Sentences with phrase «early turnout of voters»

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Some voters in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens reported waiting hours to cast their ballots, with officials reporting broken scanner machines, confusion at some polling sites and early reports of high turnout.

The Post's Jose Antonio Vargas is reporting on the Obama campaign's election - day SMS strategy, clearly aimed at boosting voter turnout: Early this morning, Sen. Barack Obama sent the first of three text messages to supporters who've signed up to his messaging program and live in...

In order to increase voter turnout and make voting a more accessible process, it should be understood that instilling early voting — a process permitted in 37 states and the District of Columbia — and other procedures should be a priority.

In contrast, the state chapter of the League of Women Voters said early voting could help improve New York's «abysmal rate of voter turnout,» while adding that counties shouldn't bear the cost.

Early turnout figures in the council elections in the Anglia region suggest only a third of voters bothered to cast their ballot.

In the ongoing fight between Democrats and Republicans over election procedures like voter ID and early voting, the Democrats are supposedly the champions of higher turnout and reducing barriers to participation.

The simple fact is we've let New York's election laws atrophy, and we now have one of the worst voter turnout rates in the country,» said State Senator Brian Kavanagh, Ranking Member of the Senate Elections Committee and sponsor of early voting legislation.

«When we did our voting rights report, «Mississippi on the Hudson,» we found that one of the most effective measures to removing barriers to voter turnout in New York is early voting.

Critics of the state's election system point to restrictions on party enrollment and the lack of early voting as some causes of New York's chronically low voter turnout.

Compared to other states New York has low voter turnout rates and is one of a minority of states that still doesn't allow early voting.

The first numbers released early in the early hours of Friday morning in Scotland were turnout totals for two regions - 84 percent and 89 percent - suggesting that the number of voters could hit a record high.

The Cruz campaign, which sliced and diced voter profiles thousands of different ways and developed its own sophisticated targeting and turnout operation — appealing to some Iowa voters on the issue of fireworks deregulation, for example — stopped psychologically profiling voters entirely after South Carolina, the third early - state contest, when the pace of the campaign picked up.