Sentences with phrase «eligible voters who»

He therefore implored all Nigerians to see the value of this national asset and work with the Commission to continue to improve it saying, «we can continue to work together with stakeholders and indeed all citizens to ensure that all ineligible registrants and entries are removed from the register and that eligible voters who have not registered take advantage of the ongoing CVR.»

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

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.

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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.

Surely there must be some kind of formal definition of where the boundary lies, so that voters know who they are eligible to vote for and where to find their polling place.

Election is about voters electing those they want to lead them, and a credible voter register helps to ensure that those who vote are the true eligible voters, the card reader, which authenticates the voter identity, helps to make the voter register more robust and resistant to moon - light and landslide bogus figures.

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.

Three plaintiffs: Joseph Narku Botchway, Jacob Amin, and Reverend Michael Kwabena Nii Adjei Sowah, who are all from the constituency, had filed a suit and prayed the court to declare Dr Rawlings» election as parliamentary candidate null and void on grounds that she was not an eligible voter.

«Eligible citizens who interact with government agencies are registered to vote unless they decline, and agencies transfer voter registration information electronically to election officials.

Section 7 of Article 2 of the Washington State Constitution states, «No person shall be eligible to the legislature who shall not be a citizen of the United States and a qualified voter in the district for which he is chosen.»

«A smart leader is the one who surrounds himself with smarter people to advise him or her so once you make that determination, that someone is eligible to stand and the voters allow that to happen, I'm sure the other aspects of maturity to rule will be secondary.»

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.

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.

There's just under four million foreign - born voters in England and Wales who'll be eligible to vote in the May election, with the majority from large, established Commonwealth migrant communities such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria and South Africa.

That means that voters could wind up voting in the special election for someone who lives outside the newly created district and would not be eligible to seek the same seat in November 2012.

Out of the 31,395 active voters who reside in our District and are eligible to vote, 23,541 felt it was important to voice their opinion about who would become the next President of the United States.

The Board of Elections will provide two separate ballots for voters who are eligible to vote in both the presidential primary and the Assembly special election.

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

In addition to securing the support of Delegates to the June 2nd Convention, in order to appear as Greens on the Georgia ballot, these partisan candidates are also required to file petitions with signatures representing 5 % of the number of voters who are registered and eligible to vote in November's General 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.

«As far as I'm concerned, any law or regulation or rule that makes it easier for eligible voters to register and vote is a good law or regulation or rule,» said Schneiderman, who called laws that hinder that «un-American.»

Less noticed, most of those leaving are voters or vote - eligible, while those who are arriving are non-citizens.

The exceptions are first - time voters who had until last month to sign up in order to be eligible.

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.

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.

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.)

Last month, Youth Connection Charter School (YCCS) created an education campaign to make the political system relevant to young people, educate and involve YCCS students who are eligible voters, and discuss their concerns and ideas relative to the main issues in the election that impact all facets of their lives, including violence, employment, affordable education, -LSB-...]

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 bill would presumptively consider all registered voters and all persons 18 years of age or older who hold a valid driver's license or photo ID as «residents» eligible for a dividend.

Democrats have also increasingly come to depend upon young people, women, and minorities, who make up a growing proportion of eligible voters.

To be eligible for the office of Justice, a person must be a registered voter who resides in Florida and must have been admitted to the practice of law in Florida for the preceding 10 years.

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.