Sentences with phrase «voter support required»

Five items reached the 60 percent voter support required for approval.

Not exact matches

A referendum, which would be held a year from now and requires the support of 50 % of registered voters to enact a law, would be unlikely to overturn the HST.

Despite receiving the support of local Conservative members and several leading Tory MPs, Goldsmith's decision to resign from the Conservative party in protest at the decision to build a new airport runway in his constituency meant he was barred from accessing the crucial local voter data he required.

Greece has been unable to form a coalition government since voters gave support to political parties that want to cancel or renegotiate the terms of a massive financial bailout by international lenders that requires harsh austerity measures.

This will require candidates to build broad support in 87 constituencies across the province, rather than relying on the ability to sign up large groups of voters in concentrated regions.

Additionally, 72 percent of voters and 69 percent of parents support current nutrition standards requiring healthier snack foods and drinks.

Additionally, 67 percent of voters and 64 percent of parents support the current nutrition standards requiring healthier snack foods and drinks.

The MTGP Coordinator Danielle Breck stated that «The Montana Green Party has repeatedly shown, through our various petitioning efforts, that we do, in fact, have the «modicum of voter support» the law requires and that our candidates are not «frivolous,» but rather provide an important alternative to pre-selected, unresponsive, corporate controlled candidates offered by the two - party oligarchy.

It requires 60 percent of voters to support a budget that overrides the cap in order for it to effect.

Sturgeon requires the continuing support of unionist voters, happy to back the SNP in government if not to endorse their view on the future of the UK, if she is to repeat her party's trick of winning an overall majority in a parliament elected under a system that's part first - past - the - post and part proportional representation.

«We're a political party, not a church, and we require the support of voters actively to embrace us, and if we stop recognising that, then we're going to be taken back into those long years of opposition that served us and the country so ill.

While the announcement in June required voter approval for any future changes in the Drinking Water program, legislators withheld support of that part of the deal on Tuesday.

A majority of voters said «yes» to the spending plan, but it failed to pass because it didn't reach the required supermajority of support to go over or below the property tax cap.

Victory for the Yes camp therefore clearly requires a majority of Labour voters to support it as part of something like the «Rainbow Coalition'that was briefly floated at the end of the last general election.

Chazy Central Rural School's $ 10,728,470 spending proposal, which required a supermajority vote, was approved with just over 69 percent of voter support.

In addition to securing the support of Delegates to the June 2nd Convention, in order to appear as Greens on the Georgia ballot, these partisan candidates are also required to file petitions with signatures representing 5 % of the number of voters who are registered and eligible to vote in November's General Election.

JERUSALEM — Governor Andrew Cuomo's 28 - hour trip to Israel this week, his first time out of the country since his inauguration in January 2011, was more than just the routine campaign stop required of New York politicians seeking to shore up support among Jewish voters.

The Indivisible Project also requires candidates to establish a «strong platform» and have «the enthusiastic support of informed, energized voters across their district.»

Not all of the data is publicly available, as issue - based ads that ask voters to call their senator and encourage them to support or oppose policy is not considered political spending outside of a 60 - day window before a general election and 30 days before a primary, and is therefore not required to be reported to the FEC.

Jack Straw, the justice secretary, wants Wright's committee to look at the possibility of using well - supported public e-petitions on specific issues as a way of requiring MPs to hold debates on issues that matter to voters.

The bill would also do away with the traditional school budget vote and require districts to simply ask voters to support a tax increase.

To have even a shot at working as intended, this requires bipartisan support from a range of state officials and buy - in or acquiescence from educators, parents, and voters.

Organize voter support of a new bond and mill levy to fund both the growth of the Aurora student body, and the changes that require additional resources.

This bill is sponsored by CABE and Californians Together in response to feedback from educators that additional resources are required for our school districts to expand or establish new dual language immersion or development bilingual programs as called for in Proposition 58 of November 2016 and overwhelmingly supported by voters!

Rubin has also supported the concept of requiring voter approval before charters could open in a town.

That is why Save Our Schools NJ supports legislation to require local voter approval for any new or expanding charter schools in a community.

The bill, which was added into the state's Omnibus Supplemental Budget Bill (HF 3172), will require that «any research institution that receives state support... offer dogs and cats who have been used for testing purposes and who would otherwise be euthanized... to be offered for adoption through an animal rescue organization,» according to Minnesota Voters for Animal Protection.

Because voters and policymakers vote for policies, not predictions, they can support policies for a wide range of reasons that don't require seeing the world in the same way.