Sentences with phrase «voters after the referendum»

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It was shortly after Colorado had passed a voter referendum making medicinal marijuana legal.

Stonecrest, which includes about 53,000 residents in southeast DeKalb, incorporated as a city this year after voters approved it in a November referendum.

That will leave the park district's 42,000 residents with no pool, but commissioners say they have no choice after voters turned down three referendums to build new facilities.

After deciding not to hold the community center referendum, the Park District Board also discarded the idea of asking the voters if they would be willing to foot the bill for about $ 150,000 in maintenance and repairs at the parks.

The plan was offered earlier this year after Lake in the Hills voters rejected a referendum to create a park district.

«We're thinking about putting it on the ballot in November,» Park District Director William Grady said Thursday after voters had narrowly rejected a referendum proposal on Tuesday.

Schultz left amid criticism after voters overwhelmingly defeated a referendum question to finance a controversial recreation center with an indoor pool and gymnasium.

The editorial suggested that the Cary Park District «is getting itself immersed in the same kind of brouhaha» for supposedly planning to pursue the condemnation of land in defiance of voters after losing a referendum on the issue.

The measure comes after Lake in the Hills voters overwhelmingly rejected a spring referendum proposal that would have created a park district in the community.

Also on the NYC Indy Party reform to - do list: Initiative and referendum, term limits for legislators, letting voters change their enrollment after a one - month waiting period, nonpartisan administration of the Board of Elections, nonpartisan redistricting and campaign finance reform.

Anti-EU labour voters who vote Leave likely to switch permanently to UKIP after referendum if Labour backs Cameron.

An academic study, surveying 5,000 Scottish voters soon after the referendum, found that the majority for No was formed by an «unusual alliance» of the very young, average earners, Protestants and women.

Cuomo said he will push for a November ballot referendum, even after expressing concern that the lack of a statewide election could skew the turnout, with scores of city voters casting mayoral ballots.

After the Houston City Council passed HERO in 2014, activists with the Campaign for Houston ran a referendum to put the wide - ranging measure before voters in an attempt to repeal it.

After their rout in the elections and referendum, the Liberal Democrats now talk privately about «identity issues» where they diverge from the Tories, to remind voters they are a separate party, and «unity issues» on which they strongly support their Coalition partner.

As I have argued elsewhere, as a matter of electoral strategy, the Labour Party must signal to the millions of traditional Labour voters who vote to leave the EU in June that, after the referendum, there is still a place for them in the Labour Party.

Both legislators were targeted for recall after passing gun control legislation through means that circumvented any possible voter referendum.

Less than five minutes after elections officials announced Tuesday night that Depew residents had rejected a referendum to eliminate the village government, some voters in the crowd at Village Hall began urging that Depew flex its muscles again and jump into an even bigger battle.

When I'm elected I'll eliminate this office by having it absorbed by the town clerk, after voters approve a referendum in this year's election.»

In the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum voters chose to remain in the UK by 55 % to 45 %, but only after the PM David Cameron had promised new powers for Scotland's government.

In 2013, after the deals were reached with tribal casinos and the legislative end was put to bed, attention turned to the voter referendum for the constitutional amendment.

Less than five minutes after elections officials announced Tuesday night that Depew residents had rejected a referendum to eliminate the village government, some voters in the crowd at Village Hall began urging that Depew flex its muscles again and jump into an even bigger battle to try to become a town.

The prime minister is expected to offer a referendum to voters after renegotiation of powers in Brussels but several obstacles stand in his way — not least winning a Commons majority and getting European states to agree to the negotiations while they have their hands full with the eurozone crisis.

A large panel of voters in Scotland — together with voters in the rest of the UK — will be surveyed in January and May 2014 and then once again shortly after the referendum in September.

Alex Salmond today said he would be standing down as Scotland's First Minister and Scottish National Party leader after voters in Scotland rejected independence in an historic referendum.

Speaking immediately after Scotland's voters backed remaining in the EU by 62 % to 38 % in last June's referendum, the former first minister Alex Salmond said it would be a logical option for an independent Scotland to take over the UK's membership of the EU post-Brexit.

What happened: After years of planning and political horse - trading, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature in June finalized their blueprint for casino expansion in New York, and sent the matter to voters in a constitutional referendum.

The poll implies that Scottish voters have been deeply disillusioned with Labour, only a month after the party successfully spearheaded the no campaign's victory in the Scottish independence referendum.

In referendum after referendum, Puerto Rico's voters have overwhelmingly rejected independence.

Prime minister is urging younger voters to take part in referendum after polls show that only 50 % of under - 35s plan to vote

Mr Cameron promised to hold a referendum on Europe after the next election to give voters a choice of staying within a reformed EU or leaving.

Wilmorite and 15 other developers met Monday's deadline to apply for one of four casino licenses allowed after a successful voter referendum last November.

Voters opted again for roughly the status quo, underlining the trends that we saw developing at the general election as the political parties grappled with a new landscape after the referendum.

«His only claim to fame is his legislation to repeal term limits after the voters made it abundantly clear in two referendum that they favored term limits.»

Jeremy Corbyn has been criticised by his own MPs after it emerged that a leaflet urging Labour voters to back Remain in the EU referendum does not contain the word «immigration».

The court filing came a day after a poll from Siena College showed a majority of voters, after being read the ballot language, said they would support the referendum.

Sturgeon announced that she was instructing Scottish government officials to draft fresh referendum legislation for Holyrood, only two years after her party lost the first independence vote in 2014, to ensure it could be held quickly if enough Scottish voters backed it.

• Switzerland lost its status as an associated country to Horizon 2020, the European Union's new research funding program, after its voters agreed on a referendum to curb mass immigration.

Immediately after the referendum, two heartbroken voters launched Remainder, «the dating and social app for the 48 %» of the population who opted to stay in the bloc.

After moving dramatically to abolish property taxes as a source of funding for the schools, lawmakers last year decided to give voters a choice for replacing the lost revenues: either a two - cent sales - tax increase, to be considered in a March 15 referendum, or an income - tax hike, which will go into effect automatically if the sales - tax rise is rejected.