Sentences with phrase «voting out of the paper»

But it's much harder to drag voting out of the paper era.

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In January, a committee of the federal Liberal party, following a vote in favour of decriminalization a year earlier at the party's convention, came out with a 38 - page paper advocating full legalization.

A recent Politico report found that out of eight European countries that tested digital voting, six are now using paper ballots again.

They had software on iPhones and BlackBerries that drew on their voter target list and used a volunteer's GPS location to provide a list of which doors to knock on, a script for interactions with voters and a form to fill out responses, eliminating the need for paper get - out - the - vote walk sheets.

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.

What Stein is proving here is that in all this talk of hacking — and international governmental interference and voter fraud — there is a way to find out whether the vote totals are accurate: If there is a paper trail, official vote totals can be easily verified in a manual recount.

Out of 229 Labour MPs, there were 172 who voted against him, 40 who backed him and four spoilt ballot papers.

I found two papers in the 3rd edition of Get Out the Vote: How to Increase Voter Turnout by Donald Green and Alan Gerber of relevance.

When you fill out your Ballot Paper, you are voting to elect those members you want to represent you, in order of your preference.

MPs cheered and waved their order papers as the result of the crucial vote was read out, revealing the government had lost by 309 votes to 305: May's first Commons defeat over Brexit.

Under the old system, in place at the time of Ed Miliband's election in 2010, trade union members and members of other affiliated societies had a third of the votes in the electoral college system, and would send out ballot papers to their members.

«The rabbis basically hand out pieces of paper and tell people how to vote,» said Hall's spokesman, Tom Staudter.

Johanna Baxter hit out after the NEC voted by 18 - 14 in favour of putting Mr Corbyn straight onto the ballot paper for Labour's forthcoming leadership election.

«The GMB appear to have broken the spirit of the rules guiding the conduct of the Labour party leadership election by sending out a strong recommendation for Ed Miliband together with the ballot paper for political levy payers... It may well suggest that the margin of his victory depended on votes cast in dubious circumstances.

With the window for taking part in Labour leadership election closing and ballot papers going out there were several polls over the weekend asking about the leadership candidates, though no fresh polling of people voting in the actual contest.

He continued: «At the end of the voting when ballot papers were not sorted... they entered and they started beating me up, hitting me with the chairs that the people were sitting on and then dragged me until two of the policemen came to rescue me and I went and sat in a pickup for some time and then I came out and left.

But the paper - thin margin in the primary — Gallo ended primary night down by six votes and eked out a 708 - 701 victory 13 days later on the strength of absentee ballots — shows a Democratic party that is deeply divided.

This includes paper ballots; punch cards; two types of touch - screen electronic voting systems (one that prints out a receipt verifying your vote and one that does not); optical scanners used to digitize paper ballots; or some combination of these.

Ballot papers have gone out this week to Association of Teachers and Lecturers» (ATL) members around the country to vote on forming a new education union with the National Union of Teachers (NUT).

Yeah cause I believe Super Paper Mario was actually voted to have the best storyline out of all the Paper Mario games.

Standouts include Carrie Mae Weems» holographic narrative about race, sex, and politics portrayed by ghostly characters on a burlesque stage; The Propeller Group's video that draws parallels between funeral practices in Vietnam and New Orleans, along with the collective's sculptures of tricked - out musical instruments, which were also photographed with members of Louisiana marching bands; Glenn Kaino's installation of water tanks that turn military machines into coral reefs; Jean - Michel Basquiat's paintings and works on paper that reference the cultural legacy of the Mississippi Delta and the South; Camille Henrot's video exploration of the universe by way of the storage rooms of the Smithsonian Institution; Tavares Strachan's 100 - foot long neon sign declaring «You belong here» from a barge on the Mississippi River; and Andrea Fraser's monologue, in which she recreated a heated debate by New Orleans city council members during a 1991 vote to racially integrate the Mardi Gras krewes — changing her voice and expression as she dynamically alternated between speakers, both black and white.

Pawlitza told Convocation today that just 403 out of 15,592 votes were cast by paper, or about 2.6 per cent of the total.

All Out War states that the decision to change the question on the EU referendum ballot paper might have been worth 4 % of the referendum vote (p 91, All Out War).

I hope you won't think that I am putting too fine a point on the matter if I point out that Bill C - 32 (and everything else on the Order Paper) did not die from the vote of non-confidence but from the dissolution of Parliament and the consequent proroguing of the session.

These votes followed the publication in February 2007 of the latest government white paper on reform, The House of Lords: Reform (Cm 7027), in which a hybrid 50 % elected / appointed chamber was set out.

For example, LSUC ignores the problem and its duties as set out in s. 4.2 of the (Ontario) Law Society Act, while «fast - tracking» the Alternative Business Structures issue (ABS issue) to the quick creation of: (1) an ABS Committee (2) a (biased) ABS Discussion Paper written by the Committee; (3) the online publication of the responses thus obtained; (4) the online publication of a summary of those responses — all done by the work of those self - interested benchers who have campaigned hard to have ABSs made legal; and (5) a proposed vote in 2016 to determine the law society's position as to making ABSs legal.

I would point out, though, that some of the things that you point to as differences between electronic banking and electronic voting are also differences between paper banking and paper voting.

Digital ballot images are essentially digitized versions of the paper ballots Alabamians fill out in the voting booth.

By granting the stay, the court effectively told the state that it does not in fact have to preserve the digital ballot images - essentially digitized versions of the paper ballots voters fill out at the voting booth - created today.

Everybody votes on little slips of paper that she hands out.