Sentences with phrase «eligible voters»

Our country's political system is in dire need of profound changes to facilitate and encourage the participation of eligible voters in the electoral process.

He, therefore, urged eligible voters in the state to come out en mass to choose a candidate of their choice without fear of any kind.

In 2004, just over 60 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot, but this was the highest turnout since 1968.

We are committed to registering eligible voters because we believe your vote is your voice.

We were also not given any contact information, including phone numbers and email addresses for eligible voters, even though you maintain this contact information.

In 2013, only 52 percent of eligible voters turned out.

When little more than a third of eligible voters participated in these local elections, you'd have to ask why the government would be doing anything to discourage participation.

Early voting would allow eligible voters to cast ballots in - person days, sometimes weeks, before an election.

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

You are correct in saying only about 50 % of eligible voters actually vote.

Half of eligible voters didn't vote and the half that did was divided pretty evenly.

In 2010 — the last year in which there was a heated gubernatorial primary at the top of the ticket — just 15 percent of eligible voters showed up at the polls.

So many eligible voters could not vote during the 2015 polls just for the fact that the card reader failed.

In the last federal election, nearly four in ten eligible voters stayed away from the polls.

After reviewing state board of elections filings, researchers determined that about 60 percent of eligible voters nationwide cast ballots, a marginal improvement from 2012.

A small minority of eligible voters decided the outcome of yesterday's elections.

Only 34 per cent of eligible voters cast their votes in this election, even less than the 37 per cent voter turnout in the 2011 election.

Less than 10 % of eligible voters participate in school board elections.

The registration exercise was done alongside a voter exhibition exercise to allow eligible voters to verify their details in the register.

It doesn't matter if you get 99 % of eligible voters voting for it in every state.

What remains to be seen is how many eligible voters will even take the time to access the site and thereafter vote.

A report published last month by a pair of Rutgers University professors found that the number of eligible voters with some sort of disability is on the rise both nationwide and in New York.

Political scientist Michael McDonald's United States Elections Project studied voter turnout in the 2014 election by looking at the percentage of eligible voters who headed to the polls.

deposit for Elections Ontario, 100 witnessed signatures from eligible voters in the riding, and voila, any fool can vote for me.

Gianaris estimated that automatic registration would expand New York's pool of eligible voters by more than 2 million people.

The state Republican Party has inserted itself into another party's contest on behalf of Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, sending out mailers urging eligible voters to support him in the Reform Party Sept. 12 primary.

In 2014, 300 million eligible voters across the European Union (EU) will have the opportunity to cast their vote in the elections for the second - largest legislative body in the world: the European Parliament.

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.

According to the city Board of Elections, Trump received two out of the five write - in votes cast among eligible voters.

This year marks the centennial of Puerto Ricans gaining US citizenship and, on June 11, they voted in their fifth referendum on statehood, expressing a desire to become the 51st state — though 77 % of eligible voters chose not to participate.

The public seems to sense that, because in the 1974 elections only 38 per cent of eligible voters bothered to go to the polls and only 14 per cent were able to name the two candidates running for Congress in their district.

• Lack of access to county committee List: While the vote is open to all Democratic County Committee members within the district, we were not supplied a current list of eligible voters until late this week.

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.

Automatically registering eligible voters encourages civic participation, and provides a vehicle for state agencies to efficiently transfer voter registration information to the Board of Elections.

Eighty - three percent (83 %) of Republicans think states should only count eligible voters in setting the size of legislative districts, a view shared by 65 % of unaffiliated voters and 52 % of Democrats.

That order followed a similar, non-binding independence vote that took place that year, in which more than 80 % of voters chose independence — although only 2.3 million out of the region's 6.3 million eligible voters took part, AFP noted.

That's an improvement from a historic low in the last provincial election in 2011, when 48.2 per cent of eligible voters went to the polls.

But instead the 5,716,026 eligible voters rejected the most talented and qualified candidate John Dramani Mahama, for the sweet talking Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, because he promised them heaven on earth.

If you pass a law restricting the ability of otherwise eligible voters to vote for no demonstrable benefit, that's a bad law.

He also thinks eligible voters should be automatically registered, and that they should be able to register to vote on Election Day.

McDonald used voting - eligible population (VEP), or the number of eligible voters independent of their current registration status, to calculate turnout rates in each state on November 4.

Importantly, Corbyn won across all categories of eligible voters giving him what the BBC referred to as a «rock - solid mandate».

The latest CBS / NYT poll has 30 % + eligible voters claiming they do not know what makes up Mitt's core; who is he?

Shawn Bobb, president of the Epsilon Sigma Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity said, «Expanding opportunities to vote and making the process easier is crucial to ensuring eligible voters are able to exercise this vital right.

He said that the exercise was conducted at the local government level and all the 326 electoral wards across the state, to enable eligible voters register before the closing date.