Sentences with phrase «want election districts»

If you want election districts to be drawn independently to more accurately group voters rather than to guarantee that a particular political party wins on Election Day, vote yes.

Not exact matches

A vote on a separate piece of legislation Paterson will be sending up to delay $ 1.5 billion worth of education aid payments to school districts could be more problematic — particularly since this is an election year and few lawmakers are going to want to take that potentially troublesome vote.

If we just wanted the popular majority to carry the election, we would need neither districts nor the Electoral College.

Democratic hopeful Todd Kaminsky, meanwhile, opened up his sharpest criticism yet of McGrath, linking him to disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, the Republican who both men want to replace in the Nassau County district in an April 19 special election.

They will represent districts Democrats carried with big margins in presidential election years — seats the newly minted Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Ben Ray Luján will probably want back.

Pidot's primary opponent, Jack Martins, a state senator from Old Westbury, wants to move the general election from Nov. 8, the date of national presidential and congressional elections, because a court moved the district's Republican primary from June to Oct. 6.

Stephen Ruth, coined the «Red - Light Robin Hood,» said Wednesday he wants to run on the Libertarian line in the November election for State Senate in the Second District.

Former Mayor Ed Koch bucked his own party in endorsing Republican Bob Turner Monday and not state Assemblyman David Weprin (D - Little Neck) to replace former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner in September's special election, saying he wanted to «send a message» to President Barack Obama that voters in the district disapprove of his policy toward Israel.

The House members also want to appeal to New York's moderate Republican and Democratic voters, and independents who help decide elections in swing districts like Katko's in the Syracuse area.

If you want to see Jonathan continue as District Leader and the rest of our endorsed candidates win their elections please volunteer your time.

By the way, if you want to register to vote in that special election or the other one (Assembly District 43) happening May 5, you have until April 10 to register.

Presumably, a single - district («majority») system like in the US, France or the UK was perceived as less democratic so if you still want to allow some form of personal election, you necessarily end up with a complex system.

Dadey said he wants a strong Republican candidate with the ability to hold the seat in a presidential election year, which favors Democrats and their small enrollment advantage in the district.

The Rensselaer County Democratic Committee will soon be getting calls from attorneys wanting to replace District Attorney Richard McNally, who won election Tuesday to state Supreme Court.

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.

«All those who bought forms and want to contest elections will still be entitled to contest the election but the different senatorial districts have agreed in consensus arrangement on how to produce their candidate,» he explained.

The Empire: Assemblyman Rory Lancman wanted a shot at the 9th Congressional District during the special election back in September.

But Democrats in the Senate typically make gains in a presidential election years, and they are playing offense in districts on Long Island and in the Hudson Valley (Republicans want to flip a western New York seat as well as a district in Westchester County).

Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo is a scofflaw, says the man who wants to replace her in Albany, and the state Board of Elections supports his contention.Angel Molina, a Democrat running on the Republican line in November's general election in the 84th Assembly District, wants Arroyo investigated for failing to report campaign contributions and expenditures during 2014's election cycle.The nondisclosure is a violation of state election laws that often results in heavy fines, but little else.

«I firmly believe elections are for the voters, and I want to give the voters in this district a real choice in for the Assembly,» she said, while standing among a small group of supporters, many of them family and friends.

The recent election of Congressman Daniel Donovan, the former Staten Island district attorney, has left a vacancy — many Republicans want State Senator Andrew Lanza to run for district attorney, a campaign that would also leave his State Senate vacant.

He said the various ethics and anti-corruption measures should be something lawmakers want to tout about in their districts in an election year.

New Queens Democrats, which in several months has modestly grown to nearly two dozen members, is now focused on supporting other progressives who want to run for county committee, a massive body of representatives from each election district that meets biennially, but has few concrete powers aside from helping to select candidates for special elections and nominating judicial candidates.

«I want to thank Senator Larkin for hearing our concerns and taking action once again to ensure that our school district is given the opportunity to create election wards,» said Pine Bush School Board Member Matt Watkins.

As per a recent article in our local paper — The Arizona Republic — Arizona «legislators want to gag school officials» in an amendment to Senate Bill 1172 that will prohibit «an employee of a school district or charter school, acting on the district's or charter school's behalf, from distributing electronic materials to influence the outcome of an election or to advocate support for or opposition to pending or proposed legislation.»

Few inside the district wanted to talk publicly yesterday, given the high stakes of the Senate election and a gubernatorial election right behind it.

Headed into an election year, voters should be skeptical at best about people who want to be handed the only set of keys to the district.