Sentences with phrase «what election system»
With what election system would you replace the electoral college?
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The Republican presidential nominee held a campaign rally in Ryan's home state of Wisconsin on Monday in which the crowd chanted «Paul Ryan sucks» and Trump railed against what he called «corrupt» media and a «rigged» election system — a frequent accusation the Manhattan billionaire has brought up without evidence.
«Virginia has always been an early - warning system for midterm elections — almost always showing us what will happen in the next year if the course of the storm doesn't shift.
But the extent of Russia's infiltration in election systems across the country last year remains unclear, and congressional investigators apparently are trying to find out more about what the Russians accessed and why.
Mr. Anglin also filed a complaint with the Calgary Police reporting he'd received an anonymous death threat after refusing to step aside for Mr. Nixon, and accused what the Red Deer Advocate called «a senior Wildrose Party player» of offering him «in essence a bribe» in return for stepping down — a job with the Alberta Electric System Operator, Alberta Energy Regulator or the Alberta Surface Rights Board, presumably on the assumption the party wins the next election.
On our account, what we call Being - itself is not necessary, but is only one election from an infinity of possible systems and structures.
And no doubt, regardless of what may have happened in the last elections, he's done a lot to restore stability in the electoral system in our country.
But what's troubling for Labour's leader is that some of those calling for the system to be reformed are, in effect, declaring his election illegitimate.
«What I'm saying here is pointing at a very, very irrational possible outcome of our potty electoral system, which is that a party that has spectacularly lost the election because fewer people are voting for it than any other party, could nonetheless according to constitutional tradition and convention still lay claim to providing the prime minister of the country.»
And the at - large system in the East Ramapo Central School District denies them that opportunity because what we have there is heavily racially polarized voting in which the white community votes as a bloc, and black and Latino voters vote as a bloc and, because the white community outnumbers them they're able to win elections again and again and again,» Grossman says.
What would be the point of doubling seats (to 100 MPs) in two elections if not to take a deal as similar to this one as possible from one of the major parties, and to change the political system.
«Only New York State could have this convoluted an election system that we could find ourselves here in this time and place having to make some difficult decisions about what to do next....
The report, written by elections experts, academic Prof. Roger Scully and ERS Wales» researcher Dr Owain ap Gareth, the report compares projections of what the results could have looked like under different voting systems and questions the impact of the proposed Boundary Changes.
On AV, I think it is more complicated, as neither you nor I can say we know what the pattern of 1st preferences would be in the first AV General Election, still less do any of us know what the overall candidate and party system look like, and the way in which different candidates and parties might interact over two or three elections.
The report details what the results in the 2011 Assembly election could have looked like under different voting systems.
Earlier this year, the Times reported that the group was targeting «10 to 15 House lawmakers whose records and public statements have not been supportive of what Mr. Soros calls a system of «citizen - led» elections.»
The system prevents what can be costly and labor - intensive runoff elections, such as the one held in the 2013 primary election for public advocate.
What you are arguing for, then, is not a different election system, but a different governmental system.
The plan would create a «doing business» database similar to what's in place in the New York City elections system.
Outside of a tangentially related proposal to increase the cybersecurity of the state's electoral systems, the entirety of what the governor proposed in areas like ethics, transparency and elections has been mentioned in past addresses.
What was discovered is that as things stand now, under the current closed list PR system used for European elections in the UK, Labour will win with 30 per cent of the vote, UKIP will come second with 25 per cent, the Conservatives will gain 23 per cent, the Greens 12, and the Liberal Democrats 10 (note the Liberal Democrats in fifth).
The Institute for Government's Hannah White asks what her election as the new Chair of the health select committee tells us about the way the system is changing.
«So what happened to the system after May 29,2015 that this present government took over?How did we get to this level of inconclusive and questionable elections in which the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies appear to have become part of the ruling party?»
Supporters of what they refer to as a «fair election system» are holding a press conference this hour outside the Rensselaer County Board of Elections office in Troy.
We should, too - by adopting what's called a Top - Two election system, as was recently approved by voters in California.
Britain's first - past - the - post (FPTP) electoral system (in) famously results in marginal and safe seats where many votes are considered «wasted» — but the 2017 General Election has shown just what random results that can throw up.
Among her plans of what she'd like to accomplish once elected: Promote / support bills in Congress that adopt clean sources of energy by helping to end the intricate system of public subsidies that keep dirty sources of energy artificially cheap, and promote renewable sources: solar, wind, and hydro; Protect waterways / drinking supply by reducing the risk of contamination and ensure that when contamination is found, the responsible parties are held accountable; Fight for public financing of elections; Work every day to overturn Citizens United.
Replying to Labour criticism of Conservative plans to recognise marriage in the tax system, Philip Hammond, the shadow work and pensions secretary, told Channel 4 News: «What we have said, and we've clarified that this afternoon just so there shouldn't be any confusion, we are absolutely committed to introducing a recognition of marriage in the tax system during the course of the next parliament, if we win the election.»
«I think what is coming to an end is a political system rooted in a first - past - the - post means of election which looks as if it is creaking at the seams.
Fairer votes would be fine, but the system we've got isn't critically unfair and, as a Labour party member, I can't get a nagging scene out of my head: the announcement of the result of the Labour leadership election last year, with the numbers from each stage of the voting flashing up on the big screen and no - one understanding quite what was happening or who was winning.
But what is really needed is for the Labour government after this next election to abandon the present cronyism of appointment to the Lords and replace it by an electoral system geographically based on Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the major English regions.
They know they will lose a leadership election if they say openly what they did before Corbyn was elected, that Labour should be tougher on benefits than the Tories, or that we need an Australian - style points system for migrants, or that # 9,000 tuition fees are here to say.
So what will I do when I finally vote in the referendum on May 5th where on the one hand we have the incumbent First Past the Post System which we know at a national level to be unrepresentative and unfair as it returns governments with overwhelming majorities in the House of Commons even though they only have forty per cent of the vote or less, or AV which is not a representative system but more complicated with it's opaque results making it more open to election fraud or the suspiciSystem which we know at a national level to be unrepresentative and unfair as it returns governments with overwhelming majorities in the House of Commons even though they only have forty per cent of the vote or less, or AV which is not a representative system but more complicated with it's opaque results making it more open to election fraud or the suspicisystem but more complicated with it's opaque results making it more open to election fraud or the suspicion of.
What government watchdog groups viewed as the centerpiece of the governor's proposals was also whittled down: The state would set up a public financing system for one office, state comptroller, as a test case in the 2014 election.
Most elections in the US, the UK, Canada, India and many other countries use what is technically called a plurality voting system (better known as first - past - the - post) for single - winner elections.
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.
I congratulate all Board members on either their re-election, election or campaigns — civic leaders stepping up to make our education system better is what A + is all about.
With a national election and campaign finance system spiraling out of control and increasingly under the control of special interests, Connecticut actually stood up and took an action that would serve as the national model for what can and should be done to promote true democracy.
We saw the results of that with the election of Trump: that's what happens when you don't understand the expanse of ideas and faces and skin colors and income brackets that comprise value systems.
As Eban Goodstein, Director of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, so aptly shared immediately following the election, «Our work will not go away... Meeting the needs of billions of more people all aspiring to a better quality of life demands that we still rewire the world with clean energy, still reinvent the global food system, still rebuild smart and inclusive cities, and fundamentally, put sustainability and sufficiency at the heart of what we are doing on the planet.
The report was released following what has been described as «the worst hacking of U.S. government systems in history» and accusations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Instead, we have the current system where Wall got what he wanted, the protection of potash prices, and Harper got what he wanted, peace in the Conservative hinterland as an election nears.
This is an example of what I said more than a year ago — that the system was cobbled together by Blair then Cameron for what they thought was their own political advantage and Parliament has not taken the legal framework for our elections seriously, leaving many such gaps, confusions and so on.
Accepting that these steps by themselves won't stop all people trying to game the system, the Facebook CEO said it will, however, make it a lot harder for anyone to do «what the Russians did during the 2016 election and use fake accounts and pages to run ads».
Mark Zuckerberg wrote that the steps alone «won't stop all people trying to game the system, But they will make it a lot harder for anyone to do what the Russians did during the 2016 election and use fake accounts and pages to run ads».