Sentences with phrase «elections people voted»

But was there any evidence suggesting that during the 2014 elections people voted strategically for certain parties in order to get Jean - Claude Juncker as the Commission president?

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Most recently, she sat down with Oprah Winfrey to discuss how she's turning her activism into action by launching a new initiative called Eighteen x» 18, which will encourage more young people to vote in the upcoming elections.

The so - called populist movement — in which people feel they aren't being heard by their governments — has led Britain to vote to exit the E.U., or Brexit, while far - right political candidates in France and the Netherlands edge closer to winning their upcoming presidential elections.

«Wait and see what happens on election day because many people who weren't for independence will now go and vote against the police's response.

Zuckerberg said Thursday that «voters make decisions based on their lived experience,» continuing, «Part of what I think is going on here is people are trying to understand results of the election, but I do think that there is a certain profound lack of empathy in asserting that the only reason that some of them are voting the way they did is because they saw some fake news.

Shown pictures of some of the people who apparently voted twice, including at Ust - Djeguta's polling station no. 217, Leila Koichuyeva, a member of the election commission there, said: «They could be twins.»

Opposition leader Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party led with 43.3 percent of the vote in the first round of elections but failed to secure a majority vote needed to win, according to the electoral commission.

In every election around the world, we keep improving our tools to help more people register and vote, and we hope to eventually enable hundreds of millions of more people to vote in elections than do today, in every democratic country around the world.

There is no evidence to support Trump's repeated assertion that he lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton in November's election because people voted illegally, independent experts and analysts have said.

The report, from 2012, did not claim that those people voted illegally in an election, as it was written as an argument for modernizing the US voting system.

In the United States election last year, we helped more than 2 million people register to vote and then go vote.

Not only are they almost twice as likely to vote in federal elections as younger people, it is also bad for your image to be viewed as beating up on the Golden Girls.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer doubled down Tuesday on Donald Trump's false claim that he only lost the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election because 3 to 5 million people voted illegally.

We created a patriotism score for cities around the U.S. by looking at three categories: the percentage of people who are veterans, according to the 2012 American Community Survey; the percentage of residents 18 and over who voted in the 2012 presidential election; and the ranking of the best cities for Fourth of July celebrations from Wallet Hub.

Until 1803, the vice president was the person who got the second highest number of votes in the presidential election.

The Danish People's Party gained 21 percent of the vote in national elections in June on a nationalist, anti-Islamic platform.

To win a presidential election, Republicans count on the fact that Democrat - leaning young people historically do not vote.

When asked about this criticism on Tuesday, Zakin and Weisberg defended their model, noting that the criticism came after the election, and it was rarely mention that they partnered with Rock The Vote and helped register over 100,000 people, and highlighting the newsletter's credibility.

When people think about a cyber attack on election day they are most likely to think of hacking into voting machines and changing the results of an election.

While our Board does not anticipate that any of the director nominees will be unable to stand for election as a director nominee at our Annual Meeting, if that occurs, proxies will be voted in favor of such other person or persons as may be recommended by our Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee and designated by our Board.

What that means is that if there is an election in Greece, people are not going to vote for him again.

While I understand that the NDP must feel intense pressure to capture votes — including from people who have never taken a course from John Smithin — I often wish that the NDP would show a bit more policy leadership on the issue of the deficit and debt. I was particularly disappointed during the 2008 federal election campaign when Mr. Layton stated, unequivocally, that the NDP would not run a deficit in the following year if elected (even though it was clear that Canada was entering a recession).

According to the South China Morning Post, a record - high 2.2 million people turned out to vote, compared with the 1.8 million that turned out in the 2012 Legislative Council election.

Schulz said: «New elections would be necessary if the Greek people vote for the reform programme and thus for remaining in the eurozone and Tsipras, as a logical consequence, resigns.»

Unless you indicate otherwise, the persons named as proxies on the proxy card will vote your Shares: FOR the election of each of the nominees for director named in this proxy statement; FOR the ratification of E&Y as Walmart's independent accountants for fiscal 2014; FOR the non-binding advisory resolution to approve the compensation of the company's NEOs; FOR the approval of the Management Incentive Plan, as amended; and AGAINST each of the shareholder proposals appearing in this proxy statement.

Not one person voting in Tuesday's hotly contested special election in the local 18th District said the tariffs would affect their choice.

It has since emerged major institutions had threatened to lodge a protest vote at the annual meeting, where a majority of the company's nine - person board was seeking election or re-election.

The British people will vote next week in a national election to decide the country's fate within the European Union.

Indeed, it wasn't that the polls were wrong about the UK election; results were close, if you took people's voting intentions at face value.

Some argue using a permission blockchain would help as it would only allow a few people to fully access the records, but the possibility of having a government official (or just the regular public) know how an individual vote goes against the premise of free and fair elections.

Many people find more meaning in city councils and voting for school boards than they do for national elections, but they all say local politics make them more passionate about politics in general.

It is against this background of public moral struggle that the people of Israel prepare to vote on July 23 for their next government, in an election that pits the conservative Likud Party of Menachem Begin and current Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir against the Labor Party headed by two - time loser Shimon Peres.

@Ban Religion: You said, «I can't tell you how many people I spoke to prior to the election that said they were voting for him because «It's finally time for a black president.»»

The politicians are masters of manipulating people's emotions every election cycle so as to keep their respecting voting bases in line.

People vote candidates in election based on their religions background are m0rons.

It is meant to assemble a political program that can inspire some large number of people and attract a plurality of the voting public on Election Day.

With just one day to go until the General election, Premier spoke with Christian candidates about why people should vote for their party.

«Most people who are registered to vote actually vote,» said Amie Jamieson, a co-author of Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2000.

The facts which our incipient, embryonic democracy must face are more staggering than the old tyrants were — for example, that at the last presidential election almost twenty - eight million people who were qualified to vote did not exercise that privilege; that an accredited estimate is possibly true that in the United States four million people are living in destitution.

In previous US elections, polls consistently showed that a person's level of religiosity — how important their faith is to them and how often they attend church — was one of the biggest predictors in how they would vote.

Off topic but I am posting here... by taking voters off the voter roles, it not only disenfranchises them on election day, it takes them off the direct mailings that remind people to vote, including sample ballot, polling places, etc..

When asked how many times they ate out last week, how frequently they have sex, and whether or not they voted in the last election, most people report what they usually do, what they would like to do or what they think someone like them ought to do.

The election was yesterday and already many have forgotten that over 57 Million people in this country voted for Mitt Romney.

Actually, on election day, instead of voting, I am going to invoke the power of prayer and spend the day praying as I know that this will get more people out to the polls to vote for Mitt Romney.

Funny, but when Clinton won his elections, no one seemed to question who I voted for, so race seems to matter for some people.

Vote for whoever the heck you want but remember that We The People are still gonna be here after election day... Change doesn't happen overnight, not in a year, four, eight, or even fifty if we can't work together.

Err # 12m + voted UKIP on the last election, that's only 4m less than the amount of people that wanted to remain.

A panel of 36 people would participate, with 27 votes (still 75 percent) needed for election.

In fact, over a million people in Egypt voted for Salah in the country's national election, even though he wasn't on the ballot paper!

I made calls yesterday to «first time voters» (either new voters, people who moved to CO or folks who hadn't voted in the last presidential election).