Sentences with phrase «voting system against»

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McCain joined two other Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who voted against the bill and quashed Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's plan to upend the US healthcare system after 20 hours of debate.

Anne Sheehan, head of corporate governance at California State Teachers» Retirement System, which backs the additional climate reporting, said Exxon's letter suggests the voting is at least very close and may be going against the company.

IBM shareholders CalSTRS and The State Board of Administration for the Florida Retirement System (SBA FLA) each voted against Rommety's proposed pay package at the company's annual general meeting.

«Oddly, our wildly disorganized, motley federated voting system protects us somewhat against direct cyber-interference affecting the November 2016 outcome,» he said.

We voted against the other two proposals because both would erode the funded component of Chile's retirement system.

Business Insider reported last week, meanwhile, that the California State Teachers» Retirement System, one of the biggest pension funds in the world, was lobbying shareholders to vote against the proposal.

It's that belief system that causes people to vote and protest against others that don't believe as they do.

Fine dave, would you feel better if I said «Fvck you and your lazy ass selfish friends who are too lazy to get off your ass and vote, too lazy to bother to understand how the system is stacked against change, too dumb to understand it when it's explained to you, and too self - centered to realize or care that real people are affected by these things.»

(Mar 2006) Voted YES on extending the PATRIOT Act's wiretap provision and Santorum will continue the Corporate wellfare system where big business gets an unfair advantage against start up companies.

I'm sure they all want to vote against their reproductive systems by going Republican too.

However for these players, the set - up of the voting system may go against them with voting ballots being handed out in December.

The 20 top - flight teams voted last week against introducing the system for the league's 2018 - 19 season after trials in English cup competitions received mixed reviews.

So you could argue that the current system is actually biased against Labour, and therefore PR will actually disadvantage Labour even more unless rates of voter registration are improved and compulsory voting introduced.

Another failure for the Liberal Democrats has been in relation to their pledge to deliver «a fair deal by cleaning up politics», following the 67.9 % vote against the introduction of the alternative vote system in the May 2011 referendum and the absence of the promised elected House of Lords.

And board member Veronica Vanterpool — once a proponent of regularly scheduled fare increases — said that although she could not commit to voting against the upcoming fare increases, «the riders of the systems are really the only ones that consistently uphold their responsibility» to fund the MTA.

The Tories are united against the proposed alternative vote system.

«With just days to go, it is more important than ever that we put aside party differences for the good of the country and that everyone comes out to vote against the unfair and expensive alternative vote system on May 5th,» she said.

«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.

Gioia was the only Council member to vote against the budget, calling the discretionary funding system «broken.»

(Posted 24 December 2011) Significant current scandals, and those yet to come In no particular order Top salaries and bonuses - boardroom and shareholder individual responsibility The multiple between top and average pay Lawyers fees - the cost of the legal process Medical negligence claims against the NHS Care and treatment in the NHS «No win, no fee» personal injury compensation Democracy and the voting system Lords reform Political party funding The domestic energy market and pricing The Tax system and its inefficiencies and complexities Subsidies for new energy generation schemes The amount of crime fuelled by Drugs The availability of drugs in prison.

But there are three candidates for the common council who have also pledged to vote against anything that would support the proposed Mohawk Valley Health System hospital in that location, such as bonding for the facility's parking garage that Utica and Oneida County are planning to finance.

The commission, headed by Lord Plant, professor of politics at Southampton University, voted by 10 to 6 against keeping the present scheme for electing MPs - while, as predicted by the Independent, a narrower 9 - 7 majority decided it should be replaced with a «supplementary vote» (SV) system that would retain constituency links.

Let's take just one example to illustrate how our outdated electoral system can not cope with the reality of multi party politics: Simon Wright was elected as the MP for Norwich South with just 29 % of the vote despite the fact that twice as many people voted against him than in favour.

You could imagine other solutions, especially with electronic voting systems, but, e.g., writing down the details of every person who shows up to vote and then cross-checking those lists after the fact would be much more cumbersome than checking the details of each voter against a pre-existing list.

The Lords voted by 306 to 178 against the reforms after a heated debate in which opponents on all sides of the House pointed out the new system could be used to stop any behaviour «capable of causing nuisance or annoyance to any person».

Assemblyman Charles Barron, a Brooklyn Democrat who also voted against the bill, said he would prefer passing a law to extend mayoral control for one year, during which a panel of experts could come up with a better system of governance.

But that of course is an argument against AV as a so - called «proportionate» voting system.

The Governor got the Senate Democratic Conference and the Democratic Assembly Members to vote against their own community interests and against themselves, while on the other hand, the Governor created his own, private, HUGE Member Items — or should I say, Governor Items and Governor Capital Funds for his disposal, making everyone believe that he did away with the system — and in the process, using the Democrats as rubber stamps.

In the last four general elections the voting system has delivered significant bias against the Conservative party.

One is the decline of the Liberal Democrats and tactical voting — one of the reasons the electoral system had worked against the Tories in recent decades was that Labour and Lib Dem voters had been prepared to vote tactically against the Tories, and the Lib Dems have held lots of seats in areas that would otherwise be Tory.

Well, in a campaign about restoring the British people's trust in politics, I think it's important for all sides to be honest about who they are, and why they're arguing for or against this proposed change to our voting system.

He ran against Hillary Clinton for Senate in 2006, receiving 1.2 percent of the vote, and his platform calls for «universal single - payer health care, fully funded public schools, tuition - free SUNY and CUNY, building a carbon - free clean energy system — all paid for by restoring progressive tax rates on Wall Street and the rich.»

I support this coalition because a hung Parliament makes it necessary, but I would not support changes to our voting system that would make hung Parliaments the norm, so although I will loyally vote to hold a referendum on changing the voting system, I will campaign vigorously against the alternative vote.»

Are we Conservatives right to set our face against reform of the First Past the Post (FPP) voting system?

A parliamentary system would protect against a theoretical US shutdown caused by presidential veto of a budget from a Congress that didn't have enough votes to override it - but that's not what happened here.

Graham Allen, however, will vote against the party line, but only does so rarely (just six times so far this parliament) and is another who is currently utilising the select committee system to good effect.

Murphy initially voted against the health care bill in the House last November, because he said «it did not adequately address the fundamentally flawed system,» but he supported the final health care bill in March, saying «it will stop the out of control growth of health care costs, protect our local industries and jobs from unfair taxes, and help small businesses create jobs.»

Now, Lazio's ties to Wall Street and his congressional votes to deregulate the nation's banking system - a bill that critics say helped lead to the nation's recent financial crisis - are an issue in his battle for the GOP gubernatorial nomination against Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy and Buffalo developer Carl Paladino.

Here in New York, vibrant movements opposing fracking and the growing corporate attacks on our public school system helped spur the Green Party gubernatorial campaign of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones, which received almost 5 percent of the vote running against incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo, the best any independent third party campaign has done statewide in more than 80 years.

Some 40 Labour MPs are still thought to be planning to vote against it: they believe the AV system would end up favouring the least unpopular candidates, rather than the most popular - and fear that could lose Labour seats.

«Sen. Hartley, like the 18 other senators who voted against Malloy's flawed pick to lead our judicial system, voted her conscience.»

Downing Street confirms David Cameron will campaign against a change to the voting system, although Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon reports the prime minister has been telling Nick Clegg the Lib Dems can win a vote on AV.

Most of the chamber's Republicans voted against the bill, arguing that the policies increased standardized testing and gave too much power to the Board of Regents in implementing the new evaluation system.

But the Tories had not offered a guarantee of a referendum on introducing the alternative vote electoral system, in which voters rank candidates on preference rather than place a cross against one candidate alone.

A small but exasperated group of protesters gathered on Staten Island tonight to denounce a grand jury's vote not to bring criminal charges in the death of Eric Garner, accusing the Staten Island justice system and the NYPD of once more discriminating against communities of color.

Political scientists have argued that the major reason driving the public to vote against the proposal was their unfamiliarity with the new system.

Mr Howarth said: «We can not go on with a political system under which unpopular governments are elected by a little more than a third of those voting and who push through policies that two - thirds of those voting have just voted against.»

The race pitted two Democrats against each other because of Washington's Top Two primary system, where the top two vote - getters in the September primary advance to the general election, regardless of party.

It convinced scores of Tory MPs that there was no point in holding out against a Tory - Lib Dem coalition - even though the price of such a coalition was a promise to hold a referendum on the so - called «alternative vote» system which will cost numerous Tory MPs their seats.

[10] The Court also ruled that a state may not mandate a «closed primary» system and bar independents from voting in a party's primary against the wishes of the party.