Sentences with phrase «week voting period»

Today the one - week voting period opens on a set of a relatively benign changes and Facebook will notify users by web and mobile.

A record number of votes — more than 25,000 — were cast during the 10 - week voting period, which closed on Nov. 5, 2013.

Members of the Washington Teachers» Union approved the pact 1,412 to 425 after a two - week voting period.

With 6,500 signatures, the group's petition called for three bills that would not only introduce a two - week voting period «to ease long lines on Election Day and give voters flexibility as they juggle work and family obligations,» but modify ballots to make them more comprehensible and streamline the voter registration process.

Not exact matches

The reality of the pension crisis was underlined again last week when the board of the largest $ 330 + billion US public pension plan, California Public Employees Retirement System (CalLPERS), voted to shorten its period for amortizing future investment losses from 30 years to 20 years.

Humza Yousaf, Scottish Minister for Transport and the Islands, invited Twitter followers to vote for one of three food and drink «vices» he should forgo during the six - week fasting period and the orange fizzy beverage was selected - ahead of chocolate and crisps.

The Power 5 leagues also voted Friday to ban 5 a.m. practices and to mandate players get one day off per week during the preseason and vacation periods.

It will be fascinating to see how the AP voters handle the Golden Eagles next week if they come through with a 2 - 1 record in the voting period.

To address the issue that citizens might not have time to vote, we could make the voting period weekly (i.e. every week there is a referendum online on various bills).

And you could have a government that simply had votes X number of times a time period (week, month, year) on set days.

The Act removes the prime minister's discretion to dissolve parliament and instead creates a constitutional expectation that opportunities to form a new government be explored for a period of two weeks following a successful no - confidence vote (Schleiter and Issar 2014; Schleiter and Belu forthcoming).

In the appeal, Tkcazyk says many of the votes — including 54 ballots in Democratic - heavy Ulster County — were tossed out on «hyper - technical» grounds in part because they were handed out prior to a two - week waiting period.

Specifically, the Vote Better NY advocates call on lawmakers to adopt the following common - sense reforms: Early voting: (A8582 / S3813B) New Yorkers should have a two - week period including Saturdays and Sundays to ease long lines on Election Day and give voters flexibility as they juggle work and family obligations.

-- Creation of an early voting period: 35 states offer some form of early voting, generally 1 - 2 weeks before Election Day at a selected number of «super poll sites.»

Cuomo promised not to issue controversial orders to suspend the constitution's requirement for three days» waiting period before the Legislature votes, but did so twice on the two biggest bills passed last week.

It charges the board also did not follow federal rules which said there had to be a public comment period two weeks prior to the board's vote.

Critics argued that by allowing a 14 - day period after the no confidence vote for leaders to try and form a stable government, the legislation raises the distinct possibility of a sitting prime minister trying to buy the votes of opposition parties in the two - week window.

It found last year's alternative vote referendum a nightmare to organise and wants a period of at least 28 weeks - 12 for the finalisation of the rules, and a 16 - week campaign period.

This year's voting period, extended a week from last year, fell right in the middle of the Golden Globe winners as well as BAFTA, Producers Guild and Directors Guild nominations.

The top 10 winners were then determined by popular vote, with each voter permitted to cast one digital ballot daily during a four - week period.

The voting period begins the week of April 13th and closes at 5:00 pm EDT on April 30th (for more information on voting in the Bencher Election, please visit the Law Society's website).

Bitcoin and ether prices rode a rollercoaster during the week ending 24th June, a period defined by the UK's vote to leave the European Union.

ICC staff then spent about a week to draft the ballots, and the two - week remote voting period began on October 15 and will end on October 29.

The only thing that I would add is that most sellers, like those who do not vote in elections, are either too lazy or too busy to take on the responsibilities and time commitments to flesh out relevant information in order to try to sell on their own (for more than a couple of weeks as a trial period).