Sentences with phrase «voting process against»

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It rigs the voting process in each case, counting all abstentions as votes against the union.

The measure, which halts litigation against the issuers of Puerto Rico's government and quasi-government debt to allow an orderly restructuring process, passed the Senate on a vote of 68 - 30.

Rep. Juan Vargas, a California Democrat who voted against the omnibus because it lacked protection for Dreamers, said his party has to keep proving itself to Dreamers after disappointing in the budget process.

Presumably the decision is «unwise» because it pits the vote of four unelected judges against the democratic process and is likely to provoke a backlash.

Interestingly enough, no one in that process sought to determine whether the vote for evangelism was a positive one, or whether it was a vote against programs of social involvement.

While it can be important to be involved in our democratic processes, whoever and whatever we vote for or against will never completely bring about the freedom we desire.

Fonterra Cooperative Group shareholders will vote on four new directors — one - third of the board — after the dairy company's exhaustive new selection process that rates candidates against a «skills matrix».

Concern has been expressed that the tax was unnecessarily rushed through the approval process just before an election that would have added two more people to the 5 - member board that could have swung the vote against the tax.

In an open ballot, however, members of the government majority that had launched the constitutional reform process could not permit themselves to vote against the result of the referendum.

All 52 of the party's MPs who voted against beginning the Brexit process are understood to have just received a formal warning about their future conduct from Labour chief whip Nick Brown.

It restrains them only from a certain form of expressive activity closely tied to the voting process — providing money for a candidate or political party or spending money in order to expressly advocate for or against the election of a candidate.»

(Posted 24 December 2011) Significant current scandals, and those yet to come In no particular order Top salaries and bonuses - boardroom and shareholder individual responsibility The multiple between top and average pay Lawyers fees - the cost of the legal process Medical negligence claims against the NHS Care and treatment in the NHS «No win, no fee» personal injury compensation Democracy and the voting system Lords reform Political party funding The domestic energy market and pricing The Tax system and its inefficiencies and complexities Subsidies for new energy generation schemes The amount of crime fuelled by Drugs The availability of drugs in prison.

The complainants (who at the moment will remain anonymous) even alleged that they was willing to go to News 12 and the Journal News to expose the actions of Mr. Lafayette concerning the process to challenge the signatures, fraudulently having people on Democratic voter rolls and abusing his absolute power over the voting process as Westchester democratic chairman, Mount Vernon City Committee Chairman and Westchester County Democratic Commissioner of Elections which they felt was illegal in nature and the DA's office was against the complainants going public with their complaints.

«I voted against the last three budgets for the city of Albany because they contained massive structural deficits, which are similar to the one we will face next year, which will be over $ 20 million and I would like to avoid having decisions where we take our most vulnerable citizens and punish them through the budget process.»

«Mr. Grimm must have trouble understanding the legislative process because I voted against the bill not once, but twice despite calls from colleagues and organizations on the left to vote in favor of it,» McMahon said.

«Our coalition galvanized voters across a broad ideological spectrum to rise up and oppose a corrupt process that would enrich Albany's political class while leaving the rest of us behind,» said a statement from New Yorkers Against Corruption, the coalition that urged a «no» vote.

Meanwhile Tory MEPs voted against a report on paid paternity leave, reducing the gender pay gap and combating violence against women, while UKIP MEPs opposed investigating tax evasion and avoidance, capping credit card charges and labelling processed meat with its country of origin.

STV would have the advantage of retaining a stronger independence of locally elected MPs (due to preferential voting and the fact that party member can in theory compete against each other), but be a more dramatic move away from single - member representation, incur geographical difficulties mentioned earlier, and have a far less transparent counting process which is far less straightforward to understand.

The Governor got the Senate Democratic Conference and the Democratic Assembly Members to vote against their own community interests and against themselves, while on the other hand, the Governor created his own, private, HUGE Member Items — or should I say, Governor Items and Governor Capital Funds for his disposal, making everyone believe that he did away with the system — and in the process, using the Democrats as rubber stamps.

«The electoral process is sacred and New York law has strong safeguards in place to prevent sharing of sensitive voter data and harassment against those who exercise their right to vote,» Cuomo said in June.

The oversight bill will inject much - needed scrutiny into the annexation process and require a super-majority vote of the locally involved municipal boards in cases where the county planners recommend against annexation.

The Kogi state chapter of the People's Democratic Party, has urged its members to dissociate and vote against the alleged government organised planned recall process of Senator Dino Melaye.

Albans), the only lawmaker who represents part of Long Island to vote against the bill, said the current vetting process is «highly stringent» and has so far kept America safe.

Katko was among only 20 Republicans to vote against the GOP's House bill to begin the process to repeal and replace Obamacare.

«The electoral process is sacred, and New York law has strong safeguards in place to prevent sharing of sensitive voter data and harassment against those who exercise their right to vote,» Cuomo said Friday in a statement.

We've got legal challenges, I think there may still be further legal challenges about the process, issues about who can vote who can't vote, many party members who have been active for years distressed to see people who have been campaigning against the party with an equal vote to them in these circumstances, and I think we've made a series of mistakes.

«In these circumstances, it is right and proper that we assert the Scottish interest on fox hunting by voting with Labour against the Tories» proposals to relax the ban - in the process, reminding an arrogant UK government of just how slender their majority is - just as we will vote against the Tory welfare cuts next week, and appeal to Labour to join us.»

Charles Hendry MP, Shadow Minister for Postal Affairs, explains why the consultation process was a sham and Labour MPs should vote against the unnecessary closures.

But Ryan's resignation to run a quixotic campaign against Dan Donovan leaves the bloc one vote short, and any new board member from Staten Island once selected would have to go through a lengthy vetting process.

But somehow, it is impossible to completely opt out of the process when you yourself are a voting consensus pitting films and performances against one another.

He's up against two guys he's lost to before (Jeff Daniels and Kyle Chandler) but the voting process change, which is less submission based than before, could give Hamm the «I can't believe he hasn't won» sympathy vote.

Through the entire legislative process, only one Democratic legislator voted against the bill (In the State House) and neither Malloy nor his administration ever raised any public opposition to the common sense bill.

He was against actions to increase federal higher education funding before 2010, and he voted to take away politics form the important process of determining interest rates in 2013.

It won against six other established ports in the region following a voting process involving industry professionals worldwide.

You've got your answers to prompts, of course, but then the answers are pitted against each other on a tournament scale and in intense voting processes.

While conservative Republicans continue to cater to their base, approaching self - parody in the process, registered voters indicated that they're 2.5 times more likely to vote for candidates who support climate action — and three times as likely to vote against someone who opposes it:

- The application to Registrar Derrett was appropriate but not necessary in that the Chairman had an inherent power to exclude votes whether because it undermined the statutory process or because the Chairman reasonably believed that the member would be voting against the interests of the class.

After an investigation of the process and the unit in which the business was going to be set up, we provided the owner with a risk assessment that convinced the planning board to vote against approving the deal.