Sentences with phrase «voting reforms such»

The budget did not include voting reforms such as early voting or the Child Victims Act, which would extend the statute of limitations in child sexual abuse cases.

But the budget is also notable for what it did not include: a measure that would make it easier for the survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits, voting reforms such as early voting and gun control legislation Democratic lawmakers had pushed in the wake of a high school shooting in Florida that left 17 people dead.

A number of the proposals the governor presented echoed mayor's ideas, including his $ 650 million life sciences initiative, voting reforms such as early voting and same - day registration, adopting salary history blind hiring practices and requiring state contracts to disclose data on gender, race and ethnicity of employees.

Not exact matches

The reforms would double the fund's resources and hand more IMF voting power to countries such as the BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

If we are going to have a referendum on voting reform - bearing in mind other questions, such as Scottish independence, are far more pressing - then let's have one on a more credible system.

Convening such a body would provide a space to debate how best to address systematic political inequality, whether through thorough - going electoral reform including PR and compulsory voting, the radical overhaul of the democratic aberration that is the Lords, or in reforming party funding, all of which the report supports.

Cuomo earlier this month told reporters he was skeptical measures such as voting and ethics reforms could pass in the Legislature, a position Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins rejected.

Over the weekend and in an address on Monday, Cuomo had announced that election reforms such as early voting and automatic registration, which he proposed last year, would be part of his agenda again in 2017.

For nonprofit organizations specializing in voting reform, such as Vote.org, making voting more convenient and accessible is necessary for increased voter turnout.

City Hall issues legislative memos to Albany on bills and has done so on voting and election reform, according to copies of such memos reviewed by Gotham Gazette.

STV is the system of choice of groups such as the Proportional Representation Society of Australia (which calls it quota - preferential proportional representation), [2] the Electoral Reform Society in the United Kingdom [3] and FairVote in the USA (which refers to both STV and instant - runoff voting as ranked - choice voting, [4] although there are other preferential voting methods that use ranked - choice ballots).

Although his testimony this year did not include any reference to voting reform, Goldstein said the mayor's team in Albany works behind the scenes on such legislative issues.

«The mayor and I were able to advocate together for universal pre-kindergarten but election reforms weren't on that list... I think that when we have so few people engaged in voting and such low turnout, people need to put good government on the same plane as things like universal pre-kindergarten.»

In the video, elected officials such as Public Advocate Letitia James and U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez, says a vote for the WFP is a vote for women's equality, as well as campaign finance reform and the Dream Act.

The vote in 2007 was itself an FPTP vote on the future of the Lords, rather than a preferential vote, and I remember it being couched in no uncertain terms at the time as 100 % being the obstreperous option that would result in Lords reform progressing the slowest; indeed, despite wide - ranging support in the Commons for 100 % elected Lords, the Labour government indeed made no progress whatsoever on such legislation.

Also worth noting: Even Democrats who voted against unpopular national Democratic agenda items such as health care reform, including Reps. Michael McMahon and Michael Arcuri, ended up losing.

The conference is in the minority, though, and there is limited likelihood that the Republican majority will advance the reforms being sought, such as early voting.

Given 73 House Republicans come from high - tax states such as New York and California, Reed predicted the party couldn't muster the required number of votes to pass a tax reform bill if it includes a complete repeal of the SALT deduction.

Following boundary changes in 1994, and later reform of the business vote in the City, there was a major boundary and electoral representation revision of the wards in 2003, and they were reviewed again in 2010 for change in 2013, though not to such a dramatic extent.

Over the last month, Cuomo has emphasized issues such as criminal justice reform, announcing an executive order that would allow people on parole the right to vote.

More controversially, it is argued that the government lacks the mandate to push through such radical reforms, since it failed to appear in the prospectuses which the electorate voted on.

Moreover, the quality of decision making would be improved if the abolition of the Lords was accompanied by appropriate reforms to the House of Commons (such as changing the voting system to PR and greatly strengthening select committees to scrutinise legislation and temporarily appoint outside expert advisers, etc).

Campaigners such as the Electoral Reform Society and the Liberal Democrats want a fully proportional system where the number of seats a party wins is more closely aligned with the number of votes they get.

Campaigners for democratic reform give a mixed reaction on Mr Brown's proposals, with some, such as Power 2010 saying it did not go far enough: «Without troubling the public for their views, ministers hand - picked the voting system they favour in a cynical exercise aimed at wrong - footing the Tories ahead of a likely election defeat.

On February 17, 2005, Hillary Clinton joined with Left - wing Senator Barbara Boxer in introducing the Count Every Vote Act, a hodge - podge of so - called «reforms» backed by extreme liberal groups such as People for the American Way.

Outsiders have suggested reforms, such as changing the number of votes one person can cast (currently, each voter casts three votes for three positions to be filled in their senate district) and prohibiting incumbent legislators from serving or, at the very least, banning them from increasing their pensions by doubling their salary for a year.

It proposes reform of party funding and, by the way, thinks changing the voting system wouldn't be such a bad idea.

He voted against the war in Iraq in 2003 and opposed the introduction of tuition fees in 2004, but on other matters - such as Tony Blair's reforms of the National Health Service, he remained loyal.

He has, of course, stopped short of supporting such reform in a subsequent referendum, but many Tory MPs will have to hold their noses in supporting the principle of a change to voting at all.

If a minority Labour government was relying on Tory votes to get things through that the Nats didn't like, there is always a danger that the Tories could resort to the sort of tactics Labour themselves often used in such situations (such as constitutional reform).

The Electoral Reform Society has proposed the abolition of proxy voting in the UK except in special circumstances such as when the voter is abroad.

Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant said he was concerned that a lot of gay and lesbian voters would «bank» the reforms brought in by Labour, such as civil partnerships and a lower age of consent, and vote Conservative.

In Mr. Trudeau's words, a Liberal Government would ensure «that electoral reform measures — such as ranked ballots, proportional representation, mandatory voting, and online voting — are fully and fairly studied and considered.»

The budget saw some significant developments centered on the city's beleaguered subway system, strengthening sexual harassment policies and repairing the city's public housing — though some key issues, such as voting reforms and extending the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse victims, did not make it into the budget.

A prime component of the Council's rules reforms, championed by the speaker, was the such popular bills should get hearings and votes.

However after a meeting for Lib Dem MPs, the party's education spokesman David Laws announced there was still a need for «clarification» on key issues such as education, taxation and voting reform.

In 2017, Cuomo released a 10 - point government ethics and voting reform agenda, which included early voting, automatic voter registration, same - day voter registration, and campaign finance changes such as closing the LLC loophole, which allows anonymous donors to flood candidates» campaign coffers in New York.

Achieving reform through middle of the night voting and limited debate on such an important issue is not the way we would have wanted to see redistricting reform realized.»

The 57 Liberal Democrats will be voting with Labour, a move that has infuriated Conservatives, and also bled into other coalition discussions on unrelated issues such as reform of press regulation and even childcare.

Some are worth casting a Tory vote just to see them enacted, such as Michael Gove's promise of school reform.

(Such an approach could be included in a major tax reform bill and passed with just fifty - one votes in the Senate via the «reconciliation» process.)

The following month, teachers at the school voted to institute a series of reforms by becoming a Local Initiative School, a reform model that allows some autonomy from district policies, such as in hiring.

We'll be building on historic themes in reform such as the student walkout 50 years ago and current issues such as a voting student on the local school board.

A vote to impeach Rousseff is likely to prompt an acceleration of much - needed reforms, such as cutting fiscal spending and revamping the pension system.

We will convene an all - party Parliamentary committee to review a wide variety of reforms, such as ranked ballots, proportional representation, mandatory voting, and online voting.

And last week Public Citizen wrote to Obama and McCain directly, asking them to reform the Digital Millennium Copyright Law, which governs such issues (and which McCain voted for along with the rest of the Senate, which passed it unanimously in 1998).