Sentences with phrase «candidates before voting»

Not all Democratic candidates support reproductive rights, so check our list of endorsed candidates before voting a Democratic ballot!

The Syracuse Common Council will narrow down a list of resumes to three candidates before voting to fill an empty council seat.

Not exact matches

Finally, before hitting the panic button and researching ways to move to Canada, take a deep breath, relax, and try to appreciate the fact that you actually have the freedom to vote, express your views, and exercise the option to rally for a candidate of your choosing.

Democratic candidate Roy Cooper has claimed victory in this race, but as of Friday morning Republican Pat McCrory had not conceded and the result had not been officially recognized; with a 5,000 vote margin out of 4.7 million votes cast, the Associated Press reported it could be late next week before the winner is officially known.

Schaffner says that before Obama's election, political scientists believed that «when candidates used language during a campaign, or during a debate, that was explicitly racist, voters would indicate that they liked that candidate less and were less likely to vote for them.

Second, shareholders voting by proxy will be given the relatively unusual opportunity to vote on director candidates individually thanks to an early request for cumulative voting submitted well before the deadline of 48 hours prior to the meeting.

As much as I'd LOVE to see a non-believer as president... i'd jump out a window before it was a socialist, obama - type, redistribution - for - votes candidate.

I don't know what church you've been going to, but my minister goes to great pains before an election to not mention ANY candidate or particular ballot issue, but instead call on the congregation to read their scriptures (suggesting some references) and pray, pray, pray for God's guidance, as they get ready to cast their vote.

A combination of bad luck, the legal architecture of the nomination process (which makes candidates getting in late difficult - to - impossible - and defines late as December of the year before at the latest), the center - right media environment and the mood of some center - right voting blocs has given us a terrible field and an even worse debate.

From Kari: I have voted for the libertarian candidate before, when I didn't like either of the two big party candidates.

By 1992, Evangelicals were George Bush's best supporters, giving him 56 percent of their votes in the three - way race (and 67 percent of the two - party vote); and to a greater extent than ever before they backed Republican candidates all the way down the ticket.

I don't think they had a good response, though, to the pathology of the present presidential race for the Republican nomination: The party has run out of plausible candidates before anyone has even voted.

He raised concerns about the GOP candidate's remarks on women, immigrants, and minorities, and went on to say that «there is too much at stake before us» to abstain from voting altogether.

Several years ago, at Family Research Councils Values Voter Summit, Southern Baptist leader Richard Land said he'd vote for a Jewish pro-life politician who promised to raise his taxes before he'd vote in a Christian pro-choice candidate who promised to cut them.

The only time I ever hear politics mentioned from the pulpit is about this time every year when church members are reminded of our duty as citizens of the U.S. to vote and to become informed on the issues and candidates before choosing how they will vote.

The inquiry will begin on May 29 just days before the committee will meet to vote for the next president of the World's governing body of which Bin Hammam is the only candidate running against Sepp Blatter.

It essentially became pointless with the introduction of FPTP for all seats, before that many seats used Block Voting and there were alliance slates in places (in some, Liberals, Nat Libs and Cons all put up one candidate each to LAbour's two; evidence was a lot of Lib voters supported Labour with second vote, but Tory and Nat Lib voters split all over the place).

It occurs that I should probably source that - Observer, 23 Dec 2007, column by Denis MacShane entitled «An open letter to Nick Clegg»: «Before the 2001 election, I urged Labour voters in seats where Lib - Dem candidates were best placed to beat off Conservatives to vote tactically.

We could get a different kind of tactical voting, where people try to send messages through the voting system by voting for single - issue candidates first, then the candidate they want second, on the assumption that the single - issue candidate will be knocked out before the candidate they want.

They are only confirmed as their parties» candidates three months before Americans vote.

The result of this is a high number of votes being «exhausted» (having no preferences left after the voter's preferred candidate (s) have been eliminated) before the final count.

Candidates including Bob McDonnell in Virginia and Scott Brown in Massachusetts have bought up Google's extended content - website inventory for their states in the days immediately before the vote, barraging readers on sites across the web with ads asking for support.

As voters stand in line at polling places, tapping away on their touchscreens, use mobile ads to make the final case for your candidate before they step into the voting booth.

If it does not have enough seats to reflect their share of the vote, the party gets to fill another seat with a candidate from the «list» they submit before the election.

During this time, it was being reported that U.S. Rep. Crowley was obtaining pledges for a T.B.A. Council speaker candidate from Municipal lawmakers before the lawmakers had authority to cast such votes, because the next legislative session had yet to be sworn in.

With nearly six weeks left before the general election, Republican City Council candidate Dan Halloran opened up his Bayside campaign offices Saturday to get out the vote.

Come on candidates - we want to hear more initiatives like this before we cast our precious vote for you!

Before a primary, candidates need to secure the support of the all - important Republican and Democratic delegates, who will vote on their party nominees at state conventions in May.

The procedures proposed for the European selections — to have been completed, with candidates in place, before this year's Labour Party conference — would give the party membership merely a right to nominate, not to select or vote for, candidates.

Like so many candidates before him (Phil Gramm in 1996, Hillary Clinton in 2008), he found that endorsements or a large starting bank balance don't guarantee enough votes to win.

Despite the lack of publicity and information on these elections it is essential that the shooting community engages with its candidates and checks their stance on the laws governing our sport before voting.»

A committee of lawmakers from both parties is set to interview candidates next week before the vote.

A minor party can maintain its status if one of its candidates for statewide office received at least 5 percent of the total votes cast in either of the last two elections or if 1,000 or more registered voters have affiliated with the minor party prior to July 1 before either of the last two elections.

33 states offer some form of expanded voting hours or early voting, with some giving voters a chance to choose their candidates one month before the first Tuesday in November.

Now that all the would - be candidates from the Senate majority have decided to take a pass on the race, it appears support is coalescing behind Assemblywoman Jane Corwin, who has the support of Langworthy, (who I believe controls the lion's share of the weighted vote in the district) former Rep. Tom Reynolds, who held the seat before Lee, and others.

Cuomo, speaking one day before elections, blamed the state's small but powerful Conservative Party, which often cross endorses Republican candidates and adds a key margin of votes for victory, for the failure to get the rest of the progressive agenda approved.

Gubernatorial candidate Mark Boughton greets delegates before voting began to designate a party candidate for governor the 2018 Connecticut GOP convention.

Democratic Assembly members initially said every candidate would have a chance to make their case before a vote on February 10, but the Times reports that in recent days party leaders quickly settled on Heastie and gathered up the needed votes.

Running 43 candidates (four more candidates than the Anti Austerity Alliance did), the People Before Profit Alliance won 29,081 votes across the state, amounting to 1.7 % of the first preference votes cast nationally.

Given the Labour Party's geography of support, but also given the increased level of opposition the party faces on the left of the political spectrum from Sinn Fein, Solidarity - People Before Profit, the Social Democrats and other left - wing groupings / independent candidates, it was argued that Labour would struggle to convert votes into seats if their national support levels fall below the 10 % level, as indeed proved to be the case with the February 26th election.

Some of these Independent candidates are former representatives of existing political parties: for example, the ex-Labour MP Tony Clarke is standing in his old seat of Northampton South (which should helpfully split the Left wing vote in the seat being defended by Conservative MP Brian Binley), whilst John Stevens, who is challenging John Bercow in Buckingham, is an ultra-europhile former Tory MEP who set up the Pro-Euro Conservative Party before joining the Liberal Democrats.

And yet, with just two weeks before Election Day, a key bloc of voters doesn't know much about the race, its candidates, or even whom they'll vote for.

As the incumbent discusses a peerage, MPs are evaluating the 10 candidates to succeed him before tomorrow's vote

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is pushing for upstate New York votes before the state's primary on April 19.

Candidates who were previously not registered to vote or have registered with no party affiliation can run in a party's primary, as long as they join before the deadline to qualify.

Candidates across the state engage in a frantic last - minute push for votes before tomorrow's congressional primaries.

«The provisions of the constitution and the electoral act are clear to the effect that with the unfortunate death of Prince Abubakar Audu before the conclusion of the election, and the fact that the laws do not permit the replacement of candidates once the balloting has commenced, the APC crashed out of the race, leaving the PDP candidate, Governor Idris Wada as the clear winner, having garnered 204,877 votes to top all other contestants since, Prince Ababakar, the hitherto leading contestant died with his votes.

Casting Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders as a «single - issue: candidate and a Johnny - come - lately to African - American issues, Clinton yesterday told supporters in Harlem: «You can't start building relationships a few weeks before a vote.»

Ms. Malliotakis said before the decision that she hoped the full committee would vote for the candidates, instead of leaving it up to the chairman.

Ian Phillips, chairman of the Cayuga County Democratic Committee, said both candidates had a chance to address committee members and answer questions before the vote.