Sentences with phrase «than a post election»

How are we supposed to believe this oh so important conference is anything other than a post election vacation?

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His name appeared more often in the pages of the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail and National Post during Ontario's recent election than the leader of the Green Party's did — and Don Drummond wasn't even doing interviews.

They're in the news over speculation that «fake news» spread via Facebook posts could have influenced the election outcome, and over Google's high placement of a search result reporting wrongly that Donald Trump got more popular votes than Hillary Clinton.

This post is in response to the following excellent comment from Stephen Moore, the man who will trounce Ralph Goodale in the next federal election (or at least do better than I did): April 2007 testimony before the parliamentary committee on International Trade saw Industry Canada, DFAIT reps and others stress the importance of the -LSB-...]

This post looks at what Jesus says about election in Matthew 24, and in so doing, shows that the biblical teaching of election is different than what Calvinists claim.

There are of course lots of other voting systems than first - past - the - post which promise more democratic election results, like approval voting, alternative vote and their many variants.

As Petra Schleiter reports in her recent post on Politics in Spires, 60 % of the UK's post-war elections were called early (i.e. more than six months before required).

Although no electoral system is perfect, and the UK's First Past the Post method is worse than most, parliamentary elections are a better expression of democracy because unlike a referendum, there is no clear agenda setter: the agenda is contested between parties and candidates, the media, and, increasingly, via the internet, the voters themselves.

Looking back at the last month or so of posts, I realized that the usual mix of pieces on advocacy, elections and (occasionally) digital political culture had swung almost entirely over to election coverage, and that too often I was basically chasing the story rather than trying to write something original.

There has been more constitutional reform over this period than really ever in history, both in the Lords and in the introduction of different forms of voting than First Past the Post in the European elections and local elections in some places and so on.

Because of the performance of our Presidential candidates in 2016, state Green Parties have maintained ballot access in 21 states, more post election ballot lines than we have had in over a decade!

The first set of seats are won in a traditional first - past - the - post election in local areas, where the candidate with more votes than anybody else wins.

Trump's account, in a thread of morning Twitter posts, of his lengthy and closely scrutinized closed - door meeting with Putin was an attempt to move beyond the controversy after Moscow characterized the election discussion as a meeting of minds rather than a showdown between the two leaders.

But there also hasn't been a speaker from upstate in years — other than James Tallon, of Broome County, who held the post in an acting capacity for three days in 1991 in between Mel Miller's felony conviction and Weprin's election.

In the most recent election, as the original post notes, neither of the major parties changed their share of seats in local government offices by more than 0.3 %, which rounds down to 0 %, so it is fair to say that there was «no clear winner» judged relative to the status quo.

20th July 2016, Huffington Post: More than 180,000 sign up as «Registered Supporters» to vote in Labour leadership election

A number of methods of tactical or strategic voting exist that can be used in STV elections, but much less so than with First Past the Post.

Republican candidate for governor Rob Astorino has $ 1.2 million in cash on hand with about a month to go before Election Day in November — a sum that is vastly smaller than Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 25 million war chest, campaign - finance filings posted today show.

Mr. Van Scoyoc got more than 60 percent of the vote, according to the board of elections website, and Ms. Burke - Gonzalez was the top vote - getter in the town board race, with a nearly 15 - point lead over her nearest Republican challenger, Paul Giardina, a nuclear engineer who retired last year from a post at the Environmental Protection Agency.

As a result, there are not many new chairs following the elections (Rachel Reeves and Lilian Greenwood for Labour; Rob Halfon, Tom Tugendhat, Nicky Morgan and Andrew Murrison for the Conservatives; and Norman Lamb for the Liberal Democrats), although the vast majority (22 out of 28) have been in post for no more than 2 years.

A more significant reshuffle will take place tomorrow than last Monday's troubled effort by the prime minister, when the election results are announced for three new party member posts on Labour's ruling national executive committee (NEC).

The Yorkshire Post can also reveal that the Richmond MP took time out from the 2005 General Election campaign to act as a paid speaker at five commercial functions, netting him more than # 30,000.

However, in order to be taken as a serious government - in - waiting, politics has to come first and I was somewhat concerned recently to hear the following story about a member of the shadow cabinet: he had apparently already told David Cameron that he didn't want a higher profile post than that which he currently holds in advance of the general election, because he didn't want to give up other interests on account of time commitments or potential conflicts of interest involved in a different post.

Republican candidates for Assembly posted stronger - than - expected results, with some safe, off - the - radar Democratic seats remaining too - close - to - call for most of Election Night.

There were also signs that Ukip was doing remarkably well in London and the home counties, confirming Farage's claim that he could inflict unpredictable damage to the main parties across England, so leaving them less than a year to win the electorate back before a first - past - the - post general election.

The elections job is a particularly plum patronage post because the board's 10 commissioners oversee the appointment of more than 100 workers and help determine who gets on the ballot in primaries.

ALBANY — Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan of Queens, the only female candidate to succeed Sheldon Silver as speaker, says the election of a woman to the post would depart from Albany's political culture in more ways than one.

During that campaign, The Post reported the state Board of Elections had referred his campaign to the Albany DA for investigation and possible prosecution because he had not filed state campaign - finance reports for more than two years.

Exploiting regression discontinuity designs in Brazilian, Indian, and Canadian first - pastthe - post elections, we document that second - place candidates are substantially more likely than close

Out of the several helpful posts last week, my favorite was the individual investor advice (and appreciated the mention) to follow your plan rather than the election.

With election season in full swing, we couldn't think of a more appropriate site than the White House for the inaugural post of our series.

Legal Issues Related to the Elections If you're more interested in election law than how the candidates would apply the law, check out these two posts: Discussion of how the outcome of voter registration lawsuits, now ongoing, may change the outcome of the election, from The Indiana Law Blog, and an analysis of laws addressing campaign activity within the vicinity of voting booths, from Timothy Zwick at Concurring Opinions.

In his post today, he's even come out in support of pending transparency - in - advertising legislation: «Election interference is a problem that's bigger than any one platform, and that's why we support the Honest Ads Act.

Twitter also plans to tell congressional investigators that it has identified 2,752 accounts controlled by Russian operatives and more than 36,000 bots that tweeted 1.4 million times during the election, according to a draft of Twitter's testimony obtained by The Post.

«Election interference is a problem that's bigger than any one platform, and that's why we support the Honest Ads Act,» Zuckerberg said Friday in a Facebook post.

We've known for a while that Russian trolls spent $ 100,000 to promote ads on Facebook during the 2016 election, and we learned this week that posts created by these trolls reached 126 million Americans — more than a third of the US population.

«Today we're taking an important step to protect the integrity of elections around the world by taking down more than 270 pages and accounts operated by a Russian organization called the Internet Research Agency (IRA),» posted Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO and founder.

«Election interference is a problem that's bigger than any one platform and that's why we support the Honest Ads Act,» the executive wrote in a Facebook blog post Friday.

The reference to 2015 in the company blog post suggests that at least some of the IRA pages were running during the U.S. presidential election campaign and were left out of a purge of more than 400 IRA pages that Facebook conducted in September 2017.

Trump Old Post Office LLC, through which President Trump owns a majority stake in the hotel, predicted it would take in more than $ 6 million in September and October, before the election, according to the letter.