Sentences with phrase «eligible voters by»

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

Prior to an election, a notification is sent to every eligible voter by the ministry for the interior.

Not exact matches

Many of those officials were not elected by the majority of the eligible voters in their districts.

We can choose now to retreat once again into those echo chambers or begin to listen more attentively to one another — to love our neighbors by learning about them and their needs and perspectives whether black, white, Asian, or Latino / a; whether Christian, Muslim, or none; whether upper, middle, or working class; whether voter or one of the nearly half of eligible voters that sat out this election.

Also, the ballot you are eligible for is determined by your voter registration and is not up to you or the polling station volunteers.

This can be done by way of a relative majority (more than 50 per cent of votes cast), an absolute majority (more than 50 per cent of eligible voters) or some form of a super-majority (60 per cent or two - thirds majority of voters).

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.

As noticed by Satterthwaite, the original theorem immediately implies that, on the subset of configurations where all voters have strict preferences, the system is dictatorial (given the usual assumptions, i.e. non-manipulability and at least 3 eligible candidates).

About a third of the roughly 51,000 eligible voters participated in the election, which was conducted by mail - in ballot.

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.

Slightly over half of eligible Labor Party primary voters cast ballots in the party's leadership primaries by the time polls closed at 10 p.m. Thursday, already leading to worries in Yachimovich's camp that the low turnout could unseat her.

Similar concerns about Dr Rawlings» eligibility had been expressed in the past by law firm Safo & Marfo @ Law, who wrote to the Electoral Commission seeking to ascertain whether Dr Rawlings was a registered eligible voter in Ghana.

«It also effectively punishes districts, voters, taxpayers and school children in districts where school boards and voters exercise their constitutionally protected right to exceed the tax cap, by denying tax credits to otherwise eligible taxpayers in such districts.

This year will see an end to voter registration by household — where one person can list everyone who is eligible to vote where they live — so everyone will have to register individually in future.

That is, if only half of eligible voters vote in a cycle, those 50 % in effect exert the power ceded by the absent 50 % as well.

McCain won the nomination largely by winning the open primaries in which eligible voters were not limited to registered Republicans.

About 43 percent of eligible district voters went to the polls in 2002, followed by 41 percent in the 2006 mid-terms and about 46 percent in Mr. Bishop's hotly contested and highly publicized 2010 rematch against Republican challenger Randy Altschuler of St. James.

An independent candidate's nomination petition must be signed by registered voters eligible to vote for the office the candidate is seeking.

2015 saw another year of record low voter turnout throughout much of New York, with the vast majority of eligible voters casting a vote against duopoly, corporate politics by refusing to participate at all.

This meant that most Commissioners were elected by less than 7 % of eligible voters, which naturally prompted questions about the legitimacy of what is a powerful office.

Every political season, the District Leaders in New York County talk to eligible voters and many are apathetic and turned off by the dirty tactics candidates use to disparage their opponents.

Eligible voters in Osun State have been urged to participate in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), even as the state government declared Monday, April 16, a work free day to enable them do so.

The poll of 1,411 eligible voters found Corbyn had nearly doubled his lead over Andy Burnham in a week by 32 percentage points.

No one understands the transformative power of data analysis better than Democratic consultant Ken Strasma, who helped propel Barack Obama into office by devising a mathematical model that predicts the political behavior of nearly every eligible voter.

Still, the eligible season will be nearly a year old by the time voters fill out their ballot, giving many new actors the chance to gain a bit of buzz while Schreiber and Donovan fade to the background.

This is a smart film that arrives in theaters just about the time that the Electoral College will vote a disastrous choice by mandate of «the people,» putting in office a man that received only 27 % of the votes of those who were eligible to cast ballots and who will take his place in the White House because forty - three percent of registered voters stayed home on Election Day (or went to a bar, or pool hall or whatever.)

All congress members are elected by the eligible voters in the state they represent.

Relying on your own graphs, between 1987 and 2015, the population of eligible voters has more than doubled from ~ 1800 to ~ 4700: an increase of ~ 161 % by adding ~ 2900 new potential voters.

That suggests we could reasonably trim the reach number by up to 80 %, but let's be a little more generous and assume that half the people that see the #LSBencher tweets are eligible voters.

Amendments to the Strata Property Act allowing a strata corporation to be terminate by a vote of 80 percent of eligible voters came into effect on July 28, 2016.

The withdrawal of funds from the section's contingency reserve fund, or the raising of funds by special levy, must be approved by means of a 3/4 vote of the eligible voters of the section.