the evo, Auto Express and Octane websites and drew over 4500 responses on the question of what is the greatest V8 - engined Ferrari.

Well, as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton take their battle for the nomination to Indiana, their increasing desperation for garnering votes has spilled over into the question of whether or not McCain's plan would be a sound one.

The 71 % of respondents who embraced statement - cross over question - cross in this 21 - vote poll may be an indication that lawyers are ready to change the way cross-examination has always been done — or maybe only Terry MacCarthy fans voted.1

Politicians have begun wrangling over the West Lothian question as the implications of the «No» vote in Scotland sink in.

As news of redundancies and pay freezes begins to emerge in the wake of this June's referendum, the results of the latest Big Question survey highlight the widespread concerns over the impact of the vote, with many partners of the belief that layoffs are inevitable.

I suppose the question would then become whether a coalition of conservatives who don't want to give the liberal bloc another vote, «proceduralists» (or whatever you want to call people like me who don't think results - oriented conservatives are much better than results - oriented liberals), and liberals fuming over executive power and the torture memo would take down the nomination.

«It is worth noting that holders of less than 6 % of the ETH in circulation voted on the matter over a narrow 12 - day period, raising questions about whether the decision was truly democratic,» the report states in regard to the vote that took place before a

«It is worth noting that holders of less than 6 % of the ETH in circulation voted on the matter over a narrow 12 - day period, raising questions about whether the decision was truly democratic,» the report states in regard to the vote that took place before a hard fork was implemented to bailout DAO token holders.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal is now raising questions over the tactics used to try to influence voters in the Brexit vote.