Sentences with phrase «eligible voters did»

In my Ontario provincial electoral riding of Peterborough, nearly 50 % of eligible voters did not vote in the last election.

The Census Bureau estimates that more than 15 percent of all eligible voters had moved in the past year, and three million eligible voters did not vote in 2000 because problems with their registration.

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

This is not true, given that huge numbers of eligible voters don't have strong opinions on issues and that even people with reasonably well formed views may not flip their vote (even in competitive primaries) based on those views.

Not exact matches

Less than half the state's eligible voters bother to register, but Mormons almost always do, which gives them about a quarter of the likely turnout.»

Meanwhile the breakdown of community has led to such alienation that a minority of those eligible to voters do not do so.

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).

I would say half of the eligible voters who usually do not vote because they're young.

Still, voters do approve of at least one of Cuomo's proposals: 62 percent support Cuomo's proposal to make teachers eligible for tenure in five years, rather than three years as it is now.

And nobody else did, even though upwards of 33,000 independent voters were eligible to write in a name.

Also, there are countries where you don't have to register per se, you are either automatically added to the election roll when you turn 18 or the list of eligible voters is based on a (mandatory) population register.

The answers should be different as voting machines guarantee some basic details that online voting systems do not guarantee, as an example you can say that every voter at a machine has been authentified as being eligible to vote, something you can not be sure of with an online voting system.

However, if voters cast both preferences for eliminated candidates, these are not «eligible» and do not influence the result.

This probably doesn't surprise many people, but only about 43 percent of eligible voters turned out for legislative races in Ulster County's 23 county legislative districts in 2013.

How about moving deadlines for registering to vote and for changing parties closer to election dates, automatically registering eligible voters when they do business with state agencies, early voting, and making candidates» access to ballots easier?

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 mission of the Washoe County Registrar of Voters Department is to ensure that each citizen of Washoe county who is eligible to register and vote is able to do so; that Washoe County's Elections are operated with the utmost integrity, transparency, and accountability; and that the department is know for excellence in customer service and the administration of elections.

The data analytics machine that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton used in her 2016 campaign — named Ada after the 19th - century mathematician and early computing pioneer — used state - of - the - art segmentation techniques to target groups of eligible voters in the same way that Barack Obama had done four years previously.