Sentences with phrase «voting laws in»

De Blasio last month said he intended to lead a bipartisan effort to change state voting laws in the next legislative session.

During the «Four Women in a Room» panel discussion, hosted by activist groups True Blue New York and Empire State Indivisible and moderated by POLITICO politics reporter Gloria Pazmino, Williams noted that New York has some of the worst voting laws in the country and addressed comments made by Melissa DeRosa, secretary to the governor, in which she said that most of the panelists do not have state government experience.

That provision required pre-approval of voting laws in certain southern states like North Carolina.

Unfortunately, New York State has some of the most archaic voting laws in the nation.

Voters began casting absentee ballots Tuesday to take advantage of a disputed early voting law in the crucial swing state of Ohio.

Not exact matches

On the Democratic side, the appeal of stronger gun laws was evident in Clinton's attacks on rival Bernie Sanders over his past votes against background check laws and for limits on lawsuits against gun makers.

And even before the Senate voted to gut key provisions of the ACA in early December, he introduced a bill to overturn the 2010 health care law in 2013.

«This decision makes the big boys bigger and the middle class smaller, and we are determined to restore the law to the way it was,» said Senator Alexander, who added that the legislation has some bipartisan support and could advance to a vote in the coming months.

Republicans pulled their health care bill Friday after failing to garner enough votes to pass Donald Trump's plan intended to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, leaving the law better known as Obamacare in place for now.

Some Republican lawmakers hope that this new health reform law will get Democratic support and pass the 60 - vote threshold in the Senate.

Poland's biggest political standoff in years began on Friday when opposition lawmakers objected to plans by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party to curb media access to parliament, and blocked the plenary hall podium ahead of a budget vote.

But that wasn't all that depressed Clinton's vote: Hansen said a far lower number of provisional ballots than typical for a presidential election played a role, as did a recent strict voter - ID law that was in effect for its first presidential election in the state.

Because the case was tied up in court for years, he said, the narrative from the Democratic side ended up being about how unfair and difficult the law made it for many to vote.

Stephens, who is 51 and said she voted for Clinton, began her law enforcement career with the Beaumont Police Department in 1989.

Federal judges found more problems in Texas» voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities, who former President Barack Obama set out to protect at the ballot box before leaving office.

Some 14 states have enacted more restrictive voting laws than they had in the 2012 presidential election, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

The stakes in finding discriminatory intent are higher because it provides a window for opponents to argue that Texas should be forced to resume having changes to voting laws «pre-cleared» by the Justice Department or a federal court.

It's politically risky for the federal government to ride roughshod over state laws voted in by a majority of the people, says William McGrath, a partner at the Washington, D.C. - based Potomac Law Group.

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Exactly five years ago, the JOBS Act became law after an overwhelming bipartisan vote in Congress.

Roberts also was the key vote to uphold the law in 2012.

In 2015, the landscape has changed, although the partisan and ideological divisions remain for a law that passed Congress in 2010 with no Republican voteIn 2015, the landscape has changed, although the partisan and ideological divisions remain for a law that passed Congress in 2010 with no Republican votein 2010 with no Republican votes.

Google partnered with law firm Perkins Coie to get the information for the new in - depth search tool, which lets users sort by state for info on ID requirements, deadlines, mail - in ballots, and early voting.

The law, which was first introduced by Congresswoman Bella Abzug, technically states that the president is «authorized and requested to issue a proclamation in commemoration of that day in 1920 on which the women in American were first guaranteed the right to vote.»

Weddings are both a joyous family affair and a tangle of moving parts — perhaps it's the stress of making sure one Trump - voting aunt won't be seated next to a Democratic in - law, or rerouting those flowers from the wrong location on the big day — that make the event notoriously stressful for both brides and grooms.

The net - neutrality laws passed during the Obama administration, formally known as the 2015 Open Internet Order, were approved in a 3 - 2 vote along party lines in February 2015, after months of heated debate and public outcries.

Justice Anthony Kennedy was the deciding vote in throwing out A) a requirement that police try to determine the immigration status of people they stop under suspicion of even minor crimes; B) a law that made it a crime for an illegal immigrant to seek employment; and C) a law that let police arrest a person without a warrant if they believed the person may have committed a crime that could lead to deportation.

The department also changed its position in a critical voting rights case in Texas, abandoning its yearslong opposition to a critical aspect of the state's voter ID law.

«In the context of Uber and Lyft putting money into cities, this vote is pretty significant,» said Nayantara Mehta, senior staff attorney at the National Employment Law Project.

NO OFFER OR SOLICITATION This document does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or a solicitation of any vote or approval nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.

«First of all there's an organizational and logistical challenge, to organize a vote in such a short notice,» said Aristides Hatzis, an associate professor of law and economics at the University of Athens.

If you (i) sign and return this form but do not give any direction or (ii) fail to sign and return this form or vote by Internet or telephone, your shares will be voted in the same proportion as the shares held under the Plan for which instructions are received, unless otherwise required by law.

If you do not provide voting instructions to the plan trustee, your shares will be voted in the same proportion as the shares beneficially owned through our 401 (k) Plan for which voting instructions are received, unless otherwise required by law.

a person in respect of which all of the owners of interests, direct, indirect or beneficial, except the voting securities required by law to be owned by directors, are persons that are accredited investors,

He is the author of treatises on proxy voting and shareholder communications and his articles have appeared in The London Financial Times, The New York Times, The New York Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Insights, Pensions & Investments, The Corporate Governance Advisor, Directors & Boards, the Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems and other publications and professional blogs.

This communication is not intended to and does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to subscribe for or buy or an invitation to purchase or subscribe for any securities or the solicitation of any vote in any jurisdiction pursuant to the proposed transactions or otherwise, nor shall there be any sale, issuance or transfer of securities in any jurisdiction in contravention of applicable law.

Put simply, Delaware law recognizes that the «right of shareholders to participate in the voting process includes the right to nominate an opposing slate.»

Vice Chancellor Strine went on to explain, however, that a corporation may in fact opt out of the default voting — and nominating — rules of state law, provided it does so clearly and unambiguously:

If the Republicans, who are holding out for concessions on the health care law — the Affordable Care Act — in exchange for a budget vote, back down or are blamed for a shutdown, they would have even less ability to push their wishes by refusing to raise the debt ceiling, analysts at DBS in Singapore wrote Tuesday.

In order to comply with requirements under U.S. law governing the ownership and control of U.S. airlines, at least 75 % of the voting stock of the Company must be held by U.S. citizens and at least two - thirds of the Board of Directors must be U.S. citizens.

Our amended and restated bylaws provide that the failure of non-U.S. citizens to register their shares on a separate stock record, which we refer to as the «foreign stock record,» would result in a suspension of their voting rights in the event that the aggregate foreign ownership of the outstanding common stock exceeds the foreign ownership restrictions imposed by federal law.

The law was added to the expense account teams in the last środową the night before the vote on 2232 - page bill, which took place on Thursday.

«Many of the proposals that have been put on the table during the Trump administration have been so far out there that they have not been able to build a 218 - vote majority in the House of Representatives in order to get anything passed, so the act is still the law of the land,» Butterfield said.

A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes validly cast.

In contrast, Delaware corporate law provides that a merger requires the approval of a majority of the outstanding stock entitled to vote.

Hillary Clinton voted for a similar law as a senator in 2004.

One example of a material difference in corporate law between states is the stockholder vote necessary to sell a company.

Yes to democracy: proportional representation, a Parliament held in respect, not contempt, and laws that encourage rather than suppress the vote.

SHARE director of law and policy Laura O'Neill said the only other directors she knows of who failed to win majority support this year were on the board of Quebecor Inc., where holders of class B subordinate shares voted just 43 per cent in favour of electing the entire board as a slate.

Magna's voting results highlight a controversial gap in Canadian law, which allows directors to be elected despite winning less than 50 per cent voting support.