Sentences with phrase «voting problems on»

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Although it moved through the Democrat - controlled House in 2010, it stalled in the Senate because of procedural problems and was never voted on.

The problem lay solely in his having voted on this matter, a matter in which he had a personal stake.

The MP for Richmond Park hasn't been able to win over the black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) vote either, and this is a problem given that this social group is on the rise in the capital.

Analysts, however, said the nominations to the board — to be cut to 12 directors from a previous 18 and voted on by shareholders in April — would do little to distract from the problems accumulating for GE.

A second problem: Nobody wants decisions made by people who don't understand what they're voting on.

«Right now that is one of the biggest problems; there just isn't enough transparency around the detail — the basis on which some parts of the analysis is being completed and / or overly broad subjective discretion which can be used to override voting guidelines.»

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.

Requiring that companies give shareholders a vote on such a choice episodically (e.g., every five years) would also be a way to help solve shareholders» inevitable collective action problems without forcing a one - size - fits - all solution on companies generally.

Benoit and others said they had never been told how to vote in committees and on the floor but acknowledged there were some «genuine problems,» citing the committee that deemed Conservative MP Mark Warawa's motion against gender selection abortion non-votable.

Cruz, speaking Monday on MSNBC, called the criticism «political sniping» and stood by his vote against Sandy aid: «The problem with that particular bill is, it became a $ 50 billion bill that was filled with unrelated pork,» he said.

But the problem here is that Cambridge Analytica did not just employ sophisticated mass marketing, it went the whole hog and ran very specific targeted marketing campaigns for Trump while an allegedly linked Canadian company used the same technology on behalf of the Vote Leave campaign during the EU Referendum.

Well, the problem with that are the Rev Wrights and Al Sharptons on the Left that ones such as Bill and Oba gave the leash... or chains to the African American vote to.

I'm sorry if you are so incompetent to take what he says seriously and people base their votes on his input, that is their problem, there are really stupid people on both sides of the isle.

These halfway members could not have the Lord's Supper, but they were still under the control of the Church; so they could vote on some of its nonspiritual problems and could keep all their privileges as citizens.

That is, all who became members through a public profession of their faith and adopted the covenant were eligible to discuss and vote on all important problems of the church.

Our own history has proven that which is why the people voted to have their government work on the problem.

Similarly, I hope that if you've decided to vote for Clinton, you've spoken out concerning the ongoing ethics problems that go back decades and now continue to surface every day, and her stance on abortion and many more issues that defile all people who are made in the image of God.

Back on less insane ground, the Republicans faced a problem with the Stupak Amendment: Support it, and thereby give cover for pro-life Democrats to vote for the final bill?

There would be no courage and no glory in voting for a law based more on slogans than on arguments, in conforming to the dominant political correctness out of fear of the threatened anathema, and by counter-attacking as a last resort by a question such as: «Dven if there is no reason to pass a law, why is it a problem if we want to pass one?»

There would be no courage and no glory in voting for a law based more on slogans than on arguments, in conforming to the dominant political correctness out of fear of being anathematized, and in hiding behind a question such as: «Even if there is no reason to pass a law, why is it a problem if we want to pass one?»

Fast - tracking, according to journalist Dave Johnson enables Congress to agree «to set aside its duties under Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution and vote on TPP within 90 days of it being signed, to severely limit discussion and debate, not to filibuster the agreement in the Senate and not to amend it not matter what problems turn up after the agreement is revealed».

MY DESCRIPTIONS ARE ONLY FOR EFFECT, and you should vote on how bad YOU feel each problem is, not based on my description of it.

Forty - four of the 57 county boards of elections outside NYC reported voting machine problems on primary day.

As for what «we're going to have a problem» might mean, Durant told me «yes» votes on raising taxes will «definitely going to take into consideration moving forward,» which could be particularly bad for the Senate Republicans, who got a big boost from the business community — Unshackle Upstate, NFIB and the Business Council — during the 2010 elections.

«The problem is that Charlie Rangel just voted, along with many Democrats for billions of dollars more for the Afghanistan War, and he will not face another vote on the Afghanistan War until after the Sept. 14th primary.

To overcome this problem we have, on behalf of the BBC, been beavering away at establishing which local authorities appear to be more likely to record a relatively strong vote for Remain, which are the ones where Leave can be expected to do relatively well, and which are the council areas where the two sides could be expected to be equally matched.

As an example, the last mayor of a nearby town foresaw the problems that «enforcing» changes to the town's main street (1 less car way, and more parking space), would cause to his reputation, so he made public, electronic poll (with voting stations on public spaces) on that district (and lost).

In my last post on the topic I discussed some of the consequences of a yes vote: the problems that would be raised around the currency, Scotland's membership of the EU, and, more generally, the difficulties presented by the tight time - fame set by the Scottish Government for negotiation.

Selma sidesteps this problem by focusing on one chapter in Martin Luther King's life: his struggle in the town of Selma to secure black people's voting rights.

The arbitrary thresholds your refer to are a problem, because they will have a distorting effect on the election result, especially if a large number of voters support minor parties, and therefore have their votes discarded when the final count is done.

Your question also touches upon another problem: The fact that first - past - the - post and other systems based on gaining a plurality of the vote in single - seat constituencies distort the vote and can be used to durably keep minority parties out of the parliament and government politics.

The debt ceiling is similar, but different in that one key way: on the debt ceiling, while the Republicans have similar problems getting votes from both sides of their party at the same time, passing nothing is not an option.

Now there could potentially arise a problem where voters who are contributing nothing at all to running the government are such a big voting bloc they can end up voting themselves more and more money to be spend on themselves (or whatever pet projects it is that they support).

The problem for Clegg is that this almost certainly depended on tactical voting, which was a major factor in the Liberal Democrats» original 1997 victory in Hallam.

One solution being floated was a minimal immigration bill dealing with DACA and border security — but the problem for the GOP in the House is fairly straightforward — if a bill does nothing on DACA it loses certain votes, and if you add DACA in, that pushes other Republicans away.

Although there are problems with predicting the Liberal Democrat vote the model suggests that they will be substantially down on their 2010 vote but will perhaps not face the routing they did at the European Parliament elections.

More than three quarters of all voters, including a clear majority of those who intend to vote Labour on Thursday, think the last Labour government «must accept a large part of the blame» for Britain's economic problems; Mr Miliband is unlikely to succeed in his campaign to persuade the electorate that this idea is a «big lie» put about by the coalition.

The handling of the Trident and Syria votes indicated major party management problems; Corbyn's «prevarication» about whether to allow a free vote on Syrian intervention signalled he has no plausible strategy to manage his parliamentary colleagues; the attempt to put pressure on MPs through directives from Momentum and the decision to conduct a last minute plebiscite among party members merely antagonised parliamentarians (66 MPs then voted with the government)

On the heels of deeply troubling problems at the polls during the April 19th presidential primary, roughly 200 citizen advocates will meet with lawmakers to share their personal voting experiences and make the case for fundamental reform to New York's antiquated election laws.

The governor did not specifically attack any particular proposals the comptroller voted on in Albany but insisted the Assembly had been «part of the problem» and had «basically abandoned upstate New York.»

«The staff people who lack the competence to fix these problems need to be replaced with staff that can do the job,» he said, discussing the issue of the full - time BOE staff, which only begins to touch on the issue of the election day provisional staff who administer voting throughout the city and often commit mistakes.

The Republicans have a problem in that without throwing a bone to their own base upstate that regards Skelos only a step or two behind Cuomo on the «personification of evil» scale, they risk that base vote staying home in close races next year or, even worse, primaries against the senators who voted for Flanagan last week.

If you have a problem voting on Election Day, AG Eric Schneiderman says call 1-800-771-7755 or email [email protected] between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m.

Given the relative weakness of the left in the PLP, as witnessed by the problems Diane Abbott and John McDonnell had in getting nominations for the leadership election, his 121 votes should actually be hailed a triumph, as it represents both the respect in which he is held by many in the centre of the Party as well as on the left.

But therein lies the Yes campaign's third problem: for most of its activists AV is a halfway house on the road to what they really want, which is proportional representation, where the number of MPs reflects each party's share of the national vote.

If people have a problem with how we vote on a project, they can contact us.

The problem is not so much that a number of Conservatives voted against the government - in fact, rebel Tory votes tipped the balance only once, in the unusual circumstances of the multiple rebellion on the European Economic Area amendment - or even that rather more Conservative peers didn't vote at all, because the government whips managed to bring in more than usual.

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While Gregorius insisted on keeping much of his talk about current legislative business off the record, pending a vote and several candidate events that were taking place in West Hurley and Lake Hill last week, he did note hearing much from people about Irene - related problems, and voiced concerns about how the county's going to handle pass - downs from the federal and state governments hitting local property taxes.

The problem has been securing an opportunity to actually vote on the bill, a decision made by the all - powerful and often unyielding Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver.