Sentences with phrase «eligible voters in»

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.

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

Six scientific societies now use approval voting for their elections, most notably the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, whose 350,000 members outnumber the eligible voters in Wyoming.

There are roughly 2 million eligible voters in New York State who are unregistered, he said, 1 million of whom live in New York City alone.

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.

In Connecticut's statewide Republican primary last week, just 20 percent of eligible voters in Connecticut showed up at the polls.

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.

With just under 205,000 eligible voters in the district, turnout was a respectable — for an off - year — at just over 61 percent.

McDonald, instead, uses the total population of eligible voters in each state drawn from administrative records.

According to the National Institute for Latino Policy, 46 percent of eligible voters in the 13th Congressional District are Latino, 34 percent are black, 17 percent are white and 3 percent are Asian.

The Board of Elections would be required to send all eligible voters in the five boroughs a «voter history» card that will tell people how many elections they've missed in the past four years under a new bill being considered in the NYC Council.

He also asked the court to make an order restraining Kanu and all members of IPOB from interfering, intimidating and harassing all registered and eligible voters in the Nov. 18 Anambra election.

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.

Senate Democrats conducted a survey of eligible voters in New York on their voting patterns.

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

«A full 70 per cent of eligible voters in this age group cast their ballots in the 2004 election... Zoomers own the ballot box.»

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand says every eligible voter in the United States should be able to register to vote online.

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.

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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.

The Quinnipiac voters» poll finds that the majority of eligible voters are pro pot for medical purposes and in general.

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.

The 2008 election saw the lowest voter turnout in Alberta's history, with only 41 percent of eligible voters casting a ballot (CBC.ca, 2008).

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

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.

Even in a presidential year, only about fifty to sixty percent of eligible voters vote.

It would be interesting to know what percentage of eligible voters vote in North Dakota as compared with the states in which registration is required.

And as it turned out, no eligible voters were disenfranchised in the process.

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 ParliamenIn 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 Parliamenin the elections for the second - largest legislative body in the world: the European Parliamenin the world: the European Parliament.

London and other metropolitan areas have seen a decline in voter registration, and the report suggested 3.5 million eligible voters were not registered at the time of the 2001 Census.

In the 2000 Florida election, at least 1,100 eligible voters were wrongly dropped from voting rolls in an attempt to purge a list of feloIn the 2000 Florida election, at least 1,100 eligible voters were wrongly dropped from voting rolls in an attempt to purge a list of feloin an attempt to purge a list of felons

The voter register is the most important tool for making election outcomes credible, it is like a credible and reliable scientific research which relies on the «sample frame»; it is the touchstone that gives assurance to the fact that the ballot, as expressed in an election, arose from the physical presence of eligible voters at the polling unit who delegated part of their sovereignty temporarily to elected officials.

In March 2017, the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte declared that the Turkish minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu was not welcome to campaign among eligible Turkish voters in The Netherlands for a yes vote in the Turkish constitutional referendum, 201In March 2017, the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte declared that the Turkish minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu was not welcome to campaign among eligible Turkish voters in The Netherlands for a yes vote in the Turkish constitutional referendum, 201in The Netherlands for a yes vote in the Turkish constitutional referendum, 201in the Turkish constitutional referendum, 2017.

Ineligible voters (including convicted felons) are included in these measures but the figures also indicate there is plenty of potential to engage new, eligible voters.

I urge all eligible voters to go to the polls in November to select their next Congressional representative, along with their next statewide and local officials.»

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.

For the sake of our democracy, we have an obligation to ensure that all eligible voters can freely and fairly participate in elections.

The parties also have a long - term interest in engaging the voters who are entering the electorate: we may live in an ageing society, but many of the voters who are eligible for the first time in 2015 will be around to vote in the next twelve or fifteen general elections.

Kavanagh joined City Councilmember Rory Lancman, Congressmember Hakeem Jeffries, Jarret Berg of the New York Democratic Lawyers Council, and other public officials and organizations concerned about voting rights, to call upon New Yorkers, especially attorneys, to help ensure that all eligible voters can cast their ballots without the kind of intimidation and voter suppression activities that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been inciting in recent days.

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.

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.

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.

Since the middle class comprise the majority of eligible voters, the Democratic Party has been targeting them in its message, while continuing to preserve and enhance the programs that target the poor.

This is a big issue when just over one in two eligible American voters turn out.

FACILITATING VOTER REGISTRATION There are currently 2 million eligible but unregistered voters in New York State.

Only nine percent of eligible voters participated in the high - profile 2013 Democratic primary for Nassau County executive, when former County Executive Thomas Suozzi was seeking to reclaim his old job.

In 2004, as an accession country, Slovakia recorded the lowest turnout in the history of the European elections (just 17 % of eligible votersIn 2004, as an accession country, Slovakia recorded the lowest turnout in the history of the European elections (just 17 % of eligible votersin the history of the European elections (just 17 % of eligible voters).

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

In this case, the courts found that 40 % of eligible voters had been refused the ability to vote in a county electioIn this case, the courts found that 40 % of eligible voters had been refused the ability to vote in a county electioin a county election.

Organisations like the Electoral Reform Society have serious concerns about the move, which they say is being rushed and could result in a sudden drop in the number of eligible voters.

When a poll worker couldn't find Democratic mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner's signature alongside his name in the book of eligible voters, they tried to give him an affidavit ballot, his campaign said.