Sentences with phrase «voters support allowing»

Specifically, PPP found that 73 % of voters support allowing people to refinance student loans that have high interest rates, while only 16 % oppose refinancing.

The poll, which was released Monday, finds that 89 percent of U.S. voters support allowing adults to legally use marijuana for medical purposes if prescribed by a doctor.

According to Higher Ed Not Debt, Public Policy Polling found that, during the 2014 midterm elections, 73 % of voters supported allowing students to refinance student loans the same way other debts can be refinanced.

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By allowing for an expression of voter sentiment separate from the selection of the president, midterms help supply the concrete political support in Congress for checking presidential programmatic power.

In Massachusetts, a campaign by church - state separationists was successful in convincing voters to defeat a proposal to allow tax support for private and religious schools; the vote was 70 per cent to 30 per cent.

In which your humble scribe devises a mechanism that should allow nearly every Hall of Fame voter, even most of the skeptics, to support Jeff Bagwell's candidacy in good conscience.

Chiszar said voters who supported the tax increase referendum question that allowed the Park District to buy the area's last working farm wanted the land developed as a whole «unique piece of property.»

«Voters indicated their overwhelming support for a small donor matching fund system that would limit the influence of CEO campaign contributors and allow every voice to be heard.»

New York Democratic Party activists who backed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for president in 2016 — and now support Cynthia Nixon for governor over Cuomo — have drafted a resolution to force the state Democratic Committee to pass a rule allowing independent or «nonaligned» registered voters to vote in the 2018 Democratic primary for governor, on Sept. 13.

While Kingson said he hopes his support for Social Security will allow him to make inroads with older voters and other groups, operatives on both sides said he might be too liberal for the district.

The Daily Orange Editorial Board supports the New York Votes Act, which would allow early, automatic and same - day voter registration.

Although it is not regarded as truly proportional by campaigners for electoral reform, AV is favoured by some because it maintains the constituency link, ensures elected MPs have the support of at least 50 per cent of voters and allows supporters of minority parties to express opinion through their first vote while giving their second preference to a mainstream party.

«We hope that our elected leaders in Albany will respond to the state's voters,» said Michael Rabinowitz, spokesman for the coalition of business, consumers, unions, wineries, grape growers and farms supporting legislation to allow people to buy wine in grocery stores.

New York Democratic Party activists who backed Bernie Sanders for president in 2016 — and now support Cynthia Nixon for governor over Gov. Cuomo — have drafted a resolution to force the state Democratic Committee to pass a rule allowing independent or «nonaligned» registered voters to vote in the 2018 Democratic primary for governor, on Sept. 13.

Currently, 39 percent of voters support DEC allowing hydrofracking to move forward in the Marcellus and 38 percent oppose it (the split was 37 - 36 percent in May).

«Adam Haber will have every opportunity to explain to voters why he supports holding equal pay and other important protections for women hostage unless they are directly tied to allowing non-doctors to perform late term / partial birth abortions right up until the moment of birth.»

A majority of NYC voters support a ballot measure to allow as many as seven casinos in the state, according to a New York Times / Siena College poll, even though they don't want any of those in the five boroughs and probably won't travel upstate to visit those that are built.

But saying it in this way allows Corbyn to reassure Labour Leave voters concerned about immigration while pretending to his young metropolitan support base that his hands are tied on the issue.

The Syracuse Common Council will consider on Monday a resolution to support New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo's voter reform bill that would allow early voting throughout the state.

On gun limits and school safety, the poll showed voters by a 90 percent to 9 percent margin support measures to extend the waiting period for the purchase of firearms up to 10 days, from the current period of up to three days, to allow for more extensive background checks.

«Many Republican committee members have expressed to me their support of Senator DeFrancisco, and frustration with the Republican candidate selection process, which has allowed party bosses to ignore Republican committee member and voter input,» he said.

Dick Dadey, with Citizens Union, which supports the measure, along with the League of Women Voters, says it's the best opportunity in decades to help fix a broken system that allows nearly unlimited gerrymandering by legislative leaders to benefit parties in power.

A plurality of likely voters (46 percent) support Proposal 3, which would create a land bank to allow for certain develompent in the Adirondacks and Catskills.

Education Voters of PA, like many other small non-profit organizations, works with a fiscal sponsor, a larger organization that provides services and supports that allow us to focus on our mission rather than on bookkeeping and administrative duties.

Two - thirds (66 percent) of the state's likely voters answered that they supported local governments establishing ESAs to allow parents to use state education dollars toward the education of their choice.

This resolution will allow the District to ask voters to support the sale of school bonds and use the bond proceeds to make the necessary facility improvements identified in the resolution.

That poll explicitly used the phrase «school vouchers,» finding that 53 percent of likely 2016 voters supported «school vouchers to allow individual parents to use public funds to pay for tuition at private or religious schools.»

Signed by Gov. Chris Christie last month after drawing bipartisan support, Greenwald's law allowed districts to move school board elections from April to November, with the stated goal of increasing voter turnouts from what are typically only about 15 percent of registered voters.

Given the compressed timeframe in which the dissolution of the SRC must take place in order for the District to regain local control by the beginning of the 2018 - 2019 school year and the difficulty the District would likely face getting legislative approval from Harrisburg to change its charter to allow an elected school board in the next few weeks, Education Voters of PA supports mayoral control of the school board at this time.

Further, 56 percent of Wisconsin voters showed support for the state proposal to allow Wisconsin taxpayers to deduct some of their student loan payments from their state income tax.

I respectfully request that you do not allow this «fast - tracked» bill initiated by special interest groups to circumvent the will of voters who overwhelmingly support pet stores like Mutts & Co. and Pet Valu who make an enduring commitment to end the «puppy mill to pet store» supply chain in their business operations.»

60 % of Republicans and 67 % of rural voters said they support allowing farmers to grow industrial hemp.

Expanding the scope to voters allows us to control for gender, and our results support the Portia Hypothesis.