Sentences with phrase «with voter referendums»

Many states in the US do this with voter referendums.

Not exact matches

Determined for the club to remain neutral, Bartomeu allowed a scheduled match to go ahead on the referendum day, at the very moment when Spanish police were storming polling stations and beating voters with truncheons.

GW Pharmaceuticals: «My problem with GW Pharma is that every time we seem to have a referendum on marijuana, the voters approve it.

This referendum was called by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron because of a promise made in his election campaign to renegotiate terms with the EU and then hold a referendum, designed to win over voters he feared would defect to UKIP.

It also mentioned that governments might be inclined to organise referenda to counteract the «perception that the EU is an «elite - driven» project,» as it notes that notion has been lingering since the start of the recession as «voters increasingly associat [e] the EU project with austerity, rather than a source of union and prosperity.»

As I flew back from Dublin to Edinburgh I read the Sunday edition of the Irish Independent the headline of which was «POLL: Act Now on Abortion say voters» with the story continuing: «The most seismic shift [in the Irish public's attitude to abortion] is that a clear majority (56 %) now favour a new referendum to repeal the current position, which gives equal right to life to the mother and foetus.»

That will leave the park district's 42,000 residents with no pool, but commissioners say they have no choice after voters turned down three referendums to build new facilities.

If the voters decide to dissolve the district, Gurnee residents allied with Fiddyment would seek to re-establish a district in a referendum question in next March «s election and simultaneously field a slate of five candidates for a new park board.

With 40,000 residents, 20,000 registered voters and 4,000 who actually vote, she said, the binding referendum could be the decision of 2,001 residents.

The Park Board voted last week to hold a referendum asking voters to approve a $ 6 million bond issue to pay the district's share of a building to be constructed in partnership with Joliet - based Provena St. Joseph Medical Center.

He said the possibility of partnering with other groups or asking voters via a referendum will be explored.

It was a clean sweep for North Shore referendum measures, with three school districts winning at the polls Tuesday and Glenview Park District voters approving two new swimming pools.

«With two referendums on the same ballot, it's magnified twice, and voters have to figure out how to navigate both things, which is sort of asking a lot of them,» Krupnikov added.

The referendum failed and voter feedback indicated that the tax dollars requested should be reduced and limited in duration and that specific projects with timelines for completion should be identified.

«We have an opportunity, if voters in town agree with the referendum, to have new debt in place with a minimal impact to residents,» said Wilson, adding that with currently low interest rates, residents likely would see no tax increase during the first five years of the 15 - year bond sale and a minimal increase for the following 10 years.

«The thing with referendums in general (is that) unless the issue is highly publicized or intensely emotional, voters tend to ignore it,» said Yanna Krupnikov, an assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University.

With 99 percent of the precincts reporting, 1,300 Wheeling voters approved the referendum to save the Chevy Chase clubhouse versus 900 people who voted against it, according to Tom Busby, superintendent of finance for the Park District.

Regarding his resignation, Simeone cited frustration with lack of funding and of support from voters for a referendum measure.

With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, 2,305 Wheeling voters approved the referendum proposal to save the Chevy Chase clubhouse versus 1,435 people who voted against it, said Karop Bavougian, director of parks and recreation for the Park District.

Schultz left amid criticism after voters overwhelmingly defeated a referendum question to finance a controversial recreation center with an indoor pool and gymnasium.

The result was particularly damaging for the prime minister given he had already tried to win back Ukip voters with a pledge to hold a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU.

Since the 2014 referendum Scottish voters have been increasingly polarised along constitutional lines, with supporters of independence generally backing the SNP and opponents increasingly coalescing behind the Conservatives.

Weprin is up 56 - 35 with Jewish voters — a hotly - contested voting bloc, thanks in part to former NYC Mayor Ed Koch's endorsement of Turner and his desire to make this race into a referendum on President Obama's support — or lack thereof, in Koch's mind — for Israel.

But, aware that the prospect of a second referendum plays badly with even moderate «Yes» voters, the SNP will spend the next six weeks playing down the independence dimension while the Tories place it at the centre of their campaign, an attempt to turn the general election into a referendum on a referendum.

The Liberal Democrats have been making a concerted effort to oust Kate Hoey out of Vauxhall mainly by alerting voters to the fact that Hoey spent much of the EU referendum hanging out with Nigel Farage.

In WA state, some examples of that could include the voter referendums that legalized marijuana and gay marriage... topics that politicians felt were overly controversial and preferred not to deal with.

Or, will the EU referendum teach these voters that opposition to the EU membership is incompatible with support for the Labour Party?

Soubry also issued a rallying call to young voters to register to vote in the referendum and to back Remain, with a dig at Leave campaigners — which she subsequently defended on Twitter.

A concrete goal has been crucial, both when the proposed referendum to enable re-election was rejected in 2007, or when voters participated in a plebiscite with the explicit goal of asking for the restoration of democracy in July 2017.

The broader view that all voters should participate in the referendum, while aligning with the unitary conception, is inconsistent with a literal reading of the 1992 Constitution.

In contrast, of the 65 % of 2010 Labour voters who voted NO in the referendum, 75 % stayed with Labour in 2015, while only 13 % voted SNP.

Arguably, issues of democracy and self - government gain currency when they are tied to a compelling ideological vision, as happened with the recent independence referendum in Scotland that mobilised thousands of people, including a large a swathe of new voters, in support of political autonomy not as an end in itself, but to create a more just and equal society.

The BAFS method will attempt to catch the evolution of voter sentiment on the final ten days prior to the referendum, based on which it will make its daily predictions, comparing them with each of the aforementioned benchmarks.

Leader Tim Farron said on Saturday night that he would be «clear and unequivocal» with voters that if elected it would set aside the referendum result and keep Britain in the EU.

The unpredicted support for Brexit by over half of voters in the UK referendum illustrates these characteristics of the movements we model in the book, with the resistance to traditional forms of organization.

To make the point even more directly, if it is a consequence of a «yes» vote in the Scottish referendum that the rest of the UK must reapply to join the European Union and either looses its currency or is required to enter into a currency union with a foreign state, the impact of the decision is such that the English, Welsh, and Northern Irish voters should also have a say.

Cuomo said he will push for a November ballot referendum, even after expressing concern that the lack of a statewide election could skew the turnout, with scores of city voters casting mayoral ballots.

After the Houston City Council passed HERO in 2014, activists with the Campaign for Houston ran a referendum to put the wide - ranging measure before voters in an attempt to repeal it.

British Election Study data reveal that a referendum on EU membership, were it held tomorrow, would be on a knife edge, with the battleground being for the 15 % of voters who are currently undecided.

It was a message the 1,500 or so voters on the rocky South Atlantic archipelago repeated again with gusto in the referendum I was there to preview − just three people said they didn't want to remain a UK overseas territory.

They cite the difficulties of a September referendum — as seen in Scotland last year — with voters away on holiday in the campaign period.

Goldsmith currently enjoys a majority of more than 23,000, but is at odds with voters in Richmond on the EU referendum.

How should Members of Parliament (MPs) react to a referendum vote when their own views do not tally with those of the voters in their constituency?

Anyone who suggests that unsure voters can vote to «leave» at the initial referendum safe in the knowledge that they can later change their minds is either playing with fire or manipulating voters disingenuously.

For this week's focus groups with undecided referendum voters Lord Ashcroft Polls visited Birmingham and, for a Scottish perspective, Glasgow.

We were given the opportunity to adopt the AV system in a 2011 referendum, yet it was decisively rejected, with 68 % of voters opting for No on a 42 % turnout, in part the result of the abject failure of electoral reform advocates to craft a convincing case in favour of change.

This whole discussion might be moot anyway, because in order to build a casino in New York City — or anywhere in the state on non-Indian land — the constitutional amendment expanding gambling would have to be passed for a second time by the Legislature and also pass muster with the voters in a public referendum.

So Smith wants a Labour Government then with his call for another referendum on the EC (not accepting the democratic will of he people) the first thing he does is slap 17m Out voters in the face and a significant number of these are potential Labour voters!

Councillors are mulling over Eric Pickles» ultimatum that they should either cope with more spending cuts or offer a referendum to voters.

Not for nothing is Labour basically copying Tory campaign themes, chiefly opposition to a second referendum and the idea of «sending a message» to the nationalists, both messages that are clearly resonating with Unionist voters.