Sentences with phrase «voting laws so»

Vote Better NY seeks the following common sense changes to New York's voting laws so that every eligible New Yorker is registered to vote, voters have more than one day to get to the polls, and every voter can cast a ballot that counts:

One complication was that the authorities changed voting laws so that every voter could cast their vote at any polling station (i.e. not necessarily where they are registered) with the inevitable consequence that many polling stations ran out of ballot papers.

Not exact matches

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:

«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.

I don't mind voting for someone who knows how to follow both the letter and the spirit of the law and who actually does so.

This extremely narrow reading of the law basically said «so what if he used the course to recruit, organize and groom candidates; as long as they didn't say «Vote for Jones», it wasn't partisan.»

It was precisely because of their deeply cherished faith that women were compelled to organize for the vote, for women to be declared persons under the law, for the rights of workers, for women to wear pants, for temperance even (because the victims of drunkenness were usually women and children), and so on.

As to your second point, US law can be changed if it's so immoral that enough people vote against it.

The Supreme Court has to rule based on law, so that California vote is meaningless.

What I'd really like is a law that forces our politicians to wear the logos of their major supporters on jumpsuits - sort of like NASCAR drivers, so that when they vote on bills and budgets, you know exactly who is paying for whom.

The petition asks that a judge intervene so the city and its residents will be spared from «wasting resources debating and voting on an ordinance that can not become law.»

It's a little too late for praying, it's Mrs.Clinton's call to be @ the helm; now, with her hubby Mr.Clinton as VP; and one of you out of all of you, need to tell Romney he's committed fraud, for leaving the Post of so - called gov.that theirs a 2 yr.interval that must be met; the same fo Obama; whom is worst off then Bush Jr.then for none of you to have no Allegiance to be nothing but commander of thieves, since April 4th, 1968 to presently; in the killing of Dr.King Jr.must still go under Oath to all you perjurers; that mustn't go unpunished to the array of charges I have stored up against each of yo on every job, on every public premise; that Obama didn't praywhen he lied to GOD ALMIGHTY in perjury; to have left the seat of sen.to jump to the office; knowing he hadn't a clue what to do; so he got Joe, which is Cheney all over; whom should of been out of public; and he knows that and all the fugitives, even in the Italian led court in DC; that will have to answer to what is -LCB- H.R. 7152 -RCB-; and why they let Olsen for Bush Jr.waste the American's People's time, not to mention all the lives that's been lost; for the tyrannies since 1968 to presently has cost; Vote I, Edward Baltimore; to confirm I; Governor of DC; as of 2/16/12; cause DC; has been a State, already; and all you slaves from State to State; need to snap out of your peonage which is prohibited by Federal Laws; on anybody!!!!!!!

If this doc - ument is hate speech, then so is any speech and vote made in the US Congress against changing the laws in the areas concerned, and the material on the group's website is hate speech too.

But he did repeal the prohibition laws, so he gets a good guy vote there.

And a few years after the vote, the law is somehow worked arround if it isn't like they wanted to, so it makes no difference at all.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

So if a law does pass with 51 votes its likely to become law.

By successful, I mean undermined the public trust of the results sufficiently so the winner could not successfully claim a mandate, take leadership, pass the law - whatever the vote was about.

The University at Buffalo law professor, who actually teaches the subject, said she's pleased with the vote but wants to continue to push other issues like closing the so - called LLC loophole.

I am not even going into ~ 200 thousand who COULD have committed voting fraud if they were inclined to do so; again preventable by Voter ID laws.

More than thirty years after Abrams» testimony, State Board of Elections Co-Chair Doug Kellner also endorsed the deterrent principle as the reason that so few of New York's voting law proposals have been rejected.

They know their ability to govern the UK could be badly damaged by the idea of English votes for English laws, so any package that attempted to force through that issue would be unlikely to pass muster.

DiNapoli says so far, around one fifth of counties have taken preliminary steps to override the cap, as they are permitted to do under the law as long as they can muster a 60 % majority vote from their county legislature or board of supervisors.

I suggested to him that this doesn't make much sense for the Democratic primary since the bulk of the vote comes out of NYC, which explains why all of the Democratic hopefuls — particularly Sen. Eric Schneiderman — are running so hard to the left and playing up issues like Rockefeller Drug Law reform, which has zero to do with the AG's office.

It's the first time that the so - called EVEL system (English Votes for English Laws) has been put into practice.

In terms of the electoral law — well, it's FPTP, so you're going to have a lot of councils where the winning party won an overwhelming majority of seats on less than 50 percent of the vote.

He also said people are unaware that in minority neighborhoods — including African - American, Hispanic and Chinese — organizations «bus people around to vote» to different polling sites so they can get more votes for themselves, and argued New York needs a Republican - advocated voter I.D. law.

Benefit for illegal voting is delayed, impersonal, and unsure — so (IMHO) the temptation to break the law that specific way (illegal voting) is much lower.

E.D. Florida is also a closed primary state, so registered independent voter in Florida attempting to vote in a party primary would probably be violating the law that @ notstoreboughtdirt just referenced.

In fact, our voting laws are so repressive that Republicans use them to promote voter suppression.

That the Labour party should so loudly trumpet its contempt for personal privacy and the presumption of innocence, parading its violation of the European Court on Human Rights ruling on DNA retention as one of the top six reasons to vote for it, tells you everything you need to know about its attitude to civil liberties and the rule of law.

So should only women MPs vote on women - only laws?

The question of English votes for English laws, the so - called West Lothian question, requires a decisive answer so just as Scotland will vote separately in the Scottish Parliament on their issues on tax, spending and welfare, so too England as well as Wales and Northern Ireland should be able to vote on these issues.

«The law requires proportionate voting, so that indeed the will of the 317 (party committee members) is heard and unfortunately (the earlier) vote when it was taken was not done on a weighted vote,» Collins said.

Dashing Rudy's dreams of dominion (2001): When «America's mayor» proposed an unsanctioned third term so he could keep calming the city into 2002 — and block a Democrat from his office — Silver refuses to schedule a vote on amending term - limit laws until after the Democrats had agreed on a nominee.

True reform in the United States will be found when the ballot access laws are changed to open the ballots to all parties, and gerrymandering is outlawed so entrenched politicians can be voted out of office.

Almost immediately after the Senate vote, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito said she would amend the language in the new law so that it will take effect in February instead of October, as originally planned.

so democrats are going to vote for a guy who was supposed to be enforcing the laws while all the time he was breaking them.

Klein's IDC provided the votes in the Senate Banking Committee to change consumer protection laws so that check cashers could charge up to 400 % on short term loans.

So, by U-turning, Downing Street isolated Miliband as the only party leader opposing English votes for English laws.

The NYS Senate however, voted them down and instead «passed a series of so - called school safety measures that, among other steps, would require police officers at schools in New York City and provide grants to districts outside the city to hire retired law enforcement as school resource officers,» as reported by The NY Daily News.

«We are elated that it is being considered so that Ghanaians outside the country can vote as the law says they should,» he said on Accra - based Class FM.

Whether this is down to the sheer amount of energy expended on the Scottish referendum campaign, or Labour's subsequent attempts to tackle (or sidestep) the new problem of lurking EVEL («English Votes for English Laws»), barnstorming rhetoric has so far been thin on the ground in Manchester.

But in an interview on Capital Tonight, Zeldin was reluctant to say definitively if he would vote for a so - called «clean» continuing resolution that would fund the federal government operations that didn't include any changes to the federal health care law of 2010.

They won't pass laws making it easier for people to vote, change political parties or file an absentee ballot without an excuse, because to do so might raise voter turnout — and the risk that they might lose.

The major amendment, tabled by Viscount Hailsham (pictured) to the flagship Brexit laws going through Parliament radically strengthens the so - called «meaningful vote» on the final deal.

The City Council voted in two bills to strengthen a ban on so - called «e-bikes,» by tossing out the part of the law that allowed the vehicles to be used as long as they were not going faster than 15 miles per hour, Quinn said.

So as lawmakers contend with the possibility of a continued shortfall and layoffs next month, they are also under the cloud of a lawsuit brought by Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci, who claims lawmakers broke the law when they voted themselves a raise last year.

«It is right that we voted for a referendum and right that we still want to hold a referendum and it is right that a Conservative government will amend the 1972 European Communities Act so if any future government proposes to transfer new competencies or areas of power to Brussels a referendum of the British people will be required by law.»

As a result, I hope to be able to vote in favor of a more realistic revised local law in the not so distant future.