Sentences with phrase «vote over the choice»

The leader of the party is the preserve of the people that have a vote over the choice.

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Sorry to recycle, but with the Comey hearings sucking up all the air, folks may have missed that today the House today passed that fahrblunget bit of chazari known as the Choice Act, which largely repeals Dodd - Frank financial reform (it requires D votes in the Senate, so a much heavier lift over there, thankfully).

The polity of the Episcopal Church does give bishops meeting separately a veto over many things, but it also gives the laity voting separately in the dioceses a veto over the choice of bishops.

I've only heard of people «tactically voting» — whereby they don't vote for their first choice, but their nearest choice that contends with an incumbent or person / party they don't want — over the...

For example, a voter might want to say «My first choice is Jill Stein so I'm voting for her, but if Stein can't win I'd prefer Clinton over Trump» or «My preferred candidate is Evan McMullin but if he can't win I'd prefer Trump over Clinton.»

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.

State Senate Democrats are accusing Julie Killian, the newly minted Republican choice in an upcoming key Westchester County state Senate race, as a «no - show» politician, saying she missed over half the meetings and skipped over 80percent of the votes taken while she was an appointed member of the Westchester County Charter Commission.

[92] Publicly speaking about the 2017 Scottish council elections, Sturgeon has said that the elections were a clear choice between voting for herself and Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, citing the stark fall in support of the Scottish Labour Party and their leader Kezia Dugdale over the past several years.

The voting machine kept spitting my ballot back out... I think it was throwing up a little bit over the available choices

It was entirely conceivable that the voters could vote in June using ranked choice, and also vote to eliminate it, creating a crisis in confidence over the results of that election.»

Labour is split over the decision by some MPs who will not vote for Mr Corbyn to nominate the left - winger in order to broaden the choice for Labour's 260,000 members and registered supporters.

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.

Not only does this give electors a few extra days to consider their options based on the first result, it ensures that they are not forced into making a «saccharine» second choice (which AV would force them to do), before they know whether or not their first preference candidate will get over 50 % of the vote.

With her vote last week against President Donald Trump's choice for CIA director, U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill — a Missouri Democrat seeking re-election — has «put partisan politics over national security,» a Senate colleague charged Saturday.

If the British people vote to leave in June, Cameron will have little choice but to resign and Johnson could be in pole position to take over as leader.

Foreign secretary William Hague last night said he hoped to win over Conservative voters considering voting Ukip by pointing out only the Tory majority government would be able to deliver such a choice.

Yes, the government lost the 2013 Commons vote on military action in Syria, largely because it was mishandled — but having lost that vote, Cameron had no choice but to rule out military action, and his decision not to take it was a reassuring signal that the era of hard - charging militaristic unilateralism was over.

Given a choice among three unknowns (to them) from somewhere over the rainbow in a rare special election on April 24, 83 percent of Sawyers did not vote, according to the board of elections.

«Our progressive values give us no choice but to encourage our members to vote for Hawkins on the Green Party line» said D.I.D. President Jeanne Wilcke, «We look forward to working to bring the Democratic Party back to representing those values over the next four years.»

The problem is partly the excessively tight control being exerted by the shadow Treasury team over all their colleagues» initiatives, but mainly that Ed Miliband is hamstrung by a shadow cabinet where a large majority didn't vote for him as their first - choice candidate.

JACKSON HEIGHTS — Sen. Jose Peralta faced hundreds of constituents at a packed town hall meeting over his choice to join the senate's Independent Democratic Committee — as some called him a «traitor» and threatened to vote him out of office over the change.

A choice between a Conservative leader who is beginning to get his message right and a Labour Prime Minister who has increased tax to record levels, presided over the defeat in Basra and denied people a vote on the EU Treaty.

Possibly related to this, they have rather less say over the running of their party — they do not get a vote on policy, and only have a choice between two at leadership elections.

This is over 100 more votes than last year's Single's Choice Awards.

Our 2009 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award had over 700 people participate in voting by February.

As Henderson explains, «Winning over those votes depended on a popular governor committed to expanding choice, his willingness to put his political capital to work for the proposal's success, and adept navigation of the legislative process.»

A specific debate rages over what forms of government accountability to impose on private schools participating in choice programs, which already are accountable to parents, who can vote for or against them with their feet.

After five years of operation, the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted not to renew the association's charter and the school was taken over by Choice Foundation, a charter management organization with two other campuses.

«This is not Sophie's Choice; this is not the American people voting to kill one animal over another,» she says.

Both of these stand - out resorts have been voted among Asia's best in the TripAdvisor Traveller's Choice Awards many times over, which affirms their consistently high standards.

Bangkok, 18 May, 2017 — The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) will open voting on the People's Choice Awards Thailand Voted by Chinese Tourists 2017 from 26 May to 8 June via www.peopleschoiceawardsthailand.com The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in Bangkok on 12 June, 2017, which will be presided over by H.E. General Tanasak Patimapragorn, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand.

You put the decision for my next game in the hands of bunch of kids who will vote for a game just because its 3D (doesn't mater if its only a square 3D) over 2 much better choices.

The game and soundtrack were released in early 2014 to critical and commercial success; the score earned Austin over a dozen awards and nominations, including his 4th and 5th British Academy Award nominations, and won the first - ever peer - voted ASCAP Composer's Choice Award for «Best Video Game Score of the Year.»

Back during Tegra Zone's first birthday celebration, players had a chance to head over to the Tegra Zone website and vote in the First Annual Player's Choice Awards, picking winners in three categories.

Over 2,000 of you voted and selected Carlos Daniel Donjuan as New American Paintings Reader's Choice Artist of 2013.

Nonetheless, when presented with an opportunity to rate 6 priorities (out of a possible 16 choices), of slightly over 2 million people who presumably cast ballots, a mere 431,377 thought that «Action taken on climate change» was even worth voting for.

The 2015 Readers» Choice poll was open for almost ten days, and in this time, we tallied over 12,000 votes.

Over 1,000 members of the MedReps community have voted and the winner is clear — Medtronic is once again the employer of choice!

Over the course of a week and with a limitation of voting once per day, nearly 34,000 votes were cast this year for the «Web Choice Award».