(Local
election vote counters, please note: it is a good idea to count quickly.
Not exact matches
If a campaign could persuade thousands of voters in those 50 ridings to
vote strategically,
countering the perverse nature of our electoral system, it could determine the outcome of the
election.
Religion News Service: Black pastors move to
counter new voter ID laws African - American clergy are joining forces with civil rights groups to push for increased voter registration ahead of the November
election, spurred on by new voter laws they say restrict opportunities for minorities to enter the
voting booth.
Peter Anyang» Nyong «o, the governor of the third - largest city in the East African nation, also supported postponing the
vote for the presidential
election re-run and described
counter plans as a «joke».
Whenever someone floats the idea that baseball brodcasters should
vote in Hall of Fame
elections, a BBWAA member will
counter that announcers can't be trusted to be independent.
He added: «The finest
vote counter in the
election is Nate Silver and he told you what cost her 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.
In July, Congress passed, in a near - unanimous
vote, a law called the
Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, which among other things imposes sanctions on Russia for their interference in the 2016 presidential
election.
All that changed when the GOP took over Congress in November's
elections, committee chairs Senator Alexander and Representative Kline made clear ESEA reauthorization was a priority, and
vote counters deduced that the right bill could attract widespread support.