Sentences with phrase «voting reforms designed»
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.
http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/ Not exact matches
The landmark survey commissioned by the Broadbent Institute is the first study of its kind and size to measure Canadians» attitudes about voting system design and preference for electoral reform.
Democratic lawmakers in the state Senate and Assembly have sought to apply post-budget pressure to Republicans to consider voter reforms designed to enhance ballot access and make it easier to vote as well as to register.
The reforms were designed to change the nature of electoral representation (the referendum on the alternative vote), alter the composition of both Houses of Parliament (boundary review and House of Lords reform), and to reduce the power of the Prime Minister to time elections.
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.
For example, if Labour managed to get its act together, a big «if» I know, and they put an amendment to the voting reform bill designed to introduce AV + on to a referendum question rather than AV, how will the Liberal Democrats vote?
But there are growing signs that Miliband has stepped back from plans to dilute the size of the union vote at party conference, and is instead focusing on a series of reforms designed to make local parties more dynamic, and open up the party to a wider group of Labour supporters.
The reforms call for early voting, better ballot design, and comprehensive online and easier voter registration in order to increase voter turnout.
Also doesn't change the fact that a Yes vote will kill electoral reform stone dead which is exactly what it is designed to do.
Ethics reforms and changes designed to make it easier to vote in New York were left out of the new state budget but could resurface when lawmakers return from spring break.
In this week's New York state government news: ethics reforms and changes designed to make it easier to vote were left out of the state budget but could resurface when lawmakers return from spring break.
On the eve of a potentially catastrophic Board of Education vote to turnaround ten more Chicago schools, the school reform research group Designs for Change has released a report showing that school turnarounds are not worth the extra expense, and that the unheralded reforms brought about under the authority of parent - led, democratically - elected local school councils have been far more effective.
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.