Sentences with phrase «change election outcomes»

Such tweaks shouldn't consistently change election outcomes, assuming the boundaries started out fair.

Not exact matches

The outcome of the U.S. election has moderately changed the economic outlook, but likely not enough to drive the Bank of Canada to alter interest rates

Finally, Cuban said the outcome of the election ultimately will be all about the economy: «There's so much uncertainty with markets, there's so much uncertainty with international finance, that people could start feeling the effects personally and that could change what they're focused on,» he said.

We are continuing the changes to CGI that were announced last year, that we said at the time would happen regardless of the outcome of the election.»

She's not even expecting a change in the outcome of the election.

The big question is whether the use of such databases and the algorithms that sift through them change the outcome of elections.

Sunday's outcome completes a generational change in major party leadership and sets up a new dynamic for the upcoming 43rd Canadian federal election set to take place in October of 2019.

The anger and indignation being felt across the world at terrible, fraudulent outcome of 2012 elections in Ghana came alive when hundreds of Ghanaians including members of the Coalition of Ghanaians against Electoral Fraud (COGEF), the Movement for Genuine Democracy (MGD), The Progressive Youth for Change and Transparency (PYCT) and The Stop tribalism in Ghana group demonstrated outside the Ghana High Commission offices in Highgate, North London.

Only two things could change the outcome, he suggests: if turnout rises towards general election levels (unlikely, in my view) and if the message received by voters, particularly women and professionals, changes.

But he said if the changes resulted in doubling the amount of regular voters in New York, it could «transform» election outcomes in the future.

Although Kinnock had a hard time laying the foundations for the changes in the Labour Party that Blair would finally push through, the one thing he had going for him when fighting his internal battles was the outcome of the 1983 election.

And could the sudden turnout of the normally non-voting people drastically change, for example, the outcome of presidential elections?

Although I tried a variety of methods, I found no way of dealing with the «UKIP effect» which might change the outcome of the Eastleigh by - election (simply because there aren't enough cases where UKIP has played a prominent role in the outcome of a by - election).

If such an outcome is realised then the chances of a second election this year increase dramatically, but whether or not a second vote will change the situation remains to be seen.

My model takes into account five things: the vote share a party received in the by - election constituency at the preceding general election; changes in public opinion towards the party since the last general election; whether the party won the seat at the last election; whether the party is in government; and whether there are «party effects» on by - election outcomes.

Since then the BES has provided data to help researchers understand changing patterns of party support and election outcomes.

But even if Democrats managed to win elections to the two seats that were on the ballot on Tuesday, that outcome wouldn't change the balance of power in either state Legislature's chambers.

If the errors are not systematic, than before a vote is set aside it must be shown that the errors could reasonably have resulted in changing the outcome of the election.

Back to the American election, not even on a single instance, has Nana Addo or the NPP, mentioned Mr. Trump, who had said «Change in leadership is required to produce a change in outcomes&rChange in leadership is required to produce a change in outcomes&rchange in outcomes».

The boundary changes defeat matters far more to the outcome of the next election than even the coalition's biggest U-turn, or the resignation of a Cabinet minister.

This much is clear: The ability of dark money — and those in the top 1 % — to sway New York's elections and influence electoral outcomes must be changed.

Alaska governor Sean Parnell has officially conceded defeat to Independent challenger Bill Walker, concluding that there are not enough uncounted or disputed ballots to change the outcome of the election.

It's unlikely to change the outcome of the election however, but it will give him a boost.

They wanted to change the outcome of the elections, hence resorting to violence, before and during the elections.

During the 2012 elections, dark money groups — organizations that spend money on elections but do not have to disclose the sources of their contributions — focused their spending on races that gave them the best opportunity to change the outcome in favor of their preferred candidate.

@PoloHoleSet indeed, the fact that those elections happened does not change the extremely low probability of a four - way tie or any other outcome.

«We now have the chance to vote for a change from the current system under which only 1.6 % of the electorate decide the outcome of general elections.»

Maybe somewhere along the line there was an election that was close enough and enough people moved that it changed the outcome.

Are enough electors able to switch to change the outcome of the election?

Another theory is that people do it not merely because of the chance of changing the outcome of an election, but because it's an act of civic duty, although economist Steve Landsburg, in his popular book «The Armchair Economist», counters «But that ignores the fact that voting takes time away from other more productive acts of civic duty.

Suppose a foreign nation not only attempted to hack the election, to influence the outcome, but succeeded so well that the outcome was, for any neutral observer, demonstrably changed by that foreign nation — so that the candidate that would have won seemed to lose, and the candidate who would have lost seemed to win.

Justice Abba Aji in his judgment said, since, evidences and exhibits presented before the court have shown that the elections in the said polling were marred with irregularities and the number of registered voters from the affected polling units if they were not disenfranchised can change the outcome of the election, the right thing to do is to have a fresh election in the polling units.

Indeed this was the fundamental political foundation for the groundswell of popular and patriotic affirmative action that culminated in the wind of change 2015 election outcome and it is just what Nigeria needs to facilitate a realistic national resolve and agenda to salvage and safeguard the endangered northern entitlement to second term in 2019.

We also spoke about his spending and whether, without yet knowing the election outcome, he would have changed any tactics.

Padavan's race in 2008 and Nick Spano's in 2004 did not change the fact the Republicans (in 2005) and Democrats (in 2009) were controlling the chamber regardless of the outcome of the contested elections.

Large spending in races up and down the ballot led to legal changes post-election, but candidates that year benefitted from — and were hurt by — large sums of campaign money from groups forbidden from coordinating with their campaigns, but with clear stakes in the outcomes of the elections.

«This is an opportunity for the Independent Party to change the outcome of an election.»

«I wanted to see what would be the outcome of the goings on in the Labour party because if there had been a change of leader and any possibility of an election I wouldn't have stood.»

The final outcome of the 2015 general election will be shaped by the results in dozens of marginal seats, where relatively modest shifts in voting patterns will be enough to change the result.

Some military ballots remain to be counted in this county - wide race, but they aren't enough to change the outcome, county Democratic Elections Commissioner Beth McLaughlin said Monday.

Although the numbers changed in the three races, the election's outcome remained unchanged, according to the unofficial results which as of Tuesday were not yet certified.

Labour is predicting a close result next Tuesday when MPs will vote on whether to introduce constituency boundary changes before the general election, a vote that could prove vital to the outcome.

A slight difference in seats won can drastically change the long - term outcome of government, prompting divisions and even a second election

Does anyone doubt that, between the expenses scandal and the outcome of the general election, the landscape has utterly changed?

And despite Zuckerberg's initial assertion that it's «extremely unlikely hoaxes changed the outcome of this election,» Facebook is taking more steps to fight the problem — by making it easier to report fake stories, for example, and considering the addition of warning labels to stories that readers have flagged as phony.

When this compositional nature of election outcomes was taken into account, the research team discovered a more nuanced effect of rainfall — how voters» preferences may change with bad weather.

Although SB 70, the education budget bill, could be subject to change depending on the outcome of the many issues swirling about the June election, it is a clear signal from the Legislature that they do not want a repeat of this year's almost chaotic efforts to comply with the accountability update.

«I hope that whatever the outcome of the May 2015 general election, parties will focus in these areas on implementation rather than further change.

Any changes to the PSLF depend largely on the outcomes of the upcoming elections and would likely only affect future borrowers.

The outcome of the election changed a lot of people's plans, including some of Nari Ward's for his solo exhibition «G.O.A.T., again,» opening April 29 at Socrates Sculpture Park on the waterfront in Long Island City, Queens.