Sentences with phrase «votes cast on»

Two former Supreme Court chief justices and a prominent Philadelphia lawyer are asking a federal court to declare a ballot question extending state judges» retirement age unconstitutional and any votes cast on it invalid.

Now, after two weeks of sorting through votes cast on Measure B, which would have seen 400 megawatts of solar

A lawyer for Florida's statewide teachers union asked a judge Wednesday to block the counting of votes cast on the Legislature's proposed state constitutional amendment to loosen class size limits.

A lawyer for Florida's statewide teachers union asked a judge Wednesday to block the counting of votes cast on the Legislature's proposed state -LSB-...]

As Newsday's editorial today starts, «something seems to have gone badly wrong» in counting the votes cast on Tuesday in my race for Congress and other close races on Long Island.

However, despite winning a majority of the votes cast on election day, Bradley narrowly lost the overall race once absentee ballots were included.

The county has also started the state - mandated process of auditing three percent of the 10,863 votes cast on primary night last Tuesday.

The 1994 elections were a breakthrough for the Conservative Party as we provided the margin of victory for Governor George E. Pataki with the 326,605 votes cast on our line.

If the only votes that counted were those cast on election day, the proposition would have gone down to defeat as there were more «no» votes cast on election day.

Four candidates won in Rockland County with a majority of their votes cast on the Reform Party line.

The Parliamentary Candidate for the Progressive People's Party (PPP), in the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abirem (KEEA) Constituency in the Central Region, John Sterlin, is aiming at winning 65 % of the valid votes cast on 7th December.

Votes cast on Election Day favored former Thurman Town Clerk Cynthia Hyde 306 to 260 over incumbent town board member Susan Shepler for a three - year seat.

The ruling MPLA party won just over 61 percent of the votes cast on Wednesday and about 150 of the 220 seats in Parliament, according to election commission officials, which would put a Dos Santos loyalist, Joao Lourenco, in the presidency.

Sen. Chuck Schumer was the WFP's top vote - getter ever, receiving 183,707 votes, or 4 percent of all votes cast on Election Day.

Of the nearly 30 million votes cast on May 6th, nearly 14 million backed the candidate who was eventually chosen as that constituency's MP.

Only three times did a measure receive 50 or more no votes, or 0.28 percent of the 1,059 votes cast on bills.

That is, ISS directly influenced nearly a quarter of the votes cast on these matters.

The affirmative vote of the majority of the votes cast by holders of our common stock present in person or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting will be required to approve the amendment of the 2004 Plan, provided that the total votes cast on the proposal represent over 50 % of the outstanding stock entitled to vote on the proposal.

Not exact matches

European leaders cast the vote as a plebiscite on whether Greece would continue to use the euro.

Buffett on Monday vowed to do «whatever it takes» to get out the vote in his congressional district in Nebraska, including driving voters himself to the polls to cast ballots.

With just over four weeks until Londoners cast their votes, an exclusive Opinium survey for the Evening Standard says Labour candidate Khan still enjoys a sizable lead and is more trusted than Conservative Goldsmith on the majority of key issues.

The House had been preparing to vote on the Obamacare replacement Friday after Trump issued an ultimatum Thursday demanding that a vote be cast the following day or else Republicans would be «stuck with Obamacare.»

The folks in and around the Duluth metro area know how to rock the vote — more than 70 % of residents 18 and older turn out on Tuesdays to cast a ballot, according to data from the American Community Survey.

Shell shareholders are set to cast their votes on the deal on Jan. 27, followed by BG investors the next day, the final hurdles to be cleared for the deal to proceed, one of the biggest energy sector acquisitions in the past decade.

«So I'm not gonna spend a lot of time here casting votes for things that can't happen or taking positions on things that can't happen.

Vanguard acts on behalf of its mutual fund clients when it casts votes on disclosure proposals listed on corporate proxies.

Republican Senator Jeff Flake cast a vote for an earlier Senate version despite deficit concerns, but he is undecided on the final legislation, his office said on Sunday.

The Brennan Center for Justice estimated in August that up to 20 % of US voters would use a digital system without a paper trail to cast votes on November 8, and 42 states would use voting machines that were at least a decade old and had outdated hardware and software.

Fortune will go on a limb to predict he will cast the deciding vote in a 5 - 4 ruling in Gill v. Whitford that will declare the redrawing of election districts for political purposes to be unconstitutional.

Just more than half of StateWest's membership voted on the issue, with 90 per cent of the 30,366 votes cast favouring the end to mutual status.

Dell shareholders are scheduled to cast their vote this week on whether or not they will accept a $ 24.4 billion buyout offer from founder and CEO Michael Dell and the private - equity firm Silver Lake Partners.

The decision came more than two hours after jurors failed to cast the votes needed to deliver a verdict on all the lawsuit's claims.

If you hold your shares in street name, it is critical that you cast your vote if you want it to count in the election of directors, the vote to approve the amendment to our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the vote to approve the amendment and restatement of our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, the advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation, and the stockholder proposals requesting: (i) the elimination of supermajority voting requirements, (ii) the adoption of a policy to consider employee pay ranges when setting CEO compensation, and (iii) a report on Salesforce's criteria for investing in, operating in and withdrawing from high - risk regions (Proposals 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 in this Proxy Statement).

For detailed information on the vote required with respect to shareholder proposals and the choices available for casting your vote, please see Frequently Asked Questions About Our Annual Meeting.

When Sen. John McCain (R - AZ) cast his now - famous thumbs - down vote on GOP health care efforts in late July, pessimism weighed even more, and in August, it was hard to find anyone in the professional investment community who thought a tax bill was even close to a sure thing.

With days to go before Sunday's knife - edge referendum that the country's creditors have cast as a vote on whether it wants to keep the euro, the IMF revealed a deep split with Europe as it warned that Greece's debts were «unsustainable».

L. (Sept. 1, 2014), http://us.practicallaw.com/4-578-4485 [http://perma.cc/8XRK-A4YL](«It appears that ISS negative vote recommendations based on the perceived lack of board responsiveness to shareholder concerns (as evidenced by the failure to implement a successful shareholder proposal) was the leading factor associated with directors who failed to receive a majority of votes cast in an uncontested election in 2014.»)

These charters also often imposed a cap on the number of votes any one shareholder could cast.

In a parallel response to German / Franco demands that all European nations surrender their sovereignty by succumbing to a «FISCAL COMPACT», British Prime Minister David Cameron basically said the same as the U.K. moved to cast a veto vote on the proposals that resulted from the European Summit.

There are a lot of practical questions surrounding this proposal, and we will cast our votes for GM directors based on the strength of their individual resumes and our assessment of GM's needs, not the plusses and minuses of the share split.

Tatts received a significant protest on executive pay with 22 per cent of votes cast against the remuneration report, just short of the 25 per cent level required to record a strike.

A deputies» union on Thursday announced that 85 percent of its members who voted — 534 out of 628 — cast ballots expressing «no confidence» in the sheriff's leadership.

It should be mentioned that the 2008 General Conference sustained United Methodist membership in RCRC by a margin of only 32 votes out of a total of 800 cast; this is the narrowest vote, to date, on United Methodist membership in RCRC.)

Religion has been been used and misused too often, but as earlier stated look at the individual and see how they votes on issues and don't just hear what they say but listen to what they say then cast your vote.

You must be perfect to pass so much judgement on others you don't know, shame we have ignorant people like you who are allowed to cast their vote.

But simply put, if your leadership structure is such that it requires continual committee meetings that lead to business meetings where many people get to cast votes on the direction and decisions of the church and where Roberts Rules of Order trumps biblical spiritual authority, multi-site will most likely end in a train wreck!

They, and their gullibility, may be going into the voting booth this fall and casting their votes based on what this «Man of God» says.

It probably also made pro-choice voters more likely to cast their vote based on the abortion issue.

I'd like to think that people recognise that and will support us when they cast their vote on 7th May.

@Howard — As a republic, which is a version of representative democracy, it means we do not have a true or direct democracy where each law would be voted on by each citizen, but an elected representative for larger groups of people that gets to cast the vote, which may or may not at times represent the will of the voters who elected the representative.