Sentences with phrase «than a vote based»

Indeed, a protest against an EU in serious need of democratic reform would be less dramatic than a vote based on the nativist feelings core to the FN's ideological message.

She says the electorate in the Northern Region should elect competent and time - tested leaders capable of fixing the nation's economy rather than voting based on tribal preference.

Not exact matches

As the Financial Times (whose writer also testified) reported, a diamond - registration blockchain exec noted that the system was «garbage in, garbage out,» and a researcher designing blockchain - based voting systems said the technology would only be useful for recording final results, rather than validating individual votes.

The power behind Fink's threat to enforce his views hinges, in part, on the standard of one share, one vote — that shareholders» voting power is based on the number of shares they own in a given company rather than the votes of entrenched founders or early investors.

While the content of the bill and the successful vote comports with our base case that the Republicans» tax reform plan will become law effective 2018, the Senate acted faster than expected, improving odds of a 2017 passage.

Given that the Estimates for these two years are not on the same basis, meaning that the statement that the 2013 - 14 voted expenditures are $ 4.9 billion lower than those tabled in 2012 - 13 is misleading.

The board of Rockville, Maryland - based Metropolitan Regional Information Systems Inc. (MRIS) has voted to finalize negotiations with Zillow to send the portal a direct feed of its more than 50,000 for - sale home listings and 8,800 rental listings from its more than 45,000 subscribers.

Morgan Stanley had no comment other than to refer to it's proxy voting policy that says it considers such proposal on a case - by - base basis.

After all, the possibility that bitcoin demand is based upon unrealistic expectations also went mainstream in late 2017 — when more than a few Twitter votes for best Halloween costume of the year went to a guy sporting a bitcoin bubble suit.

It would also be good if we gave votes based on IQ and / or level of education, rather than just one each.

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

CNN: Passing significant test, Gingrich wins more S.C. evangelicals than rivals If there were any doubts that Newt Gingrich, a thrice - married convert to Catholicism, could connect with the evangelical voters who make up the Republican Party base, Saturday's South Carolina primary put them to rest, with the former House Speaker winning twice as many evangelical votes as anyone else in the race.

A guest Belief Blog piece on the subject Tuesday morning, «My Take: Stop using churches as polling places,» fetched more than a thousand comments, prompting us to ask Twitter followers to share their church - based voting experiences and pictures.

In fact, it might be the only way I can get more than the teabagger vote and pull in anything from Obama's liberal base.»

It's simple as this, Rick Santorum appeals to the less educated, extremely conservative and more bigot minded segment of rural America, which is largely dominated by Born again evangelicals, who as the article points out have a misguided view that that Mormons aren't Christian, and in their misguided bigotry seem to be voting against Romney based upon their religion rather than for a good candidate who can win the general election.

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 approval is entirely based on a vote which could end a prolonged saga of more than three and a half years during which the 42 - year - old has struggled to find a site where he could build up the new stadium whilst also securing land to house the team.

Based on open online voting that generated more than 87,000 votes, parents rated key baby and toddler products in 27 categories.

More than three quarters of respondents (77 %) reported having been discriminated on the basis of their disability and 73 % said they had not been given fair and equal opportunities when applying for teaching jobs or promotion Other results from the real - time interactive voting session included:

Democracies with muslim minorities tend to have secular leaning voters and few elected muslim officials to begin with, so it's not a big stretch to imagine most of the latter voting based on party conviction much more than on religious conviction.

A study of voters» social values provides a better indicator of how they voted than their political attitudes based on a left - right split.

Plural voting is the practice of allocating more than one vote to a person based on some criteria (such as land ownership, university education, etc...).

Given that low - income individuals are the most likely to not vote largely because they need to work - often being paid hourly and needing the money more desperately than others, and that low - income individuals are more likely to be Democrats than Republicans, why hasn't a democratic politician spearheaded this effort that could see increased turnout from their base?

@spiceyokooko - withholding a vote from someone based on their age without any actual test of maturity seems a lot worse discrimination to me than granting someone an extra vote if they have more maturity than an average adult genius who tends to vote for taller, better looking candidates.

There is nothing wrong with plural voting, other than the fact that all historical occurrences of it on a national elections scale were designed to favour certain groups on questionable bases (white male property owners, for example).

«The Staten Island voting base is more intelligent than some people give them credit for, and I believe Staten Islanders care about the issues that impact them most, and vote for the candidate they believe can deliver on those issues.»

(I can't speak for anyone else, but if Labour wants my vote on anything other than «least worst local candidate» basis, it's going to have to learn compassion)

(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.

Governments facing limited public trust have proved more likely to abandon the laborious — and easily manipulated - paper - based voting methods than those in countries whose system isn't obviously broken.

Well, based on the assumption that a vote is cast in anticipation that the recipient of the vote is going to win, it seems to me that a vote cast for David Cameron or whoever is the leader of the Labour Party at the time of the election is far more likely to see a winner than any vote for the Liberal Democrats will do.

A great many of those who signed up to the SNP after the referendum did so on the basis that they expected the party to call a second vote on the UK's constitutional future sooner rather than later.

It is well known that prior to 1974, class based voting was even stronger than shown in the charts here so 2017 could be the election where Labour which founded to represent the interests of the working class find themselves supplanted in that role by the Conservatives.

«Labour MPs are to be applauded for voting down this spurious bill which was based on a blind loathing of organised labour rather than common sense.

There is no difference in principle between STV and party lists; they both presuppose that voting is essentially not for a person, but for a party, and is conducted on nothing more than a tribal basis, as the experience in Germany or, especially, the Irish Republic illustrates.

However, the decision about who to vote for on May 7th should surely be based on a party's political vision, philosophical basis and intention, rather than their ability to predict the future or make claims about the public finances.

By then, Cuomo said, more people will likely vote based on their view of the economy rather than on a particular piece of legislation.

The data on which Ford and Goodwin base their analysis of Ukip voters consists, as they acknowledge, of people who intend to vote Ukip, rather than those who have.

More than one - third of the primary vote from last year is up for grabs now and this appears to favor Jackson, based on where Lasher and Tejada were popular.

If you divide up the Tejada and Lasher votes based on how Jackson and Alcantara did against each other in the six Assembly districts included in the 31st Senate District, Jackson wins a rematch by more than 2,000 votes (54.3 percent to 45.7 percent).

There is some reason to suspect that the process of weaning out 7 candidates should be an obstacle to success if we are going to divide voting on the bases of a Facebook level preference rather than serious in depth criteria.

45 % of Lib Dem voters said the fact they were in a Con / LD marginal made them more likely to vote, and 43 % of them said their decision was based more on the local result than the big picture.

The facts, based on the numbers, are that the tories got a higher % of the vote than Blair did in 97.

The new data is based on an updated survey conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday, which found a hardening of the Conservative vote as Tory supporters gave a higher likelihood of turning out to vote than in previous rounds.

Giving some people more than one vote (for example, on the base of taxes paid or educational level) is considered undemocratic.

She said Cuomo has not catered to a certain voting base in New York, adding that DRN and its allies opposed to fossil fuel development have had to push harder than they wanted to for victories there.

For example, the kind of election that Hong Kong conducts now for its leaders would constitute a «contested election» even though it gives special preferences, for example, to various industries, rather than being conducted on a one man, one vote basis.

Grisanti in 2011 was one of four Republicans in the state Senate to back the legalization of same - sex marriage and, less than two years later, provided a vote in favor of the gun control law known as the SAFE Act, a measure that has stirred anger among the conservative base.

He further remarked that the former President, John Mahama would have won the 2016 elections if Ghanaians voted based on how beautiful or handsome a politician is as according to him, the former President is more handsome than the sitting President.

I might have taken a swing at it if I didn't observe that fact - based but politically polarizing answers on this SE get voted on by political alignment more than quality.