Sentences with phrase «voting system works»

«Travellers from more than 40 countries took part in the survey, and the results demonstrate how well our voting system works: eight of the ten most popular attractions from the previous year retained their top - ten ranking in 2015.»

Yet, much is to be done to understand how the U.S. voting system works.

Our unique, hassle - free voting system works well here.

Not exact matches

had hoped to find both the necessary votes and time on the House floor for consideration of a bill that would spin the nation's air traffic controllers and thousands of people working on modernizing the aviation system into a private nonprofit corporation.

«When you get major news like this that is unexpected, as the «Brexit» vote was, it often takes about five trading days to kind of work through the system,» said JJ Kinahan, chief strategist at TD Ameritrade.

He worked out long ago that in a one - country - one - vote system a handful of votes from the smallest nations anywhere in the world cancel out the votes of the European footballing powerhouses.

There'll be plenty of Get - Out - The - Vote messages to send, plus last - minute candidate videos and fundraising appeals to promote, but by now the real work should be done — if the systems aren't in place and the databases largely complete by now, somebody'd better be sweating.

Because, from the point of view of the people who have the power to change the voting system (Congress and state legislators), the status quo works just fine.

One thing this showed was how well our FPTP system works and how silly he results can be when you have play votes.

Or, alternatively, if you're asking a general voting - system design question (i.e. «How can I make this thing I'm designing work»), that's also valid, but you should make that explicit.

In several of these cases (1951, 1966 and Oct 1974) the parliament was either hung, or the Prime minister had a majority of less than 10 (which is not considered to be a «working majority» in the UK's parliamentary system) and so you can say that they «jumped» to call an election before they were «pushed» by losing a vote of no - confidence.

For example Labour currently wins large proportions of votes from non-whites (around 10 per cent of the electorate), public sector trade unionists (another 10 per cent of the electorate) and working age people whose main income is via the welfare system (another 10 per cent of the electorate).

The election system works like this: You can vote for electorates and party list.

Your vote is your own, but to work within the system you should vote for the candidate you feel best fits the role that the election seeks to fill.

Consider his interactions with the Working Families Party, a homegrown New York third party of unions and liberal groups that, because of the state's unique fusion voting system, has become an electoral powerhouse over the past decade.

2) If you are interested in a particular election, for example the London Mayoral election, clink on the election link on the right hand side of the homepage, which will then take you to an overview of these elections, with an interactive map, summary results, and, importantly a section on how the voting system in your area works.

I'm grateful to Vote Better NY for bringing attention to an issue that goes to heart of our democratic system, and look forward to working with my colleagues to create a better, fairer, and more open electoral process for all New Yorkers.»

Given how the First Past The Post electoral system works, concentrated support can translate into huge gains in seats (the PCs came third in the popular vote — in fact, they almost came second — but a distant fifth by seat count, which is all that matters).

Today's move brings us towards a fairer, more just system of electing our President where one person really does equal one vote,» said Bill Lipton, State Director for the Working Families Party.

«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.

Advocates of electoral reform have argued the new system will force MPs to «work harder» because they will need to broaden their efforts beyond their core vote.

This is the case in which the parties argue that the top - two system, as it works in the real world, unconstitutionally injures voters who desire to vote for minor party and independent candidates.

The way this works is that about half of the member of parliaments are elected in a district using a first - past - the - post system but the overall share of seats allocated to each party still has to be roughly proportional to the share of the vote.

«Despite the progress outlined in this tentative deal there is clearly a lot of work ahead of us, including stronger criminal justice reforms; full funding for our state's public education system; ensuring affordable college for all New Yorkers, including DREAMers; additional support for Planned Parenthood; and ethics and voting reforms,» said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

It's certainly not unlikely that with a different voting system, primaries would work differently, and the Republican primary campaign in particular was a classic example of vote splitting among essentially identical candidates.

Let's push for something different: a system where everybody's vote matters and politicians will need to work hard to earn every vote.

No one has yet come up with electronic voting system that 99 % of people can understand how it works in enough details to personally know it is secure.

Third, if minor parties are worried about how winner - take - all, single - member - district elections encourage voters to vote for lesser evils rather than their first choice, we want to work with them for a real solution to that problem: a system of proportional representation,» LaVenia said.

Under Cuomo's plan, the early voting would begin in the off year elections of 2019, where the races are local and turn out is lower, in order to work any kinks in in the new system.

As Douglas W. Rae points out in the standard reference work The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws, majoritarian electoral systems are extremely rare for multi-seat legislatures, only being well established in Australia, and for second round voting in some French elections.

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.

I am convinced that it is down to the good work of many Labour MPs in the previous Parliament, objecting to a full blown version of PR, which prevented Gordon Brown from pursing complete destruction of our voting system.

«The best way to stop big businesses from avoiding tax is to Vote Leave so we can take back control and reintroduce a fair system that works for the British taxpayer not big business.»

I'm proud to be leading a genuinely cross-party campaign which isn't trying to hide the political links of the many people supporting us — but which is able to put those party ties to one side and work together to stop an obscure, unfair and expensive voting system being forced on our country.

The Irish parliamentary system broadly works on a simple majority system, where the Taoiseach is elected by the Dáil when they achieve 50 % + 1 of the votes in favour of their nomination.

The wedge measurably weakens when you have a few voters from one party crossing sides on most votes, which is how it used to be and arguably how the system is supposed to work.

* Voters all over Long Island are questioning whether our new system for voting works.

Some MPs asked the Tory leader about how the coalition would work and whether it was wise to offer the Lib Dems a referendum on the Alternative Vote system.

A policy similar to the one used by Australia was among the key pledges made by Vote Leave campaigners such as Boris Johnson ahead of the referendum on June 23 - but the new Prime Minister, appointed after the vote, dismissed the idea saying there were questions about whether such systems ever worVote Leave campaigners such as Boris Johnson ahead of the referendum on June 23 - but the new Prime Minister, appointed after the vote, dismissed the idea saying there were questions about whether such systems ever worvote, dismissed the idea saying there were questions about whether such systems ever worked.

Mayors work within combined authorities, with cabinets made up of council leaders — all of whom are indirectly elected through a broken First Past the Post voting system.

UKIP tend to fall out of the news a lot between elections, I expect that they will hold or improve their vote slightly on last time in the European Elections and in the General Election, especially in a campaign where they have a number of elected representatives and where the list system works in their favour.

Alternative Vote (AV) How it works: Like the current system, voters are grouped in the same constituencies, which each return one MP.

Online voting isn't dead forever: great minds are working with biometric ID systems, two - factor authentication and new cryptographic systems in hopes of solving the problem.

I use mathematics to ensure the security of communications, and my team's work has been applied to electronic voting systems, online auctions, 3G telephones and chip - and - PIN payment...

The system works so fast that people should not see any interruption in the movie as the votes are tallied and the winning plot section retrieved.

Even the ways in which Lincoln skirted the law and worked the system — doing things that are, in his own words, «impeachable» — to pass the amendment (up to and including, the film suggests, delaying the end of the Civil War to leverage more votes) are presented as pure fait accompli: the known ends justifying the at - times - questionable means.

This is a three part module designed for KS2 explaining democracy in straightforward terms, including: - what democracy means - how the system of voting and elections works in the UK - the way that local, national and European government works - an overview of how an idea becomes a law This includes a PowerPoint presentation and an activities sheet.

Cincinnati's merit pay plan, proposed in 2002, was overwhelmingly voted down by teachers (1892 to 73), even though the program did not base bonuses on student test scores, but rather on a multifaceted evaluation system that included classroom observations by professional peers and administrators and portfolios of lesson plans and student work.

A coalition of organizations representing business, education advocates, civil rights groups and community leaders applauds last week's unanimous vote by Kentucky Board of Education to approve a new, more robust school accountability system and commends Commissioner, Stephen Pruitt, and the Kentucky Department of Education for their work on the new framework.

Speaking after the vote was passed, ATL general secretary Dr Mary Bousted said: «Michael Gove and Sir Michael Wilshaw are like blood brothers with a pact to suck the life and hope out of our education system and the teachers who work within it.»