Sentence examples for ballot mandates from inspiring English sources

"Placing time limits on ballot mandates is an important measure to ensure industrial action is limited to the original dispute and not extended to other matters.

The government says it feels forced to act due to the number of strikes called on the London underground, railways or in schools based on small turnouts or two-year-old ballot mandates.

The government introduced its bill, which amounts to the biggest crackdown on trade union rights for 30 years, in July.It said it felt forced to act as a result of the number of strikes called on the London underground, railways and in schools based on small turnouts or two-year-old ballot mandates.

It introduces rules that set new strike ballot thresholds – a turnout of at least 50% of members will be needed – for a strike to be deemed lawful; limits the length of a strike ballot mandate; empowers employers to hire strike-breaking agency staff; and may introduce a new criminal offence of intimidation on a picket line.

The board had no authority to stop the counting until it was completed.... Nassau County On Nov. 8, 2000, the Nassau County Canvassing Board conducted the machine recount of ballots mandated by section 102.141(4), Florida Statutes (2000).

Politicians, it says, must ask themselves whether they will "honour the biggest ballot box mandate in British history... or sniffily decide the little people cannot be trusted".

As both fell short of a majority, a second ballot was mandated.

CORRECTION: A previous version of this story indicated that a Seattle ballot referendum mandated the city's revenues cannot grow more than 1percentt per year without explicit approval from voters.

For one, Hitler was appointed chancellor, in January 1933, constitutionally, and with a ballot-box mandate: his National Socialists had won 37% of the vote in the free-and-fair Reichstag elections of July 1932, more than any other party.

Senator Ron Wyden, for instance, recently introduced The Protecting American Votes and Elections Act of 2018, which would require every state to use election machines with paper ballots and mandate risk-limiting post-election audits (the "gold standard" of election auditing).

The Elusive Mandate Mandates are elusive because voters cast ballots for people, not policies.