Sentences with phrase «worst voting laws»
During the «Four Women in a Room» panel discussion, hosted by activist groups True Blue New York and Empire State Indivisible and moderated by POLITICO politics reporter Gloria Pazmino, Williams noted that New York has some of the worst voting laws in the country and addressed comments made by Melissa DeRosa, secretary to the governor, in which she said that most of the panelists do not have state government experience.
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When saying Merry Christmas has become a bad thing, when we can no longer have the peoples vote counted and respected by judges and elected officials, when health care for aids and other associated dieses is covered, when kids in school have to be subjected to demonstrations of gay bedroom life when the mayor of NY will no longer without reason and against the law rent churches public buildings, when teen pregnancies up 45 percent will be paid for by us the people of the US with all the cost completely covered.
And if that's the case, are ALL politicians THAT stupid??? That is, to pass «bad» laws just because it will win them more votes?
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Whatever the outcome, «English votes for English laws» is likely to offer the best of both worlds for the Conservative party and the worst of both for everyone else.
If you pass a law restricting the ability of otherwise eligible voters to vote for no demonstrable benefit, that's a bad law.
Extremist become king - makers only if one the moderate parties need their votes badly to pass the budget or some law.
They know their ability to govern the UK could be badly damaged by the idea of English votes for English laws, so any package that attempted to force through that issue would be unlikely to pass muster.
«Any law that makes it easier to vote is a good law; any law that makes it harder to vote is a bad law,» Schneiderman said.
New York's voting laws are among the worst in the nation: we rank 41st in voter turnout.
Probably worst of all, Faso's vote in favor of gutting New York's own laws flies directly in the face of both the visceral fear and anger demonstrated in the wake of the Florida mass shooting and of what 83 percent of gun - owning Republicans say they want.
«Any law that makes it easier to vote is a good law; any law that makes it harder to vote is a bad law,» said Schneiderman, in a statement Wednesday.
«New York ranks consistently as one of the nation's worst in terms of voter participation, driven by state laws that create obstacles to voting,» said Megan Ahearn, program director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, «Much of the rest of the nation has developed practices that improve voter turnout.
New York is one of only 13 states that does not offer early voting and because of that and other antiquated laws we have some of the worst voter participation in the nation.»
«Any law that makes it easier to vote is a good law; any law that makes it harder to vote is a bad law,» Schneiderman said in a press release.
Laws should be passed by a deliberative body, not a bunch of ignorant uninformed boobs being enticed to vote (quite possibly for the first time) by conniving evil doers appealing to people's worst instincts.
«However, he would be happy to comment on the campaign of «Don't take me literally» Schneiderman, specifically his 12 years in the Albany cesspool, his lack of any law enforcement experience, his radical social agenda, his ranking as one of the worst senator for jobs, his 12 votes to raise taxes, his votes against civil confinement for sex offenders, and his attempted cover - up of a hit and run....
In another recent action which I believe was the epitome of bad government, two Legislators authored and forced a local law for a vote without due diligence.
The simple fact is we've let New York's election laws atrophy, and we now have one of the worst voter turnout rates in the country,» said State Senator Brian Kavanagh, Ranking Member of the Senate Elections Committee and sponsor of early voting legislation.
Flanagan overcame some bad optics — he, like the scandalized Skelos, is a lawyer from Long Island, and a recent Daily News story highlighted how Flanagan has voted in favor of bills that have helped clients of his law firm.
Springfield Election Commissioner Gladys Oyola says the Massachusetts voting laws badly needed to catch up with what other states have been doing.
Skip encourages you to take an hour a month, an hour a week, or whatever you can to educate potential jurors about their right to vote Not Guilty if the defendant is prosecuted under a bad law.
The Montana - based Fully Informed Jury Association is behind the displays, which read: «Good jurors nullify bad laws» and «You have the right to «hang» the jury with your vote if you can not agree with other jurors.»
The history of SESTA / FOSTA — a bad bill that turned into a worse bill and then was rushed through votes in both houses of Congress — is a story about Congress» failure to see that its good intentions can result in bad law.