Sentences with phrase «state voters on»

This is the first of three questions that will be put to New York State voters on Tuesday, appearing on the flip side of the election ballots.

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«Senator Sessions has long advocated for state sovereignty, and we look forward to working with him to ensure that states» rights and voter choices on cannabis are respected.»

«With no prior notice to Congress, the Justice Department has trampled on the will of the voters in CO and other states,» Gardner said in a tweet on Thursday.

Voters in eight states joined the legalization movement on Nov. 8.

Petersen says that his travels throughout the state to campaign on a local level reveal voters» discontent with Hawley's candidacy.

Although the commission has previously requested states to hand over information on its voters, several like California and New York refused to comply.

ANALYSIS: The recent state budget did little to convince voters the Barnett government is on the right track ahead of the 2017 election.

The loss of that clause, which liberals had seen as a crowning achievement of the Civil Rights movement, makes it easier for states to adopt voting laws that can have an adverse impact on minority voters.

By converting «wasted» presidential votes into «none of the above» or support for third - party candidates in Oklahoma, Arizona and other deep red states in the South — the Confederacy, essentially — black voters would exert pressure on party leaders to not take black voters and their issues for granted.

Hebert signed on to briefs supporting the black voters in both states.

If Trump is banking on this part of the state to win, he would need to carry roughly one - in - four voters — an almost impossible task given unions» strong control of members.

Mnuchin's New York state voter registration is under an address on Park Avenue — a home he previously occupied, CNN reports.

Of course, marijuana remains very much illegal on the federal level, though the Obama Administration has typically allowed individual states to freely regulate the drug in accordance with voters» wishes.

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.

Reuters reporters saw 797 voters at that station, while the official figures state that 1,325 people voted on the day and in person.

In 2016, Alabama voters approved adding right - to - work to its state constitution, shoring up a provision that has been on the books in Alabama for decades.

Trump insisted that «we have a lot to look into» regarding dead individuals, undocumented immigrants, and voters registered in multiple states being on voter rolls.

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

The nonprofit group Fight For The Future launched HelloVote on Thursday morning with the goal of boosting voter registration in several key battleground states by allowing voters to register directly via text message or Facebook Messenger.

Gingrich won't be visiting the primary states as frequently, and instead will focus on reaching voters through videos and social media.

The dinner is a marquee event for Democrats seeking to court caucus voters in Iowa, the first primary state to weigh in on the presidential race.

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 Brennan Center for Justice estimated in August that up to 20 % of US voters would use a digital system without a paper trail to cast votes on November 8, and 42 states would use voting machines that were at least a decade old and had outdated hardware and software.

The information did not include highly sensitive information like Social Security numbers, and much of it was publicly available voter - registration data provided by state government officials, a company spokesman told Business Insider on Tuesday.

So, I suspect that the system there — he's been making this case through several cycles in Wisconsin, focusing only on that state... That there's extensive voter fraud, which I presume is executed through the electronic machines.

While the states are technically breaking federal law, the DEA is not going to waste its resources on regulated marijuana industries that have been approved by local voters, Baer says.

Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPoll: Republican support for Kanye West grew after rapper expressed support for Trump Giuliani calls on Sessions and Rosenstein to shut down Mueller investigation Fox News» Ingraham calls out Giuliani for contradicting Trump on Stormy Daniels» payments: «That's a problem» MORE says only voter fraud can prevent him from winning the swing state of Pennsylvania this November.

[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.

With two deeply unpopular nominees on the presidential ballot this year, the number of voters in Maryland who wrote in their own candidate for president more than tripled, according to state election data.

The implications in the United States will depend on how well Mr. Trump and his allies are able to sell the deal's direct benefits to voters in midterm elections in the fall.

State legislators refused protesters» requests to raise income taxes on the wealthy, and instead turned to revenue sources that are likely to hit typical voters.

The Bush administration imposed tariffs ranging from 8 % to 30 % on a variety of steel products, in part to make good on a campaign promise designed to appeal to voters in the Rust Belt states of Ohio and Pennsylvania.

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.

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).

When likely voters were asked whether a third - party candidate who is certified on a majority of state ballots should be included in the presidential debates, 76 percent said yes; 17 percent said no; and 7 percent were undecided.

In another section on the political campaign page, Facebook states for $ 1, candidates could buy two pieces of direct mail, or they could target 200 voters on Facebook.

Our new report uses more than 250,000 interviews with registered voters to provide insights at the national, state, and aggregated district level on President Trump's approval, key senator approval & re-elect ratings, generic ballot, and top issues for voters.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP)-- Arkansas» highest court on Wednesday said the state can enforce a voter ID law in the May 22 primary election despite a judge declaring the measure unconstitutional.

Based on interviews with more than 62,000 registered voters since January, Morning Consult crunched how constituents felt about their home - state senators.

Just as Democrats are becoming increasingly reliant on younger, better - educated, and urbanized voters, Amazon's second headquarters could bring tens of thousands of such workers to a state.

From Patten's perspective, Trump's economic message on free trade and on jobs will resonate with all - important middle - class swing state voters.

Based on interviews with almost 72,000 registered voters since May, Morning Consult crunched how constituents feel about their home - state senators (see more on methodology here).

Calling the federal power to annul state regulation or that of other agencies «regulation» is dependent on voters not understanding the bait - and - switch act going on.

But in the early primary state of South Carolina, with voters scheduled to go to the polls on Saturday and candidates working the state furiously this week, local evangelical pastors are using their influence to rally church members towards salvation, not electioneering.

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.

In a few weeks voters in six states will decide on state constitutional amendments that will bar same - sex marriage and any other legal recognition of same - sex couples.

The majority of Californians, including two - thirds of the state's black voters, have just had their core civil right - the right to vote - stripped from them by an openly gay federal judge who has misread history and the Constitution to impose his views on the state's people.

Constantly concerned about alienating the southern wing of the Democratic Party, the Kennedys sought to channel the movement away from attacks on state segregation statutes, which, they claimed, were local conflicts in which federal authorities were powerless to intervene, and into voter registration efforts in which the national state could be of assistance.

North Carolinians will vote on the state's Marriage Amendment Act before North Carolina voters next Tuesday.

The film premiered in 2008 just before California voters were to vote on Proposition 8, the California ballot proposition stating that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid.