Sentences with phrase «count eligible voters»

Sixty - six percent (66 %) of voters agree with the legal challenge and say states should only count eligible voters when setting the size of legislative districts for voting purposes.

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«That's why we are kick - starting a statewide voter registration drive this summer to ensure that every eligible New Yorker can have their voice counted where it matters most — at the ballot box.

Vote Better NY seeks the following common sense changes to New York's voting laws so that every eligible New Yorker is registered to vote, voters have more than one day to get to the polls, and every voter can cast a ballot that counts:

Of the 12,729 eligible voters in Saugerties, 5,530 cast votes; 510 absentee ballots were issued in Saugerties; so far, 332 have been received by the Ulster County Board of Elections, making definitive results of the Districts 1 and 2 races, along with the status of Schoonmaker's 42 - vote lead on Republican Donald Tucker, unknown until the ballots are counted on November 15.

The plaintiffs, Sue Evenwel and Edward Pfenninger, argued that district populations ought to take into account only the number of registered or eligible voters residing within those districts as opposed to total population counts, which are generally used for redistricting purposes.

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously endorsed election maps that bolster the growing political influence of America's Latinos, ruling that states can count everyone, not just eligible voters, in drawing voting districts.

Texas currently counts everyone in the state, including illegal immigrants, before carving up districts of proportional population size, but the challenge argues that only eligible voters should be counted because the current system creates some districts with much larger numbers of eligible voters than others.

«Every eligible voter has the right to have their vote counted,» Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta wrote on Twitter just after midnight on Tuesday.

According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, «Provisional ballots are counted after they checked to make sure the voters were eligible.

Counting only eligible voters, on the other hand, is based on the principle that voters hold the ultimate political power in our democracy.

If people who were ineligible to vote were evenly distributed, the difference between counting all people or counting only eligible voters would not matter.

All 50 states use total population as their basis for drawing district lines, but the challengers said the rural state Senate districts in which they lived had vastly more eligible voters than urban districts, making their votes count for less, in violation of the Constitution.

Accessibility Ballot anonymity Individual and independent verifiability Non-reliance on the trustworthiness of the voter's device (s) One vote per voter Only count votes from eligible voters Process validation and transparency Service availability Voter authentication and authorization

There are three major reasons, in my opinion, that contribute to the lack of voter participation in elections, and they are these; 1) Eligible voters believe that their votes count for nothing, that their votes will not have any effect on the outcome, 2) That many, if not most, politicians are sadly the same (in it for their own personal gain, be it fame, a stepping - stone toward future appointments, or simply to satisfy their uber egos).