Sentences with phrase «voting reform offered»

But he stopped short of promising the immediate legislation on a referendum on voting reform offered by Prime Minister Gordon Brown less than an hour earlier.

Not exact matches

The event has drawn the ire of campaign finance reform advocates, who have dubbed Grisanti an «enemy of reform» (props to the late Ed Koch are necessary here) for refusing to break with his fellow Republicans in their collective «no» vote on the hostile amendment offered by the Democrats that would have created a public campaign finance system.

Quite apart from the fact that proportional representation is * fair *, and therefore a far better starting point for a Parliament that is responsive to the will of the people, the difference between Caroline and most Labour or Conservative MPs is that she is trying to ensure that a referendum on voting reform actually offers a meaningful choice.

The logic of your argument suggests it would be dishonest of the politicians not to include six voting systems; a question offering all possible combinations of Lords reform; another on whether to stay in or get out of Europe; another on Scottish / Welsh independence / devolution; whether to have a written constitution.

In conjunction and affiliation with the national Reform Party USA, Nevadans will be offered a sensible, formidable and soon - to - be-rising political party voting choice for all Nevada's citizens to support.

In the same way, the opposition to boundary reform smacks of reaching for an excuse ahead of the next General Election, instead of doing the hard work to make an attractive offer to the voting public.

Already, Labour offers the Lib Dems the Alternative Vote — a limited electoral reform that would give the Lib Dems significantly more seats.

The Conservatives have bitten the bullet of offering the Liberal Democrats a referendum on the alternative vote system and that will clearly be their final offer on voting reform.

Dietl spoke with me both before and after he voted, discussing the Reform Party race, issuing an unusual invitation to Mayor de Blasio and offering harsh words for rival candidate Nicole Malliotakis.

Voting reform was always going to be the toughest issue and the Conservatives were now offering what amounted to an all - party inquiry, which would draw up a list of possible voting systems.

There'll be no big offer of voting reform - from either Left or Right - to Nick Clegg or his successor.

Fair fight districts would offer competitive general election contests which reform groups have long demanded and lets the voting public decide.

Right now, 37 states offer early voting, a reform that greatly eases the voting process, and a growing number offer same - day and automatic voter registration.

In his State of the Union speech last night, President Obama praised the work of his bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election Administration, emphasizing that it «has offered reforms so that no one has to wait more than a half hour to vote.»

The protest outside the Lib Dem meeting played an important role in putting voting reform squarely on the agenda, ensuring we have a referendum on the voting system, rather than just an investigative «commission» as the Conservatives were initially offering.

The Assembly Education Committee deferred for one week a vote on the 69 - page bill by Senator Gary K. Hart, a Democrat from Santa Barbara who offered a school - finance reform measure that is more sweeping than that enacted last year.

For example, when vouchers were offered as a reform strategy directly against «doing what it takes to put a fully qualified teacher in every classroom,» 84 percent of respondents voted for teacher quality in contrast with 17 percent who voted for vouchers.

And offers of reform coming from Democrats are increasingly unlikely to woo Republican votes.

While he hasn't offered much initiative for reform, he has voted to keep interest rates low.

Poland is likely to do this, as standard bearer for the opponents of ambitious EU ETS reform, and because it has reduced voting power under the new rules... Sandbag would like the EU to cancel some suprlus allowances to «ramp up its climate offer»... If the reforms backed today by the European Parliament were implemented, they would be expected to increase prices to between roughly $ 17 and $ 35 by 2020, according to differing forecasts from market analysts Thomson Reuters Point Carbon and ICIS Tschach Solutions.