Sentences with phrase «eligible voters participate»

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

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.

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

Singas defeated her opponent in a September primary in which only 3 percent of eligible voters participated.

About 15 percent of eligible voters participated in the 2012 primary and Greenberg said he expects a similar turnout Tuesday.

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

Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said, «The easier we make it for eligible voters to participate the better it is for our democracy.

In this case, it's the holding of a closed - party primary in which only a handful of voters were eligible to participate.

Onaiwu said that the shift would afford eligible voters among the students to participate in the election.

All citizens who have been issued with the INEC permanent voters cards shall be eligible to participate in the election.»

Fewer than 7 percent of eligible Nassau voters participated in the 2014 primary, and turnout fell to about 3 percent in last year's district attorney primary.

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.

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 most cases, you must be a registered member of the party and an eligible voter (18 years of age, U.S. citizen, never committed a felony, etc.) to be able to actively participate.

Working with a bipartisan team of national research firms — Public Opinion Strategies and the Mellman Group — Pew surveyed policymakers, voters, home visitors, and mothers who were eligible for or had participated in home visiting.