Sentences with phrase «with changes to the voting system»

They have the carefully calculated advantage of combining the referendum with the elections that will bring out Scottish and Welsh voters to elect their parliament and assembly, and those voters are expected to be more at ease with changes to the voting system than the English.

The Academy Awards have desperately been attempting to stay relevant in today's cinematic climate, with changes to their voting system and members, in order...

Not exact matches

A key requirement of democracy is equal protection of all stakeholders - i.e., if at some point there is a completely fair vote of 2/3 population preferring the choices advocated and implemented by party A; and 1/3 preferring the choices of party B - then a system must ensure that the minority gets adequate protections and fair treatment; so that while at this moment country gets steered to choice A, the minority doesn't get punished in any way for saying that in their opinion choice B might be best; and if some of the original voters change their mind, the choice B can still be known even if the governing clique that was elected on the idea of A wants to continue with A forever.

Journalists with NMC accreditation will take part in special voting «It's a system which is robust and it is so verifiable that it is practically impossible for any single individual or group to manipulate and change election results,» he added.

If there is majority support for replacing FPP with a PR voting system, is there a systematic approach that supporters of voting reform could follow to bring about this change?

Chuka Umunna has recently made welcome noises about changing the voting system; some voices one would once have associated with 1997 - era orthodoxy have lately been making the case for a citizen's income; the idea of an unconditional payment granted to every individual as a right of citizenship..

Having failed to achieve a change in the voting system for the House of Commons — with the loss of last year's referendum on the alternative vote — Nick Clegg's party is determined to push ahead in order that his party can boast having forced a major constitutional change on the country as a result of being in government.

Israel has a closed list proportional representation electoral system with a single nationwide constituency so, apart from the 3.25 % threshold, changes in seats are pretty much perfectly sensitive to the changes in the share of the vote.

Last month, with Election Day around the corner, that seemed to change as de Blasio renewed his call for a system that will encourage voting in a state with one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the country.

Edwards does feel his own suggestions are «more realistic» than Brand's proposal to forego your vote, as engaging with the parliamentary system to make improvements is the only credible route of achieving change.

As with any change of voting system, it's hard to game the results without stating other parameters that have been assumed, but there are a few key cases that are fairly obvious.

Although his office can not mandate repairs to the voting system, de Blasio announced that the city would spend $ 20 million to improve the Board of Elections, provided it would agree to a series of changes aimed at addressing the problems with last week's primary.

Whether legislating for a five - year fixed - term parliament, or changing the voting registration system, or redrawing the electoral map, this is a government which has not stopped to think twice before meddling with the rules of the game.

In June 2016, the House of Commons of Canada Special Committee on Electoral Reform was formed to examine potential changes to the voting system with MMP being one of the options examined.

With broad support from the parliamentary parties, Philippe confirmed the intention of the government to prepare a draft law to change the voting system to that end in 2018, while still preserving the 5 % threshold for representation and 3 % for reimbursement of campaign expenses.

Jack Straw has said he is not opposed to the idea of the alternative vote system where people can rank their preferences for MPs, but it is a hardly a radical change to the way we elect our politicians and the Tory leader David Cameron has said that at least with first past the post you can kick out a government.

With Labour now attempting to form its own coalition government, the Conservatives promised the Liberal Democrats a referendum on changing the voting mechanism to the Alternative Vote (AV) system.

Last year's State Senate session ended with protests and arrests outside Klein's Capitol office, with demonstrators upset that he didn't use his alliance to win final votes on progressive bills they favored, including a system of public campaign finance and changes to the state's abortion laws.

The 2011 referendum proposing to replace the first - past - the - post (FPTP) voting system with the alternative vote (AV) was the culmination of a long process led by political parties and organised pressure groups pushing for change.

With more than 100,000 votes cast in the campaign's open poll on ideas to change the system, it is pursuing the people's top constitutional reforms.

Taxpayers will be landed with a # 250million bill to change our electoral system if the public votes Yes to reform, researchers warn.

Just 17 percent of active members — educators who are currently working in schools and with city students — actually voted, a turnout that dismayed some who want to see changes in the union and the school system.

(8) the points made in the conclusion are: (1) consistent with avoiding expenditures on the criminal justice system, the federal attorney general appeared to be neglecting the plight of pre-trial inmates in custody in extremely bad jail conditions, and the provincial attorney general appeared to ignore the needs of prosecutors for greater resources of staff and time in order to work adequately; (2) similarly, the other examples presented also support the proposition that the criminal justice system is inadequately resourced because there are «no votes in justice»; and, (3) the reduction in the safeguards against wrongful convictions caused by the radical changes in procedures made necessary because governments do not provide adequate resources for the criminal justice system;

In a procedural tweak that could prove to have the strongest long - term impact of them all, Facebook is also doing away with the voting system that lets users veto changes to its terms and policies.