Sentences with phrase «beyond voting in state»

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This wrinkle also occurs to me: to the extent that state Senate districts and state House districts (or the upper / lower equivalents everywhere but Nebraska) are less than conveniently overlapping, you might find that the required votes to get 51 % in the lower house districts will push the upper house districts beyond 51 %.

In 2012, taking advantage of new district lines that had extended the district beyond Rangel's native Harlem and into the Bronx, and an influx of immigrants and gentrifiers into what was once the capital of black America, Adriano Espaillat, a hard - charging Dominican state lawmaker, came within a thousand votes of beating Rangel in the Democratic primarIn 2012, taking advantage of new district lines that had extended the district beyond Rangel's native Harlem and into the Bronx, and an influx of immigrants and gentrifiers into what was once the capital of black America, Adriano Espaillat, a hard - charging Dominican state lawmaker, came within a thousand votes of beating Rangel in the Democratic primarin the Democratic primary.

The youths further vowed to mobilise their over one million members scattered across the state and beyond to vote against any political office seeker in the state who chooses to go against their counsel by relying on Chime's backing.

BEYOND SUFFRAGE: A CENTURY OF NEW YORK WOMEN IN POLITICS A century of women's activism from 1917, when they won the right to vote in New York State, to presenIN POLITICS A century of women's activism from 1917, when they won the right to vote in New York State, to presenin New York State, to present.

It may also require, in the states, dismantling the gerrymandering that, combined with Democrats» «clustering» in urban precincts, entrenches Republicans» control of Congress far beyond their share of Americans» votes.