Sentences with phrase «voting reform package»

Cuomo introduced his Democracy Agenda on Thursday, a comprehensive election and voting reform package for New York.

New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman unveiled an extensive voting reform package Wednesday that aims to streamline New York's voter registration system, boost voter participation and increase voter turnout.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduced his Democracy Agenda on Thursday, a comprehensive election and voting reform package for New York.

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It said the tactic was meant to confuse shareholders into voting for a package of reforms, even if it included the stock change that was not in their interests.

Its six points for parliamentary reform (universal male suffrage; no property qualification to become an MP; payment of MPs; equal sized constituencies; voting in secret; and annual parliaments) had first been proposed as a package in the 1770s by John Cartwright.

The mainline Democratic conference in the state Senate on Tuesday pushed for a package of voting reforms designed to make it easier to cast a ballot in New York.

The Mayor's reform package included proposed legislation to allow same - day voter registration, pre-registration of 16 - and 17 - year - olds, and early voting, and to require ballots to be designed in a more voter - friendly way.

«When Sen. Velmanette Montgomery gives her life and her soul to work on a package of reforms to the juvenile justice system, which we certainly need in this state, and then Ruben Diaz Sr. decides that he's going to vote against it because he's upset the Republicans are debating it too long it's unreasonable and capricious and it's the kind of irrational behavior that we've had to endure for the past eight years,» Parker told me.

In other words, as we've known since late last week, there will be no vote today or tomorrow, unless a package deal on constitutional redistricting reform and the House maps gets done by legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, spurring the governor to provide a message of necessity to circumvent the three - day bill aging requirement.

It happened again this year with a package of electoral reforms, including early voting.

Let NY Vote will continue to fight for our full package of voting reforms, and we hope that the Governor will be as committed to EV and AVR.»

The push for voter registration reform, namely making it easier to register to vote, was first proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his State of the State address as part of his broader ethics reform package introduced at the time.

Malick told the audience she has pledged to support the full package of reforms championed by Demand Democracy, which includes publicly funded elections, enhanced protection of voting rights, and ethics reform in Albany.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo trumpeted in January a package of voting reforms he called his «Democracy Project.»

Three groups, Citizens Union, Common Cents / NY and NYPIRG, have asked lawmakers to sign a Clean Conscience Pledge to vote for a three - prong ethics reform package.

Assemblyman Rory Lancman, who has a bill that would allow runoff voting in New York City, said he did not know what would come of his legislation, but predicted the Assembly would pass an election reform package of its own before the end of session, which ends this month.

«It generally just makes the experience of participating in democracy more manageable for everybody,» said Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, a sponsor of the three - pronged ballot reform package that Vote Better NY brought before Albany lawmakers in May.

Do those who champion the unknown, and likely botched, reform package really believe we won't hear any more about union barons and block votes?

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in 2016 proposed a package of electoral reforms that would include the automatic voter registration for anyone who deals with a state agency, same - day registration, early voting, and unified statewide training standards for poll workers.

Bronx Congressman Eliot Engel, a reliable liberal Democrat on most votes, says he wants to vote for President Obama's health care reform package, but he has to make sure it's not going to harm Medicare reimbursement rates for New York.

I am unconvinced of the case for reforming the voting system, and not just because of the gerrymandering which Nick Clegg is trying to squeeze into what John Prescott calls the poisonous package.

Inez Barron is known for her advocacy on police brutality issues, and was among the Council members who voted against the Right to Know Act, a package of police reform bills that were revised as part of a compromise with de Blasio, Mark - Viverito and the NYPD.

She saw the reform as part of a wider package including directly elected mayors, votes at 16 and primaries for the election of parliamentary candidates.

Governor Cuomo has been talking behind the scenes with legislative leaders about a possible reform package that could be voted on in the New Year.

Following her vote last month, the lawmaker said she would continue to work closely with her colleagues from other highly taxed states to ensure that the final tax reform package in Conference addresses those concerns.

The governor had promised to form the investigatory commission in accordance with the state's Moreland Act after he and lawmakers failed to agree on a package of ethics and elections law reforms that ranged from increasing punishment for taking bribes to making it easier to register to vote to using taxpayer money to finance political campaigns.

The vote is just the first step in negotiations with the European Commission and member states over the large package of fisheries reforms.

One month after the South Dakota Legislature approved Gov. William J. Janklow's education - reform package, a group of law and citizens is working on a petition drive to put the bill up to public vote in next November's election.

The conventional wisdom was that the tax credit plan would be attached to a whopping multi-dimensional tax - reform bill, which voucher - squeamish Republicans would vote for because they wanted the other goodies included in the package.

However, the board's vote, which was reported by The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, puts the college and the attorney general one step closer to a deal that is expected to also include a package of procedural reforms and monitoring, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions but who was not authorized to speak publicly about them.

Today is the day that the Cooper Union trustees will hold their final vote on whether to impose tuition on this fall's incoming class of undergraduates, or to, by adopting some other package of financial reforms, maintain Cooper's status as the country's most prominent and well - regarded tuition - free university.

This «backdoor drilling provision,» as environmentalists have dubbed it, was added to the tax reform package to secure the key vote of Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who introduced the measure and has long backed the cause.

The bipartisan legislation is designed to present the Senate with a package of widely agreed upon reforms that it can vote on before the end of the 113th Congress.