Sentences with phrase «up to the vote»

Money will be important this year, but it's not the only factor that counts in politics, since campaigning in general will still help determine who shows up to vote.
It looks as though Maple can only engage in a public relations battle leading up to the vote next week.
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.
His lawsuit contends that Republican legislative leaders violated the state's open meetings law in the run - up to a vote on the plan.
People can now go online to sign up to vote, change their address for voting purposes, and switch party affiliation.
When divisions were called, some MPs were reluctant to get up to vote in case they lost their seats to someone else.
Please excuse me if I don't queue up to vote for that.
«Students» legal rights aren't something that public schools get to put up to a vote.
Allowing shadow cabinet members to vote with the government will not undo the damage done in the run up to the vote.
So instead of doing your jobs and putting games people would want into the Rental collection it's now up to a vote of the «fans»....
If funders pull out, then it becomes clear that investments weren't for the kids — at least not the kids who will eventually grow up to vote.
When the time comes, we'll put the whole Order of No Quarter up to a vote and let the community decide, but we don't have specifics yet!
We could take nominations for an 8 week period, and then open things up to voting?
The idea behind the voting system is that if everyone can't agree on an idea or what assignment to work on next, you can open the floor up to a vote.
All the favorable polls in the world won't help if the other guy's supporters show up to vote and yours don't.
On the day of their meeting in 1994 only three of the six panel members turned up to vote.
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The bill needs to be approved by at least one state assembly committee before it's put up to vote.
It was a pathetic sight, watching Tory MPs line up to vote on a piece of legislation they knew had no meaning and which undercut centuries of useful British constitutional tradition.
«What we did see was a concerted effort by some folks to apparently, to protest New York's closed primary process by showing up to vote when they weren't registered to vote.
Lots of Angelenos are gearing up to vote for the next Mayor of Los Angeles this spring.
In fairness to the game things do become a tad more challenging when mayoral elections get introduced because in the run - up to voting time you may be unwilling to spend goodwill to pass an edict that a party has proposed, even when it's something like removing punishments for homosexuality or providing free running water to homes.
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.
The reality turned out quite different, with only 10 per cent of Swiss coming up to vote and then voting yes.
The political futures of Faso and Stefanik in 2018 may hinge as much on who does not show up to vote as who does.
He said quite often than not, the number of registered party members the CPP have, does not show up to vote during national elections, thereby making the party record single digits at some polling stations.
NextGen Climate, which has a well - funded super PAC dedicated to electing lawmakers dedicated to halting climate change, launched a «text - banking» voter - turnout program late last year that attempted to motivate potential voters to show up to vote by sending personalized texts from actual organizers encouraging recipients to respond and start a dialogue.
Is it not rather hypocritical when someone who hasn't turned up to vote starts to complain about what the elected politicians are doing?
Even when signatures are collected to put a measure on the ballot, they are audited in some way, and that is less critical of an issue than signing someone up to vote.
Still, members seem more fired up to vote against a ballot proposal on a state constitutional convention that they fear could introduce right - to - work laws than they are to cast a ballot for him.
Meanwhile, Star Citizen brought back a round of ship sales and opened alpha 3.2 features up to a vote, we reported on our trip to Shroud of the Avatar's launch party, Pantheon teased its character modeling, City of Titans released more Scorpion lore, Albion Online tweaked its Lancelot update, and we chatted up Ship of Heroes» devs at GDC 2018.
Coming up with creative ways to fill those needs with meaningful content and engagement can mean the difference between a constituent who won't show up to vote next time or a constituent who will not only vote for that official but will also volunteer to reelect that him or her.
Prime Minister Theresa May is avocado toast after young people rise up to vote, and the same thing could easily happen here.
When Obama's young - voter strategy was a waste of time,»cause the damn kids never show up to vote anyway?
Chairman Dan Reynolds, a Republican, chose not to put the resolution up to vote until the legislature can review more project details.
Negotiations over the budget measures, meanwhile, had also went right up to the voting, with the governor issuing messages waiving the three - day aging process.
However, the Guardian understands three of the campaign teams are still pushing for extra checks to be run on the 367,000 new members and supporters who have signed up to vote since the general election over fears undiscovered infiltration could make a difference in a tight contest.
In Westminster the coalition's secret talks, backbench mutterings and Labour suspicions are set to continue all the way up to the vote which may, or may not, actually happen.
In the period leading up to the vote polls suggested Labour was popular while Ken was not, and the Tories were unpopular while Boris was not.
This prevented many survivors of domestic violence from signing up to vote due to fear of being tracked down by their abuser.
As various Tory MPs have tweeted in identikit fashion, the Lib Dem candidate has today «fessed up to voting for 5,000 new homes to be built on previously undeveloped green space — and this despite campaign literature which warns that «countryside spaces between our towns and villages across the borough of Eastleigh are under new threat thanks to Hampshire Conservatives».
Labour turmoil as Jeremy Corbyn urges supporters to pay up to vote form him in leadership contest
Blair made his intervention on the day there was a massive last - minute surge in new members and supporters signing up to vote before the deadline, as tens of thousands of activists appear to have been galvanised by Corbyn's clear anti-austerity message.
De Klerk: The year millions lined up to vote with Nelson Mandela for the first time.
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