Sentences with phrase «voters more choice»

It will help fund our fight to change ballot access laws throughout the country to give voters more choice.

In its May 2010 editorial titled, «Prop. 14 won't destroy third parties,» the Times argued that «abolishing partisan primaries would help give voters more choice.»

Mr Brown said the alternative vote system (AV) would offer voters more choice and give all MPs a «clear and strong mandate», while keeping a link to their constituency.

It gives voters more choice and ensures fewer votes are «wasted».

But isn't that scenario really about giving voters more choices?

Not exact matches

Even though that choice will make it more difficult to pass legislation, voters made the right decision.

Pro Choice voters are more intelligent than pro lifers, and that is a fact.

The ONLY people who care about these kinds of stories are CNN and MSNBC — voters in the Republikan party have had more diversity of choice..

Trump and Clinton proved a contentious pair from the start — more evangelical voters planned their pick out of distaste for the other candidate than out of enthusiastic support for their choice, according to the Pew Research Center.

For example, BNP or UKIP voters would get to vote more than once because their second choice would be most likely to be taken into account first.

What voters actually do matters more than what you think they MIGHT do: data derived directly from voters» choices quickly supersedes models that try to predict their behavior.

For many voters, this was a much more fundamental choice about democratic accountability and responsive institutions.

What Labour needs is a new social democratic revisionism, that heavily focuses on restructuring the welfare state, to unite communitarian and cosmopolitan voters, in an era of globalization, high inequalities, increased demands for choice, and an ageing population This requires applying the principles of solidarity, reciprocity and individual empowerment, in relation to reforming the welfare state, to make it more effective at tackling poverty and providing economic security, and to satisfy rising demands for choice.

Assemblywoman Yuh - Line Niou, who was mentioned as a potential candidate to fill former Sen. Daniel Squadron's seat, today announced she is throwing her support to her Assembly colleague, Brian Kavanagh, though she pledged to work to reform the special election process to give voters more of a choice in candidate selection.

«With his departure from the NY - 21 Congressional race, the choice for voters becomes much more clear and much more stark: Do we want to send Stefanik back to her DC cocktail circuit, send some candidates running on the Democratic side who are auditioning for the DC cocktail circuit, or someone who is going to stop talking like a cable news wannabe and just get to work.»

Especially with so many undecided voters in the New York campaign, online ads that let users click and find out more about a candidate's position could have played a role helping voters make an informed choice late in the game, he said.

Research from the good - government group Citizens Union confirms that the New York City elections, where public funding is already in place, allow for greater voter choice and more electoral competition, when compared with New York State races.

Perhaps as importantly, it is also possible that downplaying the Conservative brand will make it more palatable for former Labour voters to vote for local Conservative candidates, when framed as a choice between the two leaders.

This eliminates the costs of a second round of voting, in exchange for making the initial ballot more complex and denying voters a chance of additional deliberation if their first choice candidate doesn't win.

Furthermore, in the US voters» demographic features correlate more strongly to vote choice than is the case in many European contexts.

The less obvious but potentially equally devastating factor is that voters may look to the terms of political debate in countries such as France and conclude that austerity is more of a lifestyle choice than an economic imperative.

TV will get the bulk of it, since it's still the medium of choice for reaching uncommitted voters, but already in» 04, some major media markets were essentially saturated with campaign ads — there wasn't room for more commercials even if campaigns had been able to buy them.

But voters make choices based on a lot more than television ads, and in McAuliffe's case they don't seem to have wanted to take that package home.

«The 2012 redistricting process was business as usual in Albany, with the majority parties controlling the process and lines being drawn for partisan purposes rather than in the best interests of voters, with greater candidate choice and more contested elections,» said Dick Dadey, Executive Director of Citizens Union.

But if the process really does draw in lots of voters, it is more likely in general to pull parties to the centre and further diminish electoral choice.

We must redesign and develop more effective voter education strategies and platforms while we continue to work with other stakeholders to galvanize voters to come out and vote for candidates of their choice on Election Day.

Tony Blair blurred the choice for voters by bowing to the Thatcher settlement and making Labour more business - friendly.

Purnell said that Labour should be more honest about the looming cuts because voters knew the choice would be between Tory cuts and Labour cuts.

One danger is that sitting legislatures will choose rules that advance their individual or party interest in re-election rather than to advance more general democratic values such as political competitiveness, diversity and voter choice, and the responsiveness of representatives.

«I'm incredibly thankful for our grassroots support — and to our staff, unpaid interns and volunteers for working so hard to get our campaign on the ballot, gathering more than 7,250 signatures and ensuring that after 18 years, voters will finally have a choice in this election,» Saujani said in a press release.

It is one more reason to give the voters a choice in the election.»

«Campaign season is just getting started, as proven by the fact that more than half of voters have not settled on a choice as of yet,» said Haber campaign spokesman Jacob Tugendrajch.

He explained that «if we all recognised the rights of each other and appreciated that no vote or voter is more important than the other, we will appreciate the tenets of democracy and respect the choices of people to avoid unnecessary conflicts and violence that characterise elections in some parts of the African continent.»

«We elected a president who's a community organizer and I want a DNC that's a much more activist organization filled with community organizers who can not only get traditional voters but go out and get people who are now at Standing Rock, who are mobilizing to protect choice or equity,» Rybak said.

In practical terms it is relatively demanding to ask the voter to express a reasoned preferential choice when there may be more than ten candidates on the ballot paper.

More significant, the choice of this central campaign frame meant several MPs who were willing to be listed as Yes voters, were unwilling to do anything else which would associate themselves with that anti-politics message, from writing opinion pieces in local newspapers to endorsing campaign activities to their own party members.

Another example, the choices for whether voters supported the protest were: Support, There is a more appropriate place to protest, or No opinion.

It is said that the Liberal Democrats will do well out of the change because their candidates are normally the second choice of Labour and Tory voters and therefore, since AV counts second preferences, more of them will be elected.

Stein and Johnson offer voters more of a choice

The modern - day voter's choice is even more limited in state legislative races.

Party leaders say that despite the relatively few Republicans registered in Hartford — about 2,600, compared with the more than 47,000 Democrats — voters should have a choice at the polls.

«If Labour Ministers decide that protecting their dominance in County Halls is more important than voters being able to cast a fair vote at election time, the Welsh Lib Dems will have no choice but to vote down this Bill.

Nearly six in ten likely voters — 59 % — report they strongly support their choice for governor while more than one - fourth — 28 % — somewhat support their candidate.

More broadly, and more crucially, he should push hard for the public financing of all state candidates, to provide a way for newcomers to compete with hardened incumbents and finally give voters real choiMore broadly, and more crucially, he should push hard for the public financing of all state candidates, to provide a way for newcomers to compete with hardened incumbents and finally give voters real choimore crucially, he should push hard for the public financing of all state candidates, to provide a way for newcomers to compete with hardened incumbents and finally give voters real choices.

Larger Party voters will be wasting their time casting any more preferences than their first (which also gives the lie to the myth it will «encourage» them to support smaller parties; it simply wont because their first choice will not be eliminated therefore this support will be as non-existant as it was under FPTP).

The need for Labour to attract current conservative voters to win an election, let alone UKIP ones who had previously voted labour, seemed important a year ago, now keeping current Labour voters, from either holding their nose and voting Tory or Liberal Democrat, is more of a long way off goal, our core demographic of voters a year ago, were socially liberal, economically conservative, mainly pro EU, ones who would see the Liberal Democrats as a natural choice, many may have voted Libdem in 2005 and later, only to return to us due to the coalition.

Voters rank their choices and the winner is the first to get more than 50 % of the vote.

In Massachusetts, achieving ballot access actually makes getting candidates on the ballot more difficult, although having party status provides other benefits, such as listing the Libertarian Party as a choice on voter registration forms.

If a voter wishes to maximise their effect on both the national and local picture, the more information they have on the choices available to them the better.

«Stefanik has a solid early lead, but with more than seven weeks till voters go to the polls, she has not closed the deal with voters and this race is far from over, particularly since only about one - third of voters say they are absolutely certain to stick with their current choice,» he said.