Sentences with phrase «turned up to vote»

On the day of their meeting in 1994 only three of the six panel members turned up to vote.

«If you look at the demographics and who turned out to vote, people of color turned up to vote,» said Greer.

Romain Sauron, a French national, said he turned up to vote at the Mile End ward in the London borough of Tower Hamlets to find a «G» alongside his name.

Sky is reporting that people turned up to vote and were told they already had.

We took comfort in the 40 % of the electorate that turned up to vote Labour, but we ignored the 60 % who chose to act otherwise.

Is it not rather hypocritical when someone who hasn't turned up to vote starts to complain about what the elected politicians are doing?

Mr Farage's comments come as the deputy prime minister is set to accuse him of «rarely» turning up to vote in Brussels.

So long as they turn up to vote on March 6th, Mr Luff's prospects look good.

Herbert and Alan Duncan didn't turn up to the vote for its second reading; however, hundreds of Conservative MPs remembered to turn up to oppose equality.

Asked whether the committee might simply bar ministers who turn up to vote on Wednesday, Peter Bone, a member of the executive, said: «That is a possibility.

Not exact matches

If you turn up at a board meeting and know that a critical vote will be taken it is your responsibility to «know the votes» before you arrive.

Considering that small - business owners plan turn out to the polls in droves, who will step up to capture the small - business vote?

After she brought up Trump's past criticism of Machado in the debate, she turned to Trump and said, «you can bet she's gonna vote.»

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

Fast - tracking, according to journalist Dave Johnson enables Congress to agree «to set aside its duties under Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution and vote on TPP within 90 days of it being signed, to severely limit discussion and debate, not to filibuster the agreement in the Senate and not to amend it not matter what problems turn up after the agreement is revealed».

Thankfully, France didn't go to extreme, but once again it was the older generation that turned out and voted whilst the young sat back smoking pot, playing computer games and eating haribo, instead of getting up and voting.

weakly compulsory voting so everyone who pays taxes has to at least turn up when the government for the next four years is being chosen.

@Tyler, someone can still choose not to vote, as no one knows if they put a cross in the box, they are just forced to turn up.

Second, the electoral college was set up to weed out «unacceptable» candidates not by dividing fringe voters in different states per se but by giving the electors the power to elect the candidate who lost the popular vote in the event that the more popular candidate turned out to be unacceptable for whatever reason.

Members of the Five Star party led by comedian turned politician Beppe Grillo today voted to quit the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) group which is made up mainly of Ukip MEPs and co-chaired by Farage.

So what happens is when someone shows up to vote and they have already been voted for they are either turned away or given a provincial ballot that never gets counted.

Continuity Remain turns out to have been a very narrow band of opinion that gave up on the Lib Dems after their terrible start to the election campaign - and the Brexit - voting southwest had no interest in backing the party that once dominated the region.

There were «stories of things that shouldn't have been happening,» he said, including people «turning up to polling stations with bundles of postal votes.»

Clegg wanted Cable to speak in favour of the call not to break from the coalition's agreed deficit reduction plan, with his aides pointing out that the deputy prime minister expected all Lib Dem MPs to turn up for the vote.

This group — amounting to 700,000 first time voters, who are thinking about using their vote, but probably more likely not to — would significantly close the turnout gap if they were to turn up.

41 per cent told YouGov that they would definitely cast their vote, a broadly similar proportion to the 44 % of first time voters who turned up in 2010.

Alongside disenfranchisement, mass resignation and legislation to retain, there is of course a fourth scenario: though no legislation is passed to retain them, the Scottish MPs continue to turn up to the Commons and vote.

Ed notes that you can also influence the conversation on YouTube itself using the power of the vote: «Turns out you can vote comments up / down more than once with a time delay so a little persistence allows people to take over the conversation.»

As noted in a previous post, this follows rule changes turning the Labour leadership contest into a fully «one member one vote» process, and giving voting rights to «supporters» who signed up for just # 3.

«There will be 40 % of the population who will turn up to the polling station who will be told «sorry, you're a citizen of this country but you are not able to vote».

Peers can claim up to # 300 per day for turning up to the upper chamber in one of the debating rooms, but do not have to contribute or vote to get that allowance.

In turning up to the House of Lords, Gould did a great deal more than vote in favour of an amendment by the Labour peer Lord Rea to deny the health and social care bill a second reading.

His decision to step aside and endorse his former House colleague turned the Democratic Primary into a mere formality — Berman dominated in both fundraising and name recognition, and cleaned up with nearly 96 percent of the vote in her head - to - head against the fledgling campaign of first - time candidate Arthur Morrison.

Whips have to understand the Order Paper, how to count and how to persuade colleagues to turn up on time and vote with the government.

Pollsters say a ratification may hinge on whether younger voters, tens of thousands of whom have registered to vote in recent months, actually turn up to cast their ballot.

Of course people have a right not to vote but they should exercise this actively, turn up at the polling station and spoil the ballot, whatever.

Its increasingly clear their votes are due to who ponies up the re-election cash and who turns out the drones.

On Monday, he turned up in Parliament's Portcullis House to tell Tory MPs why people had voted for them.

Although Corbyn would be a disaster and the underhand way of m Myers who've never done a thing turning up to CLPs voting to nominate him, the bullying of Kendall, via sexism on the Internet, by Corbyn supporters and the # 3 donors voting in masse.

George Osborne also turned up for the vote, looking surprisingly jolly and chatting to Alan Duncan.

In alphabetical order, here are six states where the impact of a gubernatorial race could drip down the ballot: Arizona: Republicans hope efforts to turn out the vote for their gubernatorial nominee, Doug Ducey, will help their candidates vying to pick up a pair of House seats held by Democrats.

I applaud each Member of the House who voted for this bill for finally standing up and saying clearly to our first responders — now it is our turn to help you.»

Being strong - armed into turning up for the crunch vote on economic policy — though Vince insisted any suggestions that he wouldn't attend were «hype» and «nonsense» — did not prrove to be a master - class in PR, with the act of near - disloyalty following on from Lord Oakeshott's annual suggestion that Nick Clegg's time was up.

And I will say in his support and praise that when he was defence secretary and the Syria vote happened... we had booked him to come on Newsnight and despite the fact he had lost the vote he still turned up.

He pointed out that newly minted Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has said all along he'll let Republican senators vote with their conscience, rather than insisting on a party - line vote — but that says nothing of getting the bill itself introduced for a vote, which, if it turns out the coup that happened today is legal, will be up to him to do.

Some of the rebels are being encouraged not to turn up for tonight's vote.

«We are looking forward to discussing the Mayor's record of achievement, his vision for making New York City more affordable, creating 100,000 jobs and continuing to improve our schools, and how important it is for New Yorkers to turn out to vote for a Mayor who will stand up to Donald Trump,» Levitan said in a statement.

And voters looking for ways to channel their anger after Trump's win, and to cast votes that matter in New York, have «woke» up from indifferent to indignant about Albany's shady ways and particularly the eight so - called Independent Democrats led by Jeff Klein who, along with Simcha Felder, caucus with the Republicans to keep them in control of the Senate even as the state turns ever more blue.

The primary turned out to be a disaster for Cuomo, with McCall opening up a big enough lead that Cuomo withdrew one week before the primary vote, trying to salvage some political capital out of what was sure to be a lopsided defeat with what he presented as a gesture of unity.

We have some very, very ill people who've turned up to Parliament to vote yesterday, who are [so] sick they've not been able to carry on their work as MPs.