Sentences with phrase «state voters also»

Golden State voters also narrowly passed Prop 67, which bans grocery stores and selected retail outlets from handing out single - use plastic bags.

Not exact matches

Not only do we think black voters should abstain from voting for the Democratic presidential nominee in red states, we also think black voters should continue their role as pivotal voters in battleground states.

The big question on most Americans» minds Tuesday was whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton would be the nation's next president, but voters in nine states also had a big decision to make regarding marijuana legalization.

Pennsylvania voters heading to the polls also had to decide on their state's U.S. senator.

He also claimed, without evidence, that «serious voter fraud» occurred in Virginia, New Hampshire, and California — all states that he lost.

Hoffman also stressed that transparency is important in a presidential candidate so that voters can be made aware of his conflicts of interest, his state of public affairs, and his charitable giving.

Also on Thursday, Quinnipiac University released a new poll showing that 71 % of American voters — including 55 % of Republican voters — say they oppose the government enforcing federal laws banning marijuana in states that have already legalized the drug for either medical or recreational purposes.

The poll also found that 87 percent U.S. voters believe that U.S. Veterans Administration doctors should be allowed to prescribe medical marijuana in pill form to veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in states where cannabis is legal.

The department also changed its position in a critical voting rights case in Texas, abandoning its yearslong opposition to a critical aspect of the state's voter ID law.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

The vote will come early because the state constitution says that if legislators want to override a veto, they have to do it immediately after they return to session, but it will also mark a quick opportunity for Democrats to highlight the Republican governor's opposition to a policy they're betting voters will favor.

In a later section, on demographic distribution analysis, the contract mentions the possibility for additional «targeted data collection procedures through multiple platforms» to be used — even including «brief phone scripts with single - trait questions» — in order to correct any skews that might be found once the Facebook data is matched with voter databases in each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts it).

There are also 14 states with legislative supermajority (usually three - fifths or two - thirds of the legislature) and voter approval requirements for new taxes.

Ryan's presence on the ticket also could increase Romney's appeal among the millions of middle - of - the - road Catholic voters who populate key swing states, like Ohio and Pennsylvania.

But as more and more states bring decriminalization measures to the ballot, it's important for voters to be informed not just about the use of marijuana itself, but also about the consequences of making it a crime.

Cruz also followed Huckabee and Santorum in losing New Hampshire because he only appealed to a tiny sliver of that state's non-evangelical voters.

The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

Each state is different but my guess might also be that if these are college students or new voters or fringe types they might not even be aware yet that they can not vote in some primaries.

In the 41st Senate District, though the final vote count from the state Board of Elections isn't available yet, the WFP says it's likely its voters also provided a critical margin of victory for Democratic Senator - elect Terry Gipson over GOP Sen. Steve Saland.

Silver also took responsibility for the poor image voters and the general public has of state government because of him.

It is also among four amendments Cuomo has proposed as concurrent resolutions with the budget plan, including the adoption of same - day voter registration, limiting the outside of state lawmakers and term limits for elected officials.

An «unaffiliated voter» also filed a complaint because Panepinto used his wife's image, State Supreme Court Judge Catherine Nugent - Panepinto, in campaign flyers.

New York voters also responded well to the on - time passage of the spending, something that's usual for most other states, but not something we've seen all that often.

(The news coverage suggests Barrett with his labor allies had an edge on the ground, but Walker certainly also had his own field operation running and some numbers suggest they've contacted more than 60 % of all registered voters in the state at least once in person.)

«Voters in this upstate district would also be most susceptible to the argument that Democrat reunification and a Democrat Majority in the Senate (and therefore give downstate control of the entire state government) would lead to NYC getting everything at the expense of upstate and Central New York,» the source said.

Samuels also made the «that which does not kill us» argument, insisting (much like state GOP Chairman Ed Cox has in connection with his party's gubernatorial fight), saying Duffy will be stronger, better known to voters and more fully vetted if he wins a primary fight.

... The crosscheck also found 35,570 voters in North Carolina who voted in 2012 whose first names, last names and dates of birth match those of voters who voted in other states in 2012, but whose Social Security numbers were not matched.

Political analysts said Curran may also have been helped by Democratic voters coming out in larger numbers to send a message to President Donald Trump; union turnout against the state constitutional convention ballot question; or by the surprising underperformance of Republican Hempstead Supervisor Anthony Santino, who lost to underdog Laura Gillen to give town control to Democrats for the first time in 100 years.

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.

He also wants to change voter registration rules to allow for same - day registration and the automatic enrollment of new voters when they visit a motor vehicles office or other state agency.

Stone also claims a black son allegedly fathered by Bill Clinton explains why African - American voters shunned Hillary and thus helped Trump win key states.

You could also include the outright rejection of Palin by the general electorate of the state of Alaska, where she was able to force a candidate down the the throat of the Republican party, who then had nearly 70 % of the voters in that state vote for someone else in the general election.

And let's not forget the advice the Times also gave: «For state races, the best advice for New York voters is to vote against anybody who has done time in Albany.»

A clear majority of voters (59 - 21) say all candidates for state office should sign a pledge in support of a nonpartisan independent redistricting commission — a victory for both former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, whose PAC, New York Uprising, is pushing candidates to do just that; and also for AG Andrew Cuomo, who is calling for citizens and candidates alike to sign his reform pledge.

More than half of voters, forced to choose between the three, named David Cameron as the best Prime Minister, 17 points ahead of Ed Miliband, who led only among Labour voters and social group E (state pensioners, casual workers and those dependent on benefits — the group that is also least likely to vote).

It also strengthens political parties in general, providing an intermediary between the state and the voters which can build pre-election coalitions which are important to developing a consensus among the people in support of a coherent set of policies.

E.D. Florida is also a closed primary state, so registered independent voter in Florida attempting to vote in a party primary would probably be violating the law that @ notstoreboughtdirt just referenced.

There is little change since November 2012, but the percentage of voters registered in the state's three recognized minor parties increased, and the percentage of independent voters also increased.

A pair of bills that would provide voters with the power to recall state elected officials was also proposed.

State officials also announced plans to place electronic voter registration terminals in all local DMV offices.

He needs to court Trump backers in a state that the candidate handily won during the primary season, while also reaching out to independents, Latinos and women voters — many of whom view the real estate mogul unfavorably.

«I also charge them with defrauding the voters of this state.

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.

The governor's also calling for the state to adopt an automatic voter registration system which would send voters» information directly to the county board of elections.

«Women are actually the vast majority of voters in New York State, and I don't think we should be pigeonholed in a separate party,» said Scharff, who is also executive director of Citizen Action of New York.

Also at 6 p.m., state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli delivers the keynote speech at the League of Women Voters of Central Nassau Dinner, Pompei Restaurant, 401 Hempstead Ave., West Hempstead, Long Island.

Forty - nine percent of voters in New York disapproved of how Gov. Andrew Cuomo is handling mass transit in the state, while a plurality also disapproved of a proposed congestion pricing plan that is aimed at raising money for trains and buses in New York City, according to a Quinnipiac University poll on Thursday.

Many voters are also upset with Cuomo's overall economic policies which have contributed to New York having the worst income inequality in the state.

The day before, de Blasio will speak in Nebraska, which has been a reliably red state in recent cycles, but is also where voters last November favored a referendum to raise the state's minimum wage — a central cause for de Blasio.

Automatic voter registration, approved in eight states and D.C., may also improve turnout via «two transformative, yet simple, changes,» the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan public policy institution based at New York University Law School, has written.