Sentences with phrase «voting process before»

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The voting process in that parliamentary chamber is less straightforward, requiring a two - thirds majority in the early stages of the vote before an absolute majority in the final stages of the vote.

Under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, about 800 counties with histories of racially - discriminatory voting laws — going back to poll taxes and literacy tests — had to get the Justice Department's approval beforehand (a process called pre-clearance) before such laws could take effect.

This process was complicated on December 13, when several Conservative British MPs joined the opposition to vote for an amendment requiring British Parliament to debate and vote on any final deal with the EU before it can be approved.

A combination of bad luck, the legal architecture of the nomination process (which makes candidates getting in late difficult - to - impossible - and defines late as December of the year before at the latest), the center - right media environment and the mood of some center - right voting blocs has given us a terrible field and an even worse debate.

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.

Additionally, she said Ensign intends to examine «all the merits» of the defense authorization bill before committing to a vote one way or another and is hoping for a «fully open amendment process.»

Also, he plans to review all of the merits of the Defense Authorization bill before voting one way or another; hopefully it will be a fully open amendment process.»

Asked this week whether he's made a decision on how he'll vote should an amendment come before him, Webb replied, «I think we need to respect the process that Secretary Gates and Adm. Mullen put in place.»

«This is really important so there's consistency for voters in New York City, and so that we have a voting process that, well before the September primary this year, we know how we'll administer and when we would administer the run - off if it was necessary for any of the offices,» Carroll said.

As Congress stares at a Friday deadline to fund the government, the reality that members will have scant time to actually read or process the $ 1.3 trillion fiscal 2018 omnibus before voting on it is starting to sink in.

«I will support a bill that is before the Senate on the floor for a vote that brings justice for all that brings some reconciliation and some healing and a process of resolve for these victims.»

However, I don't understand why they've been compelled to do it straight away and with this secretive process where senators only get the content of a bill right before they need to vote on it.

Under the New York State Constitution, bills must «age» three days before they can be voted on, unless the governor calls for a message of necessity to bypass the aging process.

Angle has alleged voting irregularities before: she quit a 2011 special elections for the US House, calling the process a «mockery» of voting rights.

Shortly before the vote, Niou withdrew from the process, calling it undemocratic.

There is still another step in the process before the ECFSA can go to market, and during that vote on the actual borrowing plan I encourage all my colleagues in the Legislature to think about what they are doing.

What you could do is propose an amendment to the bylaws before the impeachment process which fixes that hole by rewriting the above part to exclude the accused from the vote for impeachment.

As it were, the PDP seemed to be coasting to victory before the election in Southern Ijaw was cancelled due to widespread violence and late commencement of the voting process.

In the Eastern Region, 3news.com's Yvonne Neequaye reported that 10 minutes into the statement - making process before voting, Nana Okrukata, who was 6th on the ballot paper, withdrew his candidature.

Griffo said proper vetting takes time, and pointed to the process of judicial appointees — who often go through multiple committees in one day before reaching the floor for the final vote — as particularly problematic.

With that vote, President Donald Trump's top priority passed its first major test of the legislative process, as Republican leaders in the House and Senate rush the complex tax legislation in a bid to put it on the president's desk before Christmas.

«Just like at the state level, the budget process begins well before any voting deadlines,» the board wrote in a letter to Cuomo.

Yuh - Line Niou, the chief of staff for Queens Assemblyman Ron Kim, withdrew from the Democratic race just before the vote, saying the process is «flawed.»

The bill will have to pass out of committee in the Senate before they can take a vote on it, then pass through a similar process in the House of Representatives.

The shadow home secretary went home after falling ill - two hours before MPs voted on the Government's plans to formally begin the two - year Brexit process.

The Shadow Home Secretary went home at 5 pm, just two hours before MPs voted on the Government's plans to formally begin the two - year Brexit process.

Government appointees being sworn - in Meanwhile, eight government appointees were sworn into office before the commencement of the voting process.

«The Mayor believes voting is the most important right we are granted as citizens and you should have to go through the process of becoming a citizen and declaring allegiance to this country before being given that right.

«I'll tell you what I'm disturbed about, and that is the process of bringing legislators back — both sides of the aisle, the Senate and the Assembly — without an agreed - upon work agenda,» Sen. Jim Tedisco, R - Glenville, said before voting no.

The vote to open up the bidding process in the Southern Tier had already drawn sharp criticism before the meeting even came to order.

The House also amended section 36 to allow running mates of candidates who die before the conclusion of elections inherit his votes and continue with the process.

Electronic voting machines promise to make elections more accurate than ever before, but only if certain problems — with the machines and the wider electoral process — are rectified

Cash flowed like water in those days, she said, and early one morning before a county commission vote, her boss, in the hopes of keeping the process clean, dispatched her to retrieve envelopes off the desks of commissioners before they arrived to discover what was in them.

Weather data are collected during the bidding process, IOC spokeswoman Sandrine Tonge said in an email, and assessed by a commission that provides a «detailed report» to IOC members before the vote.

Everyone who makes it past the application process and onto our final shortlist will pitch on the night, giving a presentation to the room, getting asked questions by attendees & experts, before a winner is picked by public vote.

Submitted features must fulfill the theatrical release requirements and comply with all of the category's other qualifying rules before they can advance in the voting process.

It became a breakout hit too late in the nomination process, and had it shown its popularity just a couple of weeks before, people would have not have felt weird about voting for it.

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.

The news was that our school district had hired a new principal and assistant principal for our Intermediate school, which the board had approved the night before, but the reason for my colleague's call was my comment to the reporter, though I had voted for the hires, that the selection process had been flawed.

The language of the new resolution that the Hartford Board intends to vote on also appears to try and appease parents at SAND elementary by suggesting that rather than target SAND from the outset, Kishimoto must go through a review process of up to three schools, and include the local school governance councils, before picking a school for some sort of takeover / makeover.

Beebe points to the March 6 primary, where on a non-binding ballot proposition 85 percent of Republicans statewide expressed their approval of a proposed change in the nominating process for House Speaker, using a secret ballot in a binding caucus before the vote on the open House floor.

Will delegates and chapter leaders have time to read and understand the complex «Student Learning Objectives» process for these teachers before voting?

«We're undertaking a process that is not only going to be time - intensive but is going to cost money,» board member Amanda Butler said before the vote.

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.

This process includes dates for public hearings and a final vote on the tax rate, and the schedule was set long before Hurricane Harvey formed.

We need all picture entries entered by October 4th that way we can get the voting process started and the Calendars made before 2018 gets here!

Russia's announcement that it will ratify the Kyoto Protocol injected a shot of adrenaline into the international process, but most observers are waiting for the vote in the Duma before they celebrate.

We need to be sure that your message will be delivered before the voting window opens on November 8th in case your building officials decide to vote early in the process.

The eleven justices of the Supreme Court heard evidence over four days in December before handing down their judgment today, establishing, by a margin of eight to three, that the UK Parliament must have a vote on whether the government may begin the official Brexit process, triggering Article 50.

Given that as an advocate I want to get the vote of each juror, the last thing I want to do is risk any juror's misunderstanding a graphic or, worse, being mad that he (and incidence of color deficiency is greater among men) can not understand or process the chart placed before him and about which I or the witness is yammering.»